Posted on 03/12/2017 5:44:21 AM PDT by MagillaX
Steel yourself: It's nearly time to turn our clocks forward an hour for the start of daylight-saving time (DST).
This arcane and terrible ritual officially starts on March 13, 2016.
At 1:59 a.m. on Sunday morning, our clocks will wind forward an hour to 3:00 a.m. instead of 2:00 a.m.
That gives us one less hour of sleep and means the sun will rise an hour later than we're used to.
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I’m with the all-year DST crowd. The adjustment of clocks twice a year is disruptive and confusing. Pick a time system we all agree with and stick to it and devote our mental energy to something useful.
TC
The sunrise and sunset doesn’t give one rip about DST or not. How you schedule and manipulate your day and activities can be by clock, or it can be circadian. The options are to ‘adjust’ supper with the ebb and flow with DST, or leave it to natural rhythm.
The keeping of time is a man-made construct, so we can manipulate it any way we choose. The birds and roosters and chickens aren't going to care what we say one way or another. ;p
What is strange at least for me is the clock on my computer changed by TWO hours, not just one. I hope that was a problem only for me.
True.....I don’t give a hoot one way or the other. I am now retired after 50 years of working and I am on my own natural clock. I wake up every morning sometime between 3 and 4 AM depending on the time of year and DST or not. I don’t wear a watch nor have an alarm clock any more.
Changing the clocks is dumb. Keep dst all year.
How about we split the difference? We’ll be a half hour off from the rest of the world, but off ‘em. Just set your clocks ahead a half hour and leave it there year round.
Why must we read this every March/November?
Hate it. I get to spend NO time with my horse. No time to do anything around the house.
I've read through the thread and no comments on why in sam hell do we do this anyhow?
Because Day Light Savings Time is annoying. When my kids were little it was a major inconvenience.
While your thought might be correct it is irrelevant in American society that has a “Work Day”
The work day and associated school day are fixed hours about which other life revolves.
sorry I’m late. I’d have been here sooner but....
DST is idiotic. End it.
The clock is laid out according to solar positioning. Leave it be.
If you want to get up earlier, do so; don’t force your shifted schedule on others.
completely disagree- when I drive my daughter to her bus stop at 7:20 in the morning starting late October its pitch black out....maybe shorten the time between fall back and spring ahead even more but you need to do something to compensate for the lack of light outside when kids are taking the bus in the early mornings...
it is horrid and should be abolished. I don’t farm to candlelight
Ben Franklin’s practical joke has run its course.
We get it, Ben. Very funny.
Double check your time zone setting.
I've been in Latin American countries in the summer where it was dark by 7:30 pm but bright sunshine at 5 am, figured it was no wonder their economies were broken if they couldn't figure this out.
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