Latest Headlines
- Semi, Pickup Crash Closes Highway 29 For Hours In Cantonment
- Now That Matt Gaetz Has Resigned After Being Picked For Trump’s AG, Who Will Seek His Seat?
- Here’s The Latest On CSX Closures In Escambia County
- Update: Northwest Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz Resigns From Congress After AG Nomination
- New ‘Wind Phone’ In Cantonment ‘Connects’ Grieving Families With Deceased Loved Ones
- Jay Couple Wins State Agriculture Competition, $45,000 Prize
- Century Paying $500 COVID-19 Stipend To Some Employees
- Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Creating Law Enforcement Memorial Plaza
- New Details Emerge In Fatal DUI Crash That Killed 14-Year-Old Cantonment Boy; Driver Released On Bond
- Cantonment Rotary Donates To Hurricane Relief
Time Change: Spring Forward. And Don’t Forget The Smoke Alarm Batteries.
March 11, 2023
Don’t forget to “spring forward” and set your clocks ahead one hour before heading off to bed Saturday night. Daylight saving time begins Sunday, making use of longer summer days, allowing people to rise early and spend more of the day working or playing.
It’s also a good time to remember to change the batteries in your smoke alarm.
Daylight saving time ends November 5, unless that’s changed by Congress.
Florida Senators Rick Scott and Marco Rubio have said repeatedly the practice of “falling back” as daylight saving time an antiquated process that should come to an end. They say year-round DST would reduce car crashes, reduce crime, improve physical fitness, reduce energy use and benefit agriculture.
Comments
4 Responses to “Time Change: Spring Forward. And Don’t Forget The Smoke Alarm Batteries.”
If there was ever a subject difficult to have a reasonable conversation about, its time change.
Mr Scott and Mr Rubio -
Your notion that DST saves or promotes anything is so out of touch it’s laughable. The world, as a whole, is a 24 hr a day community. The antiquated logic that DST somehow saves energy is a joke. Now I have to get out of bed, in the DARK, and drive to work, in the DARK. I come home and go to bed while it’s still DAYLIGHT. This is logic? I propose setting the clocks BACK one hour. Then workers could get up and drive to work in the DAYLIGHT and go to bed when it gets DARK.
All your constant time shuffling does is upset everyone’s biological clock.
How about applying some real world common sense?
We use Dad’s cellphone and use it to set all clocks, range, microwave, coffee pots, in the house. Thankfully, clock in the vehicles set themselves.
Hope everyone makes it to Church on time Sunday….we need Lots of Prayers for our Nation and those who protect and defend us.
Don’t Have A Smoke Detector?
For information about obtaining a home smoke alarm in Escambia County, call (850) 595-HERO (4376). Residents within Pensacola city limits may call (850) 436-5200 for smoke alarm installation assistance.