OT/MISC Reminder: Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday March 10, 2024 (move clocks forward for many in the US)

1911user

1911user

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At exactly 2AM this Sunday morning, it magically becomes 3AM for those that follow DST.

For time-keeping antiquities that did not auto-adjust while you were sleeping, they should be adjusted on Sunday lest you arrive somewhere an hour late Sunday or Monday...

Feel free to post tasteful rants about DST and the decline and fall of western culture.

That should provide some entertainment and keep this thread bumped until the weekend... :D
 
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Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
My mom hates spring forward time. It irks her that it's dark so late in the morning for a while. I point out that you get a whole extra hour of daylight at night, which is nice, but she's an early riser. Always has been.

Course, I think we're going the wrong way with daylight savings in the first place. It should be fall ahead and spring back. You save something when you have EXTRA of it. So you take away some daylight in the summer to USE it in the winter, when you have the LEAST of it.
 
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Pinecone

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Blacknarwhal said:
Course, I think we're going the wrong way with daylight savings in the first place. It should be fall ahead and spring back. You save something when you have EXTRA of it. So you take away some daylight in the summer to USE it in the winter, when you have the LEAST of it.
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When you figure out how to bottle that, let me know. I'll be your first customer. There's nothing like real sunshine.

I hate the Spring Forward change with a passion.

JUST PICK ONE! and leave it alone.

There. You have your rant. I feel better. Sorta. OK, come Sunday morning I won't. :D

(Thanks for the opportunity to rant.)
 
1911user

1911user

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Blacknarwhal said:
My mom hates spring forward time. It irks her that it's dark so late in the morning for a while. I point out that you get a whole extra hour of daylight at night, which is nice, but she's an early riser. Always has been.

Course, I think we're going the wrong way with daylight savings in the first place. It should be fall ahead and spring back. You save something when you have EXTRA of it. So you take away some daylight in the summer to USE it in the winter, when you have the LEAST of it.
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Are you suggesting canned sunshine? It's bright, but only for a few seconds.
 
Sacajawea

Sacajawea

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Well, I've always appreciated the saying about "white men think they're "saving" time by cutting off one end of a blanket and sewing it on the other.

And since "time" isn't a "natural" measurement anyway... If you wake up with the sun and go to bed just after dark... your "work day" is always in the light anyway. It's "clock time" that's unnatural!
 
1911user

1911user

Veteran Member
amarilla said:
Since it's all made up anyway, let's spring ahead by a1/2 hour and then leave it alone! Or in the fall only fall back 30 minutes and leave it alone for good.
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It's not all made up. Noon at your location is the sun directly overhead as verified by a sundial. That worked great for centuries until the railroads became a big deal in the mid-late 1800s. Having the time be slightly different in every town was a scheduling problem. Their solution was creation of the current time zones.
 
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Delta

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I would like to "tastefully" shout out a heartfelt FU to out government for this time-change stuff. I thought they were going to fix this once and for all!

I have just attempted to change clocks. Some were easy. Some were/are beyond my capability. In a few hours I expect the alarm to go off on the oven. Honest I tried to do it. The old fashioned clocks with a "wheel" to turn were easy. I keep the instructions to my bedside clock in the night drawer. And while those instructions were written by a Chinaman, what I have done in the past seems to work, so maybe it is okay. But God only knows what I've done with the other stuff. I sincerely hate this night! Grrrr.
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
If I weren't still working, I'd just leave my body and clocks on standard time.

This year, I started going to bed earlier last week, so my body is almost adjusted.

I really can't afford the 2 - 3 days of downtime I have with the change. It really messes me up, and I have a ton of stuff to do this week.
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

EN66iq
I hate DST and just wish they would leave the time alone. This morning it was still dark at 7:30 and I was really getting used to the sun coming up earlier. Its safer for the kids to leave the time alone too and now many of them are getting picked up for school in the dark again. I'd rather it get lighter earlier than to stay lighter later.
 
Meemur

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Not a bad start for today's Sunday morning! But it's still going to take several days to adjust. I hate this crap. It's just too hard to change my schedule because "they" say so.
 
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FireDance

TB Fanatic
My granddaddy used to call this “God’s Time”. He didn’t cuss the government. But now I know what he was REALLY thinking.

Leave this crap alone and be normal animals. God grief.
 
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