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Daylight-saving time ends this weekend

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Get ready for a shock to your system on Nov. 1 — it's time to turn back our clocks an hour for the end of daylight-saving time.

Daylight-saving time ends on November 1, 2015 at 2:00 a.m.

At 1:59 a.m. on Sunday morning our clocks will bump back an hour, to 1:00 a.m. instead of turning to 2:00 a.m. That gives us an extra hour of sleep and means the sun will seem to rise an hour earlier than we are used to.

According to lore, daylight-saving time (yes that's the right way to say it) was created during World War I to decrease energy use. This John Oliver clip also mentions that it started with the Germans during that time as a fuel-saving measure.

The debate still rages as to whether or not this time-switch does save energy (there are even groups that want to abolish it all together), but along the way we've seen signs that it has negative effects on our health and the economy.   

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Jennifer Welsh was a Senior Editor on Tech Insider's science section.She first joined Business Insider in 2012 as the site's first science editor. In 2015, she moved to Tech Insider to help launch the new site's science vertical.She graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2010 with a graduate certificate in Science Communications and got a Bachelors of Science in Biology from the University of Notre Dame in 2006. In between, she was a research associate at at startup biotech company in San Francisco.She's written for Wired Science, The Scientist, Discover Magazine and LiveScience.com, among others.