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Daylight Savings Time

To maintain the energy efficiency, safety, and useful life of your daylights savings time, it is important that your home maintenance program include the proper care for your daylights savings time.


Daylight savings time applies in some parts of the country.  Originally, it was intended to maximize the number of daylight hours that could be used for farming.  Today it serves to ensure the morning commute and early school bus boarding take place in daylight.


Shown in the "Maintenance" tab above are the recommended routine maintenance tasks for your daylights savings time. The "Questions / Answers" tab above shows our answers to related questions. And the "Articles" tab above provides links to related informational articles and sources.

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 Maintenance Task:  Check appliance timers, clocks, etc. for Daylight Savings Time change

  
       
    How do you check appliance timers, clocks, etc for Daylight Savings Time change?  

 

  

For Daylight Savings Time, clocks are set forward one hour at 2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in April, and then are set back one hour at 2:00 A.M. on the last Sunday in October.  Following the change for Daylight Savings Time, the following appliances should be checked for the correct time:

 
       
    Why is it important to check appliance timers, clocks, etc for Daylight Savings Time change?  

 

  

Without making these changes, the appliances will not be set to the proper time and will perform their functions either one hour early or late.

  
       
    How often should you check appliance timers, clocks, etc for Daylight Savings Time change?  
    These clocks/timers should be checked after Daylight Savings Time change in April and November.  

 

  

 

    
    How does Home-Wizard rate the costs and benefits for this task?  
    The cost of this task is very low.  It is estimated that this task should take less than 30 minutes to complete, depending on how many appliances you have with clocks that do not automatically reset for Daylight Savings Time.  The task is relatively easy to do, and no specialized tools are required.  
         
    The benefits of this task are the based on having your appliances operating at the appropriate time.  This is probably most important if you have Programmable Thermostats.  
       
    Overall Home-Wizard benefit-versus-cost rating (one 'hat' = low and four 'hats' = high):   

 

  

 




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