I fell back one hour.
Every clock is wrong. No matter. They weren’t ever right in the first place. I spend my days doing math by clocks that are off. I end up using the phone or laptop for very time sensitive stuff.
Yay, me! I have another hour to be insomniatic.
I do the math-by-clocks thing, too. When I was still driving, I never changed my car’s clock to daylight savings. Also, it, like all my clocks, was 5 minutes fast.
Still on Daylight Savings here for another hour, but I hope to be asleep by then. It’s raining. One of the most soothing sounds in the world…unless you’re the Witch of the West, maybe.
Hi @nelliebly,
Ahhh!
Rain soothed sleep. I may just sleep thinking about that.
Do you have a sleep app on your phone that has rain sounds? Sweet dreams!
While making breakfast, I reset the 3 clocks in the kitchen - all slightly off because we’d had a power burp and they were slightly off anyway. I’ll fix 'em later. Plus there are at least 6 more clocks to do. That shall be my one and only accomplishment today. I declare a day of sloth.
Hi, @FairyChatMom,
I forgot the stove and Microwave.
It doesn’t matter too much they blink on and off alot anyway.
My OC daughter claims all clocks in this house will be will be sync’d if it takes her all day.
I like the slothage idea, myself.
I declare it, as well.
Is your OC daughter single? I keed, I keed! though it sounds like we’d get along, at least as far as clocks are concerned.
I ended up downloading a clock app that would display seconds for just this contingency. Fortunately there are only two clocks — stove and microwave — that a) need to be set manually and b) can be set to this level of accuracy; everything else sets itself, except for the analog wall clock in the bathroom (which can only be set approximately, and which I avoid looking at unless I have to).
On the other topic, I got a noise machine that has a “train” setting (one of my innumerable oddities is that I like trains and find the sound soothing).
The computer and phone auto-sync as expected, I’ve never bothered with the microwave and my watch(an “old-fashioned” Timex Ironman) needs one button press to switch time zones.
Ha! The Lil’Wrekker found that app as well.
All of them exactly five minutes fast wouldn’t help a bit. The ones in the car and truck are fast, but I can’t remember whether they’re two minutes fast or six minutes fast or where inbetween. The one on the wall in the kitchen is fast, by about 15 minutes, but I can’t remember whether it’s 13 minutes or 17 or right on 15. There are two alarm clocks in my bedroom; one’s a couple/few minutes fast and the other stays on DST pretty much all winter – I can remember that, but the momentary effect when I wake up and look at it helps get me awake the rest of the way.
I’m still often late. But it helps a bit.
Or live somewhere that’s flooding.
We’re on “Arizona Time.”
We don’t screw around with that Daylight Savings crap!
Heh.
~VOW
Oh, my gosh, you, too? I never thought of seeing if I can get an app for that, but I, too, find train sounds soothing. I grew up a little over a block away from train tracks and frequently went to sleep to the sounds of them clacking away or the slam-bangs of cars coupling. I find those sounds reassuring somehow.
This made me realize something: I’ve set clocks 5 minutes ahead for so long that I automatically subtract 5 minutes when I check the time. If I stopped setting them that way, I’d be late.
I’m a prisoner to math.
I’m a prisoner of circumstance.
I literally had to turn my mobile’s “autoupdate time” OFF and then back on for my linked watch to reset to the new time. There doesn’t appear to be any way to set the time manually.
I’d be a trifle annoyed, but this is one of those watches that tracks exercise and sleeping and all sorts of other things, and it was less than $50, so I’m not going to bitch about this too much. Until we have to go back to Standard time, of course.
Seriously, why can’t each time zone in the US just pick ONE and stay with it. I have a hard time believing that shifting time like this twice a year actually helps lower energy consumption (although I’m willing to learn differently).
I suspect that, when DST was first introduced in the U.S., it did likely reduce energy consumption during the summer months, by reducing use of artificial lighting in the evening.
But, this cite from the U.S. Energy Information Administration says that, in 2020, lighting only accounted for 4% of U.S. residential energy consumption, and only 2% of total U.S. energy consumption.
I would suspect that the switch away from incandescent lighting in U.S. households, to more efficient bulbs (CFLs and LEDs) has helped to reduce the proportion of energy use which goes to lighting; beyond that, compared to decades ago, the typical household has more electric/electronic devices, many of which are on constantly, or for a large proportion of the day, regardless of sunlight.
The U.S. did go to all-year DST in 1973-75, during the first Arab oil crisis, in an effort to save energy. While it stayed light further into the evening, the downside was that, in the northern part of the country, the sun didn’t rise until 8am or later during the dead of winter.