Don’t forget to “fall back” and check smoke detectors this weekend.
On Sunday, Nov. 4 at 2 a.m., time will revert back to standard, giving everyone an extra hour to sleep in.
Since 2007, the time change has reverted to standard time on the first Sunday of November and changed to daylight savings time on the second Sunday of March.
Hence the phrase, “Fall back, spring ahead” to help people remember which way to turn their clocks during what season.
Daylight savings is also a good reminder for people to check smoke alarms in their residences to ensure they’re working properly.
Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs, or IAFC, are partnering to encourage families to change the batteries in smoke alarms and CO detectors, a task that doubles a family’s chance of surviving a home fire, according to a news release by the program.
“The habit of changing batteries during Daylight-Saving Time is an easy task that can be the difference between life and death,” Chief Jeffrey D. Johnson, president of the IAFC, said in the release.
A home fire death occurs approximately every three hours in the United States, killing 540 children each year, according to data from the National Fire Protection Association.
Ninety-six percent of families in the U.S. have smoke alarms, but 19 percent of the detectors do not work, Johnson said. A smoke alarm provides extra time for people to escape a fire so it crucial that batteries are changed often.
Prior to 2007, daylight savings time in North America began on the first Sunday of April and concluded the last Sunday in October.
The change to extend daylight savings time by one month was proposed in a small section of the 551-page Energy Policy Act of 2005 in the United States’ Congress. The act targets energy efficiency and was signed into law by former U.S. President George W. Bush.
(David Livyoson – YWN)
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You have to question the wisdom of why the Government hasnt stepped in this year and pushed the change back to when it used to be or at least a few more weeks since so many peple on the east coast still dot have power and can use that extra week of daylight.
Typical, nonthinking naarishkeit.
Don’t forget to change your clocks tonight, and your president on Tuesday!
and remember to change ur president on Tuesday
Change your clock this Sunday; Change your president this Tuesday.
its too late…the airline schedules a gazillion other time-related committments have been set months ago. Its too late to change and the real difference will be minimal even in the few Northeastern States where it arguably will matter. By tomorrow, the power outages will be limited to a few sections of the Jersey Coast, Long Island and Staten Island. The whole United States won’t turn its commercial schedules upside down for such a small area and DST must be done at one time for the whole country.
Don’t forget to change your clocks on Sunday morning and change your President on Tuesday!
And now that you changed your clocks, don’t forget to change your president!
But YJF, there is a cost to last-minute changes of this sort. Trust a computer programmer. A patch for the software that moves the clocks would never reach everywhere on time. Picture Wall Street, an airline, or even your local bank having computer issues because the time doesn’t match on all their systems. We’re not talking Y2K fears, but still, there is a cost.
Also, at some point dawn gets so late that there is a cost to dark mornings offsetting the savings in the evening. Haneitz would have been at 7:30 this morning where I live. Next week — 7:40. In “a few more weeks” (I picked 4 for “a few”) — it would have been 8:03. People would be picking out their clothes, waking up the kids, making lunches and commuting in the dark. There is no savings left to be squeezed out of moving the clock.