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Carnac

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A friendly reminder to turn those clocks BACK this Sunday November 3. :)

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eebmg

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Does anyone still use manual time pieces? :eek:
 

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Does anyone still use manual time pieces? :eek:
Not all of my electronics would reset automatically - of course they don't have to since I live in AZ. Also, I have some ornamental wall clocks that - ack, gasp - are round and have arms.

That said, what I really want to do is thank the OP - while my time doesn't change, my "time difference" from family and friends does. And since I don't have to change clocks, it is easy to forget the change.
 

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So sad. I hate when we go off DST. :(
 

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I wish we could have an extra hour every Sunday.

Or come to think of it, why not an extra hour every night. I could really use more sleep :oops:
 

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So I seem to be in the minority since I wish I can get 3 hours sleep. Daylight savings has no affect on insomniacs. :(
 

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I need to pick a nit, as a worker at the nation's timekeeper, it's daylight SAVING time.
 

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I need to pick a nit, as a worker at the nation's timekeeper, it's daylight SAVING time.
And on a larger picture, I don't really think "saving" was the best choice to begin with. I don't see the time change as "saving" daylight, maybe...
daylight optimization time?
daylight realignment time?
 

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I'm in favor of ending the practice. Keep standard time all year.
I'm in favor of ending the swapping back and forth, but I'd rather keep DST all year. (or just go to Atlantic time)
 
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I don't understand why it matters whether it's dark at 4 or 5 pm. It's dark early relative to summer either way. It's not like the daylight lengthens or shortens when you change the clocks.
 
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In about six weeks the sun starts going down later for those that dislike the early sunsets.
 

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Yep, I have a few. My favorites would be my grandfather clock, and a seven day Camel back a mantle clock. A couple of watches as well.
 
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A friendly reminder to turn those clocks BACK this Sunday November 3. :)

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Thanks old oricle --this is an excellent reminder. But for me Saturday is the turn back time--Or I forget --that works sometimes--in March 10th I don't need to SPRING forward.
 
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I don't understand why it matters whether it's dark at 4 or 5 pm. It's dark early relative to summer either way. It's not like the daylight lengthens or shortens when you change the clocks.
It is really important---when your train goes through Chicago or Okla. City or San Francisco you'll be on their time plus or minus 3 hours of course.
On my wrist digital---around the house 4 or 6 analogue wind up, or chain fall historic clocks--I come from central Ct---Seth Thomas (Thomaston) , Waterbury, Bulova,(Waterbury) Sessions, Ingrams (Bristol) Eli Terry (Terryville) and 80 more clock makers of the 18th, 19th and 20th century and of course Eagle Lock College where Terryville kids went when they gradated from HS. Dobsya pon (phonetically) (Eagle Lock was a manufacturer of locks--no college the towns people called it that because THS kids didn't get to go to college,, normally but most went to work for Eagle lock)
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In about six weeks the sun starts going down later for those that dislike the early sunsets.

Yeah, but it's about ten weeks before it starts getting light earlier. :mad:

A couple of decades ago I was in Ireland around the summer solstice. The sun did set around 10 or 11, but it never got fully dark, which I found eerie. It gave me more of an appreciation for their celebration of the winter solstice, since they get so little light in the winter.
 

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worked thru it... its a quick shock then it flies by
 

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