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Sandra Yi reporting If you're feeling a little tired today, it's normal; we all lost an hour of sleep. It's the second year daylight-saving time is four weeks longer.
If you forgot to "spring forward" this morning, you weren't the only one. Not every clock is telling the right time. The one on Salt Lake City's Main Street is still an hour behind.
Even with a store full of watches, keeping time this morning wasn't so easy for Angelique Thurnall, owner of the Which Watch kiosk at the Gateway Mall. She said, "I forgot to turn my clock forward and thought it was 10 o'clock and it was 11 o'clock."
She'll have to change all her store's watches one at a time. She says, "It takes about three, four hours." A time-consuming task, but beneficial for business. "It gives us a chance to change batteries and all that other stuff that needs to be done."
For the second year, daylight-saving time came early. It will last four weeks longer. It's not a big deal for some. Shawn Park said, "I set the clock before I went to bed and didn't even notice a difference this morning."
But it's confusing for others. Tom Fightmaster said, "It kind of threw me off ‘cause I knew it was coming at some point, but I forgot about it until I got in my car."
The change is part of the Energy Act of 2005, designed to extend daylight and reduce the use of artificial lighting and save energy.
How much we really save may be up for question. A new study by researchers at the University of California shows that daylight-saving time wasted energy, at least in Indiana, a split time-zone state.
Matthew Kotchen, an economics professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara, said, "And what we find is that about a 1 percent to 4 percent increase in electricity consumption in places that experienced daylight-saving time for the first time in 2006."
But researches say the social benefits of using the extra hour of sunlight may outweigh any extra costs, especially if you're well-rested. "I got enough sleep, so it didn't bother me much," Fightmaster said.
Some parts of the country don't observe daylight-saving time, including Arizona, Hawaii and several U.S. territories.
