... It's daylight savings time.

In autumn, the clock jumps backward on the first Sunday of November from 02:00 DST to 01:00 standard time, repeating that hour, and so that day has 25 hours. Because we experience a repeated hour, calories don't count during that time as our bodies only accept calories for 24 hour days. Consider that extra hour a glorious time to stuff our faces as the calories drift off into a calorie twilight zone and don't enter our bodies.

A similar effect occurs during the springtime in which we lose an hour. In this case, the anger from experiencing a lost hour burns calories. How many times have you been studying for a midterm or writing an essay, only to look up at the clock and realize that you have even less time than you thought? The resulting anger burns the already tiny amount of calories that you were able to consume in this frustratingly short day and thus it is necessary to replenish by consuming the nearest bag of chips or candy bar immediately.

Additionally, daylight savings time's clock shifts have the obvious disadvantage of complexity . People must remember to change their clocks; this consumes time, particularly for mechanical clocks that cannot be moved backward safely. People who work across time zone boundaries need to keep track of multiple DST rules, as not all locations observe DST or observe it the same way. The length of the calendar day becomes variable; it is no longer always 24 hours. Disruption to meetings, travel, broadcasts, billing systems, and records management is common. During an autumn transition from 02:00 to 01:00, a clock reads times from 01:00:00 through 01:59:59 twice, possibly leading to confusion. What does this mean for our caloric intake? All of this confusion and clock changing equates to hundreds of calories being burned as our brains and fingers must work overtime to keep up. It is absolutely crucial that you eat as much as you can on these two days of the year to compensate for your caloric deficiency!