Daylight Savings Means More Time to Sleep
End of Daylight Saving Time means more sleep for you
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An antique clock used to symbolize the need to change your clocks during Daylight Savings Time. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
If you were wondering when it was your turn to collect from the government, tomorrow morning is it.
At 2 a.m. this Sunday, November 1st, most of the United States, and all of Los Angeles will set their clocks back one hour and collect an extra hour of sleep as the end of daylight saving time is here.
Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1905 by the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large portion of a summer day. The United States adopted daylight-saving time in 1918, but dropped it a year later, as Congress overrode a veto of the bill by President Woodrow Wilson.
The end of daylight saving time was pushed back a week beginning in 2007 under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The new end date was chosen to have Halloween celebrated under daylight saving time, thus increasing the amount of trick-or-treating under daylight hours, which backers of the bill hoped would help keep trick-or-treaters safe.
And that works out fine for you, no doubt, as it's an extra hour to sleep off the grown-up Halloween fun.
