Changing Clocks

The day to switch from Standard Time to Saving Time is drawing near. I just have to say, I HATE that!

JACK

Yeah, what he said! I never catch up.


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Kathy

Yeah, and it's a pain in the patookus over here especially, because we don't observe the time change.

So to keep in pace with all of our clients, us'n folks down here have to get used to doing everything earlier by an hour. Used to taking lunch at 2? Now it's 1! Setting that alarm for 6? Set it for 5!

I'm messed up for weeks after the change.

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JMSaSU
Member posted 03-18-99 07:46 PM

The day to switch from Standard Time to Saving Time is drawing near. I just have to say, I HATE that!

Jakc; so you're saying you'd rather go back to the old-fashioned way of adjusting your clock from town to town?

Cheers!
-Chip

so you're saying you'd rather go back to the old-fashioned way of adjusting your clock from town to town?

No. Time zones are ok. I think you know what I meant. This is the only country on this rock that does it. It's dumb!
Although I've heard something about a movement for just one universal time. I think Swatch even sells a watch for it. I could live with that. As long as it's not changed twice a year.

JACK

JMSaSU
Member posted 03-19-99 06:14 AM

quoting Monty:
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so you're saying you'd rather go back to the old-fashioned way of adjusting your clock from town to town?
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No. Time zones are ok. I think you know what I meant. This is the only country on this rock that does it. It's dumb!
Although I've heard something about a movement for just one universal time. I think Swatch even sells a watch for it. I could live with that. As long as it's not changed twice a year.

I wonder how the folks in Germany feel about your contention their land isn't a country. Last time I checked, Germany is a country and practices what they call "Summer Time," which is their equivalent of our DST.

Try living in a place where DST has almost no meaning, except when trying to call someone long distance or trying to catch a live sporting event on cable TV.

As a result, I think the smoke detectors haven't been tested in years.

I must be the only person on the globe who's looking forward to the changing of the clocks. Why? Because I'm in Chicago (CST) and my girlfriend and baby are currently residinng in Indianapolis (EST) until this fall. So, since Indy doesn't change for Daylight (whatever) Time, our clocks will actually be on the same time again (in essence, Indy will switch from EST to CST) and I can call her at 9pm without worrying about actually calling her at 10pm. I know you're all just so happy for me.

I must be the only person on the globe who's looking forward to the changing of the clocks. Why? Because I'm in Chicago (CST) and my girlfriend and baby are currently residinng in Indianapolis (EST) until this fall. So, since Indy doesn't change for Daylight (whatever) Time, our clocks will actually be on the same time again (in essence, Indy will switch from EST to CST) and I can call her at 9pm without worrying about actually calling her at 10pm. I know you're all just so happy for me.

I think Arizona doesn't switch either, I have an Aunt and Uncle who live there and my Uncle said they don't switch, they live in Scottsdale (spelling?). I thought that was strange, I thought it was an international thing and every country and state/province switched.

On a side note, I hate DST too. There would be an extra hour of daylight if we didn't have to turn our clocks ahead in Autumn. If they didn't switch though it would be dark till 7:00 in the morning or so. On Long Island years back they tried a year without DST, it didn't go over very well. There were thousands of complaints from parents because their kids were waiting for the school bus when it was still dark.
DST keeps a good enough balance on things I think, even though it's a pain when it gets dark early.

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~Shane (Formerly StrTrekNut)
AIM/AOL screen name: Shane0630
My Homepage: cfm.to/shane/

This is the third year of my life using DST. I still think it's weird, and I never remember which month it happens in.

[raised in AZ]

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When is the big switch? If it's tomorrow, I can pretend I didn't realize it and miss English monday morning.

{On a side note, I hate DST too. There would be an extra hour of daylight if we didn't have to turn our clocks ahead in Autumn.}

Um, clocks are turned BACK in Autumn. Just remember, it's Spring Foward and Fall Back.

Jeff
what time is it???

{On a side note, I hate DST too. There would be an extra hour of daylight if we didn't have to turn our clocks ahead in Autumn.}

Um, clocks are turned BACK in Autumn. Just remember, it's Spring Foward and Fall Back.

Jeff
what time is it???

Ahh!! I always get that mixed up.

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~Shane (Formerly StrTrekNut)
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[[When is the big switch? If it's tomorrow, I can pretend I didn't realize it and miss English monday morning.]] - Maitland

1st weekend in April - I think Sunday is the 4th - at 2 AM, clocks move forward to 3 AM.

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Sue from El Paso

The NM legislature is going to ask the Feds if we can spring forward, and then never spring back, effectively moving us from the Mountain to the Central Time Zone (but not all year) So, we'd always be an hour ahead of Arizona, but half the year, we'd be an hour different from Colorado, not to mention El Paso and Juarez. Sure, they can move us ahead one hour, but we'll still be behind by 150 years.

[[When is the big switch? If it's tomorrow, I can pretend I didn't realize it and miss English monday morning.]] - Maitland

1st weekend in April - I think Sunday is the 4th - at 2 AM, clocks move forward to 3 AM.

Hey, that's cool! I lose an hour of the day before my birthday!



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--elm

"So it goes." --Vonnegut

Hate to go against the crowd (well, not really <g>), but I LIKE DST. I like having it be light later on in the evening in the summer. Here in Southern California, even with DST and even in high summer, it gets dark by 9 p.m. I grew up in Western New York, where in the summer months it would still be light until 10. I miss that!

-Melin

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I DO have the figure of a Goddess...
But in my case, it's the
Venus of Willendorf

The extra hour of light in the evening is what I hate. That means it doesn't get light untill an hour later in the morning. being a morning person, I hate that.
When I was younger I spent a lot of time waiting for dark before going out to have fun.

JACK

I was always glad we didn't have DST in Arizona... when it's 110 degrees outside, you want the sun to go down as soon as possible.

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[[[I was always glad we didn't have DST in Arizona... when it's 110 degrees outside, you want the sun to go down as soon as possible.]]]

Huh? The sun is in the sky the same number of hours; your clock simply reads a different time than it "normally" would.


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** Phil D. **
"There isn't time to tell you all that you need to know." -- Jon Auer

I suspect Ms. K already knows this, and may have been trolling and/or making a funny. Especially since we all know that the best way to deal with temperature extremes is to change the units of measurement to one with better numbers. In other words, 45°C is more comfortable than 113°F, and, conversely, 14°F is more pleasant than -10°C.

(P.S. I, too, am trolling and/or making a funny.)

[[[I was always glad we didn't have DST in Arizona... when it's 110 degrees outside, you want the sun to go down as soon as possible.]]]

Huh? The sun is in the sky the same number of hours; your clock simply reads a different time than it "normally" would.

Right, but I think Opal point was that it cools off a bit after the sun goes down, and its better for that to happen around 7 or 8 pm, so people have time to enjoy it, rather than 8 or 9 pm. Just as we in the Northeast enjoy the extra hour of sunlight in the evening, people in Arizona would rather have the extra hour of relative coolness in the evening.


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- Mark

<< 1st weekend in April - I think Sunday is the 4th - at 2 AM, clocks move forward to 3 AM.

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Sue from El Paso >>

And fall back the last Sunday in October.

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[dougie_monty]

Granted it's kind of late to post to this, especially since we've already long since changed back to Standard Time--except for Arizona, Hawaii, the territories, and parts of Indiana (I'm from there) and other states where they don't use Daylight Savings Time.
But what I'd like to know is: What's the best way to deal with changing back in autumn--on a striking clock? We have a table clock that strikes quarter hours like Big Ben; I am afraid to turn the minute hand backwards past the quarter-hour point lest I damage something. So I gradually turn the hand back a little, without crossing such point.
Incidentally, in the Time Life-Science Library book Time, the preface comments about people who consider standard time to be "God's Time," in preference to Daylight Saving Time, which is somehow Satanic. The editor comments, "These people don't realize standard time was created for the convenience of the railroads."

[lovelee]

As long as it doesn't have one of those newfangled date thingys on it, just turn the hands forward instead of backward. You'll have to listen to 11 hours worth of dinging and donging, but it's following the clock's natural movement patterns and shouldn't hurt anything.

[Padeye]

Dougie, that stuff about daylight savings time being satanic is a lot of BS. Everyone knows it's the Godless commies who brought it about just like they did fluoridation. ...stealing out bodily fluids, robbing our purity of essence.... Satan has enough to deal with, with Rock and Roll being his fault.

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[dougie_monty]

That's a good one, Padeye.

[funneefarmer]

It strikes me that you could just unplug it or take the battery out for the required time.

[manhattan]

It strikes me

Ba-Bing! He'll be here all week, folks! Tip your waiters and waitresses, and drive carefully.

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[dougie_monty]

No, I can't, funneefarmer; it's a winding clock; we take a big key once a week and wind up the mainspring and two smaller springs which drive the chiming mechanisms.

[OpalCat]

well since this thread is back at the top again, I'll answer pld's post from many many months ago:

Being a night person, and therefore one to sleep until quite late, I don't care if it is sunny in the morning. I'm asleep then. Once I get up, I want the sun to go down as soon as possible. I would rather be able to go do something before everyplace closes without dropping of heatstroke, etc. I live my life in the afternoon/evening/night and I'd rather have as little sun during that time as possible.

I think that Phil is actually smart enough to have figured out what I meant though, and was just trying to be obtuse...

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[funneefarmer]

Um, hide the keys.
Find them the next time the clock is the right time.

[techchick68]

Funny you should bring this topic back to light. I still have one clock I haven't changed yet. It's a main clock in my house (see it from upstairs, in the kitchen, living room and family) yet there it stays, reading one hour ahead...

[kunilou]

The official clockmaker's recommendation on all types of intricate, antique and gear-driven clocks is:

Set the clock ahead one hour in spring and 11 hours in fall.

By the way -- can't you turn off the "striking" function? I never had a grandfather clock, but I had a genuine German cuckoo clock that I could "turn off."

[kunilou]

The official clockmaker's recommendation on all types of intricate, antique and gear-driven clocks is:

Set the clock ahead one hour in spring and 11 hours in fall.

By the way -- can't you turn off the "striking" function? I never had a grandfather clock, but I had a genuine German cuckoo clock that I could "turn off."

[kunilou]

The official clockmaker's recommendation on all types of intricate, antique and gear-driven clocks is:

Set the clock ahead one hour in spring and 11 hours in fall.

By the way -- can't you turn off the "striking" function? I never had a grandfather clock, but I had a genuine German cuckoo clock that I could "turn off."

[kunilou]

Sorry about that. My brwser is a little sluggish tonight.

[dougie_monty]

As a matter of fact, kunilou, I can and do turn off the striking mechanism; but I still hesitate to turn the hands backwards past a quarter-hour point. I don't think the silencing control affects that.

[capybara]

I heard somewhere that this was developed basically as a way to save factory owners money in the 19th C, to switch the time so that the sun is up 'earlier' in the dark months, hence fewer work hours needing costly lighting. Is this a UL or what? it sort of makes sense and supports my marxist theory that the time change is a horrible industrial relic.

[tomndebb]

dougie_monty, for our pendulum style clock, we simply stop the pendulum, set the kitchen timer for an hour, and start the big clock again when the kitchen timer goes off. I agree with you that turning the hands backward on that type of equipment sounds like a bad idea. If you can't stop the clock for an hour, I'd suggest turning off the chimes and moving the hands forward eleven hours.

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[dougie_monty]

M.K., I understand it was first thought up in the eighteenth century, by none other than Benjamin Franklin, when he was in France. He told the French government the country could save huge quantities of candle wax in the summer just by arising an hour earlier in the morning and retiring an hour earlier in the late evening, to take advantage of the longer daylight hours. They listened politely but took no action. (I wonder if the French Revolutionary Government considered the matter.)