How long will it take you to adapt to time changes? Though a bit simplistic, a rule of thumb is that it takes about one day to adjust for each hour of time change.

Start shifting your clock a week early, and change wakeup time and bedtime by 15 minutes each day. Cut off caffeine usage an hour earlier than normal, and avoid alcohol, smoking, and intense exercise after dinner. Get up when the alarm goes off, even if you’re tired.

Walia offers these tips for dealing with the time change:

1. Start preparing a few days early. About a week before “springing forward,” Dr.
2. Stick to your schedule. Be consistent with eating, social, bed and exercise times during the transition to Daylight Saving Time.
3. Don’t take long naps.
4. Avoid coffee and alcohol.

Gradually Alter Your Bedtime: Two to three days10 before the transition between Standard Time and DST in early March, sleep experts recommend waking up 15-20 minutes earlier than usual. Then, on the Saturday before the time change, set your alarm clock back by an additional 15-20 minutes.

Daylight Saving Time Today Today, most Americans spring forward (turn clocks ahead and lose an hour) on the second Sunday in March (at 2:00 A.M.) and fall back (turn clocks back and gain an hour) on the first Sunday in November (at 2:00 A.M.).

When Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins, we lose an hour. When it ends, we gain an hour. DST robs us of 1 hour of sleep in the spring.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) Is Bad for Your Health. Changing sleep patterns, even by one hour, goes against a person’s natural circadian rhythms and has negative consequences for health. [1] One study found that the risk of a heart attack increases 10% the Monday and Tuesday following…

When the clocks move forward in the spring, you’ll be robbed of an hour of sleep. That night, you may not be able to fall into your normal sleep rhythms an hour earlier than you’re used to, and you won’t get as much quality sleep as you need.

Con: The time change can make people sick According to officials, the lack of sleep at the start of DST has lead to car accidents, workplace injuries, suicide and miscarriages. The risk of suffering a heart attack is also increased when DST begins, TimeandDate.com said.

All states but Hawaii and Arizona (except the Navajo Nation) observe DST. The territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands also do not observe DST.

Congress gives states two options: to either opt out of DST entirely or to switch to DST the second Sunday in March. Some states require legislation while others require executive action such as a governor’s executive order.

Arizona complies, but some areas are in the Mountain Time Zone and some in the Pacific Time Zone. October 1918: The U.S. returns to standard time. March 1919: Country returns to DST, Arizona complies but again in two time zones.

Daylight saving time was meant to save fuel during World War I by extending the day by one hour. But Congress standardized time zones with the Uniform Time Act of 1966. It let states opt out, but Arizona adopted daylight saving time from April to October 1967. And then it refused to participate since.

Time Zones Currently Being Used in Arizona

two time zones

5 Foods You Must Eat in Arizona

• Mesquite flour. Where to find it: Super Chunk, Scottsdale.
• Cheese crisp. Where to find it: Macayo’s Mexican Restaurant, Phoenix.
• Chimichanga. Where to find it: El Charro Café, Tucson.

Phoenix, Arizona’s time zone is Mountain Standard Time (MST). In the Greater Phoenix area we never change our clocks, since Arizona does not participate in Daylight Saving Time.