Daylight Saving Time 2017: Set those clocks ahead this weekend

But states aren’t now allowed to switch to daylight saving time year-round.

“A couple of days before hand is having them go to bed slightly earlier so on that Sunday and that Monday and a couple of the days, they will go to bed earlier and their sleep duration will hopefully be about the same”, he said.

Daylight saving time will end November 5, when clocks will fall back to standard time.

Hazel Craig reminds us that it’s time to spring forward and advance our clocks one hour. This hour is not lost forever. The jump is attributed to sleep deprivation and the shift of ambient light from morning to evening.

Research shows the time-turning tradition can lead to more traffic-related accidents.

So what can people do ahead of time to prepare for Daylight Saving Time?

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Along with that cheery news, Bloomberg News shared research from when IN finally adopted Daylight Saving Time that it led to more energy usage by people IN that state, not less.

Get ready to turn your clocks ahead one hour – and to lose an hour of sleep. A search on Change.org returns 1,466 petitions mentioning daylight saving time, most of which appear to support abolishing it.

And while twins born at 11:55 p.m. and 12:05 a.m. would have different birthdays, Daylight Saving Time can change birth order.in theory.

Sunday morning marks the beginning of daylight saving time, the bi-annual clock changing ritual that has become a point of contention in some states. You don’t change your clocks.

Medical Director of the Centre for Sleep and Human Performance Dr. Charles Samuels says the time change can really mess up our sleep patterns even more than the fall change. That means that we will be losing an hour of sleep this weekend.

The case for daylight saving time has been shaky for a while. Last year, 19 bills were pending in state legislatures around the U.S.to end the biannual time change, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Two years ago, state Rep. Bill Mitchell, R-Forsyth pitched a bill in the Illinois Legislature that would do just that.