Daylight Saving 2011: Change Your Clocks on November 6

Daylight Saving time ends not this weekend, but the next, on Sunday November 6: It's always the first Sunday in November.

That's the case for Encino, but not for my native Britain; Daylight Saving will end there on Sunday October 30 (there's even a move by the British government to scrap it altogether.)

Why is it different in the U.S? According to the Huffington Post, the extended Daylight Saving Time began here back in 2007, after the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005.

But why do we have Daylight Saving in the first place? The Huffington Post has the answers; click here for its article on the history and purpose of the time change.