Day Light Savings Time 2009

Its the time to adjust the clocks for daylight savings time. The first Sunday in November is always the time to "fall back", and gain an extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning. This tradition started as a way to increase the number of hours of daylight so that farmers could successfully harvest their crops in the Fall. However, it has turned into an excuse to get a little more sleep, and hopefully have a some minutes of sunlight left in the day after getting out of work.

Most of the United States start Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment.

But people in Hawaii and most of Arizona—along with the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands—will do nothing. Those locales never deviate from standard time within their particular time zones.