Daylight Saving Time 2022: Be Sure To Set Your Clocks Ahead

NEW YORK — Though spring is still a little less than two weeks away, on Sunday it will be time once again to "spring forward."

Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 13. That means the sun will set later in the day — and rise later, too, in case you were getting used to not waking up in the dark.

Daylight saving also means the biannual hassle of changing the time on old-school clocks.

In case you were wondering, on Saturday, March 12, the sun will rise in New York at 6:12 a.m. and set at 5:59 p.m.

On Sunday, March 13, the sun will rise at 7:10 a.m. and set at 7 p.m. For the record, Sunday's daylight is only two minutes longer than Saturday's; it's just rising and setting at different times.

As you know, daylight saving time is the practice of setting clocks forward one hour from standard time in the spring, and back again in the fall, in order to make better use of natural daylight.

New York is among the 48 states that — often with a lot of grumbling — observe daylight saving time. Hawaii and Arizona don't observe the practice, although the Navajo Nation in the Grand Canyon State does.

It's by no means a popular practice around the country. Americans by a 63 percent to 16 percent margin favoring ditching daylight saving time altogether, according to a recent Economic/YouGov poll.

The reasons the United States observes daylight saving are arguably absurd — as outlined in this video.

Bills in Albany have been introduced to make daylight saving time year-round, but they never seem to get out of committee.

So, daylight saving time remains a thing in New York. You've been warned.