Spring Forward tonight. Time changes at 2 AM

[demtenjeep]

This is the spring forward time

[PA Democrat]

1. UGH.

It will feel like 4:30 a.m. when my alarm goes off Monday morning.

[demtenjeep]

3. I hate losing the hour but I LOVE it that it stays lighter longer

I wish they would leave it like this all year long


It also means SPRING is near and the worst of the winter is OVER

[PA Democrat]

18. This will be me next week =>

:hangover:

[Duer 157099]

2. Grumble grumble

I was just getting used to the current time situation. Always happens.

[Modern_Matthew]

4. Hurrah! I'm a 3rd shifter. 8 hours of pay for 7 hours of work. nt

[virgogal]

5. But don't they get it back in the fall?

[housewolf]

6. Ugh.... no, no, it's too soon!

I like that it stays light later but don't like it in the morning when it stays dark so late. It just feels too soon to me for this. I know they changed it in recent years from the 1st weekend in April to the 3rd weekend in March saying that it was an energy-saving measure... something that makes zero sense to me.

[demtenjeep]

30. I wish they woudl leave it this way year round

I like the longer days

[lpbk2713]

7. I must have at least two dozen devices that will need changing.

At least it's a little easier to go ahead one hour in the springtime.

[kudzu22]

8. This is so stupid

Is it really "standard time" if we only use it four months per year? This isn't saving us any energy. I wish Obama would change it back to the traditional dates.

[Raine]

19. I feel the same way

it makes as sense as cutting an inch off the bottom of a blanket and sewing it back on the top.

[ReggieVeggie]

9. wasn't it 2 weeks later last year?

last sunday in march or first in april?

[sixmile]

10. Thanks for the heads up

My sleep patterns have been different for about a month.

[DesertRat]

11. Except Arizona

[bikebloke]

12. I hate short weekends.

[Earth_First]

17. Yeah, I always found that odd...

There's also:

Hawaii and most of Arizona do not follow daylight- savings time. The Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona DOES observe daylight saving time; the rest of Arizona does not. And the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa do not observe DST. The Eastern Time Zone section of Indiana also does not observe DST

[Corey_Baker08]

24. We Observe It In Indiana Now Thanks To Gov Daniels n/t

[demtenjeep]

31. why did they choose not to change?

isn't that a bit confusing

[sarcasmo]

13. Yeah for spring, cabin fever here in West Michigan.

[RebelOne]

14. Whoever thought up Daylight Saving Tine

should be thrown to the wolves. I hate it. It totally screws up your body clock.

[ChazII]

16. Wasn't it Ben Franklin

who gets the credit for this idea? Living in AZ, I don't have to mess with my clocks.:) :evilgrin:

[ProfessionalLeftist]

15. It's time to end this crap. It's ridiculous. n/t

[Sherman A1]

20. Hate it

I will be driving to work tomorrow when it changes, really gets to you as you get older.

[Raine]

21. Man's pathetic attempt to control nature

right down to the amount of daylight ... it's laughable because you get the same amount no matter what the time

[fishwax]

22. aargh. But thanks for the reminder

:)

[krispos42]

23. Fuck, again?

Shit shit shit shit shit.



Make me Chronological Supervisor for a day and I'll get the US times zones back in order. #1, no more daylight savings time. Fuck daylight, we have plenty of it, I don't care if it leaks a little around the edges. #2, all of New England goes on Atlantic Standard Time. At least it will help with traffic on I-95 in Connecticut. #3, I'll fix that dumbass border between Central and Western times zones up by the Dakotas. What possible combinations of illegal drugs caused THAT mess?

[Brickbat]

25. I despise DST. There's no reason for it at all.

[scarletwoman]

26. I absolutely loathe this time change crap, bloody LOATHE it!

It makes no sense whatsoever in a 24 hour world! GAH!

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[Raine]

28. I agree, I despise it!

:grr:

[demtenjeep]

27. cool site

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/nodes.html

[demtenjeep]

29. Here is Wiki's info

Daylight saving time was established by the Act of March 19, 1918, sometimes called the Standard Time Act. The Act was intended to save electricity for seven months of the year, during World War I.<3> DST was repealed in 1919, though, but standard time in time zones remained in law, with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) having the authority over time zone boundaries. Daylight time became a local matter.

During World War II, Congress enacted the War Time Act (56 Stat. 9) on January 20, 1942. Year-round DST was reinstated in the United States on February 9, 1942, again as a wartime measure to conserve energy resources.<4> This remained in effect until after the end of the war. The Amendment to the War Time Act (59 Stat. 537), enacted September 25, 1945, ended DST as of September 30, 1945. During this period, the official designation War Time was used for year-round DST. For example, Eastern War Time (EWT) would be the equivalent of Eastern Daylight Time during this period

[ReggieVeggie]

32. One of my clocks is already set

I never changed it from the last time change ;)

[demtenjeep]

33. we used to have a vehicle that was hard to change

so we never changed it. Just had to remember