My Iphone and everything else around here sets themselves back. eventually human intervention in this process will be all but gone.
I just don’t understand why we have to get new clocks each year? What was wrong with our old clocks? Well, if I have to change the clocks, i’ll Change the clocks. It’s getting tough in the cars though.
Last year, I didn't change some of the clocks. Was a little bit of an issue to remember when I checked the time. Some of mine clocks are not easy for me to change. The ones on the walls are hard to put back up.
I certainly do. At least once a week my slipper will catch on the next step going up the basement stairs and send me forward. I've fallen back enough times on ice though...
Last time I did that fall back on ice, it screwed my life up for about 6 weeks. And now, every time the weather changes I get a painful reminder of my stupidity.............................
So dark out, too early. I'm not ready to switch to indoor projects, I still got outside stuff to do. And now, it'll be dark when I get home from work.
It shows how out of touch our politicians are. What industry is lobbying to keep DST? I contacted my state reps a few years ago about this. They replied that it's a federal issue. Odd, considering that a few states don't observe DST.
I get tired of changing. We are a 24/7 world now. No need for DST any more ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tips to help you adjust to end of Daylight Saving Time Clocks set to 'fall back' on Sunday At 2 a.m. Sunday, daylight saving (not savings) time comes to an end for most Americans. Good riddance. Turns out it’s a lot like Justin Bieber – way overrated. People think that farmers like DST, but that’s a myth. Author Michael Downing points out his book “Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time” that farmers were the main group lobbying against the first peacetime imposition DST in 1966. It seems farmers don’t like the later sunrise created by DST and dairy cows adjust poorly to moooving the clock. But DST helps conserve energy, right? No, that’s another myth, burst by a study by the California Energy Commission that found a reduction in energy use under DST of less than two-tenths of 1 percent. And National Geographic reported that a 2008 National Bureau of Economic Research study of DST in Indiana “found that lighting demand dropped, but the warmer hour of extra daylight tacked onto each evening led to more air-conditioning use, which canceled out the gains from reduced lighting and then some.” As a result, electric bills increased slightly under DST. The real beneficiaries of DST are the charcoal and grill industry, which lobbied successfully to tack a seventh month on to DST, and the candy companies, which pushed Congress to add an eighth month so they could sell more mini-Kit Kats in the days before Halloween. So I say, let’s have Congress – which hasn’t been able to agree on almost anything this year – pass a bill eliminating daylight saving time. And as a kicker, the bill could revoke Justin Bieber’s work permit and send him back to Canada. Eliminating DST provides endless benefits – and not just for cows. You won’t have to struggle to figure out what time it is in Arizona or Hawaii, which don’t change their clocks. The airlines will save hundreds of millions of dollars, because they won’t have to shift flights to handle the twin time changes in spring and fall. Amtrak won’t have to pull its trains over to sidings in the fall (so they don’t arrive too early – and yes, they do that) or race to be on time in the spring. Best of all, you won’t be an hour late for church or golf in March or an hour early in November. There’s always one guy who strolls in an hour late on the first Sunday of DST, oblivious to the time change, the cause of much snickering among people intelligent enough to spring ahead. Childhood obesity will diminish, because kids will have an hour less to trick-or-treat. (OK, that’s wishful thinking.) But on a serious note, the New York Times published an article in 2014 reporting that Swedish researchers found a 5 percent increase in the risk of heart attacks right after DST began, along with an increase in traffic accidents, workplace injuries and suicide rates. The problem is that while our body clocks can slowly adjust to seasonal changes in the amount of daylight, the sudden change when DST begins throws off our body rhythms. Some people might say that Daylight Saving is a hallowed national tradition. Yes, Benjamin Franklin had the idea first, but when he wrote about it in 1784, he was in Paris and he meant it as a joke. He wrote a satirical piece about how the French could save 200,000 candles a year if they adopted his plan. The French, of course, had no sense of humor, took Franklin seriously, and adopted the idea. They didn’t save any candles, but since everybody could see who was going to whose apartment, the rate of adultery may have dropped precipitously. The real origin of DST was World War I, when the Germans tried to squeeze an extra hour of daylight in the evenings, inadvertently forgetting that they would lose an hour of daylight in the mornings. Maybe that’s why they lost. America adopted DST in fits and starts, kept it going all year long (how can you tell?) during World War II, and finally made it national in 1966, unless a state opted out. So it’s only as much of a tradition in this country as, say, expecting the Mets to be out of the pennant race by August. While we’re at it, it’s time to realign time zones in the United States so they actually make sense. Who said time zones have to be vertical? They would actually make much more sense if the country were realigned as follows: Have one time zone that encompasses most business and finance – the new Important Standard Time, which will stretch from Boston to New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, Dallas, and Los Angeles. South of that will be Golf Standard Time. Just north, Redwood Standard Time, which will separate Southern California from Northern California, which is what both halves of the state have always wanted anyway. Sending Bieber back to Canada? Maybe that’s the only thing all Americans can agree on.
It's just dumb. Can't stand it. This constant changing of times is just dumb. Freakin dark by 4pm and just dumb. Great I wake to sunlight. I just fine with waking to it being dark. Leave the clocks alone. Jason from RI
Indeed, it is not a federal issue as each state can decide their own. However, I think the feds did finally put something on board that a state would lose some dollars by not switching. Fools...
I'm gonna stick out like a sore thumb here and say I like changing the clocks in the spring and fall. I like this last change because it was dark when I left the house for work in the morning. My eyes are getting worse and I can't stand driving after dark with the glare from oncoming headlights, especially those blue colored ones that should be outlawed. It's pretty dark when I leave work now but I'm far more alert in the late afternoon than in the morning and it's not so bothersome. I've got all my outdoor work done so there's nothing really to do outside and it's too cold now anyway. In the spring, changing the time allows things to be done after work and the days are getting longer and the weather getting warmer so it's a treat to get home and have some time to wander around and check things out. Even after the change in the spring it's still daylight for the morning drive. I jokingly told a fellow worker at the time clock that now we can hit deer at night driving home instead of in the morning now that's it's light out earlier in the day. From reading around the net and watching the complaints on the news and radio this time of year I realize I'm a tiny minority but I'm not in it for the popularity. I just like the practical applications as it applies to my life.
