Posted on 11/06/2021 7:09:44 AM PDT by knarf
Have you tried unplugging it for a few minutes and plugging it back in?
I’m retired now. I don’t care what the clock says.
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Yep, pretty nice when one can just let the body clock
give the commands.
I hope to see the day when this twice-a-year nonsense is ended. It accomplishes nothing. Set clocks to DST and leave them there.
Don't care
Arizona doesn’t have DST. We watch the rest of the nation switch back and forth. The biggest impact DST has for us is early morning calls, we forget and call the East coast an hour too soon. Comical on this end of the phone at least.
Arizona doesn’t have DST. We watch the rest of the nation switch back and forth. The biggest impact DST has for us is early morning calls, we forget and call the East coast an hour too soon. Comical on this end of the phone at least.
Nice!
Aww geez, not this $#!t again!
Excellent idea!
Saw a meme….
‘I’m turning my clocks back to 1945 when this country had some balls.’
Good humor! Hit the reset button!
Good humor! Hit the reset button!
I have no problems setting the clocks, except for one clock, an “Atomic” clock. I fight it every year as it always wants to revert to it’s old time.
My team plays at 2:30. It makes a difference
Tomorrow my bathroom clock will be ‘right’ again and I won’t have to do math when I’m dressing to go away.
That’s all I need.
:)
Excuse me. I mistook you for someone who gives a &#^$.
I’m retired now. I don’t care what the clock says.
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Yep, pretty nice when one can just let the body clock
give the commands.
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That being the case, why not just get rid of the clock completely?
There was a very interesting ‘time study’ done years ago during some lengthy exploration of some deep tunnels in the Canadian Arctic. I think it was detailed in Canadian Geographic magazine about 50 years ago. I don’t recall what the purpose was of the exploration but it was decided as an ‘side-experiment’ to take everyone’s timepieces away but just have the folks use a “clock-in clock-out” system as to when they went to sleep and woke up in order to develop trends data. I think there were about 4 who were involved with this and it went for about 6 weeks. Obviously in the tunnels with no daily cues of sun rising and setting, there was nothing to relate to as far as sleep patterns.
What they found was quite interesting... if we think of a typical day as being 16 hours of waking hours and 8 hours of sleep, what happened to these folks is that both of these became longer and longer...and they kept going longer until they reached about 30 days at which point it levelled off but still in the proportion of 2/3 awake and 1/3 asleep. At that point, they were up for 24 hours but then going to sleep for 12.
I guess I mostly keep the clock for sentimental reasons. I’ve got an old alarm clock that I bought when I started the job I worked at for 33 years. I thought about putting it on the retiree souvenir shelf at work on my last day but didn’t; left my hard hat though.
My internal clock works great. I go to bed when I’m tired, sleep about 7 to 7-1/2 hours and get up when the sun does.
Regards,
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