This weekend for most of the United States, Daylight Saving Time ends and Eastern Standard Time begins at 2 a.m. on November 4.
That means the length of the day will be shorter as winter approaches. According to Time and Date, on Sunday you can expect the sun to rise at 7 a.m. and set at 5:42 a.m.
All states, with the exception of Arizona and Hawaii, along with the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, recognize Daylight Saving Time every spring.
InfoPlease.com reports, in April 2005 Indiana passed a law agreeing to observe daylight saving time with the rest of the country. Then four months later, Congress passed an energy bill that included extending Daylight Saving Time by about a month. In 2007, DST began on the second Sunday of March and ended on the first Sunday of November and has been that way to date.
So as we get ready to fall back this weekend, our question to you:
Do You Like Shorter Days or Longer Days, and Why? Tell us in comments.
Editor's note: The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, no "s"
"Longer" - Debbie Ledford " longer...screws up my time to run after work!" - Jen Nowicki Clark " WHY do we change back in the winter? It makes everything sad in the afternoons!" - Elexis Hays "Longer! Light keeps me sane in cold weather!" - Rhetta Roy " I think we should have "normal" time year-round." - Carolyn Buda Pierce
Fact--there is a sharp increase in the crime rates, more suicides, and basically ALL things ugly increase when the clocks are launched forward one hour in the spring. Changing the hands on the clock does NOT do one thing to change our body clocks or circadian rhythm. When we loose that hour in the spring time it just makes me feel like I am running behind on everything. Between now and when we are forced to run the clocks up I can at least feel somewhat on time. Technically there is NO longer or shorter daylight hours because of what the clock says. During the fall & winter months the sun shines less hours in each 24 hour day. During the spring & summer months it shines for more hours in each 24 hour period. What our clocks say has exactly ZERO, ZIP, NADDA, thing to do with how many hours the sun shines on any given day.