Sunday morning at 2 a.m. clocks will fall back an hour giving Minnesotans an extra hour of sleep as Daylight Saving Time ends.
This coming Saturday morning the sun will rise at 8:04, but Sunday morning it rises at 7:08.
But with the earlier morning sunlight it means it will be getting darker an hour earlier in the evening. Saturday the sun will set at 6:07, but Sunday the sunset comes at 5:06.
An easy way to remember how DST affects our clocks and daily lives is the little saying, “Spring ahead, Fall behind.”
As we move toward the winter solstice Dec. 21, the days keep getting continually shorter. We are still losing about 3 minutes of sunlight a day, nearly 20 minutes a week. Through the month of November the area loses 1 hour and 6 minutes of daylight. However, the rate of loss slows in December as we approach the winter solstice and the shortest day of the year.
