# Don't forget to spring forward **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822 "2003-04-06T05:39:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/1 "2003-04-06T05:39:44Z")
Now that is weird. It didn’t do my first post. Guess the time change is already messing with my computer. 🙂 Anyway, push the old clocks forward for daylight savings time. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/2 "2003-04-06T05:47:39Z")
So it’s actually almost 2? Crap, I _am_ out of it. I thought it was only ten til 1. Imagine how worse off I’d be if I were taking meds for this Cold From Hell… ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/3 "2003-04-06T06:28:46Z")
Lousy farmers! I want my hour back, and if you make me waith till October, I’m demanding interest! Actually, thanks for the reminder! ---
**Author:** ![Thaumaturge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Thaumaturge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thaumaturge)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/4 "2003-04-06T07:08:58Z")
I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTEEEEEEE daylight saving time! I **like** getting up after the sun rises. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/5 "2003-04-06T07:33:55Z")
Drat! So now the SDMB’s going to go out at 10:30pm instead of 11:30pm. Oh well. Maybe I’ll get to sleep earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/6 "2003-04-06T09:43:34Z")
This sooo sucks. I’m working 12s this weekend, and cutting an hour out of my much-needed sleep time is _not_ making me a happy girl. ---
**Author:** ![Sqube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@Sqube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sqube)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/7 "2003-04-06T09:46:52Z")
An hour of my sleep has been stolen. As my roommate told me, it’s a damn shame that they steal an hour from us during warm and beautiful (usually, anyway) spring, only to return it to us in the bitter, bitter cold of autumn. _There will be a blood reckoning. There will be a great moaning and knashing of teeth._ Sorry, I just needed to get that out of my system. I’m just not a big fan of the spring forward, fall back thing. ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/8 "2003-04-06T11:37:31Z")
An interesting note, in japan there is no daylight savings time, the clocks stay the same all year. Those of you who live in other countries, do you have it, or is japan the only one that doesn’t? ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/9 "2003-04-06T11:42:17Z")
I love it. More daylight in the evenings. The losing an hour of sleep I could live without, but at least this year it falls on a Saturday night so most of us can sleep in Sunday to make up for it. ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/10 "2003-04-06T12:37:08Z")
I hate it too, but as I see it, the extra hour of sleep is a kind of reward for the crappy winter we’re about to endure. ---
**Author:** ![Madame\_Zelda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Madame\_Zelda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madame_Zelda)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/11 "2003-04-06T12:48:04Z")
In Arizona, there is no daylight savings time (we get more than enough daylight, thank you very much). However, the powers that be in our network admin offices in San Diego always feel compelled to mess with our clocks. I came in at 5 this morning to be informed by SD that I was an hour late :eek: Um, no…you’re just screwed up. Leave my freakin’ clocks alone!! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/12 "2003-04-06T12:59:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*…but at least this year it falls on a Saturday night so most of us can sleep in Sunday to make up for it. \*\* When does it not fall on Saturday night? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/13 "2003-04-06T14:00:52Z")
> [@](#): > > An interesting note, in japan there is no daylight savings time, the clocks stay the same all year. Those of you who live in other countries, do you have it, or is japan the only one that doesn’t? Saskatchewan, Southampton Island in Nunavut, and a few communities in Manitoba and northern Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/14 "2003-04-06T14:36:41Z")
This whole hour-ahead thing is quite jarring. If I was in charge, we’d move our clocks ahead 5 minutes every Saturday for the first three quarters of the year, and then add an additional 3 or four hours to a single Saturday night in the fall. ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/15 "2003-04-06T15:34:54Z")
> [@](#): > > I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTEEEEEEE daylight saving time! Move to Indiana (carefully avoiding the 11 counties near Chicago which do have DST) or Arizona. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/16 "2003-04-06T16:23:41Z")
I do mainframe computer support. I work a 12-hour shift on Sundays, and I had to get up at 04:30 CST (05:30 CDT) to make it to work. But it was worth it to get the phone call from the guy who told me that the time switch must not have been done on the mainframes – because his program was returning the wrong time!!! Bawaawaaawaaa. Call of the week, and it’s only Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/17 "2003-04-06T21:39:08Z")
I am so so so happy there is no DST here. Problem, though: we get satellite, and lots of other channels not based in Arizona. So we have to adjust our TV schedules for that. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/18 "2003-04-06T21:44:53Z")
Back in the 1970 energy crisis, daylight savings time was extended significantly, to the point that kids were waiting for school busses in the dark. After a certain amount of outcry, the start and stop dates were set to where they are today, which is a bit less extended than it was. Pat Oliphaunt drew a wonderful cartoon about the absurdity of it all, having President Nixon as sort of a proto-Martha Stewart, showing how to make a blanket longer by cutting a foot off of one end and sewing it back onto the other end: “We call this Daylight Savings Time”. If you want to save daylight, leave the clocks alone and just get up an hour earlier. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/19 "2003-04-06T22:32:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*FairyChatMom \*\*\* > When does it not fall on Saturday night? Oh, does it always? Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822/20 "2003-04-07T00:32:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by acrossthesea \* > \*\*An interesting note, in japan there is no daylight savings time, the clocks stay the same all year. Those of you who live in other countries, do you have it, or is japan the only one that doesn’t? \*\* I remember that. And as much as I bitched this morning about losing an hour, I always felt that that was a place that could have **used** daylight savings time. When there is a cuckoo (which are **extremely** loud, btw) sounding off outside your bedroom window because it’s bright daylight at 3:30 a.m., **something** needs to change. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forget-to-spring-forward/166822.md?page=2)