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Americans set their clocks back and sleep in
October 25, 1997
Web posted at: 5:15 p.m. EDT (2115 GMT)WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Most Americans can treat themselves Sunday to an extra hour of sleep after most of the nation switches early in the morning to standard time -- requiring residents to turn their clocks back one hour.
According to federal law, the official changeover is at 2 a.m. the last Sunday in October -- except in Hawaii, Arizona and parts of Indiana, which do not observe daylight-saving time. Daylight-saving time returns, and clocks are moved ahead one hour, on the first Sunday of April.
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- United States Code: Advancement of time or changeover dates
- Local times around the world
- Daylight Saving Time, its history and why we use it - California Energy Commission
- The origin of Daylight Saving Time
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