The time change; good, bad, or meh?

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Fyrefox

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The clocks get kicked ahead in the United States today, bringing an added hour of daylight at the end of the day. This is welcome, but remembering to change all of the clocks and watches is not! Digital timepieces can be a bear to change, pushing several buttons in the proper sequence. Analogue clocks and watches are less troublesome. I find it easier to turn digital watches ahead in the spring than backwards in the fall. Resetting digital time in one’s vehicle can be the worst of all, depending on your ride.

How about you? Do you like or dislike the time change, and how hard do you find it to adjust to? 🕰️ 🤔
 

Fyrefox said:
How about you? Do you like or dislike the time change, and how hard do you find it to adjust to? 🕰️ 🤔
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I dislike DST with a passion... I'd be a happy girl to hear we're going to go back to standard
time year-round. Standard... like it used to be before 1918. The Great War is long over and
they should have returned time to the way it was previously throughout time without messing
with it. 🤷‍♀️
 
I don't like the time change... except in winter because I like dark evenings.. so when we change so it gets dark at 4pm I'm happy..

Here the clocks don't change until the 31st of March..Easter Sunday...

So..kate...you've been told the time change is to do with the war ?..ahaha.. were you blitzed ?..lol..:unsure:.. and we OTOH are told it's to help the farmers in Northern Scotland, and also so their children also don't have to go to school in the dark...

Well we went to school in the dark.. and never came to any harm and that was in a city... I'm sure the children of Northern Scotland are well able to get home on the school bus.. in the dark...

I wonder why we're never getting the whole truth

Incidentally..my clocks are all radio controlled so thankfully I don't have to go round changing them
 

hollydolly said:
So..kate...you've been told the time change is to do with the war ?..ahaha.. were you blitzed ?..lol..:unsure:.. and we OTOH are told it's to help the farmers in Northern Scotland, and also so their children also don't have to go to school in the dark...
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Been told? No, history wrote it:

"When did the US start using daylight savings time?
1918

DST was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources."
 
I keep seeing attempts at legislation to get rid of DST. I get excited. It doesn't happen.

Every year at this time, Sunday I'm just pretending it's not happening. Monday I start to get thrown off. By Wednesday, I feel like I traveled across time zones and have a bad case of jet lag.

Growing up, I lived in a place with no DST. This makes no sense to me.
 
It’s Gone
I woke up early, but it was later than I knew…
Learned about a missing hour, what should I do?
How do you lose an hour, did my clock spring forward by its self?
That doesn’t make any sense it was sitting on the shelf.
I began looking to and fro, come out you cannot hide,
Still I could not find it anywhere, no matter how I tried.
Could there be a half second hiding between the tick and tock?
I will have to ask the repairman whose works on my clock….
I looked in the basement, and out behind the shed,
But I’m afraid my hour is gone, that is my greatest dread.
Things I could have accomplished, the things I could have done…
Better yet with that hour, think of all the fun.
I will keep on looking, but I fear it doesn’t want to be found
For it left in the darkness; when no one was around…
I will be more careful this summer, of my minutes keep better track…
Then maybe by this fall….I will discover my hour back….
Ronald J. Curell
March 2014
 
CallMeKate said:
Been told? No, history wrote it:

"When did the US start using daylight savings time?
1918

DST was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources."
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here it was implemented 3 years before...in 1915....so you can Blame the British for it..

The idea of adjusting the time throughout the year has been around for centuries. During the height of the Roman Empire, an hour could last 44 minutes in winter and 75 in summer.

However, British builder William Willett from Chislehurst lobbied for nationwide adoption of daylight savings time in his 1907 pamphlet The Waste of Daylight. While riding his horse one morning, it is said Willett had a epiphany that "the sun shines upon the land for several hours each day while we are asleep" but there "remains only a brief spell of declining daylight in which to spend the short period of leisure at our disposal."


In other words, Willett's proposal for daylight savings time had one main motivator - for people to enjoy more sunlight. This change was also important for farm workers, for example, who use the extra hour of sunlight to work into the evening during harvest seasons.
Initially, Willett wanted clocks to go forward twenty minutes at 2am on four consecutive Sundays in April, and then to be reversed on four Sundays in September. This was later adjusted to a much simpler idea: a one-hour advancement of clock time in Spring and a one-hour reversal in Autumn.

Willett lobbied for the adoption of DST until his death from influenza in 1915 - just a year before it was adopted as a nationwide policy in the UK in an effort to reduce energy consumption and increase war production during WW1. It was for these same reasons it was adopted in the US in 1918. While this was an emergency law in the UK, it became permanent in 1925 with the passing of the Summer Time Act.
 
What a nuisance having to reset time keeping devices twice a year! Why don't they just pick a time schedule and stay on it? It used to be 6 months on one and 6 on the other, but over the years, weeks kept getting added to DST, so now we're on Standard time only about 4 months and DST 8 months.
 
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Mostly I like it because I sleep better when it’s dark .. especially in the morning. First light is like a clarion call for me, one I’d rather not have to answer sometimes.

Today I took the dog out at a quarter past six and it was still good and dark. Took a couple snaps of the light in the sky.

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Lights in the park make it a little less dark.

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