Time change this Sunday

[Carnac]

Ok yarders, it's that time again. Turn those watches, clocks and anything else you have that keeps time AHEAD 1 hour before retiring for the evening Saturday night.

 

[Centerstream]

Glad I came to the BY today, I would never have known this.
Oh wait, I am in Phoenix AZ, so...

 

[MSGRET]

We need to do like the EU is going to do in 2021, keep the clocks the same year round.

 

[Centerstream]

Oh, and don't forget to change the batteries in your smoke/CO2 detectors

 

[CL82]

Ok yarders, it's that time again. Turn those watches, clocks and anything else you have that keeps time AHEAD 1 hour before retiring for the evening Saturday night.

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Does anyone wait for 2AM to move their clocks forward.

 

[Carnac]

Does anyone wait for 2AM to move their clocks forward.

Yes, you bet. People who work graveyard shifts. Businesses that are open 24 hours a day.

 

[triaddukefan]

It would be this weekend... with the ACC Final at noon....

 

[BroadwayVa]

We need to do like the EU is going to do in 2021, keep the clocks the same year round.

If the USA does that --it should have stayed a colony---the cows won't know when to be milked. The trains will not run on schedule, plane may fall out of the sky. I won't know when it's dinner time!

 

[Pinhead]

We need to do like the EU is going to do in 2021, keep the clocks the same year round.

NO! While I support many EU functions, including what I recall was a realistic opportunity for us to go metric some years ago, for me, warm summer evening outdoor recreational time is a precious and fleeting commodity! I support DST!

 

[nwhoopfan]

I won't know when it's dinner time!

If in doubt, just go ahead and eat!

 

[MSGRET]

NO! While I support many EU functions, including what I recall was a realistic opportunity for us to go metric some years ago, for me, warm summer evening outdoor recreational time is a precious and fleeting commodity! I support DST!

You can keep the Daylight Savings Time year around, that way there is no switching the clock at all.

 

[BroadwayVa]

Oh, and don't forget to change the batteries in your smoke/CO2 detectors

I don't have to change my batteries I don't smoke those electronic things. I smoke cigar wrapped ONLY with Connecticut grown wrappers--(pomo)

 

[Centerstream]

Does anyone wait for 2AM to move their clocks forward.

DirecTV scheduling does.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Does anyone wait for 2AM to move their clocks forward.

Everything does because the clocks are automatic. For example my cable box will say 1:59 AM and then when it changes it goes right to 3:00 AM, so it knows some how. I once stayed up just to see what would happen, so I watched it. Same with my phone. I guess all electronic devices know about the time change.

 

[meyers7]

We need to do like the EU is going to do in 2021, keep the clocks the same year round.

AS long as we're on EDT (AST), I'm all for that.

 

[Carnac]

If in doubt, just go ahead and eat!

That right!! It's always dinner time somewhere.

 

[Monte]

Not too long ago, the team was on TULSA TIME

 

[triaddukefan]

3:35am now..... but on the bright side.... more sunlight in the evening .

 

[mbr33ct]

Everything does because the clocks are automatic. For example my cable box will say 1:59 AM and then when it changes it goes right to 3:00 AM, so it knows some how. I once stayed up just to see what would happen, so I watched it. Same with my phone. I guess all electronic devices know about the time change.

...because you had nothing better to do?

 

[HuskyNan]

NO! While I support many EU functions, including what I recall was a realistic opportunity for us to go metric some years ago, for me, warm summer evening outdoor recreational time is a precious and fleeting commodity! I support DST!

Northerners wait all winter for there to be a glimmer of daylight in the morning so they don’t go to work in the dark. Then after the mornings become brighter, daylight saving comes along and it’s dark again. Many states are looking at discontinuing the practice

As Daylight Saving Looms, Suppose We Spring Forward and Never Fall Back?

 

[hoopsfan22]

Connecticut is trying to switch to Atlantic time. No idea why.

 

[TheFarmFan]

Connecticut is trying to switch to Atlantic time. No idea why.

Because that would ensure permanent daylight savings time. Under federal law at present, states can opt out of daylight savings time altogether (as Hawaii and Arizona do), but they aren't allowed to permanently opt in to it and never revert to standard time. The theory behind CT and NH's moves to Atlantic time zone is you don't need to get Congress to change the law in order to get permanent daylight savings time.

Quite frankly, I think it makes sense - having everything from Michigan to Maine in the same time zone never made any sense to me. Historically, it was so that everyone on the Eastern Seaboard and related nearby rail lines was in the same time zone as New York City. But I'm not sure that matters as much in 2019.

 

[eebmg]

Connecticut is trying to switch to Atlantic time. No idea why.

in hopes of joining the ACC.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Because that would ensure permanent daylight savings time. Under federal law at present, states can opt out of daylight savings time altogether (as Hawaii and Arizona do), but they aren't allowed to permanently opt in to it and never revert to standard time. The theory behind CT and NH's moves to Atlantic time zone is you don't need to get Congress to change the law in order to get permanent daylight savings time.

Quite frankly, I think it makes sense - having everything from Michigan to Maine in the same time zone never made any sense to me. Historically, it was so that everyone on the Eastern Seaboard and related nearby rail lines was in the same time zone as New York City. But I'm not sure that matters as much in 2019.

It's a dumb idea, but every year some of the New England states have that one crack pot legislator that proposes it and everyone laughs at him or her and makes them go stand in the corner for two years. This year's version requires Mass and RI to also join before it would be considered.