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# Time-honored tradition: Longer days on horizon
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/time-honored-tradition-longer-days-on-horizon/
- Published: 2004-04-03T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:09:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

It’s that time of year again. Most Americans will return to daylight savings time this weekend, resetting their clocks ahead by one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. The reward is an additional hour of daylight in the evening for warm-weather outdoor activities.

Standard time returns Oct. 26.

Federal law does not require any area to observe daylight savings time, and a few parts of the country like Arizona, Hawaii, the section of Indiana in the Eastern time zone, Puerto Rico and Guam have opted not to do so.

It’s also a good time to check the batteries in home smoke detectors, safety experts contend.

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Kelly McCool of Santa Monica takes in the sunset on Friday. (Photo: Michael Tittinger/Daily Press)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 3, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/040304.pdf?ref=smdp.com)