OK! Enough Time Changing, Thanks!

[MineralMan]

As you may know, I'm now 80 years old. So, this morning, I set out to make the time change on the clocks im our house. There are six of them, all hanging high on the wall in one of our rooms. Why? I don't know. But there they are.

All of them are big wall clocks that run on one AA battery. You know the type. To set the time, you have to take them down and turn them an hour ahead or back, as the case may be.

Then, you have to put them back on the wall. Each of them has a small nail going into the drywall. You can't see what you're doing, but you have to lift
them up, find that little nail with the hole in the back of the clock movement, and hook the clock on the nail.

Well, nails in drywall get pushed in very easily, so if you miss the little hole on the back of the clock, you have to put the clock down, pull the little nail back out partly, and try again.

Six clocks. Six multiple tries. So, they're all back up and showing more or less the correct time. Mission accomplished. After much annoyance and missed placement. At least I didn't drop any of the clocks.

So, let's stop changing the time twice a year. What do you think?

[anciano]

1. Agree 👍...

I personally prefer Standard Time.

[True Dough]

2. I think

you nailed it!

[MineralMan]

3. LOL!

[bluestarone]

4. Agree.

[dalton99a]

5. And you have to make sure they are not tilted

[PJMcK]

6. My idea

Put the whole world on one time. Our current system is partly based on local noon, that is, when the sun is highest in the sky locally. Time zones are administered by the Department of Transportation because the government wanted the trains to have a common time.

Put the whole world on one time zone. So what if the clock says 02:00 when you go to work? If the sun is up locally what difference does it make what you call it? We wouldn’t have the agrarian-inspired time changes twice a year and the temporal commonality would remove much confusion in travel and communications.

It won’t happen, of course, until we become an interplanetary society. Astronauts, after all, set their clocks to Central Time to coordinate with NASA in Houston.

I really hate changing the clocks!

(I’m really just a cranky older guy.)

[Disaffected]

11. That is already in place,

if folks care to use it. It is UTC (Universal Time Coordinated). It is the time IIRC in Greenwich England (also called GMT - Greenwich Mean Time).

Getting all the world to switch to it however would be problematical and unlikely...

[PJMcK]

57. Of course, you're correct

It’s also known as Zulu time, I think. As you point out, it would be challenging to implement such a change.

Have a good week.

[MineralMan]

16. Zulu time! I should get one clock and set it to GMT.

Might be confusing, though, when you actually need to know what time it is where you are.

I could get by with an analog clock that only had an hour hand and marks to divide the face into hours. I don't think anyone makes a clock like that, though.

[joshdawg]

25. Totally agree with this!

[Totally Tunsie]

7. LOL - I wonder what DU's excuse is.

Seems we're running an hour ahead here.

[Mossfern]

8. For a while

I just stopped changing the clock in my car, adjusting the time in my head by an hour if I needed too.
I also (while I was working) pushed the time ahead a few minutes so I was guaranteeing (in my mind) that I would be places on time.

Example: I have an appointment for 10:45am - I look at the clock in my car which says 10:42 - I briefly say to myself "Oh shit, I'm going to be late" and then remember that I've changed the clock - and I arrive on time. I know - but it was an effective game I played with myself.

It drove my family nuts.

BTW, my cats were royally pissed that they got fed an hour late this morning.
I tried showing them the time on my phone, but they didn't believe me.

[WestMichRad]

50. Ummm... I still leave the clocks in our cars unchanged.

One car is on daylight savings time, the other on standard time. Neither gets changed.

Keeps us on our toes! But most of the time, I don’t care what time it is. Like, whatever….

[LoisB]

9. I agree. After three attempts on my bedroom clock (digital), I just said the hell with it and

left it. I kept going past the hour.

[MineralMan]

12. Exactly!

[Ocelot II]

10. Do you really need that many clocks?

But I do feel your pain...

[MineralMan]

14. Of course not!

But, there's the one with the map of our old place in California. Another one with a map of our old place in St. Paul. One with a detailed map of my favorite fishing lake. Another one that is a clock designed to teach children how to read an analog clock, for when we get really old and need a reminder. I have a 24 hour clock to remind me of military time. One that goes backwards, and finally, one that a relative gave us one year. That one is in the guest bathroom, just in case that relative visits.

They're useless, of course. I don't care what time it is most of the time. My phone and computer have the correct time on display. We just like clocks.

[mr715]

18. I like you immensely. nt

[MineralMan]

19. Aww....shucks....

LOL!

[mr715]

20. Sorry but the clocks reminds me a lot of my dad

My parents always call me to change my clocks, and they have several thousand of them in their apartment.

They don't really understand the new digital world so they don't look at their computer or phones. It is very endearing.

Also, I empathize with your situation. I did enjoy getting fooled by my analog clock this morning and getting to sleep in extra. However, I can already feel my circadian rhythm falling to pieces.


Cheers

[littlemissmartypants]

36. I completely understand the clock abundance. I love them, too. ...

I don't care for the quiet ones though. They have to tick. ❤️

[synni]

17. You need a clock in almost every room

How many people wear a wrist watch at home, or carry their cell phone with them all the time? (They do have to be charged every few hours.) 😊

[Disaffected]

13. Agreed - it is a pointless PITA.

Pick either Standard or Savings time - I don't much care which one.

[milestogo]

15. I had forgotten today was the day...I thougt the NFL made a mistake.

Which seems unlikely.

[FakeNoose]

21. I have a clock that automatically changed itself!

I just bought a new clock this past summer, and little did I know .... it connected itself to my Wifi. It already knew the correct time this morning, even before I figured out that Daylight Savings Time was over.

Hah! I was trying to figure out why the new one didn't match my other clocks, and it was before I'd had my morning coffee. Then it dawned on me because my computer time matched my new clock's time, and the other wind-up clocks didn't.

[calimary]

35. Just noted that in our house.

Only my bedside battery-powered clock needed adjusting. Everything else changed automatically.

[question everything]

22. Standard time year around. Just because R senators from Florida want a saving one year around is enough to oppose

[piddyprints]

23. Replace the works with atomic works.

It's pretty cheap and easy. We did that a while ago and don't have to change clocks anymore. I don't see DST ending in our lifetimes, so just try to make it as painless as possible.

[MineralMan]

27. But, then, what would I write about?

[piddyprints]

31. You are a wealth

of things to write about. I always enjoy reading what you have to say.

[MineralMan]

32. Thanks. I'll continue doing that, then.

[rsdsharp]

24. I feel your pain, but at least they're battery powered.

Several years ago, when the time change was in late October, I got up on Sunday morning and reset the clocks, most of which were AC. There was an early, heavy, wet snow fall, and we lost power. When it came back on, I had to reset all the clocks, again. Only to lose power a second time, requiring a THIRD setting of the clocks.

[MineralMan]

33. Oh, the horror!

I learned to change the batteries at the same time I changed the time, just to avoid that sort of thing.

[calimary]

38. That's a good idea!

It just becomes part of the routine.

[LisaM]

26. I like the changes.

I like getting the extra hour in the fall, I love the deep dark in December, and I like when the light comes back, too.

Every time the clocks change, I get bombarded with all the negativity, but it works for me.

[Owl]

54. So do I

I think it’s great!

[surfered]

28. It was important when I was working. Now that I'm retired I usually don't know what time of even day it is.

[twodogsbarking]

29. And now my car clock is off. Today is the longest day of the year. Enjoy it and all.

[SocialDemocrat61]

30. Or you could buy more contemporary clocks

that update automatically. All my clocks do.

[MineralMan]

34. I have some of those, too.

But, I can't just toss my old battery clocks. That would be wasteful and bad for the environment, right?

[SocialDemocrat61]

41. I'm sure they could be recycled

Most things can these days

[MineralMan]

45. Maybe, but they're still on my wall, right?

No need to recycle them.

[SocialDemocrat61]

46. But you can take them down from your wall

recycle them and then put more contemporary clocks in their place that update automatically. Not a hard concept.

[Borogove]

37. I'm with you, MineralMan.

Changing some of our clocks requires the use of a very tall step ladder. With my weak legs and poor balance, it puts the fear of god in me.

[littlemissmartypants]

39. Enough!! Hear! Hear! ⏰️⏳️🕰

[thought crime]

40. And don't even talk about smoke alarms!! I only have to change five clocks.

But one is on a high wall directly above some stairs so I need a special stair ladder, and now I can hardly lift it. Same stuff for smoke alarms but they are much more annoying.

[chouchou]

42. I want standard time.

If you want to play tennis or what-the-hell in the summertime, get the stores to close an hour early.
There's still a lot of stores that close at 9/10/11.

[hurl]

43. I feel your pain

I'm one of those strange people who prefer mechanical clocks, so four of mine are wind-up. They don't work well with turning backward, so for most of them I "Fall forward 11 hours." I also have a chiming clock that goes off every 15 minutes all day and all night. For some years, every Fall it was a process of moving forward 15 minutes, pausing to let the chime do its thing, then forward another 15, and so on 44 times. That got tedious, so now I just stop the pendulum for an hour.

It's a problem I could solve, but on some level I guess it's one I kind of like having. Takes all kinds.

[BumRushDaShow]

47. "now I just stop the pendulum for an hour"

I just posted below the same issue with my chiming pendulum clock. Except that when I first got one 10 years ago, I just took the battery out, moved the time to close to what it needed to be, and got ready for the news radio station "beep" to push that big hand over the "12" to start the chime (although on mine, it goes over the "XII" )!

[BumRushDaShow]

44. I have a hefty real Oak wood (or so they say) Seiko chiming pendulum wall clock

and that one is a bit of a bear to set. It also takes a "C" battery (which are pretty long-lasting).

This year I had to replace my 10-year old one that started acting flaky, so had to do a quick review of the extra switch on the new one.

I spent the day yesterday getting it to chime "on the hour" as close as I could (it does the quarter hour chimes once that is done). I finally got it done just how I wanted, heaved it up to its anchored screw about 6 ft up from the floor above the fireplace and got the pendulum swinging evenly, and as I walked away, I realized that I hadn't turned the clock back an hour.



So started over and did finally get it set up again and hung up.

I have a bunch of digital clock radios that I still have to do but the other trickiest things are my light timers (some for table lighting and others for plants). Some I just leave and others I adjust. Everything else auto-sets the time - well except DU's posting clock (I think that happened during the last switch)!!!

[Warpy]

48. Accidents increase just as much with the "extr hour of sleep" time change in the fall

because gaining or losing an hour of sleep over one night doesn't make a difference. Shifting everything else an hour does.

The only "standard" part of standard time was due to bullying by the British Royal Navy in the nineteenth century. The rest of the world caved in 1883. There is no earthly reason we have to cling to it on a national level, although airline pilots and mariners are probably going to be stuck with it for some time to come.

Keep DST year round. Let the kiddies have an extra hour of daylight playtime and let day workers see the sun at least once a day, even if it's just a glimpse on the way home. Most of all, stop screwing up our circadian rhythms twice a year to reset a bunch of damned clocks to someone else's arbitrary standard of time.

[Tree Lady]

49. Totally agree enough already

And I don't even care which one they pick just keep it the same!

I heard it went up to vote again few weeks ago, everyone agrees to end it but one republican filibustered it, I mean really at this point it's a non partisan issue we are all sick of the constant change.

It takes my body weeks to fully get used to it. And the biggest hassle is our older Honda .

[GoodRaisin]

51. Time to get rid of some clocks.

I’m not 80 yet but I’m old enough to know I don’t want to do all that. I have a clock on my phone whenever I need to see what time it is, and it magically changes it’s own time.

[GoCubsGo]

52. I don't have as much of an issue changing my mechanical clocks

as I do adjusting my biological clock. The time change screws me up for at least a week, regardless of which direction it goes. Just pick one and stick with it, already.

[Xolodno]

53. Most polls have stated to leave it one way and be done with it. However...

...you still get the usual arguments:

What about the kids going to school in the dark?

Work schedules?

etc.

I say, then they should just adjust the schedule if its that important, it would amount to the same thing. Before I became unemployed, I had to get my sorry ass up at wierd hours for confrence calls on the east coast and some who resided in Inida were up at some really odd hours and If I wanted to talk to friends or family in Austrailia, well, just the way it is. If people in Alaska, Siberia and Scandinavian nations can adjust under the midnight sun, so can everyone else.

[John1956PA]

55. Of the annoyances, I will add the Chinese conspiracy . . .

. . . to make the act changing the clock hands so difficult. The small plastic wheel on the motor unit is turnable only by firmly pressing the tip of one's thumb or finger on the broad face of the small plastic wheel and twisting one's wrist multiple times.

Where is the remote control or the phone app for changing the clock hands?

[NH Ethylene]

56. Agree. I don't give a damn which time we stick with, just stop changing it! n/t

[cornball 24]

58. AGREE 1,000+! You so accurately described what this 83 year old gal went

through this morning with more to tackle. Hubs always took care of this stuff but he has passed. I think we should start a class action lawsuit for elder abuse!