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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Angel Eyes on March 09, 2024, 10:49:57 PM
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... yes, that's tonight.
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But they're getting feed an hour earlier now
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I don't mind fall back so much, but spring forward just freaking kills me. I'm out of sorts for a couple of days.
I wish they would just pick a time and stick with it. This twice yearly change bullshit is... bullshit.
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I wish they would just pick a time and stick with it. This twice yearly change bullshit is... bullshit.
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This.
Brad
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I wish they would just pick a time and stick with it. This twice yearly change bullshit is... bullshit.
Agreed, and if that ever happens, I'd prefer it to stay as it is now. With rare exceptions, evening daylight is far more useful to me.
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The old gal with all the mental issues (the one I am guardian to) has been in absolute freak out mode. Her TV, microwave, phone, and digital clock radio all have to be exactly the same. I’ll be delivering her groceries and laundry later today and I’ll no doubt spend some time diddling with them until she calms down. She has been upset because her calendar doesn’t identify the day of the time change.
Spring up, fall down.
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I'm probably in the minority here, but I would prefer one time and that it be standard. IT'S STANDARD FOR A REASON PEOPLE! =D
I would suck it up for daylight time if they just stuck to one time though. My big problem is that geographically, I'm in the worst area of the worst time zone border in the country. I stick WAY into Pacific time, so in Summer, it's still light out till past ten, and I like to be in the rack by 2130. If we went to all year daylight time, it would be pitch black in December until like 0930.
Hence all year standard time where I live would be almost like all year daylight time for people in not stupid time zones. I'd actually be ok with daylight time here if it was Pacific, which is what parts of Northern Idaho that are farther East than me already have. They need to make all of Idaho Pacific time. Modern commerce is such that we have no need to be tied to Salt Lake City time, just like Eastern Oregon is also in this stupid time zone area and they don't need to be tied to Boise, and could join the rest of Oregon in Pacific time.
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It used to bug the *expletive deleted*it out of me when I was working.... of course.
Now, retired for 14 years, it throws me for a day. Minor annoyance is going around resetting all the timekeepers twice a year: two in bedroom, one in bathroom, one in living room, one in the kitchen, one on the wristwatch, two on a computer which is not on the 'net, and which has an old astronomical program whose automatic daylight time switchover is from the old DST switchover dates, independent of the machine clock.
I have worse pains in the ass to deal with, so this minor annoyance is pretty petty.
Terry, 230RN
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Pick one and stick with it. I don't care which one, it's just a number on the clock.
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Pick one and stick with it. I don't care which one, it's just a number on the clock.
Easy to say, but my recollection from my working days is that mere "number on the clock" discombobulates all kinds of biological schedules --eating, pet walking, sleeping, innard voiding....
... as well as meshing with your godamned bus schedules if you have to work.
And there's also the problem of all the people who are not where they ought to be at "Number on the clock":00 AM because they forgot the changeover.
BTDT.
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And there's also the problem of all the people who are or are not where they ought to be at "Number on the clock":00 AM because they forgot the changeover.
That's exactly my point, quit changing it.
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The only thing more annoying than DST - the semi-annual DST Complaint Session! :P
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The one good thing about time changes these days is that a lot of people now depend on devices that reset themselves.
Phones, computers, TV sets/ boxes, etc. All reset to the time change automatically.
I have two analog clocks in my house, neither of which I touch.
The only two devices that I have to reset manually are the microwave and the clock on the stove.
I also need to reset the clock in my Forester, if I get around to it.
But my cell phone resets automatically, and since I use that as my alarm clock, no problems.
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Why not split the difference and adjust the time :30, stick with that, and be done with it?
Manual clock sets in my life: My analog Timex wristwatch, the clock in the car, and the wife's alarm clock in her room.
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I'm probably in the minority here, but I would prefer one time and that it be standard. IT'S STANDARD FOR A REASON PEOPLE! =D
I would suck it up for daylight time if they just stuck to one time though. My big problem is that geographically, I'm in the worst area of the worst time zone border in the country. I stick WAY into Pacific time, so in Summer, it's still light out till past ten, and I like to be in the rack by 2130. If we went to all year daylight time, it would be pitch black in December until like 0930.
Hence all year standard time where I live would be almost like all year daylight time for people in not stupid time zones. I'd actually be ok with daylight time here if it was Pacific, which is what parts of Northern Idaho that are farther East than me already have. They need to make all of Idaho Pacific time. Modern commerce is such that we have no need to be tied to Salt Lake City time, just like Eastern Oregon is also in this stupid time zone area and they don't need to be tied to Boise, and could join the rest of Oregon in Pacific time.
I'm with you Ben. To get something close to 8hrs sleep I have to be in the rack by 8:00. Around here, on DST, it's still light outside until 9:30. For some reason, DW doesn't want me to put aluminum foil on the windows....
I don't adjust the clock in the truck. It's on DST and stays there. Turing the tuning knobs cause the numbers to randomly jump all over, it's just not worth the hassle to change it.
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I also have to say that I would be less aggravated by the switch if we were doing six months on, six months off, like in the good old days. My team is getting ripped off with the extra long DST.
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Why not split the difference and adjust the time :30, stick with that, and be done with it?
Manual clock sets in my life: My analog Timex wristwatch, the clock in the car, and the wife's alarm clock in her room.
India used the be 2 time zones. They split the difference and made the whole country 1 zone. They also don't observe DST.
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My patience came through, my car clock is now correct once more. Only time I cared is doing atlantic crossings. Work nights on the way to Europe, days on the way back. Presto, deployment was now 12 hours shorter. =D
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I'm probably in the minority here, but I would prefer one time and that it be standard. IT'S STANDARD FOR A REASON PEOPLE! =D
I agree. The world adopted standardized time zones for what were deemed valid reasons -- and then various people and various government entities started screwing around with standard time zones to make them anything except "standard."
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India used the be 2 time zones. They split the difference and made the whole country 1 zone. They also don't observe DST.
You want temporal schizophrenia? Try Arizona.
The state of Arizona does not observe daylight time. The Navajo reservation, which is largely in Arizona, does observe Daylight time. The Hopi reservation, which is entirely within the Navajo reservation, does not observe daylight time.
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I learned a few years ago that there are some places that have 30-minute offsets within a time zone, including Afghanistan, Newfoundland, and parts of Australia. Oh, and India.
W. The. Literal. F.
I reset the clock in the Forester this morning. That one is easy. You go into the information center and instead of changing the actual time numbers, you select whether you want Daylight Savings Time on or off.
I reset the clock on my stove yesterday afternoon.
So of course the power went out last night for a bit because of the wind we were having, and now the stove clock is blinking merrily away.
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Since I go to bed fairly early, because I get up fairly early, I invested in blackout curtains for my bedroom a couple of years ago. They're not 100% effective, but man do they really reduce the light in my bedroom in the summer.
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It's all TikTok's fault.
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The thing I wonder about is who really wants DST? I don't think I have come across anyone who likes it. I have heard what seems like dozens of reasons for why it was instituted and most of them appear to just be BS. Everyone thinks someone else wants it.
From what I have heard, there have been efforts to get rid of it at least at the state level, yet for some reason, there is always pressure on politicians to NOT change it.
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Effects POCs the most
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Never understood this crap.
"A longer day of daylight" :O
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I enjoy DST. I always have. I have been laughing watching and listening to all the whining. It's even more amusing to watch all the "experts" blathering on the boob tube that changing to DST savings time causes heart attacks,cancer, COPD, psoriasis, pimples, erection disfunction, election disfunction, loss of democracy, baldness, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, blindness and in particular gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes. LOL
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The thing I wonder about is who really wants DST? I don't think I have come across anyone who likes it. I have heard what seems like dozens of reasons for why it was instituted and most of them appear to just be BS. Everyone thinks someone else wants it.
From what I have heard, there have been efforts to get rid of it at least at the state level, yet for some reason, there is always pressure on politicians to NOT change it.
Seems like many want it until they get it. I mean, we went to fulltime DST before, and then everybody complained and we went back to switching the clocks. People always cheer for DST in the Summer, but then when it has been fulltime, they complained about it in the Winter.
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I enjoy DST. I always have. I have been laughing watching and listening to all the whining. It's even more amusing to watch all the "experts" blathering on the boob tube that changing to DST savings time causes heart attacks,cancer, COPD, psoriasis, pimples, erection disfunction, election disfunction, loss of democracy, baldness, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, blindness and in particular gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes. LOL
Don't you have a cloud to yell at, old man?
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Don't you have a cloud to yell at, old man?
"Black cloud hangin' over my head....."
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I enjoy DST. I always have. I have been laughing watching and listening to all the whining. It's even more amusing to watch all the "experts" blathering on the boob tube that changing to DST savings time causes heart attacks,cancer, COPD, psoriasis, pimples, erection disfunction, election disfunction, loss of democracy, baldness, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, blindness and in particular gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes. LOL
Interesting. I have never heard anyone on mainstream TV talk negatively about it.
I just figured it would be better to get used to the changing sunrise/sunset during different parts of the year rather than bothering with time changes.
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The thing I wonder about is who really wants DST? I don't think I have come across anyone who likes it. I have heard what seems like dozens of reasons for why it was instituted and most of them appear to just be BS. Everyone thinks someone else wants it.
From what I have heard, there have been efforts to get rid of it at least at the state level, yet for some reason, there is always pressure on politicians to NOT change it.
I don't know where you're coming from on that. I've always heard controversy on it and I myself (when I was working) enjoyed the extra daylight to get outdoor stuff done --a lot of which was regular fun stuff. Like baseball games at the local High School. Sometimes more fun than MLB games.
I'm wondering if you are just simply not hearing opinions which are contrary to your position, or your "personal aura" tends to suppress opposite responses from others.
Effects (sic: "affects") POCs the most
Reasoning? I don't know where that came from, either. Tell me why.
Now that I no longer have to go home from work in darkness, the only real problem is biological adjustment to the daylight shift and re-setting all the timepieces. And I'm used to that now. (Does anyone actually re-set their microwave clocks? I actually enjoy the little blinking "hello" from mine when I enter the kitchen. I also enjoy the green pilot light on my modem as a kind of warm hello, but I have a somewhat limited social life nowadays. =D )
Terry, 230RN
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Effects (sic: "affects") POCs the most
Reasoning? I don't know where that came from, either. Tell me why.
Terry, 230RN
Mocking the left's everything bad affects POC the most narrative.
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If your feet are cold, cut some off the top of the blanket and sew it on to the bottom.
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I don't know where you're coming from on that. I've always heard controversy on it and I myself (when I was working) enjoyed the extra daylight to get outdoor stuff done --a lot of which was regular fun stuff. Like baseball games at the local High School. Sometimes more fun than MLB games.
I'm wondering if you are just simply not hearing opinions which are contrary to your position, or your "personal aura" tends to suppress opposite responses from others.
Reasoning? I don't know where that came from, either. Tell me why.
Now that I no longer have to go home from work in darkness, the only real problem is biological adjustment to the daylight shift and re-setting all the timepieces. And I'm used to that now. (Does anyone actually re-set their microwave clocks? I actually enjoy the little blinking "hello" from mine when I enter the kitchen. I also enjoy the green pilot light on my modem as a kind of warm hello, but I have a somewhat limited social life nowadays. =D )
Terry, 230RN
I was thinking of the switching back and forth. I have no problem with using the Spring Forward time all year long if that is what happens.
And maybe people that are okay with the change don't talk about it much.
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If your feet are cold, cut some off the top of the blanket and sew it on to the bottom.
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Effects (sic: "affects") POCs the most
Reasoning? I don't know where that came from, either. Tell me why.
Sarcasm, Sheldon. What the left immediately say for the fight against time change.
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My only issue with the time change is there is always one or two people who show up to work one hour late in the spring and blame it on the time change. You never get anyone coming in one hour early in the fall though when it changes back. ??? =D
bob
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My late wife's native country tried doing a 30-minute offset for a few years. I think they have now gone back to the "normal" 1-hour adjustment.
Just to add to the insanity, not all the countries that indulge in the DST insanity make the change on the same dates. Considering that standardized time zones were created primarily to allow railroads to publish time schedules, the effect this idiocy must have on transportation (trains, buses, and airlines) must be enormous.
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I don't mind fall back so much, but spring forward just freaking kills me. I'm out of sorts for a couple of days.
I wish they would just pick a time and stick with it. This twice yearly change bullshit is... bullshit.
Most of us are "discombobulated". [barf]
ETA: I was reading an article tonight where they found "hormonal changes" that affect us with these changes. The early morning light causes our bodies to create more "cortisol" that helps us wake up and get active for the day. In that same article, it points out that the later sunset delays the creation of the melatonin that helps us sleep while prolonging the presences of the cortisol, inhibiting sleep.
Stay on Standard Time !! :facepalm: :rofl:
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Most of us are "discombobulated".
Does that mean the rest of us are combobulated?
No, it doesn't: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38362/if-you-can-be-discombobulated-is-it-possible-to-be-combobulated
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"Sarcasm." OK, I guess I'm not that tuned into that aspect of the Left's blathering patter.
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"Sarcasm." OK, I guess I'm not that tuned into that aspect of the Left's blathering patter.
One of Rush Limbaugh's jokes decades ago was that if the NY Times were to report on the end of the world, their headline would be "World Ends: Women And Minorities Hardest Hit."
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Don't you have a cloud to yell at, old man?
There you go, playin' the youth card again. I hope you never have to play the age card.
....Oh, wait. I didn't mean that meanly. <sarcasm>
... Oh, wait. I didn't mean the sarcasm smiley either. <crosses fingers>
Me go now.
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230RN:
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One of Rush Limbaugh's jokes decades ago was that if the NY Times were to report on the end of the world, their headline would be "World Ends: Women And Minorities Hardest Hit."
Also: "It's Trump's fault."
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230RN:
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K Frame paid you to post that, no?
J Frame, 230RN
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Were you wearing an onion on your belt? It was the style of the times!
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Were you wearing an onion on your belt? It was the style of the times!
No, he was busy looking for a new place to live.
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No, he was busy looking for a new place to live.
https://youtu.be/WG2g-JHohB0
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That was back when they called a nickel a buff because of the buffalo on it.
Speaking of age, that show's been on for longer than some of us have been alive. I surfeited on it about five (+) years ago when it started to get too "woke" for me even before the term woke got popular.... 47 years in one form or another.
I wonder if they're struggling along trying to reach 50 years just to establish a nice round number for the record books. Or is it just in syndication now? I wouldn't know.
Does anyone still actually watch it?
"That was when Shelbyville was called..."
Terry, 230RN