Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends

Tomorrow we revert back to standard time at 2:00 am thus we gain one hour of extra time/sleep! Since 1966, most of the United States has observed DST from 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April to 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October.

Starting in 2007, most of the U.S. will begin DST at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and revert to standard time on the first Sunday in November. That gives us almost 4 weeks extra for DST. So it's from almost 7 months of DST to almost 8 months of DST starting 2007. Standard time will just happen for like a little more than 4 months every year. Kind of an irony in terms of terminology but that is really in repect to the rest of the world.

The change in duration starting in 2007 was due to the Energy Policy Act of 2005 which President George W. Bush signed in August 8, 2005. The Secretary of Energy will report the impact of this change to Congress. Congress retains the right to resume the 2005 Daylight Saving Time schedule once the Department of Energy study is complete.

For the U.S. and its territories, Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Arizona. The Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, even in Arizona, due to its large size and location in three states.

As a guide to how we adjust the time, just remember these words, when it's spring, "spring forward"; when it's fall, "fall back".


A safety reminder:
Many fire departments encourage people to change the battery in the smoke detector when they change their clocks because Daylight Saving Time provides a convenient reminder. "A working smoke detector more than doubles a person's chances of surviving a home fire," says William McNabb of the Troy Fire Department in Michigan. More than 90 percent of homes in the United States have smoke detectors, but one-third are estimated to have dead or missing batteries.