AMERICA SPRINGS FORWARD

Starting tomorrow, we're a little closer to home - an entire hour, actually! (For a couple of weeks anyway). Dont forget to set your clocks ahead! :>)

Here's a little snippet courtesy CBC News:

Daylight time was first enacted in Germany in 1915, quickly followed by
Britain and much of Europe and Canada.
Because the sun shone for a time
while most people were asleep, it was reasoned that light could be better used
during the day. The solution was to push the clocks ahead one hour in
springtime, forcing people to wake an hour earlier. They would therefore expend
less energy trying to light their homes, for instance, if time were adjusted to
suit their daily patterns.
When the days started getting shorter in the fall
and people awoke to increasing darkness, the clocks were turned back an hour to
get more light in the morning.

Beginning in 2007, daylight time will begin earlier and end later in the
United States and in most jurisdictions in Canada. U.S. President George W. Bush
signed legislation in August 2005 calling for daylight time to start on the
second Sunday in March, three weeks earlier than the traditional start. The bill
also extends daylight time by a week to the first Sunday in November.

This new schedule was introduced to try to help save energy, since people
aren't expected to need their lights on as early in the evening. But there is
still some debate about how effective the change will be at reducing energy
consumption