Daylight Saving Time 2015: Get ready to 'fall back' and change your clocks

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Set your clocks back an hour before going to bed on Oct. 31, 2015.

Get ready: it's almost time to "fall back."

Daylight Saving Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, which means you will need to turn your clocks back an hour before you go to bed Saturday night Oct. 31. The annual tradition signals the official start of shorter days and, on Nov. 1, sunset will be around 5:08 p.m. CST.

Here are some things you may not know about the annual clock change:

  • Daylight Saving or Daylight Savings? You will see a lot of people refer to "Daylight Savings" - that's technically wrong. D
  • Daylight Saving Time is a good time to start a new tradition: Make it your yearly time to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
  • You can blame Benjamin Franklin for
  • In 1999, the time change
  • It wasn't until Aug. 8, 2005 that we got our current timetable for Daylight Saving Time. President George W. Bush signed the
  • Hawaii and most of Arizona
  • In the spring, that hour of lost sleep due to the Daylight Saving switch has been
  • Why 2 a.m.?
  • 27 percent of Americans said the twice-yearly time changes either

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