Groundhog Day in Texas is now less than a week away, and even though we have started referring to it over the last decade and a half as Armadillo Day, one thing we all know is almost exactly 6 weeks after February 2nd is the first day of spring. This year the first day of spring will reach the northern hemisphere on March 20th, but we will actually spring forward with our clocks to Daylight Saving Time a little bit earlier than that.
The real reason my family gets excited about Armadillo Day is that it immediately follows the completion of the first 6 weeks of the current winter season, and therefore ends the 12 darkest consecutive weeks. Anyone who tells you the darkest 10 or 12 weeks of the year are behind us is a liar because there’s only been 4 weeks total in this year thus far.
Daylight Saving Time Now Begins Earlier In Texas This Year
If you think DST is tedious, annoying, costly, and arduous, then you would be correct according to several other Americans. Ending DST has been discussed quite a lot politically in the past decade or so, but much like everything else that is in the hands of congress, nothing has come of it.
DST will begin on the shortest day of 2025 at 2 AM local time on Sunday, March 9th. The reason it is the shortest day of the year is because we skip over all of the 2 AM hour, jump straight to 3 AM, and that means March 9th will only be 23 hours long…