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If you're looking to make a late night out of the unseasonably warm winter evening, you might want to get a head start since last call might come an hour earlier than expected tonight. Daylight-savings time officially leaps forward by an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. WPIX was at the Tourneay TimeMachine in Midtown set 8,000 clocks and watches at the new time this afternoon. And while most of us just grumble over the loss of an hour of sleep, the consequences of the change can actually be much more serious. MSNBC reports that number of heart attacks ride 5% in the two weeks following the spring ahead (and decrease 5% when we fall behind). At the very least, you can take a step to keeping yourself safer by taking the FDNY's advice and changing the batteries on your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

A 56-year-old man in the Flatlands section died in his apartment after his cigarette started a fire. Sixty fire fighters responded to the one alarm fire that broke out around 7:45AM on 1275 East 51 Street. The FDNY had it under control within 20 minutes of responsing, but they were unable to save the apartment's dweller, Harvey Kudisch.

Yesterday's West 65th Street apartment building fire was caused by lint buildup in the clothes dryer. Somehow the lint ignited, and according to the NY Times, "flames racing upstairs in the pipe recesses between the building’s front facade and an inner wall." That's a lesson right there: Clean out the lint!

Remember, today is the last day of Daylight Saving Time. Tonight, before you go to bed don't forget to set your clocks back an hour (unless you don't want to take advantage of that wonderful extra hour of sleep, glorious, glorious sleep).

Hooray! Who cares about losing an hour when our afternoons get brighter and the evenings start later? You can check the current NYC time here, so you can make sure all your watches, clocks, microwaves, and what have you are properly synced. Now, for the weather to clear up so we can sit outside at cafes and restaurants and in the park.

It might be best to know where higher ground is this weekend, especially if you live north and west of the city. A low pressure system currently centered over Alabama is going to bring massive amounts of Gulf moisture to our neighborhood starting tomorrow. The moisture is the orange spot over Georgia in the satellite image. The Weather Service is calling for 2-3 inches of rain across the area, with 4 inches or more at some locations. The ground is already saturated over much of our region and northeastern New Jersey looks particularly vulnerable to a major flood event.

With the recent change to Daylight Savings time, most of us in the U.S. have moved an hour closer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), more commonly known to meteorologists, aviators, and the military as Zulu (Z) time. Zulu time is based on the time zone that runs through Greenwich, England, and is used to give weather observers and forecasters around the world a common time of reference. Plus, saying “Zulu” over and over puts a smile on Gothamist’s face. Upper air observations are made twice a day at 00Z and 12Z (8a.m. and 8 p.m. EDT), with the National Weather Service issuing forecasts based on those, and other observations.