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When is Daylight Savings 2012?

How are you planning to spend the hour that never happens?

Remember to change your clock back an hour tonight (or rather tomorrow) at 2 a.m.

Daylight savings time in the U.S. officially ends the first Sunday in November. That's the fourth to be 100 percent clear.

Spring forward. Fall Back.

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My whole life (all 25 years of 'em) I have treated "fall back" as a means of rudimentary time travel. It's the hour that never happened, erased by the simple flick of a watch crown.

In my youth, the hour was used for mischief. As I mature, I find myself just really, really tired—like all of the time.

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So how will you spend the hour that never happened?

Interesting points:

  • Residents of Hawaii and most or Arizona don't observe daylight savings. (Source: Huffington Post)
  • The European Union changed its clock back Oct. 28. (Source: Squidoo.com)
  • President George W. Bush extended daylight savings time by four weeks by signing the Energy Policy Act of 2005. (Source: US News and World Report)
  • Now is the ideal time to change your fire alarm battery. (Source: Patch)


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