# 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:  [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/41 "2024-03-11T17:19:34Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> You lucky bastards - we have to wait until March 29 to move our clocks.
March 29th is a Friday. Might want to wait a bit longer.
Just feel sorry for those going to Easter service after the tine change.
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> Of course that could have been apocryphal, or have changed.
Been there, got the confusion. Add in a 9 hour time change from Europe, and phones and navi that have no idea about the time, and you may understand that we were glad to be on vacation and not have to be somewhere at an exact time.
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### Author:  [@Deanna\_D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deanna_D)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/42 "2024-03-11T17:48:30Z")
I think we’ve gotten to the point where we just give up, because so many people just get it wrong. Eventually, the wrong usage becomes acceptable. And that just bothers me.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/43 "2024-03-11T17:50:57Z")
You clearly don’t know enough pedants! (I think it is mentioned every time a SDMB thread comes up and someone mistakingly adds the “s.” I’m one of those who do say “daylight saving time” without the “s”, but that’s because I know too many nit-pickers. I don’t care how others say it; adding the “s” is by far the more common usage, in my experience, as well.)
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/44 "2024-03-11T17:57:29Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Most importantly the battle is lost; “Daylight Savings” _is_ the term actually used by nearly everyone.
Because you are **literally** saving an hour.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/45 "2024-03-11T18:14:54Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#):
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> March 29th is a Friday. Might want to wait a bit longer.
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> Just feel sorry for those going to Easter service after the tine change
Yep - 2:00 AM on Friday, the clocks move an hour forwards.
And around here, it’s more of an issue of when the Passover Seder starts. Summer Time means an extra hour for cooking and travelling.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/46 "2024-03-11T18:14:55Z")
> [@Yllaria](#):
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> Of course that could have been apocryphal, or have changed.
It’s not apochryphal and it hasn’t changed. The only error is that the _entire_ Hopi reservation is surrounded by the Navajo, not just part of it, and inside the Hopi rez is a [Navajo island](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hopi+Reservation,+Hopi,+AZ/@36.0159522,-111.1311742,9z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8731b08af8081707:0x65ceceba433c8a90!8m2!3d35.875584!4d-110.6067762!16zL20vMDZfOXpz?authuser=0&entry=ttu) for another layer of nesting.
There’s nothing commercial inside that island so I’ve fantasized knocking on someone’s door and asking them what the time is. Tourist guides to the area advise to “inquire locally” regarding the time. We once showed up at the [Hubbell trading post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbell_Trading_Post_National_Historic_Site) after it closed for the day because we were confused.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/47 "2024-03-11T18:19:12Z")
> [@DesertDog](#):
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> and inside the Hopi rez is a [Navajo island](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hopi+Reservation,+Hopi,+AZ/@36.0159522,-111.1311742,9z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x8731b08af8081707:0x65ceceba433c8a90!8m2!3d35.875584!4d-110.6067762!16zL20vMDZfOXpz?authuser=0&entry=ttu) for another layer of nesting.
😮 It’s time changes all the way down.
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### Author:  [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/48 "2024-03-11T19:59:19Z")
> [@DesertDog](#):
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> We once showed up at the [Hubbell trading post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbell_Trading_Post_National_Historic_Site) after it closed for the day because we were confused.
Shoot, I was just there last month driving from Chinle to Window Rock and, not realizing it was there I drove right past it! But I’ll be there again in a few weeks, and if it’s open I might stop in.
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/49 "2024-03-11T20:37:23Z")
> [@Deanna\_D](#):
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> I think we’ve gotten to the point where we just give up, because so many people just get it wrong. Eventually, the wrong usage becomes acceptable. And that just bothers me.
We’ll just have to move on to correcting people who think DST is the setting that starts in the fall and ends in the spring.
Or people who think “Standard Time” means “keeping the clocks set to the same time all year” and “Daylight Saving Time” means “changing the clocks twice a year.”
(Remember these folks the next time you see a poll showing that “Americans Prefer Standard Time!”)
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/50 "2024-03-11T20:52:52Z")
The hour went to the _Twilight Zone_
> **[Paladin of the Lost Hour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin_of_the_Lost_Hour)**
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> "Paladin of the Lost Hour" is the second segment of the seventh episode of the first season of the first revival of the television series The Twilight Zone, adapted from a novelette by scriptwriter Harlan Ellison. The story follows the friendship between a Vietnam veteran and an old man entrusted with forestalling the end of the universe. The television episode starred Danny Kaye in one of his final screen appearances.
> An old man named Gaspar is attacked by muggers in a cemetery. As one of the m...
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/51 "2024-03-11T21:37:10Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#):
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> Or people who think “Standard Time” means “keeping the clocks set to the same time all year” and “Daylight Saving Time” means “changing the clocks twice a year.”
My father, may he rest in peace, kept his wristwatch on standard time as a protest against government interference. The clocks in the house were set to government time to keep from bothering the rest of us, but his wristwatch kept up the resistance.
That and the black market avocadoes.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/52 "2024-03-12T14:36:10Z")
> [@Deanna\_D](#):
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> Eventually, the wrong usage becomes acceptable. And that just bothers me
A friend’s dog got zapped by an electric fence and she told me her dog was “electrocuted”. I explained that electrocuted meant killed by electricity, and yet her dog was fine.
She did some reading and later informed me that in informal use, electrocute was now acceptable for more minor injuries. That bothered me.
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### Author:  [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/53 "2024-03-12T16:59:45Z")
Don’t worry, the government is keeping it for you.
You’ll get it back later in the year. But unfortunately without any interest paid…
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### Author:  [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/54 "2024-03-12T17:49:36Z")
A…yeah. 2 days later and still somewhat lethargic and resentful of how much losing just an hour has kicked my ass. I want it back…with interest.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/55 "2024-03-13T09:34:34Z")
You know, I envy people like you who have such healthy and stable sleep cycles that losing an hour of sleep is something that happens once a year and not, like, twice a week.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/56 "2024-03-13T09:47:40Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#):
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> You’ll get it back later in the year. But unfortunately without any interest paid…
That’d be cool. “Here’s your hour back plus an additional three minutes.”
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### Author:  [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/57 "2024-03-13T10:06:31Z")
> [@Alessan](#):
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> Yep - 2:00 AM on Friday, the clocks move an hour forwards.
I had no idea that some location change time on a day other than Sunday. Ignorance fought!
> [@Alessan](#):
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> You know, I envy people like you who have such healthy and stable sleep cycles that losing an hour of sleep is something that happens once a year and not, like, twice a week.
I would say otherwise. As I am already losing an hour (or more!) of sleep once or twice a week (stress-related), the time change is an additional kick in the shins. We try to keep a consistent sleep schedule, but this is not always possible.
This year the time change is in the middle of a 4 day weekend, so the first day back to work, Tuesday, is going to be more difficult than usual.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/58 "2024-03-13T10:23:04Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#):
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> I would say otherwise. As I am already losing an hour (or more!) of sleep once or twice a week (stress-related), the time change is an additional kick in the shins. We try to keep a consistent sleep schedule, but this is not always possible.
For me, I have good weeks, bad weeks and worse weeks, pretty much at random. If the hour change turns a good week into a bad week, or a bad week into a worse week… eh. I’ll live with it.
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/59 "2024-03-13T10:24:43Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#):
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> I had no idea that some location change time on a day other than Sunday. Ignorance fought!
They used to change the clocks on Saturday night (Sunday being the start of the work week), but at some point they changed to Thursday night. I don’t remember when that was.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-those-of-us-in-the-land-of-daylight-savings-time-have-lost-an-hour/998692/60 "2024-03-13T15:24:22Z")
There are a couple of battery clocks at work that still haven’t been changed. It’s times like this that we all think of CW. He was the tall person who could reach all the wall clocks. He just did it automatically. But he got a better job years ago.
Now we eye the interns to see if we’ve got a tall one.
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