When Does Daylight Savings Time End in 2012? A Few Ideas for that Extra Hour in Iowa City

Those 7:30 a.m. commutes down Interstate 380 will get darker before they get lighter. Officially, Daylight Savings Time doesn’t end for a couple more weeks – officially at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4.

Remember, you’ll “fall back” and set your clocks back one hour. Many electronic devices automatically adjust when Daylight Savings Time begins or ends.

When you change your clocks in the fall and spring, it’s also a good time to change smoke detector batteries and check to make sure device are in working order.

Arizona, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa do not observe Daylight Savings Time.

It begins again on March 10, 2013.

Here are some suggestions for what you can do with that extra hour in Iowa City:

• You could go see a recital by the University of Iowa School of Music
• Or how about seeing the Indigo Girls at the Englert Theater? (sold out, so you might have to beg for a ticket)
• You could go learn some Tai Chi at the Senior Center.
• Or how about playing some board games at the Iowa City Public Library?
• If none of these appeal to you, there's always Sunday football or sleeping in.