Did you wake up and freak out that you forgot it was Daylight Savings Time? Well, if you did, you would have been frantic for no reason: It starts (well, technically it ends) next Sunday! Yep, the clocks fall back an hour starting November 6.
You'll have to manually change most of the clocks in your house -- yes, it's a pain -- but most phones and even computers will help you out automatically. The clock on your phone will go back an hour starting at 2am, so don't worry about setting alarms differently or anything like that. It's regularly scheduled programming at least in the cellular department.
The origin of Daylight Saving Time is very complex and dates back to ancient civilizations in some ways, though most people think it's used in the modern world to save energy. Well, that might be the goal, but according to some studies, it's not really working. Back in the '70s, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation (DOT) concluded that DST might reduce the country's electricity usage by 1% during March and April, but the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) reviewed the DOT study in 1976 and found no significant savings, according to Wikipedia. Over 35 years later, we're still rolling our clocks back though!
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