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Daylight Savings Time ends - change clocks and batteries
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Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 am tomorrow and there is nothing you can do about it. Whose brilliant idea was this anyway? Moving the clocks back an hour when the the days are already getting shorter seems backwards to me. I find the whole process confusing and it makes me cranky. But, I don't make the rules, I just follow them.The Consumer Product Safety Commission suggests that the twice-yearly confusion of the clocks is also a good time to change the batteries in your home's smoke alarms. As you make your clock-changing rounds, go ahead and put in fresh batteries in all the smoke alarms in your home. This could very well save your life.
Speaking of smoke alarms -- where are yours? CPSC says they should be on every level in your home, outside of sleeping areas and inside each bedroom. Smoke alarms closer than ten feet to the stove or oven are not a good idea as they tend to go off when you are cooking. You don't want the constant false-alarms to result in nobody taking the alarm seriously.
As far as what type of smoke alarm to use, CPSC recommends installing both ionization and photoelectric type smoke alarms. Ionization type smoke alarms typically detect flaming fires more quickly, while photoelectric type smoke alarms typically detect smoldering fires sooner.
In addition to changing those batteries, you should also test all the alarms once a month to make sure they are working properly.
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