Spring Forward: Daylight Saving Time Starts Sunday

If you have family living in Canada or across the Mexican border like Tijuana, Tecate, Ciudad Juarez and others, they will also make the time change. Conversely, there’s a slight reduction in heart attacks when we go back in time in the fall.

That means Canadians in most of the country will lose an hour of sleep on Saturday night. “Of the disasters we responded to in the past year more than 90 percent are from home fires”.

“We tell patients to start easing into this Daylight Saving Time a few days prior to when it happens”, Walia said.

Daylight-saving time was established in the United States in 1918 as an effort to save energy during World War I, which ended later that year.

The nation moves back to standard time on the first Sunday in November.

Even so, Franklin’s idea spread in the 20th century.

However, not everyone agrees it offers energy saving benefits. During the 1970s energy crisis, it was pulled earlier in the year. But states could exempt themselves if they chose. However, certain Native American reservations in Arizona still participate.

Other places that do not participate in DST are Arizona and Hawaii – along with the USA territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Island.

Daylight saving time is the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour during summer months so that daylight lasts longer into evening. Things like the stove, microwave, and coffee pot clocks still require manual adjustment for this loss of an hour.

In Pennsylvania, state Fire Commissioner Tim Solobay said this serves as a good time to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advises people have their vehicles checked for safety recalls around Daylight Saving Time.

A study by the JPMorgan Chase Institute analyzed financial transactions immediately after the time change in Los Angeles, and the same period in Phoenix, since Arizona stays on Standard Time year-round.