VALLEY- Change clocks, batteries March 11

Daylight Saving Time for the year 2018 starts at 2 a.m. on March 11, with clocks set one hour forward to 3 a.m., and ends at 3 a.m. on November 4 as clocks are turned back one hour to 2 a.m. Hawaii, parts of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa remain on standard time.

According to the 2018 Farmer’s Almanac, Benjamin Franklin’s “An Economical Project,” written in 1784, is the earliest known proposal to “save” daylight.

Franklin noted, “Every morning, as soon as the Sun rises, let all the bells in every church be set ringing: and if that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in every street to wake the sluggards effectually… . Oblige a man to rise at four in the morning, and it is probable that he will go willingly to bed at eight in the evening.”