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Updated: 7:32 PM Mar 13, 2010
Don't forget to spring forward into daylight saving time
A grassroots Wisconsin group hopes you'll volunteer an hour every time you turn your clock forward or back
Posted: 7:06 PM Mar 13, 2010Email Address: news@weau.com |
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It's that time of year again to spring your clocks forward one hour.
Daylight saving time begins early Sunday morning. That means you'll have to move your clocks and watches ahead one hour. Daylight saving time is designed to help save energy by allowing more sunlit hours in the evening. It was first established in the U.S. during World War I.
Another good idea to consider this Sunday: Go ahead and change out the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.
One Wisconsin group hopes you'll spring ahead and volunteer. "Serve 60" suggests when you move your clock ahead in the spring and back an hour in the fall, you use those minutes to volunteer.
The founder, l. Maxwell McKissick, says the fact that we lose an hour this time of year is a technicality. He says the point is everyone can spend at least two hours a year volunteering and daylight savings weekend is a good excuse to start.
McKissick says if everyone in America gave an hour, communities would get more than 300 million hours of help.
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