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Ridgewood NJ, time to spring forward , Sunday, March 12, 2023, 2:00:00 am clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 12, 2023, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead.
Continue reading Daylight Saving Time Starts Sunday, March 12, 2023, 2:00:00 am
an extra hour of sleep this weekend
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Ridgewood NJ, it’s just about that time to change the clocks back . Sunday, Nov. 6 ends daylight saving time at 2 a.m. This means people should plan on changing clocks on the night of Saturday, Nov. 5, back a full hour. By doing so, you’ll gain an extra hour of sleep. This is where we get the term “fall back.”
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Ridgewood NJ, daylight saving time, also known as daylight savings time or daylight time, and summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks during warmer months so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in the spring and set clocks back by one hour in autumn to return to standard time.
Continue reading Spring Ahead : Daylight Saving Time Begins on Sunday, March 13, 2022, at 2:00:00 am
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Ridgewood NJ, Daylight saving time is about to come to an end for 2021. The nations clocks will “fall back” on Sunday, November 7th , turning the clocks back an hour, officially at 2 a.m. Of course, most of us will turn our clocks back an hour when they go to bed on Saturday night , if they remember. Fire officials suggest that it’s a good time to change batteries in smoke and CO detectors.
Continue reading Daylight Saving Time Official Ends 2am on Sunday, November 7th
When local standard time is about to reach
Sunday, March 8, 2020, 2:00:00 am clocks are turned forward 1 hour to
Sunday, March 8, 2020, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead.
Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour later on Mar 8, 2020 than the day before. There will be more light in the evening.
March 10,2018
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Ridgewood NJ, don’t for get to spring forward , Daylight saving time (DST) or summer time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions with summer time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to standard time.
Traditionally most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.This year 2018 March 11th Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m and goes till November 4th.
Daylight savings just another excuse to work on your Golf Handicap
Ridgewood Distracted by the Election, Did you forget to Fall Back this morning at 2am
November 5,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, its official this morning the time moves back one hour at 2 a.m. local time Nov. 6; unless you are out and about or have a late night rendezvous you should have reset your clocks before going to bed so you won’t arrive at appointments an hour early today .
While many question whether anyone in New Jersey really knows what time it is , Arizona and Hawaii are now the only two states that do not observe daylight saving time. During daylight saving time, parts of Arizona matchup with Pacific Time instead of the Mountain time zone that the state is in. U.S. territories where time simply does not have the same meaning like Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas also do not observe daylight saving time.
In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act into law, making daylight savings time the law of the land . The U.S. Department of Transportation is the keeper of daylight saving time.
So why does it exist ; one argument for daylight saving time is that fewer accidents happen during daylight hours, so extending morning daylight in winter and evening daylight in summer results in a slight reduction in automobile accidents.
The idea behind daylight saving time is to take advantage of daylight hours and save energy. This theory has come under debate inn recent years ,with many “daylight deniers ” out there . In 2008 federal Department of Energy study, U.S. electricity use decreased by 0.5% for each day of extended daylight saving time, resulting in a savings of 0.03% for the year as a whole.
While the savings may seem small in percentage terms, in absolute terms, if the theory is true added up to 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours ,which is enough to power about 122,000 average U.S. homes for a year.
Others point to the time change is actually is rooted in an agricultural society. The idea of “extending” daylight was meant to provide more time to work in the fields.Remember humanity spent most of its pre-Edison existence siting around in the dark .
The staff of the Ridgewood blog would like to put forth one more theory , and that is golf . As we have witnessed through US modern history a good game of golf can not be under estimated by any administration with extended daylight adding much to handicaps .
Most pollsters will tell you that the majority finds it more a nuisance rather than a benefit but, they secretly take pleasure in their friends and coworkers who show up late or early the next day and we do too.
Ben Franklin(Barry Stevens)
By DANIEL VICTORMARCH 11, 2016
Spring forward, fall back.
But why?
The reason the United States and many other countries, mostly in the West, shift to daylight saving time is contentious and confusing, and some of the more popular explanations are not grounded in reality. (It isn’t for farmers, as you may have learned in school.)
The general concept is to move an hour of sunlight from the early morning, when many would sleep through it, to the evening, when you could most likely do more with the light.
“For most people, an extra hour of daylight in the evening after work or after school is much more usable than the hour of daylight in the morning,” said David Prerau, the author of “Seize the Daylight.”
But since the idea was put in place, it has faced detractors and debate. Several states, including California and Rhode Island, are considering abolishing the practice. As with many other congressional acts, it’s worth considering who the beneficiaries are.
Daylight Saving Time (United States) 2015 begins at 2:00 AM on
Sunday, March 8
CLOCKS MOVE AHEAD ONE HOUR
5 Tips to ‘Fall Back’ From Daylight Saving Time 2014
Oct 31, 2014, 11:18 AM ET
By KATIE MOISSE
What’s better than sleeping in on a Sunday? How about dodging the days-long consequences of rolling the clocks back this weekend?
Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, which means that most residents in the country return to Standard Time at 2 a.m. Sunday. To do so, most people set the clocks back one hour Saturday night, before they hit the hay. This does not apply to you if you live in most of Arizona or Hawaii, where it’s always island time.
Sure, you’ll gain an hour when Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. But spending said hour in bed after sunrise will do you few favors in the long run, sleep experts say.
It’s About Time! The Clock That Keeps the Entire U.S. Ticking
“It will hit you Sunday evening,” said Dr. Yosef Krespi, director of the New York Head and Neck Institute’s Center for Sleep Disorders. “But if your body clock is tuned to waking up with sunlight, you’re going to benefit.”
The body clock is a cluster of neurons deep inside the brain that generates the circadian rhythm, also known as the sleep-wake cycle. The cycle spans roughly 24 hours, but it’s not precise.
“It needs a signal every day to reset it,” said Dr. Alfred Lewy, director of Oregon Health and Science University’s Sleep and Mood Disorders Laboratory in Portland.
The signal is sunlight, which shines in through the eyes and “corrects the cycle from approximately 24 hours to precisely 24 hours,” said Lewy. But when the sleep-wake and light-dark cycles don’t line up, people can feel out-of-sync, tired and grumpy.
With time, the body clock adjusts on its own. But here are a few ways to help it along.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/tips-fall-back-daylight-saving-time-2014/story?id=26602222