Time change comes early

JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers NIGHT LIGHTS--There will be less need for lights at the The Lakes in Thousand Oaks after daylight-saving time begins this Sunday. The time change starts at 2 a.m., March 11. Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight-saving time this year is slated to begin on the second Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November. Studies show that each day of daylight-saving time trims the nation's electricity usage by an estimated 1 percent. Daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sun., March 11. The time change previously began on the first Sunday in April, but has been moved forward three weeks on the calendar in an effort to save more energy.

The return to standard time has changed, too. Normally daylight-saving time ended on the last Sunday in October. This year clocks will be changed a week later, at 2 a.m. Sun., Nov. 4.

Clocks move forward in springtime and fall back in autumn. Daylight-saving time is notobserved in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and in most of Arizona.