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Daylight Saving Time Ends For Carlsbad 2022: Here's When To Fall Back
Mark your calendars! We get an extra hour of slumber Sunday morning.
CARLSBAD, CA — Sleep-deprived Carlsbad residents will soon get an extra hour of slumber with the coming end of Pacific Daylight Time and a return to Pacific Standard Time in California.
You can set your clock back one hour starting Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 a.m., making it 1 a.m., instead.
While cell phones, computers and televisions will automatically be set back, you'll still need to change all wall clocks, alarm clocks, coffee pot timer clocks, microwaves and oven clocks by hand.
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But while that means a day of guilt-free sleeping in, it also comes with a cost: earlier sunsets through the dark winter months.
California is one of 48 states — save for Arizona and Hawaii — which observe daylight saving time.
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Falling back is the better end of the bargain, at least for parents who can rest easier if they keep their kids up an extra hour before bedtime, expert parents suggest. If your kids are grown and flown, consider staying out an extra hour to celebrate Saturday night. Pet parents may have a difficult time convincing their fur babies to sleep longer on that blissful "fall back" morning.
The practice of resetting clocks in the spring and fall isn't popular among Americans. Many even voted to abolish the idea. In March, the U.S. Senate approved a bill to make daylight saving time permanent, however, the House hasn't yet discussed the idea.
A Monmouth University poll this year found only 35 percent of people surveyed want to keep clock changes.
And they're not wrong in thinking daylight saving is arguably absurd — as this video outlines, the reasons behind the practice have little to do with farmers and a lot to do with Kaiser Wilhelm.
Pointy-helmeted, long-dead German monarchs aside, California residents still have to set their clocks back Sunday.
At least we all get an hour of extra sleep in the deal.
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