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Turn the clock back an hour on Saturday night

Daylight Savings Time ends around 2 a.m. on Sunday and we get an extra hour of sleep
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Daylight Saving Time ends around 2 a.m. on Sunday night, so we have to turn the hands back an hour on Saturday night.

Get ready to turn back the hands of time.

Yes, Daylight Savings Time (DST) ends at 2 a.m. Sunday (Nov. 5) for most areas in North America and Europe, and some areas in the Middle East.

Most of Africa and Asia does not move their clocks twice a year.

In South America, most countries in the north of the continent near the equator do not observe Daylight Savings Time, while Paraguay and southern parts of Brazil do.

The main purpose of Daylight Savings Time (called Summer Time in many places in the world) is to make better use of daylight.

We change our clocks during summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening.

An act to preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United States was enacted on March 19, 1918. It both established standard time zones and set summer DST to begin on March 31, 1918.

Daylight Savings Time was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919.

Recently, the dates have been changed to March 12 and we turn back our clocks one hour on Nov. 5, a total of just under eight months of daylight shifting.

So, before you go to bed tomorrow night (Nov. 4), turn your clocks back an hour.

Woo-hoo! We get an extra hour of sleep.