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March 5, 2008

Coming this weekend: More light, daylight

Won’t it be nice to wake up to the sun filtering through your windows? And to take an after-dinner stroll in the lingering light of dusk?

Just give it a few more days.

Daylight Saving Time is coming this Sunday, two days earlier than last year, and 24 days earlier than in 2006, as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which moves DST every year until next year, when it begins on March 8.

The first day of spring and the vernal equinox is less than two weeks away.

So remember to do two things: more your clock forward one hour at 2 a.m. (unless you live in parts of Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands or American Samoa which do not observe DST), and change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.

“It only takes a minute to change the batteries in a smoke alarm or carbon monoxide detector,” Chief Timothy McLaughlin, president of the RI Association of Fire Chiefs said in a statement.

“But it is a minute that could make the difference between life and death in your home.”

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 7:47 AM | Permalink

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