When do the clocks go forward for the start of Daylight Saving Time?
Well, the worst part of Daylight Saving Time (DST) is going to happen a little after 1:59 am Sunday morning. This when time travel will occur, the kind that doesn’t use a DeLorean or the Quantum Realm. When the clock is supposed to strike 2 am, it will spring forward to 3 am, effectively causing you to lose an hour. If you are one of those morning people (otherwise known as morning larks or people who like to make the lives of night owls miserable), you may not even be awake when this happens. You may already be fast asleep, dreaming of things like 5 am walks with dogs who are secretly saying, “what the bleep,” and 7 am work meetings otherwise known as “what the bleep meetings.” But you may notice the change the next day should your wake time be the same as it always has been. That’s because you’ll end up getting one less hour of sleep. For those of you who are night owls or normal, the DST switch may occur right in the middle of an important activity, like during a Saturday night Zoom call when you are talking about why hot dogs should not be on pizza or why rhinos should be flown upside down while they are transported. The sudden fast-forward of the clock may be quite disconcerting and make a later bedtime even later. For example, a study published in the journal Sleep Medicine in 2001 found a significant jump in automobile accidents on the Monday right after the DST Spring forward.
