I've Grown Weary of Daylight Savings Time

[MineralMan]

That's true for a lot of reasons, including my loss of an hour of sleep last night. But, there are other reasons.

I have a little digital clock radio next to my bed. My wife gave it to me for Christmas last year. It is festooned with buttons that do various things. Unlike older radios that have knobs that turn to change things, it has about 12 buttons, each with an icon that purports to tell me what that button does.

Fortunately, after initially setting up my wife's gift on Christmas Day, I put the instruction booklet under the radio. So, yesterday, I consulted it, since I needed to change the time by one hour.

I pressed and held the "multipurpose button," which had an icon that had no visual relevance to me. First the year flashed "2019." Hmm...I guess I didn't change that when I set up the radio. So, I pressed the >> button to make it read 2020, although I do not believe I have ever seen the year displayed on my radio. Then, I pressed the "multipurpose" button again. I fixed the month and day, sequentially, since I also had not set that up initially. That took several more presses of the >> and << buttons and the "multipurpose button."

Finally, the time was displayed. I pressed the >> button to move the hour forward, then pressed the "multipurpose button" and pressed << twice to subtract two minutes, since I had apparently looked at a clock with the wrong time previously when I first set up the radio. Finally, I pressed the "multipurpose button" one more time to compete the time change. Whew!

After that, I got up, walked to the other side of the room, took the battery powered analog clock off the wall, and moved its hands with the little wheel on the back of the clock to set it an hour ahead. After hanging the clock back on the wall, all of the bedroom clocks had been adjusted.

Looking back on the task of changing the time on my digital clock radio, it occurred to me that I could have just left it as it was and mentally added an hour when i consulted it. If I was groggy and confused, I could glance at the analog clock on the wall to correct my thinking. Still, it would be easier altogether if we didn't have to change clocks twice a year, it seems to me.

[HAB911]

1. LOL

Sounds like you have a problem with the change, not the actual Daylight Time. The GOP here in Fl tried to go to DLT year round, which I thought would put us out of sync with the world year round. The change is what I hate, don't care which way we go, just settle on one or the other!

[MineralMan]

4. My wife once bought her 80-something mother a new radio.

It had multiple buttons on it, along with a digital display of the time and the station being received. I suggested to my wife that her mother would never use that radio, since its operation was too difficult. My wife didn't think I was right, and gave the radio to her mother, who put it in a drawer and never looked at it again.

After that, I went on Amazon and found a radio with two knobs. One to turn it on and off and set the volume. The other knob allowed a person to change the station by turning it while looking at the dial. There was a switch, too, that changed from AM to FM, but she always listened to an AM station, so I switched it to AM and tuned in the station she listened to.

We gave her that radio, which she put on the side table by the chair she always sat in. She never did anything but turn it on and off and adjusted the volume. Technology is wonderful, unless it isn't.

[cwydro]

2. Lol, I hear you.

I can never figure out the clock on my Subaru, so I’ve been subtracting an hour for the last however many months.

I hope I don’t keep doing that now that it’s correct again.

I really wish they’d pick one time and stick with it year round.

[MineralMan]

7. Yeah. I have to change the time in my car, too, this morning.

Our 2020 KIA Soul has a touch screen "entertainment console," rather than a radio. It not only includes a radio, but can connect to a cell phone and do all sorts of marvelous things. To set its clock, I have to tap the cogwheel icon to access the Settings menu and then find the clock setting and adjust the time. I'll do that when i go to the supermarket.

It's not that technology confuses me. It doesn't at all. It's just that it all takes too many steps to complete. Since my 1996 Ford Ranger has no clock at all, I won't have to bother with that one.

[cwydro]

8. My Ranger doesn't either.

Now I need to go set all my analogs, including my wrist watch lol.

[tblue37]

12. I leave most of my clocks on DST all year and just subtract an hour, because until

last May I was still teaching college, and by not getting my body used to CST I was able to squeeze in an extra hour of grading papers each day. It was still never enough to keep up, but it helped.

Did I mention how much I like being retired?

[Siwsan]

3. I changed all of my clocks, yesterday afternoon. Makes the adjustment slightly easier, for me

Although now that I'm retired, DST doesn't bother me one way or the other, except that I still rarely sleep past 6 am, and like waking up to the developing sunshine. Guess I'll have to be patient, for another month or so.

[htuttle]

5. I found a lot of clocks over christmas that set themselves via atomic clock via radio (WWVB)

They're getting cheaper, too. Like $20 for a wall clock.

[7wo7rees]

6. Finally.......welcome to our world....

Changing time twice a year....... WHY?

[Ohiogal]

9. I sympathize MM

I have an ancient digital clock-radio by my bedside. It’s from the 1970s and works just fine. I refuse to get rid of it because it’s so easy to set the time. Forward button and Backward button.

I had a clock in my last car that gave me fits whenever I had to change the time. (It was part of an aftermarket stereo unit my husband put in). Always had to consult the instruction manual to figure out how to change the time on the darn thing. First you had to press the Function key numerous times until the readout said CLOCK. Then to change the Hour you had to hold down one button with your left hand until you saw HOUR and keep holding that button down while pressing another button with your right hand until the numbers were correct and you had AM or PM, whichever was proper. To change the Minutes you had to do the same thing all over again except press the button until you saw MINUTES. If you waited too long or overshot the mark, it returned to default and you had to go through the whole process all over again. Plus, the readout for the clock was always in the upper left hand corner of the teensy window and that could never be made larger. What a PITA!

In my Toyota, which I presently drive, there’s a button for Hours and a button for Minutes and the clock is separate on the dash from the radio. Takes me mere seconds to change. How easy is that?!

[Patterson]

10. I love Daylight Savings Time.

[tblue37]

11. I wish we had DST all year round. nt

[robbob]

13. Whereas my iPhone automatically advances my phone's clock

Without telling me it has done so. And with a housemate who advances all the house clocks (usually) around 6am before he goes to bed for the day I am never really sure that daylight savings has occurred until I get in my car and see that the time needs to be changed!

[MineralMan]

14. Oh, yes. The phone does it automatically.

So do my computers and tablets and the TV box. We like clocks, though, so there are about 10 of them here and there in our house. Most, though, are battery-powered wall clocks with a wheel on the back to change the time, so that's a quick thing to do. I will have to change my watch, but I'll do that the next time I use it, which will be the next time I fly somewhere. I don't wear it otherwise.

[IADEMO2004]

15. Free and mandatory replacement of stand alone clocks with auto reset clocks.

All timing devices in any newly manufactured device must be auto reset.

Including Arizona so those slackers can suffer twice a year what we have been dealing with.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Why do we do this again?

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