Saturday, November 6, 2010

Daylight Savings Time Ends 2 AM Sunday Morning - Take The Advice Of The Singing Dads And Rembember To Turn Your Clocks Back Before Going To Bed This Evening

Daylight Savings Time Ends Image From Dots Period

An extra hour of sleep tonight because Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday Morning at 2 AM. Remember to turn your clocks back and reset the time on your electronic and other devices. According to NY 1:
New York City Fire Department officials are telling children it is time to change the batteries in their homes' smoke alarms, with the return of Daylight Standard Time.
Daylight Saving Time ends tomorrow at 2 a.m., which means New Yorkers should turn their clocks back one hour before going to bed tonight.
Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano was joined by other fire officials outside the Hilton Hotel in Times Square on Friday to tell kids to switch the batteries in their alarms when Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend....
Learn more about Daylight Savings/Standard Time from Time and Date blog. Did you know:
... Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight Saving Time in 1784, but modern DST was not proposed until 1895 when an entomologist from New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a proposal for a two-hour daylight saving shift to the Wellington Philosophical Society.
The conception of DST was mainly credited to an English builder, William Willett in 1905, when he presented the idea to advance the clock during the summer months. His proposal was published two years later and introduced to the House of Commons in February 1908. The first Daylight Saving Bill was examined by a select committee but was never made into a law. It wasn't until World War I, in 1916, that DST was adopted and implemented by several countries in Europe who initially rejected the idea....
and here's a funny Turn Back The Clocks Awareness song from the Dads via Neatorama.

You Tube Video of Turn Back Your Clocks Song From The Dads

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