It's that time...

[Free For All]

This Sunday morning @ 2:00am.

I like the fall time change, it means an extra hour of sleep.

[BeBop]

I'm headed from Seattle to Arkansas; should I be setting my clocks back an hour...plus thirty years?

[A Lark Ascending]

You're late. The clocks went back last week.

[rdavenport]

Means nothing to me since I had kids, it just means they get up at 5.56 instead of 6.56, and that makes it a loooong day.

[Aggie87]

It's that time...

It's Free's birthday again??? Woot!

[jazzbo]

I wish they'd 86 this saving's time thing.

[DukeCity]

I'm headed from Seattle to Arkansas; should I be setting my clocks back an hour...plus thirty years?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I wish they'd 86 this saving's time thing.

I suppose it depends how far north you live - the farther north, the greater the effect. I like the summer time, when it stays light (a little bit) until gone 11pm. When, in the sixties, the Government experimented by not putting us back onto GMT in the winter, I hated it - I couldn't get up in those dark mornings.

MG

[J.A.W.]

You're late. The clocks went back last week.

The clocks went back last week in Europe, not in America.

[A Lark Ascending]

You're late. The clocks went back last week.

The clocks went back last week in Europe, not in America.

I believe they use the Julian calendar too.

[BERIGAN]

I wish it was daylight savings time year round. Screw morning people!

[BFrank]

I wish they'd 86 this saving's time thing.

You could always move to Arizona - no DLS there.

[Free For All]

I wish they'd 86 this saving's time thing.

You could always move to Arizona - no DLS there.

Isn't there someplace in Indiana where they also don't change?

You're late. The clocks went back last week.

The clocks went back last week in Europe, not in America.

I believe they use the Julian calendar too.

Cannonball knows all about the changes.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I wish they'd 86 this saving's time thing.

You could always move to Arizona - no DLS there.

Isn't there someplace in Indiana where they also don't change?

America gets weirder and weirder! Well, I just had to look at a map, didn't I?

http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-usa12.php

So there's a small part of Arizona (a small part!!!) that is the same as the rest of its time zone and changes twice a year, and the rest stays the same twice a year. But inside that small part, there's another part that doesn't change.

And there's a part of Indiana (the bit by Chicago) that has decided it'll follow Chicago and not the rest of the state (not entirely unreasonable, I guess) - but that does appear to change in conformity with Chicago.

MG

[GregK]

I wish we would abandon this thing. What a hassle.

[Free For All]

America gets weirder and weirder!

Yes it does.

[A Lark Ascending]

You're late. The clocks went back last week.

The clocks went back last week in Europe, not in America.

I believe they use the Julian calendar too.

Cannonball knows all about the changes.

Very good!

[BERIGAN]

I wish they'd 86 this saving's time thing.

You could always move to Arizona - no DLS there.

Isn't there someplace in Indiana where they also don't change?

America gets weirder and weirder! Well, I just had to look at a map, didn't I?

http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-usa12.php

So there's a small part of Arizona (a small part!!!) that is the same as the rest of its time zone and changes twice a year, and the rest stays the same twice a year. But inside that small part, there's another part that doesn't change.

And there's a part of Indiana (the bit by Chicago) that has decided it'll follow Chicago and not the rest of the state (not entirely unreasonable, I guess) - but that does appear to change in conformity with Chicago.

MG

Hawaii doesn't participate either! Canada, being our hat, does whatever we tell them to do!

I want double DST like during WW2!

[sjarrell]

My kid has to start trick-or-treating in the broad of daylight tomorrow, since the change didn't come a week or two ago. One more thing to thank Prez Bush for!

[BruceH]

You're late. The clocks went back last week.

The clocks went back last week in Europe, not in America.

I believe they use the Julian calendar too.

No, the trusty Gregorian. But Bush had to go and screw up DST like he screwed up so much else. For 40-odd years the time change occurred on the same days of the year, then in 2006 they had to move them two or three weeks. Now I have to reset my VCR FOUR times a year (because it used to change automatically on the correct day in the Spring and Fall, but that became the incorrect day....pisses me off!)

Edited October 31, 2009 by BruceH

[Serioza]

what reasons to change time ?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

what reasons to change time ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

MG

[Serioza]

Robertson Davies for instance detected "the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves",

[BruceH]

Well, I for one don't like the idea of having to get up when it's pitch black out.

[A Lark Ascending]

I have to get up when it's pitch black out, regardless of where the clock are.

I really like the ritual. It's one of those things that throws a spanner into regularity. There's something very warming about the first Sunday evening after the clocks go back, huddled indoors with tea and crumpets. And although losing an hour in March is a pain it's great when the light leaps forrward an hour in one go.

I bit like Easter, I suppose. A real pain in the neck for planning an academic year. But, again, ensures one year is not exactly like the next.

Think of the clocks changing and moveable Easter as nature's way of playing Monk accents on the seasons.