I just wanted to remind those who “spring forward” Saturday night, Sunday morning, to remember to set you clocks up one hour on Saturday night.
Thanks Paula,
We lose an hour of sleep, but we gain extra daylight after dinner.
…Yes, a bit more daylight after dinner…In the peak of the daylight times, mid June, we’ll be seeing daylight up to about 10 pm.
As a morning person, I was just getting acclimated to the advancing sunrise. Now, it will be dark again at 7am…and another month to get used to it.
ed
As a bit of an aside, and thanks for the heads-up, it was stated on the news last evening that energy consumption actually rises with the earlier dates for spring forward. I didn’t read the rationale, so I can’t say what they have found out. Must be the earlier rise relative to solar time, so we use more lighting upon rising for the next month or so…?
And, in case you didn’t do so in the fall - put a fresh battery in that smoke detector (your CO detector might need one, too).
I am lucky on the smoke dectetors mine are house current powered and have a bttery back up. As long as the power is on they are live and only need the battery as a back up same for my CO dectoptor and I only need one of those with the way my house is set up all the gas burners are in one area.
Actually this is right on topic for me–now sunset will be around 7:45pm which is about two hours after the afternoon rush on the NS out of Atlanta, so I don’t have to deal with funky low sun angles for my pics/videos! Now if we could just get some blooms on the trees to get rid of that drab brown/grey backdrop [:)]
Now your thinking. The only real benefit of daylight saving: an extra hour of railfanning and photography. Catching trains that normally run at dusk during the late stages of winter now you can get while the sun is up and as you put it, “don’t have to deal with funky low sun angles”
Paul
I will enjoy an extra hour of daylight while working second trick
Everyone except SASKATCHEWAN ! !