This year the end of daylight savings time is Nov. 1, so on Halloween night we get to set our clocks back one hour. Technically it's supposed to end at 2 a.m. but I say when the clock strikes 12 on Halloween night we move our clocks back to 11 and hit the witching hour twice!
Whooo Hooooo anytime i can get extra halloween in any form is great by me. Two witching hours? Now i gotta build another witch for my stirring witch prop.
Hallow... I recall a time when the city I lived in would not allow Halloween Trick or Treating to be held on Saturday or Sunday night! The town made the 2 hour mandatory treating start on a day or two prior to the real thing and then made it worse by setting the start at 5 PM. It never got dark! This happened in the 70's in upstate NY. Guess Woodstock caused the town elders to fear the worst on a weekend! Thank goodness 2009 is a full weekend of haunting!! Plus Daylight Savings Time -- Who could ask for anything more!! BOO!
Im going to have to check on this for this year but last time I knew Bush implemented the time change in the fall to appear a week after halloween and to start again a week before it would actually end in the spring. Meaning we would have more weeks of ahead and less weeks of fall back. I thought he did this because he wanted us to use less energy, like lights, for nighttime, but it backfired as many people had to start work when it was dark out and thus had to use lights in the am anyway. Did he revert it back to the old way? Its like this in FL last time I checked, and I wish it would go back to the old way.
Also, we used to go out to clubs alot for the annual halloween party we had. Its kind of like Mardi Gras but halloween themed, and they used to stay open the extra hour but last time I checked they started doing last call normally and ignored the time change, so we didnt get the extra hour of party time. around 1998-2002 was last time I recall they added the hour but I noticed in 2003 on they didnt let us stay open.
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