Posted on 11/03/2012 2:27:47 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
You'll lose an extra hour of light but gain an hour back this weekend as daylight saving time officially ends.
As standard time resumes at 2 a.m. Sunday, it's time to "fall back," so set your clocks back one hour when you go to bed tonight.
Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time is mandated by governments, which instituted the time switch during World Wars I and II to save energy and resources for the war effort.
Previously, daylight saving time was observed in the United States from April until mid-October.
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We get the chance to do that for ‘em, on Tuesday. They’re not gonna “go quietly into the night”, either... just saying.
Good laughs on that one!
Up here in the Great White North, Saskatchewan doesn’t bother with the time change thingy. Smart people, and they LOVE their football team !!
The whole concept is ancient and useless idiocy. Just another way the gov’t manages/runs our lives.
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