# Now that those of us in the land of Daylight Savings Time have lost an hour . .
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 11, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692 "2024-03-11T04:01:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/21 "2024-03-11T13:24:59Z")
That, we hoard.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/22 "2024-03-11T13:34:32Z")
I’ll have to come north to visit it, then. Water! Hey that’s what it looks like!
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/23 "2024-03-11T13:43:03Z")
Forget the missing hour, I’m still angry over the recent leap day I didn’t get paid for since I’m on salary 😡
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/24 "2024-03-11T14:00:58Z")
The sun was up as I drove to work. Huzzah!
Not doing that “drive to work in the dark, drive home from work in the dark” thing.
For now.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/25 "2024-03-11T14:03:49Z")
My hour of sleep disappeared just like every hour or more of sleep I lose on any night.
Also, don’t fall for the Daylight Savings scam. You can put that daylight into a savings account, but just try to withdraw it at the end of the season and you’ll find out it was all a scam.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/26 "2024-03-11T14:10:46Z")
Oh, pleeeze!! Fly west across the international date line (e.g., Los Angeles to Sydney) and you lose an entire day. An entire day! Losing an hour is a piece of cake.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/27 "2024-03-11T14:12:54Z")
I’m sure the cats have batted it under the couch somewhere.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/28 "2024-03-11T14:19:02Z")
I spent extra time raging at the dying of the light.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/29 "2024-03-11T14:22:57Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
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> don’t fall for the Daylight Savings scam. You can put that daylight into a savings account, but just try to withdraw it at the end of the season and you’ll find out it was all a scam.
So, [Daylight Savings & Loan](https://www.thedaylightsavingsandloan.com/) isn’t a thing?
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/30 "2024-03-11T14:28:29Z")
Ah, it was SO nice to have the time shifted and the daylight hours better aligning to my preferences up here in Chicago. Same as I feel when we shift back the hours later. So my lost hour went into being thankful for the change!
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/31 "2024-03-11T14:31:19Z")
I solved the “lost hour” thing a number of years ago. What I do is, when it reaches 9:00 pm, I turn all my clocks forward to 10:00 pm so that I adjust to the change BEFORE I go to bed, not in the morning. By the time I go to bed around 11:00 pm or so, I’ve already made the adjustment in my mind. So, my “lost hour” is not lost, it is voluntarily surrendered beforehand. 🙂
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/32 "2024-03-11T14:37:23Z")
That’s exactly what my folks did growing, but I feel like we started earlier, maybe like at 6 p.m., to get a sense of the day. But, yeah, definitely NOT changing clocks the day of, because there’s just too much a likelihood to forget. These days we have lots of devices that automatically switch, so we don’t get that mental preparation of changing early.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/33 "2024-03-11T14:48:25Z")
Chief Washakie of the Shoshone tribe said of Daylight Savings Time “The white man would cut the end off of a blanket, sew it onto the other end, and tell us the blanket is longer.”
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### Author:  [@Yosh99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yosh99)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/34 "2024-03-11T15:29:26Z")
I’d much prefer that everyone set their clocks back an hour every day of the year. It’s out of sync with the sun, but we’d gain a free hour of sleep every morning.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/35 "2024-03-11T16:02:36Z")
> [@Bullitt](#):
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> I’ll have to come north to visit it, then. Water! Hey that’s what it looks like!
Yeah, on a visit to a cousin near Seattle a few years ago my brother and I marveled at the river his property fronted on then later when we were driving along the Hood Canal, stopped at Cushman #2 hydro plant and felt the ground trembling under our feet from the power of the water passing through it.
Except for the Colorado River we just don’t get that kind of stuff in Arizona.
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### Author:  [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/36 "2024-03-11T16:42:34Z")
> [@Jasmine](#):
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> _I solved the “lost hour” thing a number of years ago. What I do is, when it reaches 9:00 pm, I turn all my clocks forward to 10:00 pm so that I adjust to the change BEFORE I go to bed, not in the morning._
I’ve done the same thing, for years. I’ve even been known to do it early in the evening. This year, however, I didn’t feel like it, and left the chore until Sunday morning. Then I was annoyed with myself for doing it that way!
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/37 "2024-03-11T16:46:02Z")
Well, as a wise man once said, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” 🙂
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/38 "2024-03-11T16:49:17Z")
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever heard it pronounced correctly. In fact, I didn’t even know “Savings” is wrong until you just told me. 😳
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/39 "2024-03-11T16:56:38Z")
I have heard that there’s a nesting doll thing in Arizona, regarding the time zone. Inside the U.S., which uses DST, is Arizona, which doesn’t. Inside Arizona, which doesn’t, is the Navajo Nation, which does. Inside the Navajo Nation, which does, is a bit of the Hopi Nation, which doesn’t.
Of course that could have been apocryphal, or have changed.
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/40 "2024-03-11T17:07:24Z")
[There ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EMnZCVsmp1c)
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