Updated 3/4/20

It is almost time to spring forward your clocks.

Daylight saving time 2020 begins at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday meaning Giles Countains will set their clock to 3 a.m. and lose an hour of sleep.

Contrary to popular opinion, daylight saving time doesn not last for half the year. Rather, it stretches approximately eight months and will come to an end on Sunday, November 1st.

It has been that way since 2007, when Congress declared that daylight saving time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.

The observance is often misidentified as "daylight savings time" with an extra "S," but its name comes from the idea of saving daylight.

Daylight saving time is not observed the same way or at all in some parts of the country.

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 standardized time zones and daylight saving practices around the United States, but it allowed individual states to pass laws exempting themselves.

Pulaski Fire Chief Don Collins said changing the clock is always a good time to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.