By May Hunter, for the Iron County Today
Daylight saving time starts at 2 a.m. on NOVEMBER 3. In the winter, most states turn clocks back one hour on the first Sunday of NOVEMBER, causing us to FALL BACK an hour. Daylight saving time is part of the twice-annual time change that affects millions, but not all, Americans.
Daylight saving in the U.S. first started with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War 1 in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources.
Without day light saving time, we’d continue to benefit from this natural process of longer days without the abrupt interruption of a clock change in March. We’d have more opportunities to take in daylight in the early part of our day throughout the spring, even if just on the way to work or school or our other daily activities.
The easiest way we’ve found to keep daylight saving straight is the helpful little expression- spring forward, fall back. The general idea is that this allows us to all use natural daylight better:
moving the clocks forward one hour in the spring grants us more daylight during summer evenings, while moving clocks back one hour in the fall grants us more daylight during winter mornings.
5 tips to adjust to Time Change:
1. Go to bed and get up at the same time.
2. Practice good habits before bedtime.
3. Keep dinnertime consistent. Eat more protein and less carbs.
4. Get more light!
5. Take a short cat nap.
It may help to go outside into the natural sunlight to cue your body and help retain your inner clock.
“An extra yawn one morning in the springtime-an extra snooze one night in the autumn-is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts.”-Winston Churchill