Posted on 03/08/2015 5:52:22 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
If you happen to live in Hawaii, Arizona (mostly) Saskatchewan (and bits of other Canadian provinces), or the Midway Atoll of the North Pacific — well, congratulations. You will not be subjected this weekend to the much-maligned, poorly understood ritual obligation of turning your clock ahead one hour, in observance of Daylight Saving Time.
For most of the rest of the North America, as of Sunday you’ll be doing your part, ostensibly, to save the nation energy. In return, your evenings will be a bit brighter, the mornings a bit darker, and if you’re like me, your overall schedule will be a bit disorienting — at least until you adjust.
You’ll then need to move the clocks back again on Nov. 1, of course.
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Mine is now back to normal......
On the plus side, the clock in my car will display the correct time...until November.
I love daylight savings time.
I think the whole debate is a tradition.
It's a slippery slope.
Don't get me wrong, I can deal with the time change, but after Indiana (which is where I live) adopted DST it took a few years for the counties to align themselves properly and it really messed up the farming communities.
It's not needed, the cost savings are negligible, and it only serves to irritate the general public.
While the debate might be tradition, the disruption might be real.
I’m pretty much convinced that my life proceeds on Daylight time whereas my wife’s proceeds on standard time. We live an hour apart
I feel sorry for people who are so weak as to have trouble adjusting by an hour.
What a coincidence. Mine works the same way.
Thankl You! As I sit here peering out into the DARK at 6 am.....formerly known as 5 AM
I just wish our overlords in the cesspool they call Washington would decide to settle on one or the other. Living in Arizona, our time stays the same but, now all of our radio & TV are moved to California time. Special Report at 3:00PM. Rush at 9:00AM.
Sporting events in some cases start and end before noon.
I think we have to do more adjusting to the “time change” than the rest of y’all.
These time changes mess me up. I’m retired now, but when I worked, I couldn’t function properly for days after a time change.
I was taught in commie public schools that the time change was supposed to somehow benefit the farmers, but I think it’s a bunch of hooey.
Farmers Hooey = Yes
Farmers get up before dawn and hit the pit after sunset,they don’t need no stinking clock
I was thinking about this this morning. All winter long, I get up in the dark. And now, with daylight savings time, I can get up in the dark all summer long, as well.
Getting up in the dark throws off the circadian rhythm. Plus, with DST, I now have to get up an hour earlier, meaning that the circadian rhythm is disrupted from that, as well, until my body adjusts.
I much prefer to wake naturally with the sunrise... maybe after I’m retired. Then I won’t care so much about the switch from DST to regular time and back again.
DST is quite possibly the best thing man has ever invented. Those who don’t like it are more than likely the result of incestual relations.
Drunk on Sunday morning? For shame.
Might try a sunrise simulator-type alarm clock. Brings your bedroom lighting gently up and works a lot better than I thought it would.
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