# Daylight savings time is this weekend! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865 "2001-10-26T21:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/21 "2001-10-27T02:22:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skyblukat \* > \*\*what if you feed a gremlin during daylight savings time? \*\* Hey! Welcome to the SDMB! And you know what, after that I’m drawing a blank. This is why I’m not on the welcoming committee. cheers ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_in\_SoCal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Michele\_in\_SoCal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michele_in_SoCal)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/22 "2001-10-27T02:54:01Z")
I love “Fall Back” time on the first Monday morning… but I hate it at 5:00 that night when I’m ready to go home from work and OH NO! it is only 4:00, I have another hour to go! ---
**Author:** ![SlightDistrurbance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SlightDistrurbance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlightDistrurbance)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/23 "2001-10-27T04:15:01Z")
I’m in Michigan and very close to the Indy border… all my TV stations are from South Bend, and it totally messes them up, it takes me at least two weeks to remember what is on when… ((I know whine whine)). But I’m also used to being able to get down to Grape Rd. for dinner at a good time and being able to beat the Indy crowd. Its confusing if you live in a zone that changes, but do a lot of your living in the zone that doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/24 "2001-10-27T08:13:07Z")
An extra hour of sleep is always a good thing. There is one down side to Daylight Sanings Time, I have to change most of the clocks in my house. My parents don’t know how to work the VCR and he Microwave. ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/25 "2001-10-27T08:17:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kaotic Newtral \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Yue Han \* > > \*\*I’m from Indiana where we don’t have DST. I’m in Vermont for college now and I’m excited about this. > > > > Yes, I realize how pathetic that is. > > > > But when I was a kid I saw an episode of “The Adventures of Pete and Pete” about Daylight Savings Time that had a really cool idea: once a year, you get a chance at a do-over. You get to live through one hour twice. If IIRC little Pete had some mad plan to ride his bike into the next time zone so that the Daylight Savings Time hour lasted three hours intead of two. And I was miserable because we never set our clocks back in Indiana. > > > > –John \*\* > > “Pete and Pete” was an awesome show! I don’t know why they got rid of it. It should’ve been on Prime-Time tv…jeez I’m childish. 😉 \*\* _YOU’RE_ childish? Hell, I loved that show too. I liked it when the Pete’s had their own radio station. That was cool. The ice cream man! And who was the Super hero guy… I forget his name. ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/26 "2001-10-27T09:52:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skyblukat \* > \*\*what if you feed a gremlin during daylight savings time? \*\* [hijack] When _can_ you feed a gramlin? I mean, isn’t it always after midnight, really? This has bothered me for my entire life! Please, I beg of you, make sense of this! [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/27 "2001-10-27T13:05:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mauvaise \* > \*\*One good thing about living in Arizona … don’t have to remember when to set your clocks back or forward – they just stay the same all year 'round 🙂 \*\* …Unless you enter the Navajo reservation in AZ, which as I recall does observe Daylight Savings Time. And if you keep going, into the Hopi rez, you’re back in Standard Time. Please correct me if I’m wrong, **Mauvaise** , I need to know how many wristwatches to buy next time I’m in the Four Corners.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/28 "2001-10-31T20:41:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Cheapo \* > \*\*\It’s Daylight Saving Time, no second **S** in the second word…\ \*\* It’s also a pet peeve of mine. We’re supposed to be fighting ignorace but everyone else in this thread spelled it wrong. “Daylight” is singular so “saving” should not be plural! ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865/29 "2001-10-31T22:32:10Z")
Actually, it ought to be hyphenated: “daylight-saving time”. When we set the clocks forward in the spring, we are “saving” daylight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-is-this-weekend/89865.md?page=1)