Tonight is the night we all set our clocks ahead an hour in observance of the strange springtime ritual known as Daylight Saving Time. Until last year Daylight time began on the first Sunday in April. Thanks to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, DST now begins on the second Sunday in March and lasts until the first weekend in November. The dates were changed "to save energy". Saving energy, in fact, was the reason......

Mother Nature is all treats and no tricks this Halloween. With southerly flow around a high pressure system centered to the east today's high temperature should be nearly ten degrees warmer than normal. The day should be mostly sunny but there may be a few clouds and ghouls this evening. The quest for a record warm October has come down to the last day! Gothamist calculates a monthly average temperature of 63.65 degrees if Central......

A fire that erupted in a two-family Rosedale home yesterday morning claimed the lives of a Corrections Department captain and her two sons. The Corrections Dept. union said that the victims were Captain Renee Chong and her two young sons. The three-alarm fire broke out before 5AM. Neighbors tried to bang on Chongs' door, but the fire spread too quickly. One described the smoke as "toxic". Colleagues report that Chong was nearing 20 years of......

Two years ago, in their infinite wisdom, Congress moved the start of Daylight Saving Time up three weeks to the second Sunday in March. That's tonight! Don't forget to adjust your clocks forward one hour before you go to bed. The reason for the date switch was to save energy. The jury is out on whether or not the date switch will save energy, but some people are worried that the change will cause problems......

Yay! It's Daylight Saving Time, which means at 2AM this morning, it magically went back to being 1AM. Well, it's "Yay!" for the extra hour of sleep you get, but then it's "Argh!" when you think of how dark it'll be at 5-5:30PM. The U.S. Naval Observatory explains why we fall back or spring forward, and reminds us that next year, we'll be falling back during the first Sunday of November. (The date has been......

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). Some interesting Daylight Saving facts: -This year is the first year that Indiana, come April, will start to participate in Daylight Saving. This makes it the 48th state to do so and ends......

city rag reminds us that the Tompkins Square Dog Run's Halloween Parade has been rescheduled from Saturday to Sunday at noon, because of "scary" weather tomorrow (rain). Gothamist will be there to cheer on animals wearing unwieldy costumes and their brave owners, like this small child and dog whose parents/owners decided that Harry Potter would be the theme. But the dogs in Fort Greene will be braving the elements tomorrow - check Fort Greene Pups.......

Sunday morning marks the beginning of daylight-saving time (incidentally it's not called daylight savings time). So don't forget to set your clocks FORWARD one hour at 2am. As we do every first Sunday in April, we shift our daily schedule to more accurately coincide with the shifting daylight hours in the day. The net effect? Daylight Saving Time saves energy. Gothamist likes that our state keeps it simple, unlike Indiana which has 77 counties......