Daylight Saving 2018: When Does Washington Turn Clocks Ahead?

BELLEVUE, WA - It's time for the bad daylight savings, the one where you lose an hour of sleep. But when precisely will you have to spring your clocks ahead in 2018 on the West Coast?

Next Sunday, March 11, at 2 a.m.

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.

Sunrise will be about an hour later and there will be more light in the evenings.

Interesting fact: Arizona, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa do not observe daylight saving time.

One other thing to do the night before the time change: Test your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Just before you move that clock hand forward an hour, push the test button on the smoke and carbon monoxide alarm(s) in your home. If they do not work, replace the battery — unless it is a sealed 10-year lithium battery, in which case you will have to get a new alarm.

Patch reporter Deb Belt contributed to this story

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