Curious to me is why people consider, when Daylight Saving Time is activated (this weekend), is a loss of an hour? Explain how we are losing time, and likewise how we are gaining it when DST ends. The truth is, you neither gain nor lose any time at all. We are merely shifting the measurement of time by one unit of measure (an hour) in either direction. Perhaps people mean that they are losing or gaining sleep, since it occurs when most people are sleeping. What if you are awake when the clock shift occurs? Have you lost anything? If I want eight hours of sleep, I still can have that, as I only need to shift my starting point. I always like to tell people that you can never gain or lose any time, nor can you say "I don't have the time for that." You have all the time you will ever have and you never will gain or lose any of it. The only thing that may change is when the start of an event occurs - in which case, we adjust.