MORRIS COUNTY — It’s time for that nagging mid-autumn question: When do we set our clocks back again?
Daylight Saving Time ends in New Jersey at 2:00 a.m. Sunday, November 5.
Setting the clock back an hour this weekend means you’ll be able to pack in an extra hour of fun with friends and family on Saturday or languish in bed for an extra hour on Sunday morning.
With the change will come earlier sunsets, an increased risk for car-deer crashes and drowsy driving.
As the days shorten (they don’t begin lengthening again after the Winter Solstice on Thursday, December 21), the loss of an hour of daylight means many Americans in the Eastern and Central Standard Time zones will be leaving their workplaces around sunset. And that can spell some danger.
Daylight saving time used to end in late October, but Congress in 2007 pushed it back to the first Sunday of November. It begins the second Sunday in March.
Enjoy your extra hour of sleep.
