Daylight Savings Time (DST) comes to an end early Sunday morning, meaning brighter morning commutes and darker drives home in the evenings.
Designed to save energy, DST ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. To have the accurate time Sunday morning, set clocks back one hour before retiring Saturday night. That means you’ll get back the hour of sleep you lost when DST started in March.
The practical effect of the change will be that it gets lighter earlier in the morning and darker earlier in the evening.
DST will be reinstated in the U.S. on the second Sunday in March.
Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioners Ralph Hudgens said the time change is a time to also check batteries in smoke detectors.
“Every year in Georgia there are fire fatalities in homes that didn’t have smoke alarms, or where the alarms did not function because of dead batteries,” Hudgens said in a statement. “If you do not have a smoke alarm, you need to get one. If you have a smoke alarm, make sure it is in working order. Changing the battery at least once every year and cleaning dust from the device are easy ways to ensure continued protection of your family and your property. Having a working smoke alarm doubles the chances you will survive a fire in your home.”
Hudgens also recommends changing batteries in flashlights and weather radios, and having an emergency plan in place in case severe weather threatens.
“So far this year there have been six fire fatalities in dwellings with no smoke alarms, and six fatalities involving non-working smoke alarms,” he added.
