It's Daylight Savings Time!

Sorry folks, but we're going to have to ask for that hour back. As great as it is to finally see some warm weather coming our way, this return to Spring also means we have to change our clocks for Daylight Savings Time on Sunday, March 11 at 2 a.m. (that's tonight folks!)

So before everyone goes to bed tonight, they should be setting their clocks ahead one hour.

If you're worried losing that hour will be the death of you come Monday morning, researchers from the University of Alabama have these suggestions for helping transition to the time change:

• Wake up 30 minutes earlier on Sunday than you need to in preparation for the early start on Monday.
• Eat a decent-sized breakfast.
• Go outside in the sunlight in the early morning.
• Exercise in the mornings over the weekend.

This is also the time to replace the batteries in you home's smoke detectors. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), two-thirds of fire deaths occur in homes where there are no smoke detectors or working smoke alarms. Replace batteries at least once every year and to test your alarms every month to make sure they work. It's also a good idea to have smoke alarms on every level of your home, outside and inside each bedroom.

"I want everybody to change the batteries in both their smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms," said Norristown Fire Chief Thomas O'Donnell.

[The threat of carbon monoxide poisoning] is a growing problem everywhere," said O'Donnell, whose department has responded to more than a few carbon monoxide threats in Norristown in the last year.

According to the CPSC, there was an annual average of 183 unintentional non-fire CO poisoning deaths between 2006 and 2008. CO is called the "invisible killer," because it is a colorless, odorless and poisonous gas and people may not know they're being poisoned. Carbon monoxide is produced by the incomplete burning of fuel in various products including furnaces, portable generators, fireplaces, cars and charcoal grills.