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.
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.
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.
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.)
Because you are literally saving an hour.
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.
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 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 after it closed for the day because we were confused.
It’s time changes all the way down.
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.
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!”)
The hour went to the Twilight Zone
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
That’d be cool. “Here’s your hour back plus an additional three minutes.”
I had no idea that some location change time on a day other than Sunday. Ignorance fought!
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.
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.
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.
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.