Here are two answers:
First, this process is known as Daylight Savings Time, which affords most people more sunlight during the daylight hours.
Second, it takes place at 2AM, apparently, because there are fewer people awake at that hour, so the impact is less severe. For example, in the spring, there is no 2AM hour: from 1:59AM the next minute is 3AM. And in the fall there are two 2AM hours: from 2:59AM, the next minute is 2AM.
Just remember 'spring forward, fall back'.
One common saying goes "Spring ahead, Fall back." During the spring daylight savings time, you set your clocks ahead one hour. In the fall daylight savings time, set them back an hour.
Half way around the sun from spring we have fall, or autumn.
Daylight saving time typically starts in the spring and ends in the fall. In most regions, clocks "spring forward" in the spring and "fall back" in the fall.
Set Clocks Forward In SpringForward. Just remember Spring - Forward and Fall -Back. ]Move the clock ahead 1 hour for daylight savings time each spring, which means if it is 12:00, you'll move it to 1:00.Actually, Mexico is the only country that "springs forward" in April. New Zealand, Samoa, Australia, Namibia and Chile, including Easter Island, all "fall back" in April.For the year 2010 in the US and Canada:SPRING FORWARDDaylight Saving Time begins on March 14, 2010 - when you set the clocks ahead 1 hour.FALL BACKDaylight Saving Time ends on November 7, 2010 - when you set the clocks back 1 hour.
SPRING forward, FALL back. SPRING forward, FALL back.
Just remember 'spring forward, fall back'.
One common saying goes "Spring ahead, Fall back." During the spring daylight savings time, you set your clocks ahead one hour. In the fall daylight savings time, set them back an hour.
Half way around the sun from spring we have fall, or autumn.
Daylight saving time typically starts in the spring and ends in the fall. In most regions, clocks "spring forward" in the spring and "fall back" in the fall.
Clocks get turned BACK one hour - an easy way to remember this operation is "Spring Forward, Fall Back."
Set Clocks Forward In SpringForward. Just remember Spring - Forward and Fall -Back. ]Move the clock ahead 1 hour for daylight savings time each spring, which means if it is 12:00, you'll move it to 1:00.Actually, Mexico is the only country that "springs forward" in April. New Zealand, Samoa, Australia, Namibia and Chile, including Easter Island, all "fall back" in April.For the year 2010 in the US and Canada:SPRING FORWARDDaylight Saving Time begins on March 14, 2010 - when you set the clocks ahead 1 hour.FALL BACKDaylight Saving Time ends on November 7, 2010 - when you set the clocks back 1 hour.
In the spring, you spring forward. In the fall, you fall back.So, in the spring, turn your clocks one hour forward. In the fall, turn your clocks one hour back.Fall Back, Spring Forward!You always set your clocks BACK one hour for Fall, meaning you LOSE an hour of Daylight, you have one hour less of light. In the happy springtime, you have one more joyous hour of light, so you GAIN an hr of daylight.Dates: DST in the United States and CanadaDaylight Saving Time (DST) always begins on the second Sunday of March and ends on the first Sunday of November. Daylight Saving Time(DST) in EuropeMost countries in Europe, via the EU- European Union, follow a synchronized DST that lasts: From the last Sunday of MarchUntil the last Sunday of October
You loose an hour when clocks go forward. For example if you get up every day at 6am, after the clock change it really will be like getting up at 5am. You lost 1 hour at 2am, it will probably be darker where you are now in the morning. On the bright side of things, we get an extra hour of daylight.
Clocks in england change twice a year to equate British summer time. They go forward one hour at the end of March (spring) and go back one hour at the end of October (fall) hence the saying 'spring forward, fall back'
There is not a set date for either of these times. Nevertheless, they follow the rule that the last Sunday in March the clocks go forward. The last Sunday in October the clocks go back. This can be remembered with the mnemonic "the clocks spring forward in spring and fall back in fall"
no you put them back 1 hour. an easy way to remember this is; spring ahead, fall behind