Day Light Saving Time ENDS November 2nd at 2:00am

[AACJ]

For those of you on Daylight Saving Time but do not have it set up in your profile to change automatically, it will end on November 2th at 2:00am. You can change your time by going to your profile and subtracting an hour from your current time setting, ie...mine is set to -4 hours GMT, I'll change it to -5 hours GMT. However, if you have your time zone set properly, and "DST Correction Option" set to "Automatically detect DST settings" the forum should take care of it for you.


Also, don't forget to change your watches and the clocks in your house, VCR's, microwaves included!

AND, as a volunteer firefighter, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one other item:

DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE THE BATTERIES IN YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR!!

Smoke Detectors save lives!!

[castlecraver]

Thanks for the reminder. After living most of my life in Indiana when we were the odd-state-out in the DST party, I'm still getting used to this clock-rolling business.

[ratcheer]

I wish they would just leave us on Standard time all year around. :frown:

Tim

[CitizenDan]

I wish they would just leave us on Standard time all year around. :frown:

Tim

+1 yes please! :frown:

[Rughi]

I wish they would just leave us on Standard time all year around. :frown:

Tim

-1

Sorry Tim
I wish we were on Daylight Savings all year, as with Standard too much of the day is squandered in the morning when I'm doing utilitarian stuff and getting ready for work. I want more daylight in the evening, when the remainder of the day belongs to me.

This probably also depends on what edge of your time zone you're in. My friends Howie in Delaware and Doug in Kentucky are in the same zone, but get a very different experience of daylight, once the workday takes it's chunk out of the middle. I'd rather be in Kentucky (but then, wouldn't all of us bourbanites!) and get a long evening.

Roger

[ratcheer]

I am in Alabama, which is on the far eastern side of the Central Time zone. So, it gets dark here much earlier than it does in, say Texas. Still, I would rather be on Standard time. I like for it to be light in the morning and dark at night. :wink:

Tim

[Doc4]

In these uncertain economic times, does it make sense to stop saving daylight?

[Rughi]

I like for it to be light in the morning and dark at night.

+1 (begrudgingly)

Using the logic that it isn't nice to fool with...Mother Nature :biggrin:

Roger

[TstebinsB]

Don't forget to set your clocks an hour back. For some, this doesn't apply. :cool:

[ratcheer]

In these uncertain economic times, does it make sense to stop saving daylight?

I read in the news a few months ago that some study was done (sorry, I can't recall a reference) which showed that DST actually causes us to use more energy. I do recall that they based their findings by comparing energy use in the parts of Indiana that don't have DST to those that do.

Tim

[Milton]

Arizona= No daylight savings :biggrin: We get too much sun as it is...

http://s94958815.onlinehome.us/angryastronomer/daylight.jpg

[Phog Allen]

Ah, one of my most disliked things. DST. The scourge of sensible people everywhere. It supposedly cropped up during WW1 and WW2 to save energy by no needing the factory lights till one hour later. You sill have only X amount of daylight hours during a day so you are manipulating perception. As anyone who lives out here in cattle counry can tell you, we don't need no stinking perception that the sun sets at 9:00 PM instead of 8:00. As others have suggested, you simply don't wind down the use of electricity till one hour later. Psychologically, you are just suffering through another hour of heat before the sun goes down. Give me standard time any day. Does it really need to get dark at 9:00PM for the golf and softball crowd? Just my gripe. I realise most peope seem to like it. One thing that I believe is a big problem is the ridiculous extensions that took place a year or so ago. If we have to accept this, couldn't it just run from solstice to solstice? You lose most of the daylight hours from late Sep. to mid Oct. Now that it goes till Nov. BLAM! It gets dark at 5:30 or so just like that. Same thing in the spring. My eight year old daughter is mighty hard pressed to get to sleep with the sun shining in her window at 8:00PM. This thing used to run from the end of April to the end of Sep. Just about perfect. Okay, end of semi yearly rant.

Regards, Todd

[_JP_]

A farmer that I know fo complains about having to reset the chickens and cows twice a year.

[AACJ]

bump and merged

[ogopogo]

Arizona= No daylight savings :biggrin: We get too much sun as it is...

http://s94958815.onlinehome.us/angryastronomer/daylight.jpg
:eek:OMFG
:lol:

[iron maiden]

Thanks for the reminder.

[Shane]

I'll gladly trade an hour of sunlight for an hour of sleep.