It’s time for a change in America — a time change. Let’s sleep an extra hour to that.
At 2 a.m. local time Sunday, daylight saving time is ending, and it’s back to standard time for most people in the United States.
The shift means it’s lighter earlier in the morning and darker earlier in the evening. And you’ll get 60 minutes more of shut-eye between Saturday night and Sunday wake-up.
Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and most of Arizona don’t observe daylight saving time, so there’s no need to change the clocks in those places.
Daylight saving time returns at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, March 11.
Daylight savings is also a good reminder for people to check smoke alarms in their residences to ensure they’re working properly.
Energizer and the International Association of Fire Chiefs, or IAFC, are partnering to encourage families to change the batteries in smoke alarms and CO detectors, a task that doubles a family’s chance of surviving a home fire, according to a news release by the program.
“The habit of changing batteries during Daylight-Saving Time is an easy task that can be the difference between life and death,” Chief Jeffrey D. Johnson, president of the IAFC, said in the release.
A home fire death occurs approximately every three hours in the United States, killing 540 children each year, according to data from the National Fire Protection Association.
Ninety-six percent of families in the U.S. have smoke alarms, but 19 percent of the detectors do not work, Johnson said. A smoke alarm provides extra time for people to escape a fire so it crucial that batteries are changed often.
(AP)
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Anyone used to davenning at a 9:00 shacharis will miss z’man krias shema (a d’orsisa),which is approximately 9:04 (the later z’man) in New York tomorrow (Sunday). An 8:30 weekday could be fine for the later z’man, but an 8:30 Shabbos minyan will likewise miss the z’man. The earlier z’man tomorrow is 8:28. There are shitos which place the z’man tomorrow at 8:02. B’hatzlachah.
The GR”A holds the ikar krias shema is what is said with the birchos krias shema, so davenning later because “I rely on the later z’man, is itself a m’chayav to daven early. And if you want to make the earlier z’man, even without the berachos, you have to get up even earlier. B’hatzlachah.
So then why, pray tell, do I see men walking into Rabbi Landau’s shul for Shacharis at 9:30am??
To Frumguy
Those are either (i) frum guys showing up early for mincha (ii) really, really frum guys showing up for vaa’sikim on Monday am or most likely (iii) a few guys just waking up from a hangover from the motzi shabbos kiddush club trying to get home for a late havdalah with the kinderlach….