Elise Amendola/APMany Americans will set their clocks 60 minutes forward before they go to bed on Saturday night. Here, Dave LeMote wipes down a post clock at Electric Time Company, Inc. in Medfield, Mass.
WASHINGTON Spring is closer than you think, and heres a sure sign: Daylight saving time arrives this weekend.
Most Americans will set their clocks 60 minutes forward before heading to bed Saturday night. Daylight saving time officially starts Sunday at 2 a.m. local time.
You may lose an hour of sleep, but daylight saving time promises an extra hour of evening light for many months ahead.
Elise Amendola/APYou may lose an hour of sleep when daylight saving time officially starts early Sunday morning, but the sun wont set so early in evening for the next few months.
Its also a good time to put new batteries in warning devices such as smoke detectors and hazard warning radios.
The time change is not observed by Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.
Daylight saving time ends Nov. 2.
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/daylight-saving-time-don-forget-spring-article-1.1715086
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