ILLINOIS — Time to turn our clocks forward one hour this Sunday morning. At 2 a.m. Sunday, March 14, Daylight Saving Time officially begins. We lose an hour of the day (and an hour of sleep), but we gain an extra hour of daylight in the evening.
Daylight Saving Time (some call it "Daylight Savings Time") was officially extended in the United States in 2007, beginning the second Sunday in March and ending the first week in November. Daylight Saving Time started on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October, according to Time Temperature.
The loss of an hour of sleep can also play with our daily rhythm, affecting our daytime functioning, says Dr. Innessa Donskoy, a pediatric sleep specialist at Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge.
"By essentially waking one hour earlier we not only lose an hour of sleep causing drowsiness the next day, but it can cause a 'social jet lag,', the same feelings we may get by travelling to a different time zone, which last longer than just that one day," Dr. Donsky told AHC Health enew
Dr. Donsky advises having a plan to deal with the time change and shares these tips to help you feel more refreshed when you start the work and school week Monday morning:
- Get some good light exposure upon waking and eat a good breakfast up on Sunday to help your internal clocks adjust to this new timing.
- Be careful on Sunday with driving and other activities that require vigilance, as you may be more drowsy than usual.
- Try to minimize napping during the day on Sunday and head to bed at night once you start feeling sleepy, your body's internal clock may start to send you those "sleepy signals" earlier to help you adjust to the change.
The time change is automatic for smartphones, computers, tablets and other digital devices. If you have an analog clock, you're going to have to move the big hand forward one hour. Move your car clock ahead one hour too, unless you just left it from last November.
Daylight Saving Time completes the beginning of meteorological spring, which began March 1.
The biannual "Changing the clocks" is also a good time to change smoke and carbon monoxide alarm batteries, and check to make sure the devices are in working order, according to fire officials.
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