It’s that time of year where we shake hands with time and early morning risers are greeted with sunshine. But the days do shorten. Thank Richard Nixon and OPEC. This time change thing feels so unnatural. Nevertheless, if you want to be on time with everyone around you, set your clock back Sunday morning, November 3, at 2 a.m.

Or set your clock back at 11 p.m. Saturday night and treat yourself to another stretch of evening by repeating that golden 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. hour.

Or, if you happen to run across this article on Sunday morning and have forgotten to set back that clock, well, surprise. Go back to sleep.

Now if you want to hang around all night, there’s the business of that rare hybrid solar eclipse, where the moon body blocks the earth, getting in the face of the sun so there ain’t no sunshine for a moment. There’s an extensive explanation here. 

A hybrid eclipse is apparently rare. And you will damage the ol’ eyes if you insist on staring directly at the eclipse, even with dark sunglasses.

On the east coast it will all go down before you even wake up, most likely at approximately 6:29 a.m. post clock turned back (7:29 a.m. for those who are hanging on to that time).

The best place to see the eclipse would be up on Torne Mountain or a place without trees or mountains or buildings to block your eastern view, according to Jay M. Pasachoff, a professor of astronomy at Williams College in Massachusetts.

Said Dr. Pasachoff to NYTimes reporter Kenneth Chang, ““If you have windows from Manhattan that look east over Long Island from a high floor, that should work.”

Original image of sun dial found here.