But since the state still observes daylight saving time, here are five things you need to know.<\/p>\n
When will the sun set after daylight saving time?<\/p>\n
People will lose an hour of sleep overnight Sunday. But the tradeoff is that sunset will happen one hour later once the time shift takes place.<\/p>\n
In Sacramento, the sun will set<\/a> at 7:06 p.m. on Sunday, March 8, when daylight saving time begins, according to Time and Date.<\/p>\n Days will get steadily longer until the summer solstice \u2014 the longest day of the year \u2014 on Sunday, June 21.<\/p>\n On the solstice, the sun rises at 5:41 a.m. and sets at 8:33 p.m.<\/p>\n According to Time and Date, the summer solstice has an extra five hours and 24 minutes of daylight compared to the darkest day of the year \u2014 the winter solstice<\/a>, which will take place on Monday, Dec. 21.<\/p>\n On that day, the sun will rise at 7:20 a.m. and set at 4:48 p.m.<\/p>\n Daylight saving time was created<\/a> to make better use of daylight during the longer days of the year, according to National Geographic.<\/p>\n The modern concept is officially credited to New Zealand entomologist<\/a> George Hudson, who proposed it in 1895, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.<\/p>\n \u201cWorking as a mail clerk in New Zealand, Hudson\u2019s day job cut into the daylight hours available<\/a> to hunt and collect the wide ranges of insects that interested him since childhood,\u201d the Smithsonian said.<\/p>\n The idea, however, dates back even further to nearly a century earlier when proposed by Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.<\/a><\/p>\n In 1784, Franklin suggested shifting schedules<\/a> to rise earlier in a satirical letter to the Journal of Paris. He said that doing so would reduce candle use and save money.<\/p>\n \u201cYet it so happens, that when I speak of this discovery to others, I can easily perceive by their countenances, though they forbear expressing it in words, that they do not quite believe me,\u201d Franklin wrote.<\/p>\n Daylight saving time was later implemented to save money<\/a> and energy, The Sacramento Bee previously reported.<\/p>\n During World War I, countries briefly pushed clocks forward to reduce fuel use<\/a>, according to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.<\/p>\n Germany adopted the practice in 1916, and the United States followed suit in 1918<\/a>.<\/p>\n Though the one-hour shift might not seem like much, losing an hour of sleep \u201ccan take a real toll on our bodies<\/a>,\u201d according to the Cleveland Clinic.<\/p>\n \u201cDecades of research have shown that hour loss of sleep leads to an increased risk for health problems,\u201d Alicia Roth, a sleep psychologist with the Cleveland Clinic, said in a Feb. 25 report. \u201cIn the week right after daylight saving time, the incidence of heart attacks and strokes significantly increases as well as motor vehicle accidents.\u201d<\/p>\n Roth said that the adjustment can be especially tough because \u2014 even after the clocks move forward \u2014 most people still have to wake up for work or school at the same time, leaving the body scrambling to catch up.<\/p>\n Temitayo Oyegbile-Chidi, a neurologist and sleep specialist<\/a> at UC Davis Health, said the human body naturally follows the sun.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we change the time on the clock to be an hour against the sun, it throws our bodies off<\/a>,\u201d she previously told The Sacramento Bee.<\/p>\n Even a single-hour shift can affect sleep schedules, brain activity, metabolism and the immune system, Oyegbile-Chidi said.<\/p>\n How long does it take our bodies to adjust to the time difference?<\/p>\n \u201cSome have argued two weeks, and others have argued it takes about a full month to reset<\/a>,\u201d Oyegbile-Chidi said.<\/p>\n The adjustment period varies from person to person, she said, but \u201cthe Monday after daylight saving time are when people are more likely to be thrown off or feeling\u201d under the weather.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople tend to feel this way because they\u2019re not realigning as quickly,\u201d Oyegbile-Chidi said.<\/p>\n Didn\u2019t California vote to end daylight saving time?<\/p>\n In November 2018, California voters approved<\/a> a ballot measure that would allow the state to move to year-round standard time or year-round daylight saving time.<\/p>\n Proposition 7 passed with 59.8% of the vote.<\/p>\n Nearly eight years later, state lawmakers have yet to pass any legislation to move California to permanent daylight saving or standard time.<\/p>\n That legislation would need a two-thirds vote<\/a> in both the State Assembly and the State Senate, along with the governor\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n If California chose to stay on daylight saving time all year, Congress would also have to approve the change<\/a>.<\/p>\n Loading\u2026<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n Angela Rodriguez<\/a><\/p>\n The Modesto Bee<\/p>\n Angela Rodriguez is a service journalism reporter for The Bee. 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