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Time for a change
Along with setting your clock back an hour Saturday night or Sunday morning, the International Association of Fire Chiefs recommends changing your smoke alarm batteries.
Batteries should be changed at least once a year, and it's easier to remember the process if it's done along with the time change, the group says.
Time changed early, and unintentionally, at the Lucky 66 Bowl this week.
The flashing electric sign out front - installed about a year ago - apparently didn't get the message that the switch from daylight saving time happens at 2 a.m. on Nov. 4 this year.
It took about a half hour on the phone for Mike Draper, the owner of the North Valley alley, to figure out how to make the clock correct for the extra week of fall daylight saving time that started this year, he said.
"After three calls back and forth to the manufacturer to figure out how to change the time, we were able to change it," Draper said. "We'll have to go through this again on the weekend when it really changes."
The company that made the sign hasn't made a software patch for its products "because they're not sure what Congress is planning with all this daylight saving stuff," Draper said.
Congress changed the start and end dates of daylight saving time in the 2005 energy bill, which was signed by President Bush in Albuquerque.
Daylight saving time also started earlier this year, on March 11, rather than the typical first weekend of April.
The theory is that the extra month or so of an extra hour of daylight will save energy.
But there's no guarantee Congress won't change the dates again to save more energy, considering the rules were also changed in 1986.
Older computers, alarm clocks that reprogram themselves and some of the signs around town apparently haven't gotten the message.
At least the state government seems to be faring well. Clocks on computers and road signs at the Department of Transportation are all up to date and working fine, said Megan Arredondo, a spokeswoman.
"We're all set," Arredondo said. "Our computer guys are on it."
