OT: Daylight Saving Time Begins This Sunday

[Carnac]

Daylight saving time begins this Sunday March 14. Don't forget to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and battery operated clocks also.

 

[ShmiCO]

Bittersweet. As much as I love the return of n. hemisphere sunshine, I prefer "fall back" -- a free hour to be a lazy bum!

 

[Bama fan]

Daylight saving time begins this Sunday March 14. Don't forget to change the batteries in your smoke alarms and battery operated clocks also.

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I hope this is the last time we fool with this antediluvian practice , and learn to leave well enough alone. I have yet to see an argument in favor of this artifice that convinces me that it is worth the disruption it brings. But thanks for the reminder. We'll be one hour closer to tipoff!

 

[j66kicker]

I hope this is the last time we fool with this antediluvian practice , and learn to leave well enough alone. I have yet to see an argument in favor of this artifice that convinces me that it is worth the disruption it brings. But thanks for the reminder. We'll be one hour closer to tipoff!

Me too! I don't have to set my clocks because I live in Arizona (we have WAY too much sun already - don't need to 'save' any). But it's twice as much trouble to keep up with the rest of you - like being in one time zone part of the year and another time zone the rest of the time - ugh....

 

[hoopsfan22]

Me too! I don't have to set my clocks because I live in Arizona (we have WAY too much sun already - don't need to 'save' any). But it's twice as much trouble to keep up with the rest of you - like being in one time zone part of the year and another time zone the rest of the time - ugh....

You should move. Problem solved.

 

[Waquoit]

First world problems

 

[meyers7]

I hope this is the last time we fool with this antediluvian practice , and learn to leave well enough alone. I have yet to see an argument in favor of this artifice that convinces me that it is worth the disruption it brings. But thanks for the reminder. We'll be one hour closer to tipoff!

I love EDT. I just wish we could use it year round. At least they've expanded it few years back. Might as well make it year round.

 

[MSGRET]

I hope this is the last time we fool with this antediluvian practice , and learn to leave well enough alone. I have yet to see an argument in favor of this artifice that convinces me that it is worth the disruption it brings. But thanks for the reminder. We'll be one hour closer to tipoff!

I believe that this will be the last time that the clocks are changed in the EU. They are going to stay the same year around.

 

[hoopsfan22]

If we leave it on daylight savings time then it's dark until 8:30 in the morning during the winter or if you're in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Buffalo nearly 9 AM.

 

[Bama fan]

If we leave it on daylight savings time then it's dark until 8:30 in the morning during the winter or if you're in Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, or Buffalo nearly 9 AM.

Dark in the morning or dark in late afternoon, pick your poison. But just leave it alone once you pick. And avoid lost productivity getting adjusted twice a year.

 

[bluedevil]

The worst is having to get up at 2am to reset the clocks...try going back to sleep after that....

 

[hoopsfan22]

The worst is having to get up at 2am to reset the clocks...try going back to sleep after that....

Why would you have to do that? My clocks set themselves. I think they pick up some signal in the airwaves or something to know what the correct time is because I never have to do any work to change clocks. When I wake up they are all on the right time somehow.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Dark in the morning or dark in late afternoon, pick your poison. But just leave it alone once you pick. And avoid lost productivity getting adjusted twice a year.

It's a tough call. In northern states, like Connecticut, if you leave it on daylight savings then it stays dark until mid-morning in the winter. On the other hand if you choose standard time, it starts getting light at 3:45 and the sun is up by 4:15 in the morning during the summer which would not be great.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

It's a tough call. In northern states, like Connecticut, if you leave it on daylight savings then it stays dark until mid-morning in the winter. On the other hand if you choose standard time, it starts getting light at 3:45 and the sun is up by 4:15 in the morning during the summer which would not be great.

Arizona is Mountain Standard Time, as j66 points out we don't change. It gets light very, very early in the morning during the summer her in Tucson. Not that I find it matters.

Although I enjoy not changing clocks I never seemed to suffer so much discombobulation as so many seem to claim in the 54 years I lived in NJ. I never thought it was a big deal. In some ways, dealing with the difference in relative time with the folks who do change is harder.

 

[cwaduke]

Grateful that we go back to normal time. I again never adjusted to mole season.

 

[j66kicker]

Arizona is Mountain Standard Time, as j66 points out we don't change. It gets light very, very early in the morning during the summer her in Tucson. Not that I find it matters.

Although I enjoy not changing clocks I never seemed to suffer so much discombobulation as so many seem to claim in the 54 years I lived in NJ. I never thought it was a big deal. In some ways, dealing with the difference in relative time with the folks who do change is harder.

I did a lot of international business. Had to be up early for Europe, and stay up late for Asia. Basically, sleep when you can - mostly on the plane. I got used to India being 9-1/2 hours from JFK, the whole country of China having only one time zone, Europe changing to daylight savings on a different day than the US, etc. But living in AZ and not changing time zones is for some reason the most confusing @#$%&???