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Daylight Time Starts Tomorrow!

It’s that “time.” Most of America will “spring forward” this Sunday for daylight saving time. But experts warn it’s more than just one groggy morning. The time shift can throw off your body’s internal clock, affecting sleep, heart health, and even workplace safety.

Detroiters’ especially feel the change because “solar noon”—when the sun is highest—doesn’t match the clock.

• Under Standard Time (EST, UTC-5): Solar noon in Detroit is around 12:30 PM, not 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
• Under Daylight Saving Time (EDT, UTC-4): Solar noon shifts to 1:30 PM.

Since we sit on the western edge of Eastern Time, mornings are darker, and evenings stay lighter later. Daylight Saving Time pushes this even further, leading some experts to argue for sticking with permanent standard time.

How to cope? Studies show a spike in accidents and medical errors right after the shift. While most Americans once favored later sunsets, new polling shows a majority of us now prefer standard time year-round. Until then, experts suggest easing into the change by adjusting bedtime gradually and getting plenty of morning sunlight.

Today in History:

1963 – “Please Please Me” by The Beatles shows up at #40 on the Chicago radio station WLS’ weekly Silver Dollar Survey, marking the first time a Beatles song makes a radio station survey in America. WLS very likely became the first US radio station to play a Beatles song when they put “Please Please Me” on the air.

1965 – Bob Dylan’s single “Subterranean Homesick Blues” was released in the U.S.

1965 – David Bowie made his TV debut with The Manish Boys on a U.K. program called “Gadzooks! It’s All Happening” when they performed their single “I Pity The Fool”. The song was originally recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961 for Duke Records. In The Manish Boys version, Jimmy Page plays the guitar solo. Bowie later used this guitar riff in two different songs, first on “The Supermen” from 1971 and second on “Dead Man Walking” from 1997.

1966 – Bob Dylan recorded “Just Like A Woman” for his Blonde On Blonde album at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.

1969 – The Small Faces split up after singer Steve Marriott announced he was leaving the band. Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones linked up with Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart and formed The Faces.

1969 – “Happy Birthday” becomes the first song to be performed in outer space when the astronauts on Apollo IX sing it to celebrate the birthday of the director of NASA space operations, Christopher Kraft.

1970 – Diana Ross made her first performance as a solo act when she appeared in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her self-titled solo debut included her signature songs, “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”, the latter becoming Ross’s first number-one solo single.

1973 – Paul McCartney was fined $170 for growing cannabis at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. McCartney claimed some fans gave the seeds to him and that he didn’t know what they would grow.

1973 – Grateful Dead keyboard player Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, a founding member of the band, dies at age 27.

1974 – John Denver records “Annie’s Song” and “Thank God I’m A Country Boy” at RCA’s Music Center of the World studios in Los Angeles.

1975 – Olivia Newton-John went to No.1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Have You Ever Been Mellow”, the singer’s second U.S. No.1.

1977 – Foreigner release their self-titled debut studio album.

1986 – Whitney Houston went to No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with her self-titled album. It spent a total of 14 weeks at the No. 1 position.

1990 – Cher won the worst dressed female, and worst video for “If I Could Turn Back Time”, in The Rolling Stone Magazine awards. Donny Osmond won the most unwelcome comeback award.

1993 – Beavis and Butt-Head, a show about two animated idiots who watch MTV, debuts on MTV.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Actress Lynn Redgrave was born today in 1943.
• George Michael “Micky” Dolenz, singer and drummer for The Monkees, is 80.
• Randy Meisner, bassist for the Eagles, was born today in 1946.
• Singer/songwriter Carole Bayer Sager is 78.
• Little Peggy March, best known for the 1963 hit song “I Will Follow Him”, is 77.
• Gary Numan is 67.
• NBC News Anchor Lester Holt is 66.
• Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek is 47.