Daylight Savings Time Ends this Sunday - November 2nd

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Sonnet 123, By William Shakespeare

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.

Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old,
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.

Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.

This I do vow and this shall ever be; I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.
 
So I woke up up as usual at 1:30 AM. Did what I had to do, now watching Weather Nation and reading SF, while I wait for it to be 1:00 AM in three minutes.

I am thrilled — No. I. Am. NOT🤯🤯🤯🤯

this must be how Bill Maher felt in the movie Groundhog Day.
 
This entire time change business is a load of crap! There, I said it. The number of hours of daylight are the same no matter what the clock says. Either it's dark when you go to work/school or it's dark when you come home. It doesn't matter! I.Hate.This.
 
GoodEnuff said:
This entire time change business is a load of crap! There, I said it. The number of hours of daylight are the same no matter what the clock says. Either it's dark when you go to work/school or it's dark when you come home. It doesn't matter! I.Hate.This.
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I whole heartedly agree. I wish they would stop this nonsense. I haven't heard of anyone doing anything about it though 😕
 
GoodEnuff said:
The number of hours of daylight are the same no matter what the clock says. Either it's dark when you go to work/school or it's dark when you come home. It doesn't matter!
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That's what I was thinking. Also, when I was in Montana, I lived 30 miles east of the Pacific Time Zone, and when I went to bed, the sun was still shining, so the benefit, which has been debated since like forever, doesn't apply to everyone equally. And also(2), the original idea was to benefit merchants to aid in longer hours, which may have made sense before shopping districts were lighted the way they are today. I can live with it either way, just like I live with a lot of less than ideal situations. I'd prefer Standard time all the time, but I recognize everyone doesn't feel that way.
 
I don’t like the time changes back-and-forth back-and-forth, now that I’m retired. It’s a lot less Grevious.

The clocks that change automatically so be it. The clocks that don’t change automatically stay where they’re at.

I just know that I have to try to keep the horses on a decent feeding schedule, regardless of what any of the clocks say. They don’t need to be fed right on the dot but they need to be fed in the realm of what they’re used to.

When I was a kid and dad was still milking, he hated this gosh awful time change. He always kept the barn on standard time because the milk cows needed to be on a strict schedule. It was really rough because he was also working full-time as a machinist 35 miles away. When the time change went forward, it was a terrible adjustment for him; I stayed out of his way until I heard him making a few joke jokes once again😘😘
 
The time change doesn’t bother me, but I totally outsmarted myself. … have a new clock in my apartment that changes automaticallly. I had no idea.

So last night I set it back an hour before going to bed.
Looking at it this morning, and then my iPhone … I was befuddled …lol. …. first thought was that the iPhone didn’t change.

Took me about 15 mintues to figure it all out! … felt like the twilight zone..:ROFLMAO:
 
Hey y'all, this is a seniors forum, PLEASE STOP with the fall backwards reminders. Falling backwards isn't what it is advertised to be. Whoever started this time change nonsense must have fallen backwards and banged their head.

Ben Franklin is said to have started daylight time so folks wouldn't have to burn so much kerosene in the evening. That doesn't add up or he would have added the extra evening hour in the winter.

Isn't Ben the genius that flew a kite out in a thunderstorm? Small kids know that isn't all that bright. We reward his acts of stupidity by making folks suffer a backassward time change for over 100 years. I bet Ben was also behind inventing the alarm clock because folks stayed up to late in the summer and didn't get enough sleep, so they needed a blasting bell ringing near their ear to get up and go to work.
 
Indiana was a state that didn't use to go on Daylight Savings Time. No problem until one year in the 1960's, the feds cracked down and said that all transportation times had to be expressed in "state time" or "federal time".

For instance, if a bus left Indianapolis for South Bend, Indiana, the times posted would be "state time" (leaving Indianapolis at 9 a.m., arriving in South Bend at 1 p.m.) No problem. BUT if the South Bend stop was just a stop with the itinerary having an end point in Chicago, IL, then that was altogether another circus. The bus now had to operate on "Federal Time", which means it left at.....well, you get the point. Same thing with trains and planes.

Two sets of clocks would be on the walls, marked as Federal Time and State Time. When you called to make reservations or get info, you had to ask if the bus/train/plane left on Federal Time or State Time.

It was a mess. It didn't happen the next year, thank goodness.
 
Deya said:
I always thought they had it backwards. The extra hour should be the fall and winter and the standard time for spring and summer. I dreaded the change when I delivered for UPS. Busiest time of year from Thanksgiving to Christmas and it was getting dark by 5 PM. I usually had 2 to 4 hours left on my route.

It really slowed progress for in town deliveries and was sometimes scary for rural when crossing a mountain with no one around for 20 miles. Snow coming down, road slick, truck heater struggling to keep truck cab above freezing, dual tire chains banging, creeping along at 30 MPH, thoughts of a warm dinner at 9 maybe 10 PM fading, and still miles to go.

An extra hour of daylight would have sure helped.
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There is no "extra hour". The Sun doesn't give a shit how us silly humans set our clocks. Actually it's the rotation of the Earth, but you know what I mean. This morning the birds started singing right before sunrise just like they always do. They didn't care what our clocks said either.
 
Daylight savings time reminds me of when I was a kid and my Mom would make me go to bed when it was still daylight.
Thankfully Im retired now and I can get up and go to bed when I feel like it.

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I just looked over and noticed my Alzheimer's clock didnt "fall back". WTH.
I bought the darn thing to keep me on track. #sigh
 
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Trade said:
There is no "extra hour". The Sun doesn't give a shit how us silly humans set our clocks. Actually it's the rotation of the Earth, but you know what I mean. This morning the birds started singing right before sunrise just like they always do. They didn't care what our clocks said either.
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I referred to the extra hour of daylight in the evening. An hour of daylight is lost in the AM so it can be gained in the PM. That is the basis of daylight savings. I never indicated that I thought there was 25 hours in a day on savings time. I don't see how anything is saved. Yes, I am well aware that no time is gained. 24 hours is 24 hours.

I was simply saying that having the clock set forward in summer and moving it backward in the winter was backwards for working people like UPS and Fed Ex. They didn't change our start time, so it put us in an extra hour of darkness in the evening during the Christmas rush. It slowed down production 25% to 50%.
 
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