Don't forget to set your clocks forward at 0200 am Sunday morning... in about 4 and a half hours. (I'm on Central Time) ;)
You mean I have to get up earlier tomorrow? DanG!, make that Double DanG. Wait, it's Sunday, I'll get up when I like. :D Well be on the same time zone, for an hour. ;D
Dave
Actually Dave, when it's 2 am your time, you'll advance to 3 am, while I'll still be at 1 am. Then an hour later, 4 am your time, I'll advance to 3 am and all will be right again. :D ;)
Yeah, I just figured that one out, after I posted. :D Maybe I should set mine ahead now, get some sleep, and I won't be such an airhead. ;D
Dave
I just hate it that twice a year I have to get up at 2am to change my clocks. It is not the changing of the clocks that bother me, it is the getting up at 2am that bothers me. ;)
I wonder what happens in the fall when the time falls back while posting on the forum. You start your post at say 1:55 am and finish it at 1:05 am before you started it. Or you post at 1:50 am and then read it 30 minutes later you read it at 1:20 am. Talk about the twilight zone. ???
Quote from: farmerdoug on March 08, 2008, 10:49:41 PM
I wonder what happens in the fall when the time falls back while posting on the forum.
It causes a major crash.Don't you remember last Fall? :P
So that is how Furby did it. ::) Now we are all in trouble, Jeff will have to send out the squad to silence us. :D :D :D :D
The mood I'm in from this long winter I think I'll just lean forward. :D
We reset our clocks last night but still had difficulty getting under motion this morning. Being 4 degrees outside didn't help ;D
Wow, we're actually warmer up here this morning. 21 F!
The Mrs got me all confused last night when I was resetting the clocks before bed. We 'sprung forward' an hour like we were supposed to but she said, "It'll be nice to have it brighter when we get up." I didn't really think about it, mumbled agreement, and went to sleep. But when we got up this morning, it was actually darker. After thinking about it, I had to explain to her that 7am was now what 6am used to be, hence it would be darker in the morning and lighter when we went to bed. She just grumbled, rolled over, and went back to sleep. ;D
Church this morning was interesting. The congegation was much larger for the second half of the service. :D
Can't we just leave the clock some where and stop all this stupid stuff. I mean I work dawn to dark not matter what time the clock says. The Good LORD just made so much day light and it really does not matter what time the clock says. So what if it is now 2 pm instead of 1 pm. I am still hungry and missed lunch either way.
I also wonder how come that high dollar DVD player we got is not now flashing 1:00 all the time.
Quote from: metalspinner on March 09, 2008, 01:43:41 PM
Church this morning was interesting. The congregation was much larger for the second half of the service. :D
Same thing at our church. ;D
I'm with you Arky, I try not to live by the clock. I eat when I'm hungry and sleep when I'm tired regardless of what the clock says. Of course I do have to be to work on time-cursed corporate America >:(.
i believe that if you don't understand the clock, and time, then you don't live your life to the fullest....
now sometimes, living life to the fullest requires tossing the clock out the window :)
I like daylight savings time, even if Grandpa Jones didn't.
It is time for another reolutionary war. THis fall we should all just leave our clocks set at daylight time . There is no resonable reason to move a clock time back for a little over two months . Then move it forward for the remainder. >:( >:(
Here in Saskatchewan we do not change our time at all. It is a big blessing because I know how much confusion I got when I left the province to work in Alberta and British Columbia. Depending on where I was working it was alway's either one or two hours difference from home. Took me months of working on a scheduled basis to get used to the differences. That wasn't good because we changed locations of jobsites often on a weekly or bi weekly rotation. We went where the work was. I was loading holes with dynamite doing seismic surveying. I have seen some very rugged terrain I wish no man to have to travel. I spent many moons in the muskegg and swamps of western and northern Canada.
As a general rule, I don't give a rat's rump what time it is. I sleep when I'm sleepy and eat when I'm hungry, so I didn't bother resetting any clocks until about mid-afternoon, when Linda started getting into the third or fourth tier of her insistent mode. The old analog, battery powered clocks in the kitchen and over the computer were no problem. Then I went to tackle her new clock radio by the bed. That $10 humdinger has more buttons on it than the DanG space shuttle! I came back to the computer and got my glasses and went back for another look, and BLESS GOODNESS, it has a "dst" button! I poked that little button with the tip of my pinkie nail and it changed the time to an hour later. 8) 8) 8) Oh yeah, I also noticed that the little "dst" button is right next to the identical little button where you turn the alarm on. I can see some real joy coming out of that little arrangement in the future. ::) :-\
Quote from: ARKANSAWYER on March 09, 2008, 02:51:46 PM
Can't we just leave the clock some where and stop all this stupid stuff. I mean I work dawn to dark not matter what time the clock says. The Good LORD just made so much day light and it really does not matter what time the clock says.
It matters when the person who signs your checks tells you to be at work at 8 AM and to go home at 5 PM. I'm looking forward to having more daylight when I get home from work to accomplish my projects. Plus, daylight saving time reduces energy consumption and decreases the number of automobile accidents nationwide. So I think it's worth the two minutes that it takes me to change the 3 clocks in my house.
Quote from: Dodgy Loner on March 10, 2008, 10:58:59 AM
It matters when the person who signs your checks tells you to be at work at 8 AM and to go home at 5 PM. I'm looking forward to having more daylight when I get home from work to accomplish my projects. Plus, daylight saving time reduces energy consumption and decreases the number of automobile accidents nationwide. So I think it's worth the two minutes that it takes me to change the 3 clocks in my house.
Thats not fair. Using logic to stop every one from being grumpy cause we lost an hour of sleep. ;D ;D
I would like to just leave the clock alone like Arkansawyer says. I would like it to stay on this new time and forget it. We had daylight 'til 7:00 pm before the move ahead, now it's after 8:00 pm. Now if we had some more power behind that sun and remove some white stuff. ;D
My grandkids were getting on the bus an hour before daylight this morning. >:( I don't think the Crane employees who spearheaded our being on eastern daylight time here were much worried about the kids' safety. :(
Yep, the early pickup by school busses has always been the big complaint about DST. My question has always been, "Why don't the schools adjust their schedule to the rest of the world?" If they moved their times out an hour, the kid's schedule would be a closer match to most parent's schedule, especially in the afternoon. I betcha they would save money too, because there would be less students riding the bus.
I agree with Dodgy Loner that Standard Time is a pita in the wintertime. It gets really old getting home from work after dark day in and day out. Before I retired, I would get really depressed every winter because of it. I say leave it on DST year-round and let the schools adjust to it.
I only change my wall clocks when the batteries run down. I set them to whatever time it is at the battery change.
My wife sets the clocks at the house when the time changes. I still get to get her up sometimes when she forgets to set the alarm. Regardless of what timeseason it is.
Myself, I am more concerned in waking up in the same place I went to sleep.
I always leave early when I have to be somewhere 'on time', so it's not really a big deal if I forget what timeseason I'm in, or not.
Of course, I have some things that are smarter than me, and change their own times when the timeseason changes. Like this computer.
Used to be dst happened late enough in the year that it wasn't dark when you got on the bus. Somebody went and changed it though.
Dave
Quote from: Dodgy Loner on March 10, 2008, 10:58:59 AM
Plus, daylight saving time reduces energy consumption and decreases the number of automobile accidents nationwide. So I think it's worth the two minutes that it takes me to change the 3 clocks in my house.
I have heard that reasoning before, but would someone explain to me how DST saves energy consumption. As to the increase in daylight afer work, that makes sense. Also, couldn't employers just have the work day start five hours earlier so the employees can have five more hours of daylight to do their thing. ;)
It's not dark here at school bus time in the spring change, it is dark in December and January, but dawn with some morning light. Bus goes at 7:30 am here. The official sunrise is 7:45 am at the first of this week, but you can see well for 15-20 before that. Next Monday it's 7:30 am. That's for Saint John, with it a little earlier up north here. Must have been some northerner that changed the timing of the DST. :D
For some reason or another, most of Indiana is on Eastern time. Geographically, it looks to me like we should be on Central time. If that were the case, as it is in the five counties south of us, it wouldn't be dark while the kids get on the bus, Savings time or not. When Indiana started observing Daylight time a year or two ago, five more counties bordering those got on Central time. I thought that was fine. Then Crane employees started crying because many of them had to cross time zones to get to work. They applied pressure to County officials, and got those five to apply for a change, and ultimately changed back to Eastern time.
Monday morning I had clocks upstairs reading 2, 3, and 4 AM. :D My wife turned her alarm forward, and then at 2:00AM Sunday, it rolled itself forward another hour. :)
If everyone changed it would not be such a pain. Like Coon, I had to keep track of where I was and who I was calling as some parts of B.C. don't change. Half the year they are on Mountain time, the other half on Pacific.
DST does not save energy (http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/639935/daylight_savings_time_does_not_save.html).
What would save more energy is having well lit offices with big windows turn their lights off. But, no. How many times have I been in an office with lots of sunshine light and see all the lights on. How wasteful can you get.
QuoteDST does not save energy.
Sure it does! The "Government" said that we saved about 300,000 barrels of oil by extending DST. They say folks go on picnics in the afternoon and don't burn electricity since they created another hour of daylight.
'Course, they are traveling around in their cars, so I guess it gets used anyway.
What do the chickens do with the extra hour?
I wonder if the school kids like it as much as the adults. They are the ones that have to stand in the dark, waiting for the schoolbus at 5:30 in the morning.
Then there is the assumption that the hour of invented daylight is free time. Most folks I know use it to encrease the work day. Trying to make more money to pay the higher fuel bills
I just never understood tampering with stuff like this. It must be folks sitting behind a desk in a skyscraper that think it up. I don't know what their concerns would be, they never go outside anyway. :P :D
So how about we stay on DST and stop changing the clocks? I don'c care what time they make it just keep it there.
Faron I think it is so funny the guys that complained the most didn't get their way and stayed on Central just like they did before.
If you want more daylight time after work ,START WORK EARLIER, don't go messing with my time machines. It is a pain in the but to have to change the time on all my windup clocks . The grandfather clock does not like its hands moved back It tends to sound the time that it was before the move unless you spend the time to run it through the chimes as you reset it . The bango clock I hjave to unhook the pendulum and let it run wild so time flies . But it takes 20 min. or so I get bored and go off and do something important . Come back later and the clock has sped into tomarrow and then I have to stop it and hope I remember to start it at the right time the next day. That reminds me I have to start it before 9:00 .Never mind I'll do it tomarrow.
Some will call me crazy for saying this, but there is nothing new there.
I'm sorta liking the earlier DST change.
It was REALLY hard the first couple days, harder than I ever remember it being before. :o
But it now feels so much later in the year than it really is. :)
I know it's a psychological thing, but it sure has helped end the long winter.
i'm liking it too.
the world works on an 8-4 clock, people are kind of trained that way. going to work an hour earlier doesn't fix the fact that you're needed until 4 o'clock