Set your clock back one hour Sat. night

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Daylight saving time comes to an end this weekend and we go back to standard time.

This means before we go to bed Saturday night we set our clocks back one hour and we get an extra hour of sleep Sunday morning.

Daylight saving time was first put into effect during World War II.

The starting and ending days have changed over the years but The Energy Policy Act of 2005 changed the start to the second Sunday in March and the end to the first Sunday in November.

In addition to setting your clock back one hour it's also a good idea to change the batteries in your carbon monoxide detectors and smoke detectors.

For most people the time change doesn't seem to be too much of an inconvenience.

“It really doesn't bother me, I work nights at work so I have to remember you set the clocks back and your there an extra hour or your getting out an hour early,” Dan Lavelli of West Springfield.

“It takes about a week to get used to it. A week or two you know but you get used to it,” said Dennis Tatro of Westfield.

You can't go home and do yard work you have to wait for the weekends but I guess some people would prefer that but it doesn't affect me,” Brian Jarry of West Springfield.

While most of the country observes the time change Hawaii and most of Arizona don't change to daylight saving time.

Daylight saving time officially begins Sunday at 2 a.m. and the sun will set Sunday at 4:40 p.m.