Daylight Saving Time

Just changed the couple of clocks I need to manually change. I have an atomic clock and it had already reset itself.
 

Thank goodness my smart phone showed the "correct" time when I woke up, since I had forgotten about the change, All clocks now reset. I did love it when I lived in Hawaii and Arizona and did not have to deal with this nonsense
 
Lee said:
I can't say I hate many things but I absolutely despise, hate, grrrrr, this switch. Any pet owner knows that the pet has an internal clock that disagrees with time switches. Animals are smarter than the people that dreamed this time thing up!
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Oh, yes!
 
The time has long since past when we should have settled on one or the other. I'm in favor of leaving it in DST mode but don't really care - it's the switch that's aggravating as hell! This should be one issue Congress could come to agreement on!
 
I woke up this morning after Ron had already gotten up. He doesn't turn on the light or raise the blind if he gets up before me so that the light doesn't wake me up. So my internal clock had me sleeping till my "usual" time....except that it wasn't my usual time any more!

It always takes me 2 - 3 weeks to adjust that internal rhythm so that I wake naturally between 6 - 6.30.
 
Lee said:
I can't say I hate many things but I absolutely despise, hate, grrrrr, this switch. Any pet owner knows that the pet has an internal clock that disagrees with time switches. Animals are smarter than the people that dreamed this time thing up!
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Yes, I continue to be on 'pet time' .. not much choice really
 
Tommy said:
I seem to be in the minority but I don't really mind the time changes. Compared to other things that have to be dealt with during a typical year, I don't find resetting the clocks to be particularly difficult or stressful. It's just another event that marks the passage of the year.

In terms of "Don't sweat the small stuff", semiannual time changes definitely qualify as "small stuff".
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I couldn't have said it any better Tommy. Even more so since being retired. Makes little difference in my day and there really is no adjustment for me to make - - -except for feeding the dogs. They don't seem to enjoy the adjustment so I have to "hedge' a little on feeding time.:D
 
Daylight saving started yesterday. I switched my clocks, and I save so much electricity that I won't have to buy any until 2024. I went out and cut the line to the grid- won't need it for a while. Tomorrow, if I make believe it's ten o'clock instead of nine, I won't have to buy one electron of electricity for ten years, Yup, the savings just keep adding up.
 
Minor nuisance, but it used to be more than that. I had a couple of wall clocks pretty high up on the wall. It was becoming more and more hair-raising every time I had to climb up there to change the time (or replace batteries). I finally moved both of them down to a level that I can reach while standing on the floor. Should have done it years ago.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Daylight saving started yesterday. I switched my clocks, and I save so much electricity that I won't have to buy any until 2024. I went out and cut the line to the grid- won't need it for a while. Tomorrow, if I make believe it's ten o'clock instead of nine, I won't have to buy one electron of electricity for ten years, Yup, the savings just keep adding up.
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One hour saving a day at least. Over the year how much? It's a minor event to change a clock.
 
Camper6 said:
One hour saving a day at least. Over the year how much? It's a minor event to change a clock.
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Because it's pointless and annoying. We have at least a dozen clocks in this house, some require a ladder to get to. Plus it does take a while for my body's clock to "reset;" I feel tired and out of sorts for several days after a time change. List ONE good reason to keep changing the time, please.
 
The sunrise and sunset under DST changes so that the sunset in the evening is one hour later than on standard time. That's the extra hour of daylight you can enjoy at the end of the day. Your wristwatch is all you need to change. You can leave the clocks on standard time and mentally challenge yourself to remember. I'm assuming you are retired. I don't change all the clocks. Only one. Let's say have some fun moving into different time zones in the house. Our pets don't seem to mind the time change at all.
 
I remember in the 1990s when I worked in building
maintenance, the top 20 floors of this building had
the Health Service, (NHS), as tenants, all there clocks
were wrong after I had gone to the master clock and
changed the time as per my duties required, my phone
started ringing non-stop about the clock being wrong
in every office.

I went and spoke to the NHS manager who informed
me that he had sent his handyman round the offices
early in the morning to physically change the time so
that they would be correct when the workers arrived!

He had to get his man to go and put them all to the
right time as he didn't want to pay to me and the rest
of the team to do it quicker.

Mike.
 

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