Springing Forward

Daylight Saving Time is 2:00 AM on March 9, 2014 

Ready to spring forward to daylight saving time?
There may still be snow on the ground where you live, but that rite of spring, daylight saving time, starts early in the US this Sunday morning. And while the shift to daylight time means longer daylight hours and (eventually) warmer weather, it also means losing an hour of sleep. We may wake up a bit sluggish on Sunday and Monday, but after a couple days
most will adjust. Healthy Tip: try going to bed an hour maybe two hours earlier then your normal bed schedule to help your body and mind adjust properly needed to the time change.

Not only do we spring forward in in our daily routines and life’s rituals, but we are also springing closer to retirement.  We should use this time to spring forward to our current retirement assets by springing in a few extra dollars to your retirement holdings. Why, you may ask?  Use this as a motivational event to put forth that extra effort to your retirement so down the road you can live like a king or queen when you do retire. You already lost 1 hour, don’t loose the next. Our time is short and time is counting down until we retire.

Brief History of Daylight Saving:

Benjamin Franklin has been credited with the idea of Daylight Saving Time, but Britain and Germany began using the concept in World War I to conserve energy, the Washington Post observes. The U.S. used Daylight Saving Time for a brief time during the war, but it didn’t become widely accepted in the States until after the second World War.

In 1966, the Uniform Time Act outlined that clocks should be set forward on the last Sunday in April and set back the last Sunday in October.

That law was amended in 1986 to start daylight saving time on the first Sunday in April, though the new system wasn’t implemented until 1987. The end date was not changed, however, and remained the last Sunday in October until 2006

Today, Daylight Saving Time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. The time change will precede the first day of spring and the vernal equinox, which is set to take place at 1:14 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, March 20.

Read More Here from source Huffington Post