Daylight Savings Time starts at 2AM on Sunday, March 10, 2021.
Do you feel it in the air? Spring is coming, and the start of longer daylight hours is well underway.
And with daylight saving time starting in March, most Americans will soon have even more hours in the sun.
Even ahead of of the time change, there are already cities in every continental U.S. time zone that are reporting sunset times after 6PM as the Earth and the Northern Hemisphere begins its tilt toward the sun.
The time adjustment affects the daily lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, prompting clock changes, contributing to less sleep in the days following and, of course, later sunsets.
People sometimes referred to it as ‘spring forward’ to remember it as the day clocks move forward one hour.
The tradeoff is that sunrise will be an an hour later- 7:10AM on March 10 after it was 6:12AM a day earlier.
The winter solstice, which occurs annually on December 21, is the day with the shortest daylight hours each year. Since then, the days have been gradually getting longer.
Because the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, cities that are located eastward experience sunrise before more more westward cities.
