**** Time Change Tonight ***

[A-Jay]

Spring Forward.

Don't forget to set your clocks one hour ahead tonight.

We were getting too much sleep any way ~ said no one ever.

 

A-Jay

[Bluebasser86]

You'll hear no complaints from me.

 

Signed,

Midnight shift workers everywhere

[A-Jay]

6 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

You'll hear no complaints from me.

 

Signed,

Midnight shift workers everywhere

 

Stood that watch myself for several years  ~ It's like living in a different world.

Especially tough with chldren

A-Jay

[flyfisher]

One of my favorite days of the year....getting that extra hour of daylight after work is awesome.

[Jar11591]

I forgot this was still a thing due to how the time adjusts automatically on all my devices, so I never even notice. 

[38 Super Fan]

Why can't we just leave it like this year around?

[Gundog]

29 minutes ago, 38 Super Fan said:

Why can't we just leave it like this year around?

Agreed. No common sense to keep changing 2x a year. But this involves the government so common sense has nothing to do with it. 

[Redlinerobert]

We should eliminate the 'spring forward' and just stick to the 'fall back.'

[A-Jay]

1 hour ago, Redlinerobert said:

We should eliminate the 'spring forward' and just stick to the 'fall back.'

 

Perfect ~

And if we just kept 'falling back' I think we'd all keep getting younger  ..  ..  ..  ..

That'd be sweet.

A-Jay

[12poundbass]

3 hours ago, 38 Super Fan said:

Why can't we just leave it like this year around?

You could move to Arizona or Hawaii neither participate in daylight savings.

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

 

Perfect ~

And if we just kept 'falling back' I think we'd all keep getting younger  ..  ..  ..  ..

That'd be sweet.

A-Jay

At that rate A-Jay after 24 years we'd be a year younger. 

Nope just double checked my math we'd be a day younger! Even worse!

[Redlinerobert]

Weirder laws have been passed.  

[OCdockskipper]

5 hours ago, 38 Super Fan said:

Why can't we just leave it like this year around?

 

By this, I assume you mean stay in "Daylight Savings time" all year round.  We could be in DST year round, however the downside is that during the winter, the sun would be rising at 8:00 - 8:30 in the morning depending on where you live.  That creates problems with the morning commute in urban & suburban areas, as well as being depressing that you are going into work while it is still dark .

 

The whole reason for having DST is because while the morning daylight is fine in Standard time during the winter, it becomes absurd in the summer, with sunrises as early as 4:00 - 4:30 am.  DST simply shifts that first hour of daylight from a time when it wouldn't be used by most of society to the evening when it becomes an asset.

 

There is logic behind it, it isn't just some dumb government idea.  It has less relevance the further south you go (less variances in sunrise times between winter & summer), hence why places like Hawaii & Arizona have opted out.

 

 

[38 Super Fan]

1 hour ago, OCdockskipper said:

 

By this, I assume you mean stay in "Daylight Savings time" all year round.  We could be in DST year round, however the downside is that during the winter, the sun would be rising at 8:00 - 8:30 in the morning depending on where you live.  That creates problems with the morning commute in urban & suburban areas, as well as being depressing that you are going into work while it is still dark .

 

The whole reason for having DST is because while the morning daylight is fine in Standard time during the winter, it becomes absurd in the summer, with sunrises as early as 4:00 - 4:30 am.  DST simply shifts that first hour of daylight from a time when it wouldn't be used by most of society to the evening when it becomes an asset.

 

There is logic behind it, it isn't just some dumb government idea.  It has less relevance the further south you go (less variances in sunrise times between winter & summer), hence why places like Hawaii & Arizona have opted out.

 

 

Yep, I'd like year around DST. I know there's a method to the madness, but I hate that we fall back when the days get shorter, seems totally backwards to me. When it gets dark at 5:30, that's what I find really depressing.

[slonezp]

Apparently the moon never got the message this morning.

 

[Redlinerobert]

That's no moon...it's a space station.

[OCdockskipper]

3 hours ago, 38 Super Fan said:

Yep, I'd like year around DST. I know there's a method to the madness, but I hate that we fall back when the days get shorter, seems totally backwards to me. When it gets dark at 5:30, that's what I find really depressing.

 

I hear ya.  I would venture that more people use daylight time after work for leisure activities or honey do's than they do in the mornings.

 

About a decade or so, they changed the date of the fall back to early November.  For as long as I can remember, the change had been the last Sunday in October, which worked well for Halloween (getting dark earlier in order to get the younger kids out trick or treating earlier).  That obviously isn't a legitimate reason why they should have kept that October timing, it was just something I found that worked well in suburbia.

[Gundog]

32 minutes ago, Redlinerobert said:

That's no moon...it's a space station.

 Quality Star Wars reference there.

[dave]

On 3/12/2017 at 3:28 AM, Bluebasser86 said:

You'll hear no complaints from me.

 

Signed,

Midnight shift workers everywhere

When I was in the USAF working nights,  best night of the year.  On the flip side,  FALL BACK sucked.

[Bluebasser86]

13 minutes ago, dave said:

 On the flip side,  FALL BACK sucked.

Yes it does. Getting to do that hour twice is the longest hour of the year.