Did You Remember To Fall Back?

[okarol]

Did You Remember To Fall Back?

Daylight Saving Time was a week late this year. The long afternoons are drawing to a close and the shorter days of Fall and Winter are here. Did you remember to set all of the clocks in your house (and car) back one hour?

The late start for Daylight Saving Time is a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Advocates claimed that the change could save up to 100,000 barrels of oil for every extra day.

[Sluff]

I forgot 

[brenda]

I didn't forget, just haven't changed the clocks yet. The time change always messes me up. Some Canadian provinces don't change. Another month or so and it doesn't make and difference anyway, I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark.

[aharris2]

I just love this day!

Alene

[lola]

The girls were nice enough to remind me at 7 am this morning so it was now 6am and my neighbor who forgot was kind enough to call at 7 to let me know there was a house fire down the street (I'm not an early morning person)

[Rerun]

My car and a few other things were already set last week.  That was hard to try and remember "oh, it is really 6:00" when my car said 5:00.

[livecam]

In this day and age we don't have to think much about that anymore.  The computers all make the change automatically.  The other clocks in the house are all atomic clocks so a transmitter in Boulder, Colorado takes care of the chore for those.  Only one of three alarm clocks and the ones in the cars have to be manually changed.

[vandie]

My house is old school, as I am sure are many others.  We had to change five clocks and three cars. 

[angellady07]

Yes, I did.

[goofynina]

Thank God it was fall back, i hooked up so late last night, instead of finishing my treatment at 1:00 pm, i was done at 12:00 

[KR Cincy]

We intentionally didn't change the clocks so that when we woke up Sunday morning, we looked and went "it's 9...no wait, it's 8...I'm going back to sleep." It was awesome!! 

[harley08]

I don't know how to bump a topic so I thought if I just put a new reply in one it would come back up again....... just a reminder that it is fall time again and clocks get turned back this weekend.

I have been going through old posts and found this.... lots of old posts...

[Bajanne]

In my area - Eastern Caribbean - we don't spring forward or fall back.  This means that for 6 months we are the same as Eastern Time and for six months we are Atlantic Time.  I don't like the Fall back since it makes my time different from my relatives in NY and FL.

[YLGuy]

I don't know how to bump a topic so I thought if I just put a new reply in one it would come back up again....... just a reminder that it is fall time again and clocks get turned back this weekend.

I have been going through old posts and found this.... lots of old posts...

Wow, That really messed me up.  I did not look at the original post date and I was thinking that all these people were nuts because we don't change the clocks until THIS weekend.  I thought I was having a senior/dialysis patient moment. 
 

[kellyt]

I was just running around and looking at all my clocks, too.  My cell, which updates automatically, stated the same time as all my house clocks.  I was really confused!     

[Stoday]

Europe fell back last weekend. Clocks change on the last Sunday in March and October.

[Rerun]

We get one less hour on Halloween!  Oweeeeeewhhhhhh  (no ghost smiley)

[peleroja]

Ok, I'm confused; I thought it was this weekend.  My computer, which automatically resets, is still showing the old time. 

[YLGuy]

Ok, I'm confused; I thought it was this weekend.  My computer, which automatically resets, is still showing the old time.

Look at the original post date: 2007  It is this weekend for 2009.

[okarol]

LOL funny how an old thread can cause such confusion! 

Sunday is DST change in the US - I hope I remember!
(And an extra hour of sleep too... oh boy!)

[peleroja]

(And an extra hour of sleep too... oh boy!)

(sigh) It never works that way for me.  I wake up when the light comes in the window.  As of today that is about 6:40; tomorrow it will be 5:40.  No extra sleep for me   

[okarol]

(And an extra hour of sleep too... oh boy!)

(sigh) It never works that way for me.  I wake up when the light comes in the window.  As of today that is about 6:40; tomorrow it will be 5:40.  No extra sleep for me   

I have block out shades - otherwise I'd have the same problem!

[kellyt]

I purchased some Eclipse curtains for our bedroom and you have no idea what time it is when you go in there.  I love it!  Sometimes my husband has to go to sleep around 6 or 7 p.m. and he says it helps sooooo much!       Oh, they are also supposed to be "energy effecient", too.  I guess they help keep the rooms cooler so your A/C doesn't have to come on as much. 

[okarol]

Don't Forget Those Batteries When 'Falling Back' Tomorrow

By Abigail Van Buren Abigail Van Buren – Sat Oct 31, 2:16 am ET

DEAR ABBY: As a fire officer, I have seen far too many families fall victim to accidental home fires. It is devastating to find out that a life could have been saved if someone had only taken that simple step of replacing a dead battery in a smoke alarm. Nearly 96 percent of American homes have at least one smoke alarm. But did you know that 19 percent of American homes lack a working smoke alarm because the batteries are missing or dead?

For 22 years, the International Association of Fire Chiefs and Energizer have been committed to changing this statistic through the Change Your Clock Change Your Battery® campaign. This partnership encourages families to change the battery in their smoke alarms when they set their clocks back an hour on Nov. 1. This message also serves as a reminder to communities nationwide to change the batteries in their carbon monoxide detectors.

As winter approaches, more people will begin using gas appliances to heat their homes and may find themselves at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, called the "silent killer" because this gas is colorless, odorless and tasteless.

Thank you, Abby, for helping us spread this lifesaving message to your readers. -- JEFFREY D. JOHNSON, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS

DEAR JEFF: I'm glad to help, and I know my readers are grateful for your timely reminder. It may seem like a menial task, but safeguarding yourselves and your families is extremely important -- so change those batteries this weekend

[kitkatz]

One clock turned back today!