Changing Time Twice a Year

debodun said:
Easy if you just have one time keeping device. I have to set 9 clocks (including my car snd stove clocks), 2 watches, VCR and TV.
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I don't change anything. I know what time it is and can mentally add or subtract an hour. My devices change automatically. Cell phone, computer, tablet.

I would hate to stay on the time that causes it to become dark at 7 p.m. instead of 8 p.m.
 
I don't mind I only have two clocks in my little world and I don't pay much attention to either of them.

I change the time on the microwave and don't bother with the clock in my vehicle. I wish that GM would push the time change out to me but they don't so I adjust it in my mind, no big deal.
 
C'est Moi said:
Me. I freakin' HATE the time change.
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I don't mind changing the clocks, and I have around 9 in my house, then there's the vehicles. I like that it gets dark earlier in winter and stays light longer in summer, seems natural to me, used to it, not an issue.
 
Furryanimal said:
Wish Britain would stay on GMT all year.We are the country with the Greenwich Meridian.
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They tried it in the 60s I believe and caused havoc, children
in Scotland were going to school in the dark and coming
home again in the dark!

It became general during World War 1 to get munitions workers
making more bullets in the Winter I believe.

If you think Daylight Saving Time is a good idea, thank New Zealand
scientist George Vernon Hudson and British builder William Willett.
In 1895, Hudson presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society,
proposing a 2-hour shift forward in October and a 2-hour shift back in March.

Above information from Google.

Mike.
 
Mike said:
They tried it in the 60s I believe and caused havoc, children
in Scotland were going to school in the dark and coming
home again in the dark!

It became general during World War 1 to get munitions workers
making more bullets in the Winter I believe.

If you think Daylight Saving Time is a good idea, thank New Zealand
scientist George Vernon Hudson and British builder William Willett.
In 1895, Hudson presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society,
proposing a 2-hour shift forward in October and a 2-hour shift back in March.

Above information from Google.

Mike.
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They did-I do remember they didn't need the floodlights at Saturday afternoon rugby matches here in Wales.I don't remember it being dark going to school either.Perhaps we should have time zones!I believe it was the railways that got the whole country onto the same time.
 
First, there never has been an analysis, which notes any great energy savings, by changing time. There is no big pot of money we are saving. That's pretty much a myth. Depending on how you heat your home, you may even be using way more energy. About the other supposed benefits, I don't know. It's supposed to help farmers in summer, but I could never figure out how plants knew it was DST instead of ST. I use it to remind me to change the batteries in my clocks and fire/ carbon monoxide alarms in the fall. It's supposed to be safer for kids coming home from school, but all I think of are the kids standing in total darkness at 6-7 in the morning. If I were god, I'd sack the whole time changing stuff.
 
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I think that the powers that be think it is easier to
get somebody to work longer hours when it is light
than when it is dark in the evening.

I know that when I worked in the Falkland Islands,
the company kept changing the time in the Summer
till we were getting out of bed at 6AM, but the real
time in the Islands was 3AM, it was bright daylight
though, it lasted about 2 weeks till everybody refused
to comply, we were getting the 6 o'clock news at 10AM,
all very confusing.

Mike.
 
I leave one clock the same time all year round. It's in my kitchen and up near the ceiling. This is one of the most trivial details about my life. So trivial the world is better off forgetting about it.
 
Sunny said:
I wish we would stay on Daylight Savings year round. Everybody likes it better.
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I'm with you on that Sunny, I like the extra daylight towards the end of the day rather than in the am.

The only positive spin I can put on changing the clocks is that it reminds me to replace the batteries in the clocks and smoke detectors, other than that I think it's useless.
 
I hate the early dusk, mostly because my night vision is not good for driving, seems like there's 100s of deer here in good old upstate NY and when I think it's got to be 8:00p.m.and it's only 4:45.
I'm all for leaving it as is.
 

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