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November 2, 2007

Daylight Saving Time, for real this time

It’s likely as close as we’ll come to time travel: Daylight Saving Time.

And while it may not be as exciting as neutrons zipping through swirling time vortices, we will have the chance to snatch an extra hour of sleep.

This Sunday at 2 a.m. set your clocks back one hour to mark the end of DST.

This is the first year that DST ends in November. The 2005 Energy Policy Act called for extending DST by one month beginning this year. We’ll set our clocks forward again at 2 a.m. on March 9.

And if you want an easy way to remember when to change the batteries in your smoke detector, fire and rescue authorities recommend tying the routine to the beginning and end of DST.

"A working smoke detector more than doubles a person's chances of surviving a home fire," James Taylor, chief of communications for the Providence Fire Department says. About a third of smoke detectors in the U.S. are thought to have dead batteries.

To see how PDAs, cell phones, computers, mp3 players, GPS equipment, and all of the other necessities modernity will be affected, visit the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s DST page.

And if you’re ever confused about what time it really is, visit the Institutes's official U.S. time clock.

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