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FDNY Reminds About Daylight Savings In Oddly Twee Video
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Jaya Saxena
Published Mar 12, 2011
Modified Mar 12, 2011
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Jaya Saxena
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Zeitgeist alert! Tomorrow is the start of Daylight Savings Time, so the FDNY decided to make a video reminding people what to do with their clocks, because apparently 16 percent of you have absolutely no idea. But from the sounds of it, the FDNY has been watching a few too many Apple commercials. The cute acoustic soundtrack is paired with a fireman with a cheesy smile giving the thumbs up to setting clocks forward an hour and thumbs down to forgetting to change your smoke detector batteries. There are also lots of dynamic clocks:
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