Sunday is the day late sleepers have been waiting for since March 10 – The end of Daylight Saving Time.

While the official end arrives at 2 a.m. Sunday not many people stay up to turn their clocks back an hour. Except for night owls, residents just turn their alarm clocks back an hour before they hop into bed Saturday night.

Proving that most of us are more like sheep (just follow the leader) than we’d like to admit, the vast majority goes along with Daylight Savings-Time, even though we might not be crazy about it.

Only Arizona and Hawaii don’t go right along with the DST inanity.

Maybe it’s because people feel like they’re getting away with something when they get to loll in bed that extra hour on Sunday morning.

They find out when they have to cut their golf game an hour short Sunday afternoon, however, that the number of daylight hours don’t change just because some people in Washington approved of switching clocks up and then back a couple of times a year.

Americans have been following this clock switching ritual for at least 102 years in at least one location. Daylight Savings Time began in 1918.

Historically, there were no uniform rules for DST from 1945 to 1966. This caused confusion, especially in transport and broadcasting. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 aligned the switch dates across the USA for the fi rst time.

Following the 1973 oil embargo, the US Congress extended the DST period to 10 months in 1974 and 8 months in 1975, in an effort to save energy.

After the energy crisis was over in 1976, the DST schedule in the US was revised several times. From 1987 to 2006, the country observed DST for about 7 months each year.

States could opt out of the system if they chose, but only two previously mentioned states plus dependencies American Samoa Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, minor outlying islands and U.S. Virgin Islands follow that path.

Science has identified strange effects related to Daylight Saving Time.

Which brings up the question: Why do we do it?

Answer: It’s easier to go along with the crowd, and hey, we get to sleep an hour longer one Sunday a year.