Find out when we’ll turn it back an hour here

Maybe it’s just me, but every time you see an article about how we set our clocks back an hour in the fall, you also see a photo of an old-fashioned alarm clock with the bells on top of a pile of leaves in a forest or Forest somewhere.

The photo above is exactly what I’m talking about.

It’s like at some point in the summer we all decide to throw our watches into the wild and then a few months later we remember what we did and pick the watch out of the leaf pile and bring it back in until it’s time is to advance our clocks.

Maybe I’m reading a little too much into the images changing the clock.

Everyone really seems to want to stop changing the clocks twice a year, and we also seem to really want the people in power who decide these things to just pick a time and stick with it.

Despite all the talk about abolishing the twice-a-year time change in the United States, lawmakers in this state and across the country just don’t seem to be able to get their act together and abolish something that the majority of Illinoisans want to see go for all gone.

There have been several attempts to make a change, but they have all failed, leaving us with no choice but to continue with this spring-forward/relapse cycle we are currently trapped in.

In 2022, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent

So why hasn’t anything changed? Well, for one thing, this was done by voice vote and was not taken up by the House of Representatives. In addition, the current government has not initially issued a statement on this issue.

Then there is the problem of selection wrong method the time measurement first of all. After voting for permanent daylight saving time, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine released a statement praising the idea of ​​eliminating the time change but lamenting the fact that the Senate had chosen the wrong option to keep it:

The AASM statement also states: “Current evidence best supports the adoption of year-round standard time, which best aligns with human circadian biology and provides clear benefits for public health and safety.“The statement was supported by more than 20 medical, scientific and civic organizations, including the American College of Chest Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the National PTA, the National Safety Council, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms and World Sleep Society.

While everyone solves this problem (hopefully within our lifetime), Illinoisans should turn back the clocks here

I wanted to give you a little heads up now so you don’t have to bother changing your clocks later because you’re always early for everything.

Before 2005, clocks had to be set forward on the first Sunday in April and turned back on the last Sunday in October.

Now we “spring forward” to the second Sunday in March and “fall back” to the first Sunday in November. So on Saturday, November 2nd, turn your clocks back an hour before quitting time so you’ll be ready when the time change occurs at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 3rd.