Daylight Savings Time is coming a little early this year. In a couple of weeks, El Paso “springs forward” to gain some extra daylight and lose a little sleep.<\/p>\n
The first half of the twice yearly time change is upon us. It’s a little earlier than usual this year, March 8th across most of the country. I say “most” because not everybody shifts.<\/p>\n
Hawaii and, (part of<\/a>), Arizona don’t honor DST and 19 other states<\/a> have started the process to try and stop participating in the time change.<\/p>\n American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, (all US territories), don’t change their clocks. Several\u00a0states want to stop<\/a> switching back and forth.<\/p>\n Texas still honors the time change but\u00a0some efforts have been made<\/a>\u00a0… and approved …\u00a0 for Texas to, someday, do so.<\/p>\n How To Spend That Extra Hour Of Daylight In El PasoGo buy sunscreen – extra daylight = extra burn time.Extra hour of daylight = extra hour of day drinking.Use the extra hour to tie down everything you own for windy season.<\/p>\n READ MORE: No More Daylight Saving Time In Texas?<\/a><\/p>\n Extra daylight means kids can play outside longer – you’re welcome.Celebrate the fact that that all your clocks, (dashboard, stove, microwave, etc.), are correct again.Enjoy an extra hour of procrastinating.Help Adjusting To Daylight Saving Time<\/p>\n Go to sleep 15 – 20 minutes earlier<\/a> each day for 3 or 4 days prior to the time change. Be alert. Experts say the number of accidents, in cars and on the job, goes up<\/a> as do certain health issues due to sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n Shocking Time Change Health Impacts You Need To Know About<\/p>\n Time changes can significantly impact our health. Here are some common health issues that may arise from time changes, such as the shift to daylight savings time. <\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Canva<\/p>\n 7 Household Chores to Add to Your To-Do-List While Setting Clocks Back (or forward!)<\/p>\n Daylight savings time ends this weekend which means setting clocks back. But you can also add helpful chores to tackle at the same time that will save you a few bucks and help keep you and your family safe.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: JD Knight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daylight Savings Time is coming a little early this year. In a couple of weeks, El Paso “springs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,143,223,4492,1633],"class_list":["post-177227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-local-el-paso","tag-news","tag-public-service-charity","tag-weird-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}