daylight Savings Time

How much snow will fall before this? :mad::confused:
 

ronaldj said:
that means the clock in my work shop and the one in the back room will not be an hour off.....
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To me changing all the clocks and watches is a big nuisance, but it has to be done,
why I don't know.
We change them all except our wall chime clock, it stays the same and will be correct after Sunday
until we have to fall back an hour in the autumn.
Moving the small hand twice a year made the hands loose and we had to have it repaired for a cost of
one hundred and fifteen dollars.
The time on it is wrong part of the year but we have other clocks so it will stay that way. :)
 
Most of our clocks are digital, we change them and then again have to set them after a power outage...
 
I like BST. It means in the summer it is light out until nearly 11pm. Of course, if I had kids I was trying to get to go to sleep I might not like it so much.
 
I find that switching back and forth is downright silly. I'd much prefer to select either daylight savings time or standard time, and stop all the back and forth nonsense. There was a period in history when it made sense, but much of it is no longer relevant.
 
DoItMyself said:
I find that switching back and forth is downright silly. I'd much prefer to select either daylight savings time or standard time, and stop all the back and forth nonsense. There was a period in history when it made sense, but much of it is no longer relevant.
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Ditto..Let keep daylight savings time!!
 
There is occasionally talk of the UK going onto European time which is an hour ahead of us, and thus we'd essentially be on daylight savings all year. Fine with me.
 
We'd prefer to stay on DST all year too, it seems to cause some adjustment in sleep. People often say they feel disoriented after the time change.
 
I'll pass on the heat too -- even it its a dry heat. Although hot weather takes less clothes, there's a lot of laundry from all that sweating. LOL:)
 
I'll pass on the Arizona heat, dry or wet thank you. :) It seems to me that daylight savings is early this year? We have 3 hand clocks in the house, and the rest are digital, so we'll be doing some resetting Sunday, and during any interruptions in power.
 
Ameriscot said:
Haha! We'll be the ones laughing when it hits 110F there!
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Heat is one of the reasons Arizona does not change. In the hot season, outdoor workers can go to work early, 4 or 5 and get off prior to the hottest times of the day.

The US was down to only 2 or 3 states still using daylight time when our not so smart US Congress, to escape this divergence, decided all should use Daylight time. So now we have places like Arizona that stay on regular time. I see no logical reason for using daylight time anyway. When I was a kid we often looked forward to dark times for ideas like fire works, sleeping when it got cooler, drive in theaters, whatever. It also depends on where you live in the timezone. If you live in the western part of a time zone and go on Daylight savings, it can be real late before darkness, if on the eastern time zone it may not be so late. And the further north you are the less difference it will make as the time zones will be closer together.
 
Ameriscot said:
I like BST. It means in the summer it is light out until nearly 11pm. Of course, if I had kids I was trying to get to go to sleep I might not like it so much.
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I found with my children they didn't take long to get adjusted, perhaps just a couple of days.:)
 
Bee said:
I found with my children they didn't take long to get adjusted, perhaps just a couple of days.:)
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Parents complain that it's light out for too long and the kids don't want to go to bed or to sleep. You really need blackout curtains.
 
We managed ok Ameriscot with no complaints and I never changed the curtains.:)
 

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