Daylight Saving Time will have the clocks ticking an hour ahead beginning at 2 o’clock Sunday morning. That means we’ll be setting our clocks forward in the wee hours this evening – even though it’s still early March and we are still technically in the season of winter for another week.
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Quelle horreur! Daylight Saving Time officially begins at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, or in party people terms, “2 a.m. tonight” .
The measure would undo Proposition 12, the voter-approved daylight saving time initiative that passed in 1949. During Utah’s general session this year, a bill was introduced to the House of Representatives seeking to exempt Utah from federal daylight saving time provisions of law such that the state would observe mountain standard time on a year-round basis.
Just for fun, we made a decision to take a look at what the sunrise and sunset times would be during the summer if Daylight Saving Time did not exist.
“Our use is not so predictable as the earlier adopters of daylight saving hope it would be”, Tufts University’s Michael Downing said. “There’s even an increased risk of heart attack that’s been documented”, she says.
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Those of you in Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas, go ahead and feel smug. “Do we change clocks before St. Patrick’s Day?”
