# What are you going to do with your extra hour? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 29, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783 "2000-10-29T02:31:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/21 "2000-10-29T08:44:44Z")
I thought I d lose an hour instead of get one… I always mix that up… so I got up at 9AM assuming it was already 10, and was all upset when I realized it was only 8 AM. Life isn fair sometimes ☹ If I was in England already I d not have to worry about shit like that. I ll spend my extra hour in this forum 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cyndar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cyndar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyndar)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/22 "2000-10-29T14:08:56Z")
I was at work. Yipee. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/23 "2000-10-29T14:33:06Z")
Whatever I was going to do with it I’ve apparently already done, as it’s now time to go to work. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/24 "2000-10-29T14:38:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wring \* > \*\*have to get my son to work by 7 am tomorrow \*\* dammit dammit dammit. So, I get up at 5:40 (have to get son up by 6 in order to get him to work by 7), I’m showered, dressed etc. He goes to take his shower, goes back to his room, then comes out again “uh, mom, I don’t have to be there til 9”… dammit dammit dammit. I’m up by 5:30 every work day, and both days this weekend and he tells me THEN “oops”??? In the true adacious nature of a 16year old, he then also wanted me to let him drive to work (he’s got a permit) Not bloody likely! ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/25 "2000-10-29T14:42:04Z")
Does anybody know what time it is…does anybody really care ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/26 "2000-10-29T14:43:03Z")
I got up at the regular time, and the other two people in the house slept blissfully on, so I gained a whole quiet hour to myself. ----:D/ ----///\\ ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/27 "2000-10-29T15:26:48Z")
I had really bad insomnia last night, so I spent the extra hour _trying_ to sleep. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Show\_Biz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Show\_Biz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Show_Biz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/28 "2000-10-29T16:04:44Z")
I’m going to be on-line killing time waiting for my Sunday paper to arrive. It’s not here yet. I suspect the carrier or the presses or somebody is still on Daylight Savings Time. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/29 "2000-10-29T16:07:00Z")
Watch Lola… ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/30 "2000-10-30T00:05:32Z")
I don’t get an hour either. But I used to save them so I could use it in the spring. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/31 "2000-10-30T00:14:21Z")
I woke up this morning at 7 am (according to my clock), dragged my carcass out of bed since I had to be at the theatre at 8 am to help set up the next show. Ran about panicking (since it’s a 30 minute drive and I still had morning ablutions and other stuff to do). I started the computer to check e-mail, and the first message box reminded me that it had automatically adjusted for DST and the time was actually 6:08 am. Huh? … \ Duh. Hoorah, but I hate when the computer is smarter than I am. It ‘remembered’, I didn’t. At least I didn’t show up earlier than everyone else. But I’m home now and enjoying that ‘extra hour’. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2000, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783/32 "2000-10-30T05:59:22Z")
Lucky you, screech-owl. I was so humiliated this morning. I got up at 9, thinking it was 10, because of my stupid, worthless, goat-felching, belongs-at-the bottom-of-the-Indian-ocean motherboard. It shorted out last night, after the computer had reset itself, so when it rebooted, it reset itself again. A friend of mine, for whom I’d promised to record something this morning (he doesn’t have cable), called me at what to me was 10:25, but was in fact 11:25, while his show started at 11:30. He didn’t come right out and ask “Are you taping my show?”; he just gave all kinds of subtle, gentlemanly hints, until finally I said, “I know, it starts in an hour.” How humiliating. I hate to make classic mistakes like that, or to look like I did. My real mistake was putting too much faith in my computer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-extra-hour/38783.md?page=1)