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It’s fall, the less painful one, and since the time on everyone’s smartphone changes itself now, your alarm will feel like it’s going off an hour late. Pro: You might get more sleep. Con: Your cat won’t care what the clock says,
We’ve all heard of daylight saving time, and every March, we know to set our clocks forward, while setting them back in November. And we all grumble when we lose an hour of sleep—or wake up in the dark wondering if it’s still the middle of the night—and then rejoice in November when we finally get that precious hour back (even if it suddenly feels like midnight by 4 p.