‘Spooky’ reason US & UK clocks go out of sync this weekend as Daylight Saving and British Summer time schedules diverge

A LITTLE-KNOWN motivation for daylight savings may be the reason trick-or-treaters stay out later on Halloween. On November 2, Americans will turn their clocks back one hour, gaining an extra hour of sleep and losing an hour of daylight. The “fall back” happens the first Sunday of November, directly after Halloween.  The UK, on the…