It is almost time to spring forward. This weekend will once again mark Daylight Saving Time when we lose an hour of sleep but there will be more sunlight. The time change occurs on March 8th at two a.m. in most areas of the U.S. You’ll need to re-set any manual clocks, most microwaves, ovens, car radios, or anything not connected to the internet before you go to bed on Saturday night. Otherwise, when you wake up, your phone won’t match those devices. It isn’t anything in nature that sets the date of Daylight Saving Time. Instead, it was set by law. The government first instituted standard and daylight saving times as part of the Standard Time Act of 1918. “Federal oversight of time zones began in 1918 with the enactment of the Standard Time Act, which vested the Interstate Commerce Commission with the responsibility for establishing boundaries between the standard time zones in the U.S.,” the U.S. Department of Transportation said. “This responsibility was transferred from the Interstate Commerce Commission to DOT when Congress created DOT in 1966.”