Whether you call it Daylight Savings Time, Daylight Saving Time, or DST, don’t spring forward and turn the clocks ahead until 2 a.m. Sunday 11 March, 2012.
The term “to spring forward” refers to when people set the clocks one hour forward, marking the start of DST. It is a term that is easy to remember for may people in countries such as Canada, the UK and the USA.
This is because the DST start date coincides with the spring season in these countries. It is the time of the year when the days begin to have longer hours of sunlight after the winter’s end, in addition DST, which brings forth an extra hour of daylight in the afternoons or evenings.
Daylight Saving Time will end 2 a.m. Sunday, November 4 when the clocks will “fall back”.
The term “to fall back” suggests that one must set the clocks back one hour when DST ends. It is associated with the fall (autumn) season because the DST schedule ends in the fall. The fall season and the end of daylight saving time mark a period when the days become darker, in that there are fewer hours of sunlight during the day, particularly in the afternoons or evenings, as winter approaches.
