"Spring forward, fall back." It's the catch phrase we've used our entire lives to remember which way we set our clocks an hour ahead or behind twice a year. And the fall version of that is coming soon - not this weekend, but next - on November 3.

Daylight Saving time (note... it's SAVING, not "savingS") has been around since the Benjamin Franklin days, who originally proposed the first concept of it mostly as a joke about the French.

Fast forward to the early 1900s, and Germany enacted it to save fuel, leaving the busy hours of the day during periods of light. The United States caught onto the trend in the 1910s, and ultimately put it into effect with the Standard Time Act of 1918, which gave us the time zones we all know and love, and defined what standard and saving time would be, and when those dates would occur.

There's been many changes to it over the years, including allowing states to opt out of it - looking at you, Arizona - but in 1966, everything became relatively standard with the Uniform Time Act and hasn't changed much since. Until now. It's being debated again.

Many elected officials for the State of Colorado have weighed in on wanting to do away with the practice. So what if we just stopped doing it, and stayed on the more popular "summertime" schedule we're on now, and chose not to roll our clocks back on November 3 this year?

The complaint, of course, is that you come home from work in the dark, as the months of November, December and January see quite a few sunsets before 5 PM, and some not long after. Especially given the elevation of the western horizon along the front range - the mountains, obviously - Colorado sees some pretty early sunsets once we go to "back time," meaning the November to March time shift - and many would like to stay on "forward time," which is what gives us later sunsets in the summer months.

The argument is that DST was introduced during a time in society when families needed light in the morning for farming, and that modern day life isn't quite the same as it was back when this whole hair-brained idea was thought up.

So December 20, the winter solstice, is the shortest day of light each year. If we didn't change our clocks November 3, what would that look like?

'Sunrise that day would be about 8:15 AM, and the sun wouldn't set until after 5:30 PM. So if we ultimately choose to kick DST to the curb, the question you need to ask yourself is do you want to leave for work in the dark? Or come home from work in the dark?

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