Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, set your clocks ahead before bed
![REED Clockmaker Tobey Reed checks the details on one face of a four face clock before it is shipped at the Electric Time Company in Medfield, Mass., Friday, April 5, 1996. The clock was built for a Deerfield, Ill., fire station. Daylight savings time begins on Sunday April 7th at 2 a.m. and clocks are set ahead one hour. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo)](https://whyy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07d/daylightsavingstimex1200-1.jpg)
Clockmaker Tobey Reed checks the details on one face of a four face clock before it is shipped at the Electric Time Company in Medfield, Mass., Friday, April 5, 1996. The clock was built for a Deerfield, Ill., fire station. Daylight savings time begins on Sunday April 7th at 2 a.m. and clocks are set ahead one hour. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo)
A sign that spring is approaching: daylight saving time begins this weekend, so don’t forget to change your clocks.
Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday. That means clocks need to be set ahead one hour. Spring begins a few weeks later, on March 20.
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