Time To Consider Time

 It’s time to fiddle with time again.

Yes, Daylight Saving Time—or daylight wasting-- as some call it—is ending at 2:00 a.m. local time Sunday. If one stays up until that time, you will be going to bed at 1:00 a.m.

That's right, Saturday night the clocks are turned back in most of the country.

Of course, most folks will do the job before hitting the sack Saturday night, even though the change doesn't become official until 2 a.m. Sunday local time.

There will be a few who will forget. You can recognize them because they'll be an hour early for church, golf or whatever.

Residents of Hawaii, most of Arizona and some U.S. territories don't have to change, since they do not observe daylight-saving time.

Daylight-saving time returns the second Sunday in March 2012.

Depending upon how the situation is viewed, it could be good or bad. In many years past we didn’t worry about what time it was and even as a teen we didn’t have to worry about a legal curfew, only dealing with irate parents if the time of arriving home was later than the time we were expected to be in the house.

There are some areas that do not recognize Daylight Saving Time such as most of Arizona, and some U.S. Territories, so they don’t have the same worries. Unless they are traveling to other parts where Daylight Saving Time is recognized.

There is a good side to this event. Public safety officials say this a good time to put a new battery in the smoke alarm, no matter where you live.

Of course, as expected farm animals do not recognize daylight saving time, so farmers who have to milk cows have other concerns.

Relax, it's finally time to reclaim that hour of sleep you lost last spring.