Daylight Savings Time 2025: Clocks Fall Back one hour at 2:00a on Sunday, Nov. 2nd

*UPDATE* More Time Change Data as reported by Popular Science: Stopping the time change might be better for our health because, circadian rhythm. *paraphrase
(https://www.popsci.com/health/daylight-saving-time-health-2/)

Clocks fall back one hour at 2:00a on Sunday, Nov. 2nd 2025.

Here are some notes on the time change that we have shared before:

It's a great time to remember to put new batteries in your smoke detectors. Then put the old batteries in a sack and carry them around for self-defense! (in case of bear attack ... it's Fat Bear Season!)

^artist depiction^ Or recycle them

We're still waiting to see if Time Change will go away forever. Some Provinces have already voted to get rid of Spring Forward/ Fall Back. Ontario wants to end the time change but can't do much until Quebec and New York State join up. New York seems to want to stop changing clocks but everything is still in the "to be continued" phase. Quebec is looking into it also. BTW, The British Sleep Society wants the time changing to stop also #WaitToSee

I am re-blogging some of these Time Change Factoids. I have vowed to continue my amateur research into time until consumer grade time-traveling technology is readily available. I have found that the more you look into time-change, the more complicated it gets.

Every year I end up covering the same things ... Time Change is terrible ... Time Change is brilliant... Time Change is both ... Here come the links ...

- There are stats about heart attacks, traffic accidents, energy consumption, and cranky coworkers (not you though, everyone else.)
- The time change might conserve energy, or it might not (depends on what study you look at).
- SOME studies say car accidents go up after the time change because our concentration gets all messed up, but another study showed that the more daylight we get during travel times, the better the driving outcomes. So that works out for part of year.
Remember when they made Daylight Saving last longer? Certain industries LOVED it! Some experts insist that changing our clocks each Fall and Spring only happens because it helps retailers.
- The time change helps the golf industry make more cash.

- The petroleum companies do great business during extended Daylight Saving because it people drive their cars more in the evening.

- It has been great for the barbecue industry too.

- Did You Know... that the big candy companies lobbied for a longer Daylight Saving Time? They wanted as many kids as possible going out to Trick-or-Treat. I can't stay mad at you, big candy.

- Don't get me wrong, not everybody loves DST (looking at you, airline industry... and farmers.)

- Has anyone asked the the team in charge of Big Ben how they feel?

In conclusion, Time Change is complicated. Even the Fall when we move clocks back an hour. Even though a lot of us get an extra hour of sleep, it might still screw us up and be bad for our health and/or safety. Yes, we get more sleep, but it's darker sooner at night and the whole thing is stressful... and who likes stress? (correct answer is no one. No one likes stress.) *See note at top re circadian rhythm.

⏰How to deal with messed-up sleep patterns:
😠 Issue: Crankiness.
Solution: Just go with Cranky as your new normal. Maybe you used to be Happy-Go-Lucky ... well, it's somebody else's turn to be nice now. Send an email to all your contacts explaining that you have chosen to become a jerk, and that people should "deal with it." and that they "need to calm down."
Problem solved. Fact: People love it when you tell them they need to calm down.

😫 Issue: tiredness.
Solution: Get a pair of glasses with eyes painted on the lens. Wear them to the staff meeting and people will think you're super-alert

💔 Issue: increased risk of heart attack.
Solution: handcuff yourself to a cardiologist. If it happens, at least your doctor is close-by.

🚗 Issue: Traffic Accidents.
Solution: buy an Electromagnetic Pulse Device on the Dark Web and crank it up to 11. This will disable all the vehicles around you, rendering them harmless. Note: does not work on horses. It would suck to go to all the trouble of disabling every car for a hundred miles, then have some kinda horse encounter.

Here are some other (better-researched) ways to counteract your lousy stinkin' time change mood ...

- Force Yourself to Smile... (it can trick your brain into being happy)

- Stand up straight (you had it right, mom)

- Force Yourself to Make Small Talk (Pro Tip: if you're terrible at small talk like me, bring a microscope to work and carry it around all day. When people are like "what's the deal with the microscope?" You can say, "It's for small talk!" Your commitment to the joke will earn respect.

- Put your hands up like you're gonna be arrested ... or like you just won a race. 30 seconds of that is supposed to make you feel less stressed.

- Do a good deed!

- HERE'S THE WHOLE LIST

⏰ Some Daylight Saving history...

Ben Franklin talked about it, but there's a good chance that he was joking. I don't really get Ben Franklin's sense-of-humor. See this link for more.

More: A fellow in New Zealand thought about doing Daylight Saving in 1895 ... also, the great great grandfather of the lead singer of Coldplay had Daylight Saving ideas. Then Coldplay had that "Clocks" song!? There are no coincidences!!