CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS THIS WEEKEND

Set your clocks AHEAD ONE HOUR before going to bed THIS WEEKEND - TOMORROW EVENING, SATURDAY, March 12^th, 2011. Spring's daylight saving time begins Sunday, March 13th at 2 a.m.

Yeah!!!! An extra hour of daylight when we "spring forward" each March and then lose it when we "fall back" on Sunday, November 6th, 2011 at 2am.

Most computers and cable boxes will make this change automatically without our help..

For those of you who wonder how DST began, here are some tidbits about its origins and pros and cons of these time-changing events. According to lots of sources on the internet, several events led to our modern-day DST:

Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers, suggested something akin to daylight saving time in a 1784 essay

During World War I in an effort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria began saving daylight by advancing the hands of the clock one hour from April through October

A postal clerk from New Zealand was the first to propose modern DST

Congress first put America's clocks ahead one hour during World War I and (later for WWII)

Congress enacted the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to eliminate confusion about DST across the country

Thanks to this act, DST in the United States now begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November

And if you are wondering when other parts of the worlds change their clocks, check out this website...

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2011.html