Don’t forget to set your clocks back, Borderland.

Beginning Sunday, daylight will come sooner and disappear earlier when the end of daylight saving time goes into effect.

To adjust back to standard time, clocks will need to be set back one hour beginning at 2 a.m. local time. That means, that if you go to bed at 10 p.m., set your clock to 9 p.m.

Although the idea of daylight saving time was mentioned by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, Wikipedia.com says the modern idea of daylight saving was first proposed in 1895 by a New Zealand entomologist and astronomer, George Vernon Hudson. The practice was first implemented during the World War I. Many countries have used it at various times since then.

The website continues that the practice has been both praised and criticized. Adding daylight to evenings benefits some, but can cause problems for evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun.

 Although an early goal of daylight saving time was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity, modern heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how daylight saving time currently affects energy use is limited or contradictory. 

On The Journal’s Facebook page, Falls resident Tony Oveson wrote, “I hate having to lose that one hour and going to a 23-hour day until spring.”

Wikipedia added that daylight saving time clock shifts present other challenges such as sleep patterns. The National Sleep Foundation has performed studies showing that about 28 percent said they are so sleepy during the day following the shift back to standard time that it interferes with their daily activities at least a few days a month. 

With earlier light exposure, people may be waking up earlier and increasing daytime drowsiness, according to the NSF website. The foundation reminds people to plan ahead to make healthy sleep a priority and reduce incidents of daytime drowsiness.

NSF recommends these tips to help ease the adjustment to standard time:

• Maintain your regular bedtime Saturday night, when clocks move back, and awaken at your regular time on Sunday morning. This can give you an “extra” hour of sleep the next morning and help reduce your sleep debt.

• Block out light and keep your sleeping area dark. Standard time causes the sun to rise about an hour earlier. This can impact sleep, especially for people accustomed to awakening before or around sunrise. The light itself can disturb sleep, so it is always best to sleep in a darkened room.

• Increase the light when you wake up. Light has an alerting affect that may help you wake up. It will also help adjust your biological clock to the “new” sleep schedule.

• Difficulty adjusting to the time change? Staying awake at night or sleeping until your desired wake-up time may be helped by gradually moving bedtime and awakening later by 15 minutes every one to two days.