It's time once again for the semi-annual ritual of resetting our clocks for daylight saving time (DST)*. In fall, we turn daylight saving time off, which means moving clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, November 6, 2011. This return to "normal" time (Pacific Standard Time) moves sunset back an hour with the corresponding effect of an earlier sunrise.
Desert sunrise.
Photo © Stan White
Unless you plan on being awake and functional at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, set your clocks back one hour before retiring on Saturday night. You'll then be on time for Sunday activities and refreshed from getting an extra hour in the sack. For those who still have a job, you'll avoid the embarrassment of showing up an hour early. We will get to do this again in spring 2012, when daylight saving time begins on March 11 (set clocks forward an hour).
*The proper usage is "saving" and not "savings."
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