Don't Forget to Change Your Clocks & Your Smoke Detector Batteries November 2nd

IRONWOOD, MI - Thursday, October 30, 2008 - Does it feel like you've lost tract of the time? Do you feel like you forgot to do something last weekend? Well, in a way, you did! Well, you didn't exactly forget, but there is a change in time-honored ritual. Americans are resetting their clocks in November instead of October this year. It's really the same old drill, only it's a week later: The time of day is being set back an hour this weekend, and as a result you get an extra hour of sleep.

Even though most Americans tend to turn their clocks back an hour before going to bed the night before, the official time change takes place at 2 AM Sunday, November 2, 2008. The time change represents the end of daylight-saving time, that started back on the second Sunday of March.

This year's routine reflects a slightly different approach. Instead of dropping daylight-saving time during the last weekend in October, the changeover occurs on the first weekend in November. Lawmakers lengthened the duration of daylight-saving time because they wanted to extend the energy savings that are thought to result.

IPSD Director Bob Erspamer would like to remind everybody to take advantage of the opportunity and change the batteries in their smoke detective as well.