This weekend marks the time to change your clocks – that’s right Spring forward, Fall BACK

Daylight saving time officially ends at 2:00am Sunday, November 3rd, so remember to turn your clocks BACK one hour before going to bed Saturday night.

It’s also a good time to observe the simple, and life-saving, habit of changing and testing the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

The move from DST will take place almost everywhere in the U.S., with the exception of Hawaii and most of Arizona, which don’t observe the change.

We’ll have to move the clocks again on March 8th, 2020 when we “spring forward” an hour and adjust clocks ahead.

While the origin of changing our clocks is traced to several people, the movement became more widespread during World War I when the government began the push to extend daylight (and therefore working) hours while also saving fuel. The change was made official in March 1918, with clocks moving ahead one hour.

Daylight saving time went away shortly after the war, only to return during World War II. It was used year-round during the war – but the practice wasn’t used consistently among the states after the hostilities ended –it took federal action to standardize the time change.

Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966, establishing a schedule for DST.

Clocks would be moved ahead one hour on the last Sunday in April and one hour back on the last Sunday in October.  That schedule was altered several times over the following decades, most recently by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which set the start of DST (springing forward) at the second Sunday in March and the ending of DST (fall back) on the first Sunday in November.