Almost time to set the clocks ahead one hour
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's almost time again for most Americans to return to daylight-saving time.
Clocks move ahead one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, local time, moving an hour of daylight to the evening for warm-weather outdoor activities.
It's also a good time to change the batteries in smoke detectors, suggests Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta. His department is the government agency in charge of coordinating daylight-saving time.
Standard time returns October 26.
Federal law does not require any area to observe daylight-saving time, and a few parts of the country have opted not to do so. They are Arizona, Hawaii, the part of Indiana located in the Eastern time zone, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas islands.
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