Daylight Saving 2018: Which way do the clocks change?

Daylight Saving 2018 is here and it’s time to change the clocks. If you’re not sure which way to change your clock, we have you covered.

Daylight Saving 2018 has arrived and that means we’re all getting one less hour of sleep on Saturday night into Sunday morning. If you have to be somewhere on Sunday morning, make sure you set your clock or else you’ll be late.

On Saturday, March 10 you will want to turn all of your clocks ahead, or forward, one hour before bed. The time change officially happens at 2 a.m. local time. If you’re not staying up to see the time change on your digital devices like phones and cable boxes, you need to change your manually operated clocks (car stereos, alarm clocks, ovens, microwaves) before bed. For those of you that want to see it happen, you will see your cable box and cell phone go from 1:59 a.m. to 3 a.m. in the span of a few seconds and it’s kind of mind boggling.

Daylight Saving is the time change that people notice the most because many people really notice that lost hour. To combat the effects, you can go to sleep a little earlier on Saturday to make up for the lost hour on Sunday, but in reality it takes a few days to really recover and adapt to the new time.

We change our clocks twice a year, in March and November, to maximize the amount of daylight squeezed into a day. Daylight Saving takes place on the second Sunday in March and reverts to Standard Time on the first Sunday in November. The rule of thumb: “Spring forward, Fall back.”

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A Daylight Saving pro-tip is that you might need to restart your phone if it doesn’t switch over automatically, just as you might need a restart after landing in a new time zone. It’s a good idea to know if your phone is going to switch over on its own, especially if you use your phone as an alarm and you need to be somewhere early on Sunday morning.