Let's Do The Time Change Again.

brianmanahan · Nov 3, 2024

thanks oblama2009

Indus · Nov 3, 2024

Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Woke up in the middle of the night and didn't knwo what time it was. Almost all of my clocks change automatically and I wasn't sure if it was passed the magic 2 or not. Wasn't until I got up and went into another room with a dumb clock that I was sure.

I don't have any smart clocks.. just smart phones.

And I don't want a smartwatch.. I'm fine with an automatic mechanical watch.

BoomerD · Nov 3, 2024

Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Woke up in the middle of the night and didn't knwo what time it was. Almost all of my clocks change automatically and I wasn't sure if it was passed the magic 2 or not. Wasn't until I got up and went into another room with a dumb clock that I was sure.

Indus said:
I don't have any smart clocks.. just smart phones.

And I don't want a smartwatch.. I'm fine with an automatic mechanical watch.

I have a Citizen chronometer watch. It’s a fckn PITA. Won’t recognize DSL changes…won’t automatically update to the national time server…and is difficult to set manually.

Indus · Nov 3, 2024

BoomerD said:
I have a Citizen chronometer watch. It’s a fckn PITA. Won’t recognize DSL changes…won’t automatically update to the national time server…and is difficult to set manually.

Never had a citizen but a Seiko suits me just fine.

No it won't let me know someone emailed or texted me
No it won't tell me how many steps I've walked
No it won't make me tea in the morning
No it won't work as a credit card
It just tells me the time

Works for me!

Red Squirrel · Nov 3, 2024

I was on night shift so got an hour of OT for working 13 hours instead of 12 so can't complain. The fall back doesn't bother me as much as the spring forward. Either way I would all be for abolishing this. Just pick one, and stick with it. I think any efforts to abolish it pretty much died though. They said they were waiting to see if NY and Quebec does it, they didn't, so then it just stalled. I say screw em, just do it anyway. The impact would be very minimal and not even that big a deal.

brianmanahan · Nov 3, 2024

analog watches are pretty but i preferred my old 90s casio

but then my carpal tunnel made watches too painful, so i'm smartphone only nowadays

WilliamM2 · Nov 3, 2024

I always change my manual clocks some time Saturday afternoon. I don't need an extra hour of sleep, or to lose an hour of sleep. Just change it in the afternoon, and keep my regular schedule.

I never understood why it changes at 2:00a.m. while sleeping. I'm sure there is some reason?

lxskllr · Nov 4, 2024

WilliamM2 said:
I never understood why it changes at 2:00a.m. while sleeping. I'm sure there is some reason?

My guess is the least disruption to active schedules as possible. There's still a bunch of people working with those times, but they're a minority.

I change my clocks when I get to them, or the wrong time bothers me enough. Everything I really use is network connected, and they change themselves.

nOOky · Nov 4, 2024

I don't understand why we still do this. The disruption has been shown to have bad effects and some deaths can actually be blamed on people not adjusting to the change right away. For my part I lose daylight at the end of the work day, the time when I would actually be outside trying to do something in daylight. I could give a rip how dark it is when I drive to work. I'm pretty sure modern farmers perform their daily chores based on when they need doing, not what time the clock says it is.

Our little town still has an alarm that goes off at noon, incase you are out in the fields gathering wheat or picking apples and you lose track and need to head in for lunch.

Indus · Nov 4, 2024

WilliamM2 said:
I always change my manual clocks some time Saturday afternoon. I don't need an extra hour of sleep, or to lose an hour of sleep. Just change it in the afternoon, and keep my regular schedule.

I never understood why it changes at 2:00a.m. while sleeping. I'm sure there is some reason?

Because changing it to make sense would make too much sense which is not what we want Americans to be.

I mean why do we drive on parkways but park in driveways?

dullard · Nov 4, 2024

nOOky said:
I don't understand why we still do this. The disruption has been shown to have bad effects and some deaths can actually be blamed on people not adjusting to the change right away. For my part I lose daylight at the end of the work day, the time when I would actually be outside trying to do something in daylight. I could give a rip how dark it is when I drive to work.

We just went back to standard time, meaning the way it would be always if we ended daylight saving time. If we stopped doing this, you would always have less time in the evening and always get less done outside.

Personally, I argue for the opposite. Keep daylight saving time year round.

brianmanahan · Nov 4, 2024

the world just needs to let me wake up whenever i want

jpiniero · Nov 4, 2024

Shortening the length of Standard Time was the best they could do since there are some weirdos who like it.

sdifox · Nov 4, 2024

Talk about tyranny of the minority.

Indus · Nov 4, 2024

brianmanahan said:
the world just needs to let me wake up whenever i want

Yeah I don't wanna wake up to whatever happened to Ozzy after this:

quikah · Nov 4, 2024

Went to Japan over the summer. They stay on standard time year-round. The sun rose at 4:30AM and set at 7:00PM. I liked being able to enjoy the warm summer nights in the dark without having to stay up too late. Completely indifferent to the early morning sunrises.

Charmonium · Nov 5, 2024

For someone who doesn't get up much before 2pm, 5pm sunsets are kinda a drag - especially up here in the bat cave.

Fortunately, there's only 6 weeks of this bullsht before the solstice.

The time between spring equinox and summer solstice has got to be the shortest 3 months of the year

Lost_in_the_HTTP · Nov 5, 2024

^^^ And I'm the opposite. I'm almost never outside between 5PM and 5AM, any time of the year. By 5:30 in the summer, I'm often out trying to get at least some work done on projects before the heat builds.

Let's Do The Time Change Again.

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