Rob a bank, go to prison. Underfeed a parking meter, get a ticket.
But what are the legal penalties, if any, of not setting your clocks back one hour to comply with Daylight Alleged-Saving Time?
Lose your job?
Probably the same as the penalties for not observing Thanksgiving.
A complete WAG here, but I assume the penalties are similar to your choosing to speak Klingon. That is, you will have committed no crime, but you will have a hard time functioning in society.
The same penalty as that applies to keeping your watch ten minutes ahead of the “actual” time.
Not every law has criminal penalties for individuals.
ETA: The law does allow the Secretary of Transportation to apply to Federal courts for injunctions to require state government and political subdivisions to observe the daylight savings time law. But again, individuals are not subject to criminal sanctions for having the wrong time on their watch.
I doubt there are any legal penalties for not changing your clock. You can set your clock to read anything you like. The downside for you is you’ll be in disagreement with everyone else as to the correct time. That may cause you problems (e.g. parking tickets since you think there is an hour left on the meter when there isn’t).
It just means you will be out of step with everyone else . You will miss appointments, fail to catch the bus or the plane that you intended and find your self generally in a mess. As for the law . it’s up to you what you have your clocks set to. I don’t think anyone has been arrested for (say) having their clock five minutes fast or slow, so no difference to what you ask.
Precisely the same as not having all your timepieces set to the exact time at any other point in the year.
I’d be very surprised if there are any penalties. All that you’d notice is that things are happening around you an hour earlier that your clock says. So, if you go to catch a bus that’s supposed to leave at 4 pm, you’ll find that it left when your clock said 3 pm. And, if you allow for this difference, you could go through life with your clocks running an hour slow compared to everyone else.
I can set all my calendars to February 31st and my clocks to 13:61 AM, if I want
It will make it rather hard to interact with the rest of the world though.
I haven’t heard of Federal troops being deployed to Arizona and parts of Indiana to enforce DST… yet.
Nitpick: for the last few years, the whole of Indiana has been observing daylight saving time. They just have to send the federal time police into Arizona (and Hawaii) these days
You do know that you set the clocks forward one hour for DST, not back?
Didn’t Kramer do this, (or something like this) on Seinfeld, with predictable hillarious results 
Which only goes to show the effect that DST has on me. :smack:
If you have a contract or other legal obligation that requires you to perform an activity at or by a certain time, the courts will interpret that so as to require it to have been done at or by the time as determined locally by statute, including Daylight Saving Time as applicable.
Which doesn’t address the question of whether not setting your clocks to DST is penalized by law.
Farmers often don’t adjust their clocks. My uncle had a chicken farm and he never adjusted for daylight savings time. Chickens wake up at dawn and are fed then. We started getting the eggs a couple hours after they eat. Then gather them twice more during the day. We didn’t give a rats ass about daylight savings.
Of course my uncle knew the clocks on the farm were an hour off. If he had a doctors appointment, he always got there on time.
I think that question has already been answered.
You don’t have to have any clocks at all, but if you fail to adjust your schedule of legally or contractually obligated duties for daylight savings you will be penalized.
For most of us, we are required to show up for work at a certain time. If I show up at the wrong time because I don’t adjust my schedule for Daylight Saving Time I will be fired for cause, which will affect my ability to claim unemployment and other benefits under the law.
Some people may have no such obligations, but the law still applies to them in the same sense that the speel limit still applies to people without a car.
(not an attorney anywhere)
I could see possible penalties if you intentionally leave incorrectly set clocks around with an intent to defraud, for example you invite someone over for breakfast knowing that they need to make a court appearance at 12 noon, but you knowingly leave a clock set an hour behind in the kitchen for them to see because you want them to miss the court date and suffer a default judgement.