Daylight Savings Time
Oct 29, 2019 09:23:30 #
Oct 29, 2019 10:08:32 #
Oct 30, 2019 07:25:32 #
I hate DST. Messing with the clocks twice a year. (I have a lot of mechanical ones that don't automatically reset.) Hated having to get up earlier for more than half the year. Now retired, so that is less of a problem, though.
Oct 30, 2019 07:37:50 #
Right! I always set my clock to wake me up so I can get the time change right. : )
Oct 30, 2019 07:39:47 #
David in Dallas wrote:
I hate DST. Messing with the clocks twice a year. (I have a lot of mechanical ones that don't automatically reset.) Hated having to get up earlier for more than half the year. Now retired, so that is less of a problem, though.
I solved part of that problem with three atomic clocks. They're large wall clocks that always have the right time. It can take a couple of days for them to adjust to DST, but I never touch them - just replace the batteries.
https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=atomic+wall+clocks&ref=nb_sb_noss_1
Oct 30, 2019 08:29:44 #
Well for me an important clock is on my coffeemaker. Can’t forget to change that one. 
Oct 30, 2019 08:39:14 #
Oct 30, 2019 08:44:11 #
Oct 30, 2019 09:15:29 #
You can't turn time back if you live in Hawaii or Arizona (unless you're a Navaho).
Oct 30, 2019 09:25:44 #
EdJ0307 wrote:
You can't turn time back if you live in Hawaii or Arizona (unless you're a Navaho).
You can if you are a Hopi and live on the Navajo reservation
Oct 30, 2019 11:37:17 #
jaymatt wrote:
DST is one of the most ill thought-out creations of all time.
And it's even worse since the Feds decided to push the changeover date back. We used to do the fall setback to Eastern Standard Time in September but President Bush's answer to the energy crisis, was to stay on daylight savings another month and a half...which did absolutely nothing to reduce our energy usage.
When the EST to DST process was describe to a Native American, he commented, "You white people. Only you would believe that by cutting a foot off the top of a blanket...and sewing in on to the bottom...you get a longer blanket." I think that pretty well sums it up.
Oct 30, 2019 12:43:01 #
fourlocks wrote:
And it's even worse since the Feds decided to push... (show quote)
I thought it was done when we had an agrarian society.
Oct 30, 2019 13:03:30 #
I truly dislike turning the clocks back. Winter is dreary enough and most often cold and grey so sun setting early and dark again in the morning adds to often feeling depressed. Before retirement I would drive to work in the dark and then drive home at the end of my day in the dark. Working in an office space with no windows, the only time that I would see daylight during the week is when I would leave for lunch.
Now, if scientists could only develop a way to stop the earth from tilting on its axis! Until then I imagine that I will need to spend my summer months at the north pole and winter months at the south pole and have sunshine year round...although the parka and snowshoes may pose other problems!
Now, if scientists could only develop a way to stop the earth from tilting on its axis! Until then I imagine that I will need to spend my summer months at the north pole and winter months at the south pole and have sunshine year round...although the parka and snowshoes may pose other problems!
Oct 30, 2019 13:19:47 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I truly dislike turning the clocks back. Winter i... (show quote)
Daylight Savings time!
Get over it. In the winter days are shorter and in the summer they are longer, actually they are still 24 hours long , but the hours of light changes.
Try living on the equator
My favorite motto is "Stop Continental Drift", but changing the tilt of the earth would be another challenge
Oct 30, 2019 13:47:23 #
My annoyance is with the Time Zones: they are too much politically rather than geographically assigned, especially in the U.S. Thus timed hours of sunlight vary significantly from one state to the next, with even one set of Pacific islands being in the wrong day! Some zones are expanded ridiculously, others too narrow.
If time zones followed the 15 degree per hour rotation of the world, sunrise and sunset would occur at approximately the same time for everyone on Earth.
If time zones followed the 15 degree per hour rotation of the world, sunrise and sunset would occur at approximately the same time for everyone on Earth.
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