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Prepare to Lose an Hour of Sleep, Daylight Saving Starts This Weekend

By DNAinfo Staff on March 12, 2010 11:43am  | Updated on March 12, 2010 11:34am

Manhattanites should set their clocks an hour forward starting at 2 a.m. Sunday, Mar. 14.
Manhattanites should set their clocks an hour forward starting at 2 a.m. Sunday, Mar. 14.
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By Mariel S. Clark

DNAinfo News Editor

MANHATTAN — Get ready to "spring forward" — daylight saving time starts this weekend.

Manhattanites, at least the ones that remember, will set their clocks ahead an hour starting at 2 a.m. Sunday morning.

The switch will give them more sunlight in the evening but will make for some extra-groggy mornings as New Yorkers adjust to their alarm clocks going off an hour earlier.

Daylight saving was first started during World War I as a way to save energy.

The extra hour will continue until this year's daylight saving ends on Nov. 7.