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updated 4:36 p.m. ET March 30, 2006

WASHINGTON - Millions of Americans will lose an hour’s sleep Saturday night as clocks are turned ahead to daylight-saving time.

Other people will forget and be an hour late for church or other activities.

Officially clocks should be moved ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. Most folks will do the job before hitting the sack.

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The lost hour will return Oct. 29 when clocks go back to standard time.

Congress has passed a law changing the dates of daylight-saving time, but it doesn’t take effect until 2007. Then daylight time will start three weeks earlier, March 11, and will end one week later, Nov. 4.

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Residents of some parts of the country can ignore all this since daylight-saving time isn’t observed in Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.