Thoughts on Daylight Saving(s) Time

[vaskidmark]

Is it better to set the clocks ahead before you go to sleep Saturday night/early Sunday morning so that you do not automatically lose an hour when you wake up?

About all that daylight we saved last year - how come we could not use any of it to melt the snow/ice we've been having lately?

Is everyone's saved daylight kept in a separate container, or is it all mixed together?  If it's all mixed together, can I get extra daylight if, when I withdraw some of my savings, I get some wrinkled, used daylight instead of it all being crisp new daylight like what I personally deposited?

Yes I was discussing DSL with a 3-year old today.  They know all the questions and insist I provide the answers.  Not fair!

stay safe.

[Perd Hapley]

Is everyone's saved daylight kept in a separate container, or is it all mixed together? 

Al Gore's lock box.

[lee n. field]

Is everyone's saved daylight kept in a separate container, or is it all mixed together?  If it's all mixed together, can I get extra daylight if, when I withdraw some of my savings, I get some wrinkled, used daylight instead of it all being crisp new daylight like what I personally deposited?

It's been socialized, all thrown together into a common People's Daylight pool and frittered away by some federal agency.

[AJ Dual]

I'm just miffed no one its studying the impact an extra hour of daylight is having on global warming, but instead focuses on CO2 etc.

[Northwoods]

I'm just miffed no one its studying the impact an extra hour of daylight is having on global warming, but instead focuses on CO2 etc.

 

They actually do.

[Azrael256]

DST is a serious hazard.  More tornadoes happen during DST because of the extra hour of solar heating destabilizing the atmosphere.

(Seriously had someone try to convince me of that once.)

[Scout26]

Remember it's Spring Back and Fall Forward.

[RoadKingLarry]

Remember it's Spring Back and Fall Forward.

in 1981 when my boat pulled into MINSY we got in late afternoon on a Saturday. DST turned over on Sunday. The entire oncoming duty section, officers, chiefs and men, fore and aft were late. One of the few times I ever saw a command publicly smack down a chief. The torpedo chief wrote up the torpedoman for the duty section for being UA. CO made an announcement on Monday that everyone in Sunday's duty section had to report to TMC Smith to be written up for being an hour late Sunday morning and he expected the paperwork to be in his hands by noon.

[BlueStarLizzard]

It's an evil consperiocy designed to screw up my sleep patterns. >:(

Stupid, stupid, stupid. At least it won't be so hard to fall back since I automatically wake up at 5 am, although I prefer to wake up and go back down for an hour then wake up, doze off and realize I'm way late for work an hour later.

[230RN]

Always throws me off for a couple of days.  Like bluestarlizzard, I seem to be tuned to the sun, despite my big-city upbringing.  I guess it's my Inner Pagan operating.

It's not as disruptive now that I'm retired, though.  Just a pain to go around to all of the clocks and change them.  One or two are not all that accessible, and the one in the car I forget about for a week or more because I'm usually driving when I look at it and remember it's off an hour.

Terry

[p12]

My wife and I both seem to have a clock fetish.

A few years ago I got tired of resetting 37 clocks twice a year and we pulled batteries out of all but a few. Now it takes us about 5 minutes instead of about 35 minutes to reset all the clocks.

The none working clocks all are smiles. 10:10

[Ben]

My wife and I both seem to have a clock fetish.

Boy did I read that sentence wrong. 

[roo_ster]

I loves me some DST and would like to have year-round DST to maximize daylight in the evenings.

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As to where they put the daylight they save up, the gov't has been in daylight deficit for YEARS.  The daylight debt is accumulating and our children and grandchildren will have us to thank when their summer days are truncated to a mere four hours and the sun does not rise at all during winter.

[230RN]

Boy did I read that sentence wrong. 

Whew!  Me, too!  I wasn't the only one.  Thanks for bringing it up.... oh, wait... never mind.

I'm not signing this one so nobody will know who posted it.

[p12]

Maybe fetish was a poor choice of words.  We like the old world style and enjoy collecting them.

And for clarification

C...L...O...C...K  as in time keeping device.

[lee n. field]

My wife and I both seem to have a clock fetish.

A few years ago I got tired of resetting 37 clocks twice a year and we pulled batteries out of all but a few. Now it takes us about 5 minutes instead of about 35 minutes to reset all the clocks.

The none working clocks all are smiles. 10:10

Or every six months figuring out how to change the time on a digital watch.

[Tallpine]

I think the gubbermint is taking all that daylight that we save during the summer and selling it off to places like Australia, Argentina, and Chile.   

[230RN]

I think the gubbermint is taking all that daylight that we save during the summer and selling it off to places like Australia, Argentina, and Chile.  

Don't you mean "giving" to insure their loyalty and cooperation?  That's the way it normally works, opposite hemispheres notwithstanding.

[Fly320s]

I think the gubbermint is taking all that daylight that we save during the summer and selling it off to places like Australia, Argentina, and Chile.   

That won't work. All of those countries are in the Southern hemisphere. When it is dark here, it is light there. Winter here, spring there. Up is down, clockwise is counterclockwise.

Our government is stealing their daylight by giving them our unused daylight!

[Tallpine]

That won't work. All of those countries are in the Southern hemisphere. When it is dark here, it is light there. Winter here, spring there. Up is down, clockwise is counterclockwise.

Our government is stealing their daylight by giving them our unused daylight!

They have plenty of daylight in the winter so that's where I figure all of our summer daylight that we saved is going.

[Triphammer]

What is this "clock changing" ritual of which you speak? We don't celebrate that here. Though, twice a year, something screws with all the TV schedules.

[Tallpine]

I've got vehicle clocks that I've never figured out how to change, and no owners manual 

[Ben]

I've got vehicle clocks that I've never figured out how to change, and no owners manual 

Uhm...

[Sindawe]

Is it better to set the clocks ahead before you go to sleep Saturday night/early Sunday morning so that you do not automatically lose an hour when you wake up?

Forget changing the clocks, just set them to UTC and remember current offset of your time zone.

[Sergeant Bob]

Maybe fetish was a poor choice of words.  We like the old world style and enjoy collecting them.

And for clarification

C...L...O...C...K  as in time keeping device.

Trucker clock! Who wants some?