# Reminder: Set your CLOCKS back an hour

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 1, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921 "2009-11-01T06:38:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/1 "2009-11-01T06:38:31Z")

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It’s that time again.

Sorry if this is a second topic…I didn’t see another.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/2 "2009-11-01T07:58:00Z")

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And we got 1 minute left of Daylight savings people, even if the board thinks it changes at midnight.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/3 "2009-11-01T08:01:42Z")

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And it’s gone!

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**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/4 "2009-11-01T08:08:39Z")

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Ha! I’m in Arizona! Foiled again useless time-demon appeasing ritual!

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**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/5 "2009-11-01T09:08:38Z")

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_Set your CLOCKS back an hour_

But we just did that LAST week! 😕

😃

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/6 "2009-11-01T09:42:43Z")

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Thank god, the clock in my bedroom will finally be right! (All my clocks were set forward last spring, except that one.)

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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/7 "2009-11-03T00:19:31Z")

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Now you tell me!!! Where were you when I fed the cat an hour early. Little bastiche will expect it now. Thanks for nuttin!!!

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**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/8 "2009-11-03T00:26:21Z")

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It just occurred to me that I don’t have a single clock that doesn’t turn\* itself \*back an hour.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/9 "2009-11-03T00:29:28Z")

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Thank you for the capitals, as we all would have surely misread the thread tittle otherwise! 🙂

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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/10 "2009-11-03T00:36:51Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> Thank you for the capitals, as we all would have surely misread the thread tittle otherwise! 🙂

well pLAYED

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reminder-set-your-clocks-back-an-hour/515921/11 "2009-11-03T01:17:26Z")

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…been a nice, calm drive to work in the dark, this morning I go in with the sun in my eyes all the way can’t see the damn county road, couldn’t see a damn bread truck if it were in front of me…
