Daylight Saving Time Ends Next Weekend—Here’s How to Prepare for Potential Health Effects

An Electric Time Company employee adjusts the color on a clock at the plant in Medfield, Mass., on Oct. 30, 2008, days before the switch to standard time. Elise Amendola/AP Photo

The good news: You will get a glorious extra hour of sleep. The bad: It'll be dark as a pocket by late afternoon for the next few months in the United States.

Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time next Sunday, Nov. 3, which means you should set your clock back an hour before you go to bed. Standard time will last until March 9 when we will again “spring forward” with the return of daylight saving time.