Daylight Saving? And Clocks!

kburra

kburra

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If you have daylight saving in your neck of the woods who adjust the clocks etc in your house, it is such a PAIN!!!, I have to do two clocks in the lounge, one in the kitchen, then the Stove, Microwave, My watch,Two bedside Alarm clocks, and of course the two cars, The landline telephone, and digital radio.
The only things that Auto changed are the Computer,iPhone, and Smart TV!
 

kburra said:
If you have daylight saving in your neck of the woods who adjust the clocks etc in your house, it is such a PAIN!!!, I have to do two clocks in the lounge, one in the kitchen, then the Stove, Microwave, My watch,Two bedside Alarm clocks, and of course the two cars, The landline telephone, and digital radio.
The only things that Auto changed are the Computer,iPhone, and Smart TV!
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Well you donā€™t have to. You could leave all the clocks as is and wait for daylight savings time to change back? Or do you think that would be MORE of a PITA? Lol

Iā€™m just playfully teasing you .
 
Clock Adjuster-in-chief here. Fortunately, there are fewer and fewer clocks every time daylight saving comes around. As they wear out and/or quit working they are not replaced.

Have one analog clock in the garage workshop, "I'm retired, who cares?" on its face. That stays on standard time year around. Like, who cares. And one solar watch hanging on the shift lever of my truck-it's on GMT/Zulu time and never needs changing. Just an occasional reset as it tends to gain time. Those are my two favorite. Cheers, mate.
 

It doesnā€™t take more than 5 minutes to change all the clocks in the house. Most of that time is the walking about. Digital clocks, push the up or down control for the hour. The really old clocks do need to have the physical turning. None really take much time. The one that is slow is the car clock. I can never remember which controls to push. No rush. The car is only 7 years old so Iā€™ll learn it soon.
 
I agree with @Jules that it's pretty much a non-chore. Doesn't tale long except for . . . my great grandparents pendulum mantel clock (ca. 1910). That one is a bit frail and fussy. Rather than trying to reset it, I just stop it the evening before the change and then restart the pendulum at the correct time the next day. ;)
 
one wall clock one stove clock one bedroom digital..computer, cellphone change on their own..I dont wear wrist watches, and no longer have a car...
 
I have timers for my lights, heating, etc. . All together I have to change 17 devices. Three of the clocks are mechanical clocks, so I can only move then forward, and when we switch back, it is a real PITA. Plus nobody has ever come up with any real data that DST does a damn thing.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I have timers for my lights, heating, etc. . All together I have to change 17 devices. Three of the clocks are mechanical clocks, so I can only move then forward, and when we switch back, it is a real PITA. Plus nobody has ever come up with any real data that DST does a damn thing.
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DTS is like having a blanket that is too short, so you cut off one end and sew it to the other end to make it longer.
 
Standard time is 4 months, November to March. Saving time is 8 months, March to November. So, I ask you, what's the flipping point? I say stop the twice a year insanity and having that hour mess with our internal clocks and making us unnecessarily irritable for a week or two while our system acclimates. Just my thoughts on the subject :coffee:. Don...
 
I do all my clocks...who else? I use the same technique as Tommy uses for my old pendulum wall clock although it often takes me a month or so to get around to it. Since I shy away from ladders, the clock high up over the kitchen sink stays on standard time year round. I just ignore all the appliance clocks and do not set them. I do change the clock in my old truck.
 
All but two of my clocks adjust themselves. It's been a few weeks since we went to DST in the USA. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm still an hour behind. šŸ„“ I take forever to adjust to DST. I hate it and wish they'd just leave it at Standard time year round.
 
When I was the manager of a maintenance team in a
tall building in London, from the 6th floor to the roof
was occupied by the NHS, they had a maintenance man
for stuff that was their responsibility, he went to work on
the Sunday and changed all the clocks on all their floors,
there were well over 100.

I came to work on the Monday, not knowing what had been
done, on Sunday, I went into the room behind the reception
desk and changed the time on the Master Clock, this caused
great, weeping and wailing by the NHS office manager, because
all the clocks were at the wrong time, but as it was their doing
and suggested by the one who changed the clocks, he had to
go round and change them all again.

We all had a great laugh at his expense.

Mike.
 
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