USA Members Don't Forget To Turn Those Clocks Back
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It was dark here before 5:30 pm....I hate it. I'd rather be on DST all the time.
Gary
Gary
Dark here a little after at 4 today and they are still trying to fix the more than 80,000 power outages for the second weekend in a row, Down to a couple thousand now. Hopefully the rest can get power back soon.
After today, I think I agree with Gary. It's only going to get worse over the next month and a half.
I'm not among the overworked masses that have to commute, but I'm sure they'd appreciate it still being light out when they got home from work.
Schools could adjust their start times, like an hour later after Thanksgiving break and then an hour earlier after spring break (or whatever other breaks they have now -- it seems like the grandkids are on some kind of break every month or two).
I'm not among the overworked masses that have to commute, but I'm sure they'd appreciate it still being light out when they got home from work.
Schools could adjust their start times, like an hour later after Thanksgiving break and then an hour earlier after spring break (or whatever other breaks they have now -- it seems like the grandkids are on some kind of break every month or two).
It's normally dark when I go to work and may or may not be morning/light when I leave depending on how long I'm there ... so that aspect has no effect on me.
Here in Arizona, we don't have to do such nonsense. LOL
More dark is more depressing...
The tradition started in Germany to save coal, but like you’d mentioned, where is the savings on electricity for lighting, and the US is now one-hundred-years into this practice, having started in 1918...
In addition to Arizona, what other places in the United States or the world don’t have to move their clocks forward or back? (Yes, should I think of moving there?)
I have turned back all my clocks but a couple wall clocks, one so high up that I need to stand on something, and another that is in the living room awkwardly over the TV, and both must be taken down to set, and each make bird noises each top of the hour...
Oh, and another wall clock in the kitchen I don’t often look at unless the stove clock has the temperature and the microwave clock is used for the timer I’m more alert to when cooking needs checking or is finished...
I shockingly had to set the clock in my car, even thinking I was running late for work, and know I wil have to m6 wife’s clock in her car... —Very surprised our new cars, least of all mine and the one I had before never did them by themselves...
And don’t get me started on workplaces where you gain or lose an hour on your productive time because of this.,. Not all places such as manufacturing have the advantage of being closed during these “stages”...
— Dave
The tradition started in Germany to save coal, but like you’d mentioned, where is the savings on electricity for lighting, and the US is now one-hundred-years into this practice, having started in 1918...
In addition to Arizona, what other places in the United States or the world don’t have to move their clocks forward or back? (Yes, should I think of moving there?)
I have turned back all my clocks but a couple wall clocks, one so high up that I need to stand on something, and another that is in the living room awkwardly over the TV, and both must be taken down to set, and each make bird noises each top of the hour...
Oh, and another wall clock in the kitchen I don’t often look at unless the stove clock has the temperature and the microwave clock is used for the timer I’m more alert to when cooking needs checking or is finished...
I shockingly had to set the clock in my car, even thinking I was running late for work, and know I wil have to m6 wife’s clock in her car... —Very surprised our new cars, least of all mine and the one I had before never did them by themselves...
And don’t get me started on workplaces where you gain or lose an hour on your productive time because of this.,. Not all places such as manufacturing have the advantage of being closed during these “stages”...
— Dave
It makes sense for Arizona to opt out. When it's 112 out, who wouldn't want the sun to set ASAP?
I think a lot of people think that Daylight Savings Time is in the winter when it gets dark early, when it's the opposite.
We're debating ending it
There's a national consultation going on here in Ireland about daylight saving time at the moment. The European Parliament voted on a proposal to look at ending it right across the EU. At present most countries observe it and they all switch over on a coordinated day:
2am on last Sunday of October clocks go back.
1am on last Sunday of March clocks go forward.
We're pretty far north (Dublin is roughly in line with Edmonton Alberta) and a lot of Northern European cities are much further north still, so it actually does have a significant impact as the days are very short in winter and very long in summer.
There's a national consultation going on here in Ireland about daylight saving time at the moment. The European Parliament voted on a proposal to look at ending it right across the EU. At present most countries observe it and they all switch over on a coordinated day:
2am on last Sunday of October clocks go back.
1am on last Sunday of March clocks go forward.
We're pretty far north (Dublin is roughly in line with Edmonton Alberta) and a lot of Northern European cities are much further north still, so it actually does have a significant impact as the days are very short in winter and very long in summer.
Loving the fact that as technology improves there are less and less clocks in my life that need to be touched. Only have two in the house now that don't adjust themselves, the stove and microwave. Wish I could just turn those displays off as I never look at either anyhow.
WHAT "Extra Hour"????!!!!
So what did you do with that extra hour that "Fall Back" was supposed to save?
I still felt tired, (took a long nap after getting my daughter to school) no sun-up even at Seven, remaining dark and gloomy out until after Eight, and I didn't exactly throw a big party & let the neighbors over to celebrate Daylight Savings-Time that night, either...
--I just had the kid up as I came home from work enjoying her bed time being put off... So, really, time to rethink...
-- Dave
So what did you do with that extra hour that "Fall Back" was supposed to save?
I still felt tired, (took a long nap after getting my daughter to school) no sun-up even at Seven, remaining dark and gloomy out until after Eight, and I didn't exactly throw a big party & let the neighbors over to celebrate Daylight Savings-Time that night, either...
--I just had the kid up as I came home from work enjoying her bed time being put off... So, really, time to rethink...
-- Dave
Ooh, forgot one ore thing:
I was told by my mom who was told by my grandpa to never turn an analog clock backwards, but couldn't stand to turn my few that I own, forward twenty-three times, so I hope it was okay...
-- Dave
I was told by my mom who was told by my grandpa to never turn an analog clock backwards, but couldn't stand to turn my few that I own, forward twenty-three times, so I hope it was okay...
-- Dave
We have a key wound mantel clock from Holland that chimes on the hour and half hour. The clock repair shop told us to never turn the hands backwards, but the instead lay the clock on its back for the amount of time that is needed to get the time set back. So I just set a timer for an hour after putting the clock on its back, and when hour is up, put the clock back on its feet and it begins to tick again. I also wind the clock once a week every Saturday morning at the same time, this also helps the clock remain accurate.
This clock has great sentimental value. My husband David bought it for his parents for their 25th wedding anniversary. He had to pay for it on layaway over almost a years time. When his Mom passed away the clock came to live with us. It is a real treasure, so we take very good care of it.
Eddie
This clock has great sentimental value. My husband David bought it for his parents for their 25th wedding anniversary. He had to pay for it on layaway over almost a years time. When his Mom passed away the clock came to live with us. It is a real treasure, so we take very good care of it.
Eddie
