Its daylight savings time once again!

[jbmagic]

Its daylight savings time once again!

Be sure to set your clock forward one hour.

Damn we lose one hour sleep. :(

[cthomer5000]

april fools!

[SackAttack]

Its daylight savings time once again!

Be sure to set your clock forward one hour.

Damn we lose one hour sleep. :(

Well, maybe you poor schlubs who actually have to be up in the morning lose an hour's sleep.

Me? I just lose an hour's wakefulness.

[JeeberD]

*grumble*

[Draft Dodger]

this is great! the clock in my car is right again!

[GrantDawg]

I hate DLS. And now in a couple of years they are going to make it longer! Ack!

[MIJB#19]

Americans. Always a week late. ;)

[Eaglesfan27]

I hate DLS. And now in a couple of years they are going to make it longer! Ack!

WTF?!? Longer?

[Raiders Army]

This sucks.

[GreenMonster]

I just missed McDonalds breakfast because of this crap...

[Philliesfan980]

this is great! the clock in my car is right again!

I actually thought the exact same thing!

I'd trade the hour of sleep to be able to be outside until 7:30 tonight anytime.

[Philliesfan980]

WTF?!? Longer?

Yeah, I think they are moving up daylight savings time by a few weeks and extending it a few weeks in the near future (maybe as soon as 2007?).

[Greyroofoo]

I just missed McDonalds breakfast because of this crap...

i personally would be grateful for that...

[Desnudo]

Yeah, I think they are moving up daylight savings time by a few weeks and extending it a few weeks in the near future (maybe as soon as 2007?).

The way I read your original note, I thought you meant moved by another hour or two.

[RPI-Fan]

I don't work on weekends (right now), so I am thrilled for daylight savings time. It will mean I can play soccer during the week now.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Normally, I love daylight saving time. Unfortunately, I start a new job tomorrow which requires me to be at work at 6:30am every day. I'm already not a morning person as it is, and now it's going to feel like I'm getting to work at 5:30 in the morning! Ack!

At least when I leave work at 4:30, it'll only feel like 3:30, I guess. :)

[IwasHere]

Yeah, I think they are moving up daylight savings time by a few weeks and extending it a few weeks in the near future (maybe as soon as 2007?).
Wasn't this part of the new energy bill?


Also, if this is good for America how can States that do not recognize DST, defend their position if it is Bad for the American Energy Plan?

[Pumpy Tudors]

Also, if this is good for America how can States that do not recognize DST, defend their position if it is Bad for the American Energy Plan?
I don't know anything at all about energy plans or what's "good for America," but Indiana has started recognizing daylight saving time this year. Only three states to go!

[Eaglesfan27]

The way I read your original note, I thought you meant moved by another hour or two.

I did too.

[SirFozzie]

it's earlier this year and will be even earlier next year..

From Wikipedia

The U.S. federal Uniform Time Act of 1966 mandated that daylight saving time begin nationwide on the last Sunday of April and end on the last Sunday of October, effective in 1967.

The schedule for 2006 in the United States is that DST begins on the first Sunday in April (April 2, 2006), and changes back to standard time on the last Sunday in October (October 29, 2006). Beginning in 2007, DST will start on the second Sunday in March, and change back to standard time on the first Sunday in November. Under Section 110 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy is required to study the impact of the daylight saving extension no later than nine months after the change takes effect. Congress has retained the right to revert back to the daylight saving schedule set in 1986 if it cannot be shown that there are significant energy savings from an extension of daylight saving time

[ice4277]

I just missed McDonalds breakfast because of this crap...

I missed late-night drunk Taco Bell last night because of this :(

[Pumpy Tudors]

it's earlier this year and will be even earlier next year..
For the record, it's not earlier this year. It's been the first Sunday in April (in the US) every year since 1987.

Also from Wikipedia:

On July 8, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1986 into law which amended the starting date of daylight saving time to the first Sunday in April, to take effect the following year.

[bronconick]

After I recover from getting up at 4am today (3am), I'll love DST because the sun's out until 10:30 pm around here come June and July. That's infinitely preferable to the alternative of the sun shining in my window at 4:40 am.

[TazFTW]

I don't know anything at all about energy plans or what's "good for America," but Indiana has started recognizing daylight saving time this year. Only three states to go!

You'll never take Hawaii!

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Wasn't this part of the new energy bill?


Also, if this is good for America how can States that do not recognize DST, defend their position if it is Bad for the American Energy Plan?

Because we have plenty of daylight in Arizona. We don't need to save any of it. :p

[SnDvls]

Wasn't this part of the new energy bill?


Also, if this is good for America how can States that do not recognize DST, defend their position if it is Bad for the American Energy Plan?


why waste our energy to set a clock to have to reset it later. We save our energy by leaving it the same. :D

[stevew]

Bump for asswhites like me who had no idea it was today.

[Chief Rum]

The first day of DLS is usually one of my favorite days of the year. I love late sunlight and a beautiful twilight.

Of course, I live in California.

[Matthean]

Working a closing shift and then an opening shift. Yep. I get 9 hours between two 8+ hour shifts.

[Blackadar]

The first day of DLS is usually one of my favorite days of the year. I love late sunlight and a beautiful twilight.

Of course, I live in California.

Shaddup.

Gotta get on a 6:30 flight tomorrow AM, which means that to get to the airport on time I have to wake up at about 3AM body time and then work all day. :mad:

[Lathum]

My kids don't know, nor care, that we lost an hour sleep.

[sterlingice]

it's earlier this year and will be even earlier next year..

From Wikipedia

The U.S. federal Uniform Time Act of 1966 mandated that daylight saving time begin nationwide on the last Sunday of April and end on the last Sunday of October, effective in 1967.

The schedule for 2006 in the United States is that DST begins on the first Sunday in April (April 2, 2006), and changes back to standard time on the last Sunday in October (October 29, 2006). Beginning in 2007, DST will start on the second Sunday in March, and change back to standard time on the first Sunday in November. Under Section 110 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy is required to study the impact of the daylight saving extension no later than nine months after the change takes effect. Congress has retained the right to revert back to the daylight saving schedule set in 1986 if it cannot be shown that there are significant energy savings from an extension of daylight saving time

I wonder if that study ever took place. I just don't see a lot of savings coming from DST in this day and age with, you know, electric lights and a significant decrease the agricultural population in this country. There are now just a bunch of silly "hey, Billy's baseball practice has more light" or "I hate getting up earlier" stories but nothing besides silly anecdotes.

SI

[PilotMan]

I work all over the clock. I love DST! We live on the western side of Eastern and the late nights are my favorite. Plus with the time change it means that I'm working in the daylight a lot more which is much easier on me than night flying.

[rowech]

It is dumb and antiquated.

[CU Tiger]

"hey, Billy's baseball practice has more light" or


Which means we dont have to use the big field lights which consume energy?

[B & B]

It is dumb and antiquated.

I think Daylight Savings Time is the bees knees. Now where did I set down my Farmers Almanac?

[Izulde]

This thread is incomplete without a lungs commentary on DST

[BYU 14]

God bless Arizona

[molson]

There's a bill floating around the Idaho legislature right now that would get rid of Daylights Savings time, ala Arizona. I don't know how much support it has, but it's getting a fair amount of media attention.

Also, I miss jbmagic.

[mckerney]

Also, I miss jbmagic.

If you're tired after day light savings, set your clock two hours forward. If that didn't work, try four hours forward. I'd you're still tired then maybe daylight savings isn't for you.

[CU Tiger]

I have a friend who lives near Indianapolis, Indiana.

Apparently Indy doesn't recognize DLST..to make matters worse work is in a different time zone than home and wife's work.

So depending on time of year home/work are as much as 2 hours ahead or 2 hours behind...I cant remember the particulars and trying to figure it out hurts my head....but thats the gist.

[ColtCrazy]

Indiana follows DST now. We didn't use to, but the government made it one of their big sticking points one year and now we do. Most of the state is eastern, but near Chicago and the southwest are Central.

[Icy]

Very interesting study about this and trying to explain why we have dinner at 10pm in Spain :)

How much is time wrong around the world? | The poor man's math blog (http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/)

[Alan T]

Very interesting study about this and trying to explain why we have dinner at 10pm in Spain :)

How much is time wrong around the world? | The poor man's math blog (http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/)


I did find this pretty interesting to read. thanks! I guess it also helps explain why I tend to want to eat dinner so early, since I live in a green area of the map.

[sterlingice]

Today is a really good argument for getting off DST :(

SI

[Blackadar]

Shaddup.

Gotta get on a 6:30 flight tomorrow AM, which means that to get to the airport on time I have to wake up at about 3AM body time and then work all day. :mad:

Fuuuuuuuuck....I'm going to be a hurtin' puppy by the time I get to the hotel room tonight.

[nilodor]

The first day of DLS is usually one of my favorite days of the year. I love late sunlight and a beautiful twilight.

Of course, I live in California.

I hate giving up the extra hour of sleep. I'd actually be all for just staying on DLS time to have sunlight later at night. Reverting back to standard time sucks because it goes from being able to do stuff outside to it being to dark to do stuff outside. Now to convince the world to shift the time zones ahead an hour...

[CU Tiger]

Very interesting study about this and trying to explain why we have dinner at 10pm in Spain :)

How much is time wrong around the world? | The poor man's math blog (http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~maggiolo/index.php/2014/01/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-the-world/)


Thanks for psoting...but God this was a brutal read:
So, why do some countries are forced to have such discrepancies? The only way to assign to a place a canonical time which follows our main assumptions is to observe the instant in the day when the Sun is higher in the sky, and call that 12:00. This is not practical for at least two important reasons.

[DanGarion]

Honestly the best solution is to get rid of time zones and just use GMT.

[Ajaxab]

If you're tired after day light savings, set your clock two hours forward. If that didn't work, try four hours forward. I'd you're still tired then maybe daylight savings isn't for you.

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I miss jb too.

[MIJB#19]

This post did not get enough love.

I miss jb too.All in honor of his birthday (apparently)!