That's because if you start a Halloween party at 8pm tonight and end it at 6am tomorrow, for example, it will be an 11 hour party because the second after 1:59:59 Daylight Time becomes 1:00:00 Standard Time, which would have been 2am Daylight Time if it contined any further.

People are advised to set their clocks Saturday night if their clocks don't automatically set themselves.

People in Mexico have already set their clocks back one hour this previous Sunday the 25th.

This website wants to end Daylight Saving Time for once and for all. http://www.standardtime.com/

November 1st also marks the end of the Summer Semester and the beginning of the Winter Semester. The Fall Semester begun on August 1. The Summer Semester will begin once again on May 1. The Spring Semester begins on February 1. There are two semesters overlapping each other all the time with one pair offsetting the other by exactly three months.

Down under, add six months to the dates to get the correct season semesters. The Summer Semester begins in Aussie, New Zealand, and all other points below the Equator on November 1st.

Last but not least, November 1st marks the start of Thanksgiving Season. Not Christmas Season. Thanksgiving Season. This means I will tune out any Christmas-themed ads on the TV and radio like what I've been doing for years until Thanksgiving Day, the last day of the Thanksgiving season. Then on November 27th, it will officially be Christmas season.

Reminder to Tijuana (Oct 24, 2009)

Mexicans don't have to worry about their pre-2007 VCRs not resetting themselves to the correct time whenever DST begins and ends in Mexico. In the U.S., however, pre-2007 VCRs and other timepieces will be one hour behind DST from the second Sunday in March through 1:59am on the first Sunday in April, and one hour behind DST from the last Sunday in October to 1:59am on the first Sunday in November.

Folks in San Diego can set their VCRs to Mountain Standard Time during those weeks when the times for San Diego and Tijuana are off by one hour.