Mark your calendar, set your clocks back on Nov. 1

Relax. Take your time. You've got an extra hour to burn when Daylight Saving Time reverts back to ordinary, standard time in the wee hours of Sunday, Nov. 1. Before hitting the pillow on Saturday night, take a few minutes to set all of your time-keeping machines back an hour. Then catch up on the hour of sleep you surrendered back in March. (Purists can wait until 2 a.m. Sunday if they have the patience.)

Daylight Savings Time was in use in war time, but then suspended. Congress enacted the Uniform Time Act in 1966, and most modern day timelines report that it began in earnest in the early 1970s as a response to concerns about energy conservation. More than 70 countries worldwide observe Daylight Savings Time.

If you are anxious to "spring forward," you'll have to wait until almost mid-March 2016 (see last line, below)

By: Sean O'Reilly, ABC Action News

TAMPA, Fla. - You can tell that autumn is in the air with cooler temperatures, and that means it is time to turn back the clocks.

Since 2007, Daylight Saving Time (or DST for short) in the United States begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.

The old expression goes, "spring forward, fall back." It means before bed on the Saturday night before DST ends, you will need to set your clocks back one hour.

For 2015 the time to "fall back" will occur at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 1. At that moment time will go back one hour to 1:00 a.m. as it reverts to Standard Time.

Two clocks you normally will not have to change are on your cell phones and cable boxes. These are usually automatically programmed to adjust for time change.

With the end of Daylight Saving Time you will be "gaining" the one hour of time you "lost" when you "sprang ahead" in March.

The Energizer battery company and the International Association of Fire Chiefs urge you to use the clock change as a reminder to change the batteries in your home smoke detectors. This simple and easy action will double your family's chance of surviving a house fire.

You will 'spring ahead,' or turn your clocks forward one hour next year on March 13, 2016.

Published 10-30-2015