There are individual health concerns, too: switching to Daylight Saving Time is associated with cardiovascular morbidity, a higher risk of a heart attack or stroke, and an increase in hospital admissions for irregular heartbeats, for example.

The Illinois Senate passed a bill in 2019. The Illinois Senate has not proposed a new daylight saving time bill in 2020, according to a records search on the Illinois General Assembly’s website. So we can verify, yes, Illinois residents need to change their clocks back one hour on Sunday morning.

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In 2021, DST begins on March 14 and ends on Nov. 7 in the U.S., when you’ll set the clock back an hour and the cycle will begin again. Daylight saving time in the U.S. will begin again on March 13, 2022, according to timeanddate.com.

Under the “Sunshine Protection Act of 2021,” daylight saving time would be made permanent and the majority of the U.S. — Hawaii and parts of Arizona already don’t observe the time changes — would not have to “fall back” come again November.

Since DST switches usually occur at night to avoid disrupting public life, they snatch away an hour of our usual sleeping time, forcing us to adjust our body clocks. If you set your alarm to the same time as before the clock change, you will sleep an hour less.

Daylight Saving Time starts in 2020 on Sunday, March 8 at 2 a.m. This marks the day the clocks change, or “spring forward,” and we lose one hour of sleep. Daylight Saving Time, also sometimes colloquially referred to as “daylight savings,” begins on the second Sunday in March.

(WMC) – Love it or hate it, the second Sunday in March we go to bed Saturday night, just to lose an hour of sleep when we wake up on Sunday morning. This marks the start of Daylight Saving Time, we lose an hour of sleep, but on the flip side, we gain an extra hour of daylight.

The return of Standard Time means the Sun will rise a little earlier (at least according to our clocks) so if you’re an early riser, you’ll enjoy the rays as you have your breakfast. And you’ll “gain” one hour of sleep. The bad news? It will be dark by the time most of us get out of work.

The first Sunday in November is when Daylight Saving Time ends in most areas of the U.S., so in 2020 we’ll “fall back” one hour and return to Standard Time on Sunday, November 1st at 2 a.m. Be sure to set your clocks back one hour before bed Saturday night! And you’ll “gain” one hour of sleep.

At present, daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time on Nov. 1, 2020, and begins again at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 14, 2021.

Clocks in the German Empire, and its ally Austria, were turned ahead by one hour on April 30, 1916—2 years into World War I. The rationale was to minimize the use of artificial lighting to save fuel for the war effort. Within a few weeks, the idea was followed by the United Kingdom, France, and many other countries.

In 1895, George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, came up with the modern concept of daylight saving time. He proposed a two-hour time shift so he’d have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug hunting in the summer.

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With the war over, Britain returned to British Summer Time except for an experiment between 1968 and 1971 when the clocks went forward but were not put back. The experiment was discontinued as it was found impossible to assess the advantages and disadvantages of British Summer Time.

Many countries in the Northern Hemisphere (north of the equator) use DST in the summer time, but not all. Daylight Saving Time usually starts in March-April and ends in September-November when the countries return to standard time, or winter time as it is also known.

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday October 27 in 2019, which means that the clocks are going back this weekend. The time changes at 2am Greenwich Mean Time on October 27, meaning that 2am will then become 1am GMT instead – and yes, it also means that on Sunday morning you can hopefully enjoy an extra hour of sleep.