Well, if you don’t live in Arizona, that is.
How far do you recommend? If I set the one near my bed too far back, I won’t be able to read it without my glasses.
And I’m not sure how to handle the ones mounted on the wall…maybe set them back in a cabinet?
-D/a
*also, change your smoke detector batteries. I’m not picky about what you change them into.
You may mount those outside on exterior of your house.
I believe the childhood rhyme dictates you turn them into sauerkraut.
Do I mount them with the clock face err…facing to the house? Possibly at a window, so I can still read it?
I’m on it!
-D/a
Will you guys please, PLEASE stop doing this. (Changing clocks, I mean. I’m totally good about checking smoke detectors on a regular basis)
Do you have any idea how hard it is on me? When I have to call across the country, not only do I have to figure out how far ahead you are, I also have to try to remember about DST. This madness isn’t limited to the US, Canada has also bought into it and I tend to think of Canadians as rational people.
Everytime I get used to what time it is outside of the land of We Don’t Need More Stinking Sunlight, you guys change things up. I know that you do it just to mess with me personally!
OK. Who spilled the beans?
Last Sunday, during announcements in church, we were reminded to set out clocks back. * “After all, you wouldn’t want to be an hour early to church and have to go to Sunday school, would you?”*
I hereby move that next year, we use random time changes in the range of 2 minutes and 17 second to three hours, fifteen minutes, and four seconds. Changing each weekend.
-D/a
Runs screaming from the thread, grabs kittens and hides under the bed. Peeks out long enough to wonder as when the next end of the world will happen and wonders if it will have time changes involved as well. If so, I am not going to participate!
And flip your mattress. (Spin in spring; flip in fall - learned that from Martha!)
Phew, sounds like tomorrow is going to be a full day! I better get to bed early to rest up.
I hate both ends of daylight savings. in Spring I have to get up an extra hour early which sucks. In fall an extra hour of sleep is pointless because I am already on schedule to get up when I want, so I get up at the right time, and just have wait an extra hour for football to start, which sucks.
I live in Thailand, which has no DST, and my SDMB options are set to Thailand - No DST.
But for several hours now, the time stamps reported to me here have been early by 60 minutes! I’ll guess that this is a (vbulletin?) software bug caused by some double correction, depends on our having passed the 2 AM Sunday, and my times will become correct again when Chicago also passes that time. Anyone else see this?
(I wonder what the costs of these transitions and associated bugs are. Leap-years are also troublesome. IIRC, Microsoft got the special leapyear test wrong (1900 isn’t, but 2000 is) and there was seemingly sober talk of adapting the calendar rules to comply with Microsoft software. :dubious: )
Be very careful if your house happens to straddle two time zones.
The problem there is that all Microsoft documents and programs that deal with dates in that period already have a workaround. So fixing it means that those stop working correctly.
I’m personally okay with the time change, since all it means for me is that I’ll get to bed an hour earlier relative to everyone else (as changing my sleep schedule by as much as an hour makes me cranky.)
I have recently become an Android user…do I need to manually set the clock back, will it automatically do it, or is there an app* for that? #FirstWorldProblems
*Good gosh almighty I hate the term “app”. ::Gives “app” the finger::
Most modern operating systems handle daylight savings time changes fairly well. Cell phones, in particular, often get their time from the network (NITS). I suspect your phone adjusted automatically.
Now, I have to go cut one of my clocks in half, so I can hang one part outside and the other inside.
-D/a
I don’t live in Arizona, but I did it last week. Was that wrong of me?
I just finished resetting our clocks. By my count, we have 24 clocks and devices with clocks in them, of which 16 need to be set manually, 7 reset automatically, and 1 doesn’t work so who cares. I may have missed a few.
Which way are you going to cut it? I mean, technically, you should cut it, top to bottom, leaving you with two thin slices. When you’re done it should look like you pushed your clock through the wall, not like somebody threw at at your house like a Frisbee.
I forgot to set the alarm clocks back. This morning was delicious. I slept in, and then discovered the extra hour after I got downstairs.