Results tagged “navalobservatory”

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 changed because of Halloween and it being dark during trick-or-treating.)

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.