They did in West Texas, at least back in the day. 2am was closing time as mandated by law, but then it hit 2am and POOF! It was 1am again, and the bars stayed open until the new 2am.
You aren’t the only one sick of hearing about it! It’s one freakin hour - get over it already!
You guys got Daylight Saving already? Lucky bastards.
That’s odd. All the clocks in my house* seem to set themselves.
- The ones my computers, the one on my phone and the ones on my DVRs.
“Lying” is exactly the wrong word. To begin with, its offensive. But, more to the point, it’s a definition. We, by consensus and fiat, define “later” the way we’ve chosen to.
We’re in charge here, if only to the tautological/circular extent of being the ones who set the clocks which we live by.
So, no, you’re wrong. The sun rises an hour earlier (later? Geez, I can never figure this bit… I lose an hour of sleep, right?) because we say it does. And we get to say it does, because we’re the ones who set the clocks.
It’s like driving on the right side of the road, or using your right hand to hold your soup spoon. We do it that way because we say that’s how it’s done.
Canute could have had exactly the same success if he’d told his court, “Wait six hours, and then I’ll show you.”
Hmmm. You’re technically right, of course. And yet I think I like the hatred that “lying” can imply. I’m sticking with it.
I also kind of like that so many people spell it with the extra “s”. It kind of underscores the shaky nature of the whole arrangement.
I still can’t figure out how the haters ever travel. Does moving a single time zone take them weeks to adjust?
The one tha bugs me is the spring time change because I seem invariably to be traveling to the US at this time of year; I frequently get to do the lose-an-hour-of-sleep-twice! (Clocks don’t change at home until the end of March).
As someone who prefers rain, gloom, and darkness, my favourite time of year is the autumn clock change.
I once had to meet up with a group in San Francisco, and one guy in the group flew in from Vermont. He was so jet-lagged that he was practically bedridden for a couple of days.
Just when I was able to drive to work in daylight… 
I kinda like driving into work in the dark. Otherwise, I feel like I should be doing something fun. Or at least working on my own stuff.
My Wife left at 3:15 this morning to do a few hours of work, and is then going to ski with a friend and then go back to work. I forced myself to stay in bed till nearly 6am.
Yep, we are all different.
DST is especially silly this far north - for us, it takes all of three weeks for day length to grow by an hour to both directions so going through all the trouble to get sunset at 8pm on 29th of March instead of late April seems just silly. By the time it is summer there’s not much darkness left either way, DST just means sunset at midnight instead of 11pm. As a night/morning shift worker, it does mean 6 extra weeks of dark for me.
They only travel, from pole to pole, within their own time zone.
I think DST is dumb. So you have more light later. How does that save energy when you still have to turn all the lights on in the morning instead of the evening? Maybe at one time it served a purpose, but I think that time is gone.
I’d prefer Standard Time all year 'round.
I can get in 9 holes of golf after work from May till September. That’s the purpose of daylight saving time.
I think this is a brilliant solution. Please make it so.
I lived in a place that did not do DST and it kind of sucked. In the winter it was still dark at 7:00 am. I hated that.
My suggestion though is the hour forward should be done on a Friday at 4 pm so we all get to leave work early 
For myself, I like the extra outside daylight to do stuff after work. I have to turn on lights in the morning anyway.
I really must insist that you all read the following obituary.
You may already have. It went viral two years ago when the honoree, Harry Stamps, died.
See, he hated Daylight Saving Time and it went into his obituary. In lieu of flowers you were asked to contribute to the university he taught at, and also to write your Congressperson, asking them to repealDST. He even died on the day before “spring forward” and his family took that as a sign.
I think it needs to stay Daylight Saving time year round too. I don’t often agree with the Boston Globe but they had an editorial recently that advocated that New England (or Massachusetts at least) switch to the Atlantic Time Zone just like the far Eastern Canadian Maritimes and much of the Caribbean (it is the same as being on Eastern Daylight Saving Time year round without having to explain a special exception as much). I would be all over that. It is ridiculous when it get dark about 4pm around Christmas and not much better for the months both before and after it.
Early morning people can bite my ass. They obviously like waking up at the ass crack of dawn so give them the added satisfaction of doing it even more in the dark. School kids don’t count either. My young daughters still have to get on the bus in the complete dark during the Winter so it is all downside. The farmers don’t care either. They work when the conditions are most favorable no matter what the clocks say.
Shagnasty for President or Governor! Thank you! My entire platform is that people need sunlight at the end of the day and we should do everything we can by making arbitrary and completely artificial but practically meaningful changes to make that happen.
Heh. I knew a guy – and it was that same one from Vermont I mentioned earlier – who never could get that expression right. He honestly thought – and I am convinced he was not trying to be funny, you just had to know the guy – it was “Spring backward, fall forward.”