Mar 9, 2025 - Daylight Saving Time Started

Time and Date .com ^ | March 8, 2025 | staff

[Morgana]

When local standard time was about to reach Sunday, March 9, 2025, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead.

Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on Mar 9, 2025 than the day before. There was more light in the evening and less light in the morning.

[9YearLurker]

I hate the switching, but most people work something like a 9-5 schedule, so sunlight after that is prized.

[sport]

What do you do with the daylight you save? Start an IREA?

[9YearLurker]

I bask in my little rays of global warming.

[ByteMercenary]

Attributed to a wise old American Indian: only the White man can cut a length of a rope from one end, affix that length to the other end, and then say the rope is longer.

Leave standard time as it is. Daylight savings time was first proposed by Ben Franklin to give farmers more time to tend crops. Considering the reasons that it came about, we no longer need daylight time.

[Jolla]

spend a good deal of time in Central America that does not change the clock, although we sit below the Florida panhandle we are on Mountain time during this change

[oldtech]

The real problem is the changing of the clocks twice a year. Once we are used to what time it is, what difference does it make? There are 24 hours in a day & that’s it. Not much can be done if one area gets more sunlilight in a given time than another area does. Just wish the government would quit messing with it as it can never be perfected to everybody’s satisfaction anyway. No wonder it is so hard to get anything done in this country if they can’t settle on a simple item like this.

[oldtech]

I would be more than happy. This exercise in resetting most clocks twice a year is so pointless. Too bad our Congress can’t figure it out.

[Ezekiel]

Spring forward on this first day of the week:

People like to gripe about DST (where I'm at longitude-wise, DST needs to be the time all year long), but there's always a Biblical angle to everything going on in this world.

"Light" is an especially important concept, so to help folks get through the day, I'll offer these key details from the very beginning of time:

In the United States, DST is 238 days long, which is same sum Rachel [רחל], who is known as Rachel Imenu -- "Rachel our mother" -- aka "the mother of all Israel".

The first place where words and letters add up to 238 is in Genesis 1:3 --

Genesis 1³ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light [ויהי־אור]

There are actually 7 letter strings in that verse that add up to 238. They transition smoothly across the verse, one letter shift at a time, as if breaking forth, like the dawn:

And God said, "Let there be light and [-יהי אור ו]... and there was light [ויהי־אור]":

ויּאמר אלהים *יהי אור ו*יהי־אור

ויּאמר אלהים י*הי אור וי*הי־אור

ויּאמר אלהים יה*י אור ויה*י־אור

ויּאמר אלהים יהי *אור ויהי*־אור

ויּאמר אלהים יהי א*ור ויהי־א*ור

ויּאמר אלהים יהי או*ר ויהי־או*ר

*ויּאמר אלהים יהי אור *ויהי־אור

To further connect the topic to the United States, this information from Day One continues into verse 4:

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good = 1776

Or as verse 4 itself:

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. = 1776

238. It goes on..

The first cubic whole number to expand the volume of physical space beyond one, makes the giant leap of 7 to arrive at 8:

2³ = 8

Who Knows 50?

The progression from 49 to 50 has, as its precedent, the stepping stone from 7 to 8.

Hawaii doesn't do DST. The 50th state of Aloha has 8 main islands, but it's like 7 + 1 because the westernmost outlier is a private island known as "The Forbidden Isle" [האי האסור], which adds up to 288.

On land, the view is from the Garden Isle.

The number champs who know the basic elements of Lurianic Kabbalah will recognize 288 (238 + 50) for how it involves the first light of Creation.

It's the essential concept of the whole shebang.

[rockabyebaby]

DST - not a fan, especially knowing the grandkids now have to stand in the dark at the bus stop 6:30 in the morning, yeah, woohoo for dst, screw the kids.

[dennisw]

So what? The sun looks as bright as it did yesterday at 8AM. We should keep daylight savings time. There was a reason it was instituted. To get people work early. At farms and everywhere..... Except greater Washingtooon DC where you get to shirk from home.

[Enterprise]

Many of us think the same way. Regardless of which way we prefer, just stop the change. Decide on which way to abide by the time change and stick with it. No more changes please!

[CodeToad]

We should spring forward one more hour and leave it there.

[Negan]

I hate the time changes. The time we're on now is what I call fake time. The actual time is what we have during the winter. Leave it there.

And I know the same arguments about more light in the summer, blah, blah, blah.

As usual, gov't sticking its nose into things is has no constitutional authority to do.

[John Milner]

I have a slight preference for full-time DST. But I would be very satisfied to just pick one or the other and leave it.

It didn’t seem like such a big deal when I was a kid. We had maybe 3 clocks in the entire house. One in the kitchen, one on the mantel in the living room and my Father had one in his bedroom.

Now every appliance seems like it has a clock and there must be 12 or so to change now, even the ones in the car.

I do specifically remember one Sunday where we forgot to change the clocks in the Fall. We showed up for church and the early service had just started 15 minutes earlier. So we had time to kill and went to the park where there was a small zoo.

[hoosierham]

Like everything else it is about the money.
And Daylight Saving Time is a lie like everything else pushed by progressives.
No daylight is saved.

24 properly delineated time zones is a reasonable and logical idea. Ideally natural noon would occur precisely at 1200 near the center of a time zone.
But politicians and businessmen worldwide have bastardized time for their benefits .

Did I mention that I despise advancing clocks hours ahead of natural time?

DST delenda est.

[equaviator]

In the fall, set clocks back by only 1/2 hour and call it good.

[ByteMercenary]

If one lives on the “The Forbidden Isle” can they see Russia from their porch?

[Ezekiel]

If one lives on the “The Forbidden Isle” can they see Russia from their porch?

There's no lanai'in to you --

Even from just standing on the beach, no.

They have to pier through a fishing nyet.

[Bon of Babble]

Arizona and Hawaii have it right.

[matthew fuller]

I AGREE! (to forget this procedure for the rest of my days).