Extra hour of sleep as Daylight Saving ends this weekend

You may be able to sleep an hour later Sunday morning, but it also will get dark an hour sooner.

Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.

That’s when everyone is asked to turn their clocks back one hour earlier, such as from 2 to 1, either then or before they go to bed.

Officials have long used the motto “Spring forward, fall back,” to help people remember to move clock hands forward in the spring and backwards in the fall – but that does not apply as well in an age of digital clocks with no “hands.”

Daylight Saving Time always begins at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March when you move clocks ahead and lose an hour’s sleep. It ends at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November when you get that lost hour of sleep back.

The time change is observed by all states except Arizona and Hawaii and territories Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa.

Firefighting officials remind people that the time change is a good time to remember to check the batteries in smoke detectors and other protective devices.