{"id":45016,"date":"2025-09-26T20:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45016\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:18:06","slug":"clocks-to-change-as-daylight-saving-begins-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/45016\/","title":{"rendered":"Clocks to change as daylight saving begins overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiwis will want to make sure they’ve set their clocks – the ones that don’t change automatically – forward by one hour before going to bed tonight, as daylight saving kicks in overnight.<\/p>\n

The change is officially made at 2am, when the time leaps forward by 60 minutes.<\/p>\n

Each year it begins on the last Sunday in September<\/a> and ends at 3am on the first Sunday in April. <\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency New Zealand are using daylight saving as a chance to remind Kiwis to check their smoke alarms are working while adjusting their clocks. <\/p>\n

Tom Ronaldson, community education and behavior change manager, said that working smoke alarms allow for the best chance to survive a fire. <\/p>\n

“Fire moves fast. You have less than three minutes before a fire is unsurvivable,” he said. <\/p>\n

“We\u2019re asking you to make sure you have working smoke alarms in every bedroom, living room and hallway. <\/p>\n

“It is important you test your smoke alarms regularly and give them a clean with the vacuum cleaner or duster. To test smoke alarms, push the button and wait till you hear the beep.”<\/p>\n

Ronaldson said daylight savings is also a good chance for households to discuss their three-step escape plan in case of an emergency. <\/p>\n

“To create a three-step escape plan, check you have working smoke alarms in the right places, identify your first and second escape routes from each room and agree on a safe meeting place,” he said. <\/p>\n

“Practicing your three-step escape plan is a great way to entertain your tamariki these school holidays, and to make sure they know how to get out in an emergency.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwis will want to make sure they’ve set their clocks – the ones that don’t change automatically –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[273,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-45016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}