“Fall Back” This Sunday At 2 A.M.

This is the weekend to finally make up for all that sleep you have lost in the past few months — and take advantage of the change from daylight saving time to standard time.

The time change is a tradition, in which most Americans put their clocks ahead an hour in the spring ("spring forward") and turn them back an hour in autumn ("fall back"). Officially the change occurs at 2 a.m. daylight saving time on Sunday, Nov. 6 (which instantly becomes 1 a.m. standard time). Don't get up, change your clocks before going to bed Saturday night.

Lawmakers shifted the schedule a few years back, setting the changeover for the first Sunday of November rather than the last Sunday of October. The goal was to extend the energy savings that are thought to result from daylight saving time.

With the clocks turned back, it will be lighter (less dark) in the morning, but darkness will fall earlier in the evening, with the earliest around 4:45pm in December.

Don't forget to take time to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, and make sure the alarms work by pushing the test button.

Time change used to really excite me when I was a kid, now it is more of a nuisance. I wish all my clocks changed automatically like my cell phone, except for my biological clock...I would like to change that on my own.