Fall BACK this weekend

(Nov. 4, 2010) Daylight-saving time (DST) ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, returning this area to Eastern Standard Time.

So before retiring Saturday night, set your clocks BACK one hour. You regain the hour you lost earlier in the year when DST began with setting clocks ahead one hour. Although mornings will seem lighter, darkness will come sooner each afternoon.

Currently DST begins each year at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, with clocks moving ahead one hour. Standard time begins each year at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November, with clocks moving one hour back.

Prior to 2007, the DST change in the United States occurred in April and standard time resumed in October. The law extending DST by almost two months was signed into law by George W. Bush in 2005.

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