# How I spent my extra hour this year **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 3, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-extra-hour-this-year/1009613 "2024-11-03T15:35:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-extra-hour-this-year/1009613/21 "2024-11-04T23:31:01Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > None of my doodads change. Gee, you’re lucky. Living in Arizona I don’t have to change but I had an atomic clock, from Oregon Scientific that _insisted_ on changing. The first time it happened was in the spring. I got up when the alarm went off and drove to work. Since this was four in the morning the sky was dark and the radio station I listen to has a red-eye program on, normal happenings for that early. It was when I got inside and saw the clock on the wall was an hour earlier than it ought to be I figured it out. I wound up sitting at my desk for an hour before it was time to log in. When I got home I reset the clock, easy-peasy, right? Wrong. The next morning it had gone forward an hour again. Luckily I confirmed the time with my watch before heading out. I kept resetting the clock and kept insisting on daylight savings for more than a month. I wound up just changing the alarm time the rest of the time I had the stupid thing because I was never sure when it would give up trying to DST. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-extra-hour-this-year/1009613/22 "2024-11-04T23:38:51Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > That must be annoying if you live in a state that doesn’t do the time shift. “Damn! Now I have to run around an undo all those unwanted changes!” That was _super_ annoying. Even worse was when we would miss a clock and then freak out because we were late. I’m not a big fan of time changes at all. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-extra-hour-this-year/1009613/23 "2024-11-05T00:08:01Z")
I was in central time, and returned to eastern time just a couple of days before the change. So basically, i waited for the clocks to catch up to my circadian rhythm. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-extra-hour-this-year/1009613/24 "2024-11-05T02:53:09Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Living in Arizona I don’t have to change … This is why Saskatchewanian snowbirds fly south to Arizona. We like your approach to clocks. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-extra-hour-this-year/1009613/25 "2024-11-05T14:17:28Z")
I used to do a race in Chicago that is the first Sun in Nov. Between an hour time zone change from EDT to CDT during the flight out on Sat & then an hour for the clock change it was a quite leisurely wake up on Sun to be there at 7am. I miss doing that race but am otherwise occupied closer to home for different events this past weekend. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2024, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-extra-hour-this-year/1009613/26 "2024-11-05T14:23:36Z")
First time in six years I was in a non-changing jurisdiction on the date. So no variation in the schedule. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-i-spent-my-extra-hour-this-year/1009613.md?page=1)