Step away from the clock!
Don’t touch your clocks today. It’s not time for daylight-saving time to end … yet.
The end of daylight-saving time, when we turn our clocks back by one hour, used to take place today, the last Sunday in October. It is now scheduled for the first Sunday in November. This year, we “fall back” on Nov. 4.
U.S. Congress made the change in the Energy Conservation Act of 2005, which also changed the start of daylight-saving time, when we “spring forward” and set our clocks one hour later.
Daylight-saving time began this year on the second Sunday of March; it used to start on the first Sunday in April.
Software on computers and cellphones may automatically change your clock today, so you may have to manually reset your current time today and next Sunday, or install new software to address the problem.
Sharon Pian Chan: 206-464-2958 or schan@seattletimes.com