This is the weekend that it all begins – or ends, depending on how you look at it. At 2 AM Saturday night, “spring ahead” by setting your clocks forward one hour. (I actually knew someone who set and alarm and got up at 2 AM to change the clocks. Personally, I do it sometime Saturday afternoon and mentally adjust the time every time I look at a clock for the rest of the day.)
There is something to be said for Daylight Savings Time. Here it is:
Daylight Saving Time: Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket. – Anonymous
Daylight savings time—why are they saving it, and where do they keep it?
– Anonymous
Get ready to have your microwave display the wrong time for the next 8 months because you don’t want to break out the instruction manual. – Unknown.
An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April [March]; we pay it back with golden interest five [eight] months later. – Winston Churchill
(Yep, things have changed since he said it.)