'Spring Forward' on Sunday, March 8

It is almost time to “spring forward.” 

Likely few people will move the clock hand, or dial, forward an hour exactly at 2:00 a.m. local time on Sunday, March 8, but that is when Daylight Saving Time officially will begin.  

With modern technology, most phones autoset and computers automatically update to sync with the time change. However, the time change still can be confusing. Most people remember the trick to clock changing by the old quote "spring forward, fall backward" --- setting forward our clocks by one hour for Daylight Saving Time in the spring and setting backward by one hour for Standard Time in the fall.  

Daylight Saving Time (with no “s” at the end of “saving”) has been around since World War I. But it became the law of the land more than 50 years ago with the Uniform Time Act of 1966, although the exact dates — now the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November — have changed some over the years.