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Daylight savings starts Sunday

Days get even longer this weekend, as daylight savings time kicks in Sunday morning at 2 a.m.

Clocks will move ahead one hour to 3 a.m.

Daylight savings time was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist.

Wikipedia reports traffic fatalties decrease during daylight savings.

Daylight savings time has proven controversial over its history.

Regions of Arizona do not observe the switch, and eight counties in Indiana switch from the central to the eastern time zone when the daylight savings switch occurs.

 

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