Before you head to bed, make sure to turn your clocks back an hour, which means you get an extra hour of sleep.
Unfortunately, it comes at a price. Pushing the clocks back an hour means the sunrise and sunset times will change. Before the end of daylight saving time, the sunrise is around 8 a.m. with the sunset near 6:30 p.m.
After Nov. 4, the sunset is around 5:30 p.m.
Since we are well into fall, it may also seem even more noticeable that the days are getting shorter. By Dec. 21, the winter solstice, we will only have about nine hours and 21 minutes of daylight. The sunset that day is around 5:15 p.m.
Saving energy was a major reason the United States adapted daylight saving time. Pushing the clocks forward in the spring gave farmers some extra daylight to use in the spring. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, daylight saving time accounts for about 1 percent a day in electricity savings.
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