You know that daylight saving time is coming up when it gets dark by, like, four o’clock in the evening.
And for those of you who still use manual clocks as opposed to solely an iPhone, when you need to make that hour “fall back” is probably lingering in the back of your mind as the nights grow longer and the days grow cooler.
In order to address that tingling, just know that daylight saving time ends this year on Sunday, Nov. 7. That means that if you’re out late on Saturday, Nov. 6 for whatever reason, you’re in luck, because you’ll be treated to an extra hour of shuteye (although some lawmakers in Pennsylvania want to get rid of the practice altogether).
However, the prospect of daylight saving time may prove to be depressing to a few people, as it signifies the temporal shift from longer, summer days to shorter, winter ones. While some may believe that this practice is leftover from the days when the United States was primarily an agrarian society, the practice actually has more recent, wartime roots.
True, the idea of daylight saving time was first floated around back in the 1700s, but it wasn’t adopted until World War I came along and governments figured it’d be more profitable to save on energy costs by working with natural light. Thus, daylight saving time was adopted, and it’s been with us ever since.
These days, though, daylight saving time is considered by some to be archaic. This is evidenced by the fact that many states across the U.S. are beginning to consider getting rid of the practice entirely, even good old Pennsylvania.
Now, if you’re really thinking ahead, daylight saving time springs back into action on Sunday, March 13, 2022.