Spring Forward into Daylight Saving

It's that time again, when you lose an hour of sleep for one night to gain an hour of sunlight at the end of many days. Seems like a fair exchange to me. But then I'm not often up with the chickens unless I'm compelled to be.

Early risers, alas, will lose gold from the top o the morning. But they will continue to gain more daylight hours morning and night, as we head toward summer.

Regardless of any of our feelings about daylight-saving time, we'd best set our clocks ahead one hour before going to bed Saturday night. But if you'd rather follow the rules, you can stay up until 2 a.m. on Sunday for the official time change. This will allow you to reset with precision, pluck your unibrow, iron your clean sheets and go off to bed with the sanitizing sound of your air purifier humming in the background.

Whether you chose to conk out Saturday or Sunday — lose that hour. Some studies show accidents increase after the daylight saving switch. Speculation has it, folks running late to work or appointments are the culprits — whipping around and getting into accidents once they realize the error of their sluggish time-setting ways.

"How can they be late to work?" you ask scrunching your brows together. "They have all day Sunday to figure it out." Well, my dear, you have asked the right person.

Here's how it happens. I have a friend who has been known to skip church sometimes on Sunday, then spend the entire day being a Myers-Briggs "P" — doing what she wants when she wants. If she gets together with friends at all, it's last second. That is when she isn't busy using her freedom to avoid the human race in its entirety.

Thus on Monday, it looks like night when her alarm clock sounds, and her great brilliance kicks in telling her something is wrong.

"What?" you say. "Didn't she clue into this on Sunday when she woke up?"

Well, you see it was about as bright at 11 a.m. as it was at noon. If you don't get that — congratulations, Gunga Din you are better than I — uh, I mean better than my friend.

After Sunday, we'll have until Nov. 4 to get used to the daylight change, before it switches on us again. That's the day we fall back an hour — an annual celebration for us non-worm getters, who show up early to work feeling all proud of ourselves.