It's that time again

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debodun

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Most Americans - Standard Time resumes. Don't forget to set your clocks and other time keeping devices back 1 hour tonight.

I wish they'd just choose one time schedule and STAY on that! This having to switch back and forth twice a year is annoying.
 

debodun said:
Most Americans - Standard Time resumes. Don't forget to set your clocks and other time keeping devices back 1 hour tonight.

I wish they'd just choose one time schedule and STAY on that! This having to switch back and forth twice a year is annoying.
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We did it last week so tomorrow we'll again be 5 hours ahead of EST. There was a proposal that we'd go an hour ahead and stay there. Don't know what happened to it.
 
I don't mind the change, I like the winter months when it gets darker early....makes thing interesting not to be the same all year. Now that I'm not punching a clock at work every day, I don't care it time is set an hour earlier or later really.


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debodun said:
Most Americans - Standard Time resumes. Don't forget to set your clocks and other time keeping devices back 1 hour tonight.

I wish they'd just choose one time schedule and STAY on that! This having to switch back and forth twice a year is annoying.
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Ameriscot said:
We did it last week so tomorrow we'll again be 5 hours ahead of EST. There was a proposal that we'd go an hour ahead and stay there. Don't know what happened to it.
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Lets stay daylight savings comment comes up twice a year but nothing ever done. smiley-confused013.gif
 
Pappy said:
Arizonas got it right. What the heck does it really accomplish?
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It keeps flight schedules on time and consistent for one thing.

I hate falling back. It's pitch black and so cold when I wake in the mornings at this time of year. It's hard to jumpstart myself.
 
Never heard the one about flight schedules because our schedules @ United always abided by whatever the local time was and was footnoted on the days when we changed time formats, but I always thought the reason we had DST was to help reduce the need for artificial lighting, meaning we would not need to turn our lights on sooner, thus saving money. Also, more daylight around rush hour may reduce accidents on the road.
 
SeaBreeze said:
I don't mind the change, I like the winter months when it gets darker early....makes thing interesting not to be the same all year. Now that I'm not punching a clock at work every day, I don't care it time is set an hour earlier or later really.
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One of the main reasons we like to leave Scotland in the winter is the short days, not just the cold rain and strong winds. On Dec 21st this year sunrise will be 08:46, sunset 15:44 (3:44 pm). Length of day: 6 hours and 58 mins.

I like summer though as on June 21st sunrise will be 04:31, sunset 22:06 (10:06 pm). But it never gets completely dark so 11pm is still quite light.
 
I don't mind the time changing, and like Seabreeze, I enjoy the change of seasons. But climbing around changing the clocks is a big nuisance!
 
Arizona does not observe DST (except for Navajo Nation, which does observe DST). Hawaii also does not follow DST.

It’s my understanding that the main reason is so that children won’t have to walk to bus stops in the dark and stand and wait for their school bus.

Most of my clocks change automatically. If there is a power outage - even for a few seconds - (and it happens a few times a year) I have to change the clocks so I don't see it as such a big deal.
 
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debodun said:
Most Americans - Standard Time resumes. Don't forget to set your clocks and other time keeping devices back 1 hour tonight.

I wish they'd just choose one time schedule and STAY on that! This having to switch back and forth twice a year is annoying.
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Me, too! It always takes me a few days to adjust and I just don't see any point in it.
 
It doesn't bother me one way or the other. It's only 2 times a year. I only have 4 clocks.

Wasn't this all because of farmers getting out to the fields in daylight hours or something like that?

As for Arizona, maybe not much farming there?
 
Especially Along the Colorado River!

Most of the folks working in Laughlin, on the Nevada side, live on this side, in Arizona. During Daylight Time, both sides of the river have the same time, because Nevada is Pacific Time, Arizona is Mountain Time, and AZ does NOT observe DST! Now, starting today, Nevada goes back an hour, we don't, and all those folks crossing that river have to try to remember, figger out, that it's an hour LATER now, on the Arizona side!

Seems simple enough, but believe you me, the hassles amount sometimes to near-pandemonium. So bad that referendums have been introduced to CHANGE Southern Clark County Nevada, to have it NOT observe DST!

Good luck with that! imp
 
One of my hobbies was clocks and I collected over thirty and loved all of the chiming of those that could. Now that I am older I don't want to deal with the resetting of them every six months so many are inert, but still hang on the walls...
 
When I was a teenager, Indiana didn't switch one year. The big problem was that any transportation that started and ended entirely within the state operated on "state time". Any flights, trains, buses that crossed state borders had to operate on "federal time". OK, that was bad enough. But if a bus, say, left Indianapolis with a stop in South Bend, Indiana and then ended up in Chicago, Illinois, it left Indianapolis at noon (state time) and arrived in South Bend at 4 p.m. (state time), it then left South Bend at 3:00 p.m. (Federal time) for Chicago. People weren't sure whether their departure time was state or federal and showed up early or late to take off or pick someone up. It was a mess of unbelievable proportions. The next year, they switched along with everyone else.
 

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