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Show Set Clock Ahead Sunday Most of the nation including Utah will go on Daylight Savings Time Sunday as clocks are set an hour ahead The return to the so-called "Fast time" comes two months earlier titan usual because of 1973's emergency year-round Daylight Savings Time Act. The change Is official at 2 a.m. on Feb. 23. Clocks should be set ahead to 3 a.m. in the lost-hour, "spring forward, fall back" formula. Daylight Savings Time will remain in effect until the last Sunday in October. Congress responded to 1973's energy crisis by passing the emergency act that put the nation on daylight time between Jan. 6, 1974 and April 27, 1975. Complaints that daylight time In the winter months caused hazards for children going to school in the dark, and that the energy savings were minimal forced congress to act last year to repeal part of the emergency act. As a result, on Oct. 27, 1974, the nation returned to Standard Time until Feb. 23, 1975. |