By Daria Belov
Spring Forward: When does daylight savings time change? The answer depends on where you live. For most in the United States, it’s time to change your clocks and spring forward on March 8th, as the official US time changes at 2 a.m. local time.
(You Are My Sunshine – photo credit suesue2)
For most of the US, daylight savings time change takes place at 2 a.m. local time (technically early Sunday morning but many consider it late Saturday night). Clocks will be springing forward, taking back that extra hour of sleep we got in November. For travel and going to work, it’s not such a big deal when clocks fall back, since you would only end up arriving early. However, spring time changes can make us late, so pay particular attention to local time changes, especially if traveling or working early on Sunday.
Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed everywhere in for the U.S. and its territories. Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona), do not have time changes. Pay close attention to times if you’re traveling to and from any of these areas this weekend.
Most computing operating systems, like Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Mac OS X Leopard, iPod Touch, and iPhones can be programmed to automatically adjust for seasonal time changes. While computers, and nearly all cellular and mobile electronics, can be programmed to adjust to seasonal time changes, there’s still the microwave and other standard household appliances that may require time change. That’s unless you still have not set the clock on your DVR or other electronics.
If that’s the case, check the official US time via the US government website www.time.gov, the web site requires a Java plugin and it displays atomic time. You can also perform a simple search in Google. No guarantee this will work for you (see the screenshot below) but if you enter the phrase “what time is it” the results should return your local time, along with times for major cities in other US time zones.
The difficult part for most of us comes Monday morning when we have to get up for school or work “an hour early” (unless you’re Andrew Warner) while it’s still dark out. But it’s a sign that spring is near, and so is Spring Break, March Madness, and St. Patrick’s Day.
Oh, if you’ve read this far, don’t be late for your local chiropractor visit Monday morning either. 🙂
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