Its that time of year again...

[Joan Archer]

We've already changed ours last week on Halloween.

 

[holo88]

With the magic of w7 ... I ain't gotta rememba s#!^ lol

 

[SledgeDG]

Cool ! Se7en has you all covered

 

[bigmck]

Let me see if I have this Daylight Savings Time thing straight......Sunday morning at 2 AM, I move the clock back to 1 AM. Then when the clock gets to 2 AM, I move it to 1 AM. Then when the clock gets to.................

 

[Airbot]

Dark at 5-5:30pm....bummer.

 

[LiquidSnak]

Dark at 5-5:30pm....bummer.

I know, right?

 

[A320]

I really hate it... it messes up my internal clock! :mad2:

Same here!

Good thing you two aren't pilots!

 

[richc46]

DST Ends In USA

To all the members of the Forum, dont forget, today, Sunday, you must change the time on your clocks. Daylight savings time is over. I remembered because my computer had the smarts to show the correct time.

 

[articslayer]

Don't help much here!!!! Were closing in on 4 hour's of daylight in about 45 days!!

 

[Baroness von Shush]

Wow, and I thought we had it bad! I don't like the dark nights and don't see the point of the hour change but compared to your 4 hours we have it made really!

 

[JMH]

Here we have labeled it Daylight Stealing - for that is indeed the truth at the start.
As an early morning riser I miss out on the daylight at this time.


The only good point I can see for this politician driven time change is the hour retrieved at the end.
Supposedly it was introduced here as a power saving measure - but power used at night now becomes power used in the morning.
No referendum or consultation was held here.[ to the best of my knowledge]

 

[SledgeDG]

Supposedly it was introduced here as a power saving measure - but power used at night now becomes power used in the morning.

That's why I called it a FLOP.

-DG

 

[Petey7]

Power savings? I was under the impression that is was started to provide more daylight for sports activities and the like during the warmer months.

 

[holo88]

To my knowledge of 7th grade history, it's more along the lines of "candle savings". An archaic institution brought about to save money on candles.......who'da thunk it. Ben Franklin (i think)

 

[SledgeDG]

Seeing how it was instituted during WWII I'm not sure how many households still used candles.
I obviously wasn't born yet but from family pictures I could tell that they already had electric light in my dads house.

-DG

 

[CarlTR6]

It was instituted during WWII as an energy saving measure. I think it was just a "feel good" measure to get politicos in the news and looking like they were actually doings something constructive.

 

[applepie]

Thank you for the reminder Tews,

My cellphone, computer, and cable box are all in sync.
I don't like the time change either it really stinks, my sleep pattern is disturbed then I feel sluggish when we fall back and spring forward every year. When it gets darker later it makes it hard for me to see at night.

 

[A320]

With regards to disrupting your sleep pattern picture this. You're a pilot about to commence on a 17 hr flight from N. America to Hong Kong direct using what's called a polar route. You depart about 9-10:00am and arrive about 1pm the next day local time. On your way up to the North pole, the sun appears to move in a direction that would coincide with setting below the horizon and night time steadily approaching. Then all of a sudden just before it sets, the sun starts curving in a bowl like motion and starts rising again in the opposite direction as you cross over into North Eastern Russia. :shock:

 

[Thorsen]

I had found this years ago, but the webexhibit is still up. Check it out:

Daylight Saving Time - Why, When, Where? - Cloud view

 

[bigmck]

I really hate it... it messes up my internal clock! :mad2:

Same here!

It really messed up my dogs yesterday. I feed them at 5 PM, so yesterday shortly before 4 PM they were wanting to be fed. I tried to explain the Daylight Savings Time, but they weren't biting . I finally fed them about 4:15 PM to quite them down.