# Time To Spring Forward! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676 "2008-03-09T02:27:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/1 "2008-03-09T02:27:08Z")
In case you didn’t know, it’s time to change the clocks again. “Spring forward” one hour at 2 a.m. YAY! ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/2 "2008-03-09T02:59:43Z")
I don’t have to worry about it, as we don’t play your little time-changing game, but I am looking forward to it. It means that some of my favorite shows, like _The Colbert Report_,\* The Soup\*, and\* Intervention\* will come on an hour earlier. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/3 "2008-03-09T02:59:52Z")
[QUOTE=Tenar] YAY! [/QUOTE] Yay? Yay??? YAY ??? A great many words of exclamation come to mind with this news. ‘Yay’ is NOT one of them. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/4 "2008-03-09T03:05:22Z")
We never change our clocks. It’s hard keeping up these days, though, with the time changes in the US. The dates seem to keep moving. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/5 "2008-03-09T03:29:39Z")
I hate all this ‘change the clocks’ business… I have so many freaking clocks in my house- Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/6 "2008-03-09T03:34:44Z")
It’s not spring yet. The snow now covers the bottom half of my kitchen window. I don’t wanna do it. :: pout :: ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/7 "2008-03-09T04:40:40Z")
My sister called me a couple of hours ago asking what time it was. Because apparently, I’m the official clock as well as the official dictionary. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/8 "2008-03-09T05:08:06Z")
This is odd. It’s not 2am yet anywhere in the US. It’s 12:07pm Sunday here in Thailand. I have the post times set to my local time. But for the past hour or so, every new post shows an hour ahead of me. This must have someting to do with the time change. 😕 EDIT: Yes, including THIS post. It showed 1:08pm when I posted it. Does the Board automatically figure I’ve pushed my clocks forward? We don’t, and this has never happened before. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/9 "2008-03-09T05:10:47Z")
An hour here, an hour there; what’s the difference between a few friends? Time is such an arbitrary construct, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/10 "2008-03-09T05:12:59Z")
[QUOTE=blondebear] An hour here, an hour there; what’s the difference between a few friends? Time is such an arbitrary construct, don’t you think? [/QUOTE] I’m Siam Sam, not Hong Kong Harry. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/11 "2008-03-09T12:48:35Z")
Here in Europe, we don’t change the clocks until 02.00 on the 30th of March. Confusing, or what? A few years ago, I arrived in Memphis on the day before the clocks changed but nobody thought to tell me. For two days I wondered why I kept missing things - breakfast at the hotel, the start of the service in Rev Al Green’s church [just as well: despite arriving an hour late, I still had to endure three hours of it…] Why doesn’t it happen on the same day throughout the world? (give or take the International Date Line and those sensible places that leave the time alone) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/12 "2008-03-09T12:58:31Z")
Hate the time shift! Pick a time and stick with it. But I’ve taken care of almost all my clocks now. ---
**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/13 "2008-03-09T13:29:35Z")
Small bonus for me, as the powahs that be gave us an extra hour this morning to deliver our routes. The downside to that is that I got done with work at 8:00 this morning, when I normally get done at 7:00. At least the clocks changed while I was at work and not before, otherwise I probably would have forgotten and stumbled in an hour late. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/14 "2008-03-09T14:38:06Z")
Because of the recent change in the date when DST comes into effect, not only did I have to change the time on my VCR, I’ll have to change it again in a few weeks (it changes the time automatically based on the **old** DST rules)! Mutter, mutter, mutter… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/15 "2008-03-09T14:39:20Z")
Testing. EDIT: Now the time is back in sync. I suspected that once the US went through the time change, posting time would show correct again. It’s almost as if the server assumed everyone in the world would push their clocks forward. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![LucyInDisguise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucyindisguise/32/18064_2.png) [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/16 "2008-03-09T18:16:19Z")
I was sooo hoping that this thread would be in the Pit. ☹ My opinions regarding DST can not be expressed in anything approaching civilized language. :mad: Lucy. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/17 "2008-03-09T18:32:26Z")
Winter forward! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/18 "2008-03-09T22:29:49Z")
Well, it’s now a superbly-beautiful winter afternoon here in Toronto, with a pale-blue sky above brilliant white snow. The sunlight is warm on my face and coat, even. I’m kind of okay with it now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/19 "2008-03-10T02:37:55Z")
Our “cool” season ended abruptly a few days ago. We have no spring as a transition from “cold” to hot, or rather from hot to hotter. It can feel almost pleasant from about November to maybe mid-February, then BAM! Scorching again. We seem to have returned to scorching, although later in than usual. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676/20 "2008-03-10T03:18:19Z")
[QUOTE=seosamh] Why doesn’t it happen on the same day throughout the world? (give or take the International Date Line and those sensible places that leave the time alone) [/QUOTE] Why not get rid of it altogether? We should NEVER change the time. There is no real reason to do so in our modern age. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-spring-forward/440676.md?page=2)