It’s time for that semi-annual, national ritual that Hawaii eschews: the turning back of clocks to mark the end of daylight saving time.

At 2 a.m. Sunday, all U.S. states except for our 50th State and Arizona will "fall back," with time machines reset one hour back, now that days are getting shorter. While Hawaii folks won’t need to make any clock adjustments, we will need to make mental ones: Come Sunday, the West Coast will be two hours ahead of our time (not three), while the East Coast will be five hours ahead (not six). And then there are the Central and Mountain time zones, which are an hour off from the nearest coast.

If anyone needs help with confusing time conversions, check out the handy website, http://www.timeandzone.com. Of course, it’s said that we have our own (late) zone here: "Hawaiian time."

Peals of joy as temple bell is recovered

Buddha has a reason to smile.

The nearly century-old bronze Buddhist temple bell that was stolen from the Papaaloa Hongwanji Mission on Hawaii island on Oct. 21 was found Thursday sitting near a hala tree off Old Onomea Road.

Rose Broughton, the temple’s secretary, said the bell was nestled in a brown plastic tarp and tucked underneath it was a flier for the missing bell carefully placed in a Ziploc bag. She suspects the beloved bell was likely placed where it would be safe and easily found.

Perhaps the thieves realized the error of their ways. The temple now can return to ringing its bell on Wednesdays — and maybe, just maybe, the thieves can stop worrying about bad karma.