Before you start moving your clocks one hour back on Nov.1, here are five interesting facts about the event.
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Lots of people have strong feelings about Daylight Saving Time, with a few viewing it as a waste or a silly bit of unnecessary confusion, while others (for this particular time, anyhow) are simply happy with the extra hour of sleep they get from setting their clocks back.
Sleep expert and UBC professor emeritus says there are risks, but also benefits to Daylight Saving Time.
Local fire departments like to use this time as a reminder to change the batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.
Spring forward, fall back. Overnight passengers will find their train at a dead stop and their travel time an hour longer than expected. Do I get an extra hour or lose one? When Congress extended daylight saving time by four weeks in 2007, the resulting reduction in robberies meant $59 million a year saved in social costs. Why do we even observe the time change?
Daylight Saving Time is less than one day away!
On January 4, 1974, the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973 was signed by President Richard Nixon, and clocks were set ahead. To check the operation of a smoke alarm, simply press and hold the alarm’s “test” button. Twice a year is recommended.
A 2014 Rasmussen poll found that a declining percentage of adults in the United States – 33% – think Daylight Saving Time is “worth the hassle”. The Navajo Nation observes Daylight Saving Time.
But it’s not, according to Prerau, whose 2009 book “Seize the Daylight” traces the history of the time shift.
Things were a little confusing, time-wise, from the end of the Second World War until 1966, because states and localities were pretty much free to choose on their participation in the time change.
Daylight saving time is now implemented in over seventy countries worldwide and affects over a billion people each year. During the warm-weather months when daylight saving time is in place, it gives those working adults who spend most of their waking hours indoors more time in the sun, during the mornings and early evenings.
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The Home Fire Campaign is a multi-year effort to reduce the number of home fire deaths and injuries by 25 percent.
