{"id":539,"date":"2015-10-30T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.partheniaterrace.com\/blog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2017-10-16T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T21:25:55","slug":"turn-your-clocks-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partheniaterrace.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/30\/turn-your-clocks-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Your Clocks Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Halloween is this Saturday and if you are like millions of other Americans you will be burning the midnight oil and staying up spooking, dancing or partying with friends who happen to be ghosts, goblins, minions, Princess Lea, Donald Trump …. well the good news is even if you do stay up a bit late this Halloween, you get to sleep in late because November 1st is the end of daylight savings time.<\/p>\n

Remember Fall Back, Spring Forward, so at 2 am or before you go to bed, be sure to turn your clocks back one hour.<\/p>\n

Here are some facts about Daylight Savings that you can impress your friends with.<\/p>\n

1) Daylight Savings is a good time to change the batteries of your smoke or carbon monoxide detectors.<\/p>\n

2) We can credit Benjamin Franklin for the start of Daylight Savings in the 1780s he suggested that people could save candles by getting up earlier and making better use of available light and one of his many famous quotes, “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”<\/p>\n

3) Daylight Savings was based upon the needs of agrarian societies to adjust the time to work in accordance with the hours of sun light.<\/p>\n

4) The US adopted Daylight Savings in 1918, many years after much of Europe did.<\/p>\n

5) The shortest day of the year (well, in relation to daylight) is December 22nd and then the days get longer again. Also, if you aren’t a fan of Daylight Savings, no worries on March 3rd we move our clocks forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"