Yep…that is what President Trump wants done. Of course dems are against it because PJT wants it and some Repubs are hesitating because they want it to stay the way it is.
Nah.
I’m not embarrassed when the phone shows a different time than my microwave, pocket watch and several wind up clocks…
Now will I be clueless to the time if there is ever an Electromagnetic pulse whether from our sun, nearby star or somebody’s bomb.
Carrington events will play havoc with those electronic and electric jobs.
I’m always surprised at the lack of shielding for modern electronics. Even your home phones. They used to work when you lost power. Some people probably still have the old analog phone lines, but the majority of phones are dependent on the electricity grid. I remember the last time it melted the telegraph keys shut. I can’t wait to see what happens to a cell phone in a pocket. It’s nice to have new surprises to look forward to.
Evidently I do, because 4 out of the 5 clocks I went to set in my living room were on 1:00 am which means I never sprung them forward back in March. LOL. Sure made setting them back easy though. 😉
Evidently I do, because 4 out of the 5 clocks I went to set in my living room were on 1:00 am which means I never sprung them forward back in March. LOL. Sure made setting them back easy though. 😉
Are you being a jerk? I don’t need reminders for anything (maybe in another ten years or so). Sundance is the one who posted this reminder, and I thought it was good of him.
I think they should just move it a half an hour and leave it.
That way the major complaints of too early too late are compromised and never gets jacked too much.
I guess its personal preference here. I have lived most of my entire life with daylight savings time. Only a few years in my youth out in Ohio were spent without savings time. We stayed on EST all year because we lived near the extreme western edge of the Eastern time zone. Our particular town/county didn’t observe daylight time.
Observance of daylight savings time is far more uniform across the U.S. time zones than it was 60+ years ago. BTW, that (observance) is an interesting history if one is curious…
@GB – Yeah, when I was a kid, my grandparents lived in a town that did not observe Daylight Savings Time while we lived in a city an hour or so away that did observe it.
Talk about confusing for a kid still in single digits. Hah!
“Are you sure it’s bedtime grandma?”
When I was about 10+/-, the State declared that all of the State would observe DST, so that put an end to that.
Thanks for the memories of a time when people still had a say, GB. ?
P.S. I think Indiana still refuses to recognize DST. Years ago, I read an article about a town that had the border of the adjacent State (Ohio? Illinois?) running through the middle of the town. It was good for some cute ink about how the town dealt with it. Funniest thing was that the border ran through a Diner, so what time it was depended on which stool you were sitting on. As I said… cute story.
NOT in Ari,ona, cause we don’t HAVE DST.
So, we go from “pacific time” to “mountain time” (I THINK it is) in terms of figuring out where we are, in relation to the rest of the country, but we don’t change our clocks, its just cause everybody else changes THEIRS.
Oho! Did not see that coming, but of course Gropin’ Joe will be completely thrown off.
Wait up… when you sleep 18 hours per day, do you even notice the time change?
I guess ol’ Joe doesn’t need to know what time it is. All he really needs to know is what State he’s in and what Office he’s running for ??
Oh dear… sadz, sadz… sometimes even the teleprompter doesn’t help with that.
alliwantissometruth
October 31, 2020 8:47 pm
I remember reading the reason for this was farmers needed an extra hour of daylight to get the crops in, and I always said, “hey, why not simply get your butts out of bed an hour early, instead of making the entire country change the time?”
alliwant, farmers work from dark morning until dark. Even in the winter it is daylight till dark because of working on equipment. My mother used to say it was so the school kids could get on the bus in the daylight and get off in the evenings in the daylight.
tangled, hope they all make it. The weather is always the farmers worst enemy or their best friend and rarely the middle man. It seems there is always a scramble late in the year.
Exactly. I farm and the only thing a clock is good for is to establish a regular schedule to feed cattle, milk cows etc. City dwellers might think DST matters to a farmer but it doesn’t. The only reason a farmer changes time is to allow some level of interaction with school, church and so on. The change has to be gradual for milk cows and it is hell on earth for the farmer. Getting out of bed an hour early makes no sense when a clock means nothing.
One extra week of standard time this fall/winter. Usually 18 weeks, but 19 weeks this time. Happened last in 2015-2016, won’t happen again until 2026-2027.
BigBlockMill
October 31, 2020 8:57 pm
IMO the government wanted to show that it could control everything, like the Lord did in the Bible.
So the politicians started this time change garbage and offered lame excuses for what they did. Bow down to your politician masters.
Daylight saving time is necessary, it helps shift perceptive, try not to abolish ancient understandings of our planets how decisions were made. These are survival decisions. Let’s not cancel ourselves. President Trump will win decisively late in the the night but no later than after 1am EST. It will be clear fast.
thrawlbrauna
October 31, 2020 9:09 pm
Mine gonna be set a whole lot farther back than an hour…
Don’t make the mistake of telling your age twenty something children to turn their clocks back. They will tell you their phone does it for them. As if I don’t know the phone does it!
The worse night of the year if you happen to work graveyard shift–I remember a few 12 hour 7pm to 7am nursing shifts where we had to work an extra hour –setting the clock back a 2 am was absolute torture.
Yes, listingstarboard, I have been in that situation. I also worked when we set the clocks ahead. Much better. However it is, even retired, I am messed up for a couple days when the clocks change.. I do like DST though.
I was told many years ago (in the 50s) that this time change was to keep the kids in their houses right after school so more products could be sold to them by watching tv. That still works today. Instead of playing outside after school in the warmest part of the afternoon, the rural kids get home just before dark, and its right in to tv and screen time. On my farm, I get the hour in am when its so blue cold you can’t stand to be outdoors, and lose the daylight hour in the afternoon when its above freezing and you can actually get something done. Just one more reminder that most politicians are totally unrealistic and out of touch with the working world.
You’ll remember Monday when you show up an hour early at work to an empty parking lot, Baby Hurley.
That’ll be the DOH! moment.
.
.
.
P.S. Years ago, I actually did that. Funny thing was that there were about a 3 – 4 of us, out of 120 or so employees, that showed up early on Monday morning. The common theme was we forgot to set only the bedroom alarm clock, so we woke up and saw that – Omigosh! – jumped up out of bed and headed into work.
Since then, I’ve made sure I reset ALL of the clocks. [grin]
hyacinthclare
October 31, 2020 9:58 pm
Glad to have the rest of the country come back to reality… Arizona never leaves it. I always say we have more sun than we know what to do with anyway.
One of the many perks of living in AZ–Hawaii doesn’t change either.
JAS
October 31, 2020 10:01 pm
Thanks SD. Just changed all the house clocks and my watch. I always forget. Don’t like it but I live wit it. I grew up in the Caribbean. No time change there. Loved that.
TreeClimber
October 31, 2020 10:11 pm
I like Daylight Savings fall back. It makes me feel like I’m getting up earlier. 😀
ShibaDad
October 31, 2020 10:13 pm
Repeal DST! My job actually shifts start and out time to conform with DST in the other 49 states because I work for an airline in AZ.
tuskyou
October 31, 2020 10:13 pm
I bitch and moan twice a year about daylight savings time. I don’t care if we fall back or spring forward I complain bitterly. I hate it. I just want it to stop. Pick a time and then leave it alone!!!
Just the opposite here – I hate the time-change in the spring. Can’t stand trying to go to bed with sunlight still shining. (Plus losing that hour of sleep.)
Having a sneezing fit in the cold Hudson Valley and doing this now!!!
I HATE this!!!!! Keep the hours for kids and farmers and be done with this CRAP!
Texas Rancher
October 31, 2020 11:46 pm
We were supposed to believe that we were going to save energy when DST was begun – in a time when lines for gas wrapped around the block! Personally, I always felt like it was robbing Peter to pay Paul! People were not going to sit around in the dark, with their HVAC system off, no matter what the clock said!
Another reason given was that kids would be safer if they didn’t have to walk to school in the dark! No, they just couldn’t go outside to play after school! Ask any kid which they’d prefer! Especially those who catch the bus or get driven both ways.
The time changes made for some interesting situations! Instead of 8:30, drive-in theaters used to BEGIN their double features about 9:30 where I grew up! Try explaining that to the folks! ?
I just wish we had DST year-round. It might be worth mentioning that the Vitamin D the body absorbs through exposure to sunlight boosts the immune system. That would be especially valuable during this year of COVID!
Great thought, altho I could do without a Jimmy Carter redux.
It also occurs that was the beginning of the end of the Democrat party as we knew it.
Kelly
November 1, 2020 3:12 am
About daylight savings time…A wise old Indian once told me that’s it’s just like a white man to think that if you cut the bottom off a blanket and sew it on top that you have a longer blanket
Genie
November 1, 2020 11:52 am
I choose to be positive. I’m getting an hour back that I wasted watching the House Judiciary Committee pester Bill Barr on July 28. “I’m reclaiming my time!”
BigTalkers
November 1, 2020 1:01 pm
Thanks for the reminder!
regitiger
November 1, 2020 3:20 pm
what time is it?
are you not fully aware you are in control of your time?
I like the extra hour and prefer shadows, darkness. Never been a sunshine person. Been out west all of my life and the best years were spent in Northern Arizona living at 7300 ft. I have more mechanical, electric clocks in my house by far than electronic, digital ones. My alarm clock is a early 1940s Westclox Big Ben chiming alarm,electric. I have a few mechanical alarm clocks in storage if needed. I have one quartz wrist watch I seldom wear, 24 mechanical wrist watches which are both mechanical and automatic plus 13 antique and vintage pocket watches. Serious addiction here to clocks and watches. All Swiss, vintage American with two Japanese, Seiko and Orient.
You would think getting rid of DST is one thing Congress could agree on.
I love DST. Leave it year-round.
Yep…that is what President Trump wants done. Of course dems are against it because PJT wants it and some Repubs are hesitating because they want it to stay the way it is.
Presidential candidate would carry 40-some states promising to eliminate DST.
Thanks for the reminder! Some of us still have clocks that need to be manually changed.
And you need a reminder to reset your clock….Wow
Nah.
I’m not embarrassed when the phone shows a different time than my microwave, pocket watch and several wind up clocks…
Now will I be clueless to the time if there is ever an Electromagnetic pulse whether from our sun, nearby star or somebody’s bomb.
Carrington events will play havoc with those electronic and electric jobs.
I’m always surprised at the lack of shielding for modern electronics. Even your home phones. They used to work when you lost power. Some people probably still have the old analog phone lines, but the majority of phones are dependent on the electricity grid. I remember the last time it melted the telegraph keys shut. I can’t wait to see what happens to a cell phone in a pocket. It’s nice to have new surprises to look forward to.
Evidently I do, because 4 out of the 5 clocks I went to set in my living room were on 1:00 am which means I never sprung them forward back in March. LOL. Sure made setting them back easy though. 😉
Evidently I do, because 4 out of the 5 clocks I went to set in my living room were on 1:00 am which means I never sprung them forward back in March. LOL. Sure made setting them back easy though. 😉
Are you being a jerk? I don’t need reminders for anything (maybe in another ten years or so). Sundance is the one who posted this reminder, and I thought it was good of him.
Boy, how times have changed…?
This year has gone by fast.
Hate to see it get dark at 5pm but that’s what happens on standard time here in the Mid-Atlantic states.
I think they should just move it a half an hour and leave it.
That way the major complaints of too early too late are compromised and never gets jacked too much.
I guess its personal preference here. I have lived most of my entire life with daylight savings time. Only a few years in my youth out in Ohio were spent without savings time. We stayed on EST all year because we lived near the extreme western edge of the Eastern time zone. Our particular town/county didn’t observe daylight time.
Observance of daylight savings time is far more uniform across the U.S. time zones than it was 60+ years ago. BTW, that (observance) is an interesting history if one is curious…
@GB – Yeah, when I was a kid, my grandparents lived in a town that did not observe Daylight Savings Time while we lived in a city an hour or so away that did observe it.
Talk about confusing for a kid still in single digits. Hah!
“Are you sure it’s bedtime grandma?”
When I was about 10+/-, the State declared that all of the State would observe DST, so that put an end to that.
Thanks for the memories of a time when people still had a say, GB. ?
P.S. I think Indiana still refuses to recognize DST. Years ago, I read an article about a town that had the border of the adjacent State (Ohio? Illinois?) running through the middle of the town. It was good for some cute ink about how the town dealt with it. Funniest thing was that the border ran through a Diner, so what time it was depended on which stool you were sitting on. As I said… cute story.
So, in that diner it may have been possible to order your eggs at 5:00 a.m., they’d be cooked at 6:05 in the kitchen, and you’d get them hot at 5:06?
That’s retarted.
sp
retarded
I like the “tarted” better.
“retarted”?
You old sourpuss! ?
With the pace PDJT is setting, we need an extra hour for sleep just to recharge ourselves.
Unlike Biden, who can never get recharged.
Five rallies manana, we need the extra hour.
NOT in Ari,ona, cause we don’t HAVE DST.
So, we go from “pacific time” to “mountain time” (I THINK it is) in terms of figuring out where we are, in relation to the rest of the country, but we don’t change our clocks, its just cause everybody else changes THEIRS.
Dutchman, I’m not going to change the timer on my pool. Daylight is what it is. My wife thinks I’m goofy for not doing so.
Hello, Dutchman! Happy to meet another Arizona treeper.
Gonna confuse the big guy, sleepy Joe even more…if that’s possible ?
Oho! Did not see that coming, but of course Gropin’ Joe will be completely thrown off.
Wait up… when you sleep 18 hours per day, do you even notice the time change?
I guess ol’ Joe doesn’t need to know what time it is. All he really needs to know is what State he’s in and what Office he’s running for ??
Oh dear… sadz, sadz… sometimes even the teleprompter doesn’t help with that.
I remember reading the reason for this was farmers needed an extra hour of daylight to get the crops in, and I always said, “hey, why not simply get your butts out of bed an hour early, instead of making the entire country change the time?”
https://www.history.com/news/why-do-we-have-daylight-saving-time
This article says it was done to conserve fuel. The way I always heard, it was done to save electricity. But fuel is used to produce electricity, so…
But more people have heart attacks in the week after the time change causes them to lose sleep. So the ERs use more defribillators.
alliwant, farmers work from dark morning until dark. Even in the winter it is daylight till dark because of working on equipment. My mother used to say it was so the school kids could get on the bus in the daylight and get off in the evenings in the daylight.
The combines are running day and night around here. We got buried with 6-8″ last week.
The farmers are scrambling.
tangled, hope they all make it. The weather is always the farmers worst enemy or their best friend and rarely the middle man. It seems there is always a scramble late in the year.
Good weather this next week…They’ll get it all in. And not much drying required.
Exactly. I farm and the only thing a clock is good for is to establish a regular schedule to feed cattle, milk cows etc. City dwellers might think DST matters to a farmer but it doesn’t. The only reason a farmer changes time is to allow some level of interaction with school, church and so on. The change has to be gradual for milk cows and it is hell on earth for the farmer. Getting out of bed an hour early makes no sense when a clock means nothing.
One extra week of standard time this fall/winter. Usually 18 weeks, but 19 weeks this time. Happened last in 2015-2016, won’t happen again until 2026-2027.
IMO the government wanted to show that it could control everything, like the Lord did in the Bible.
So the politicians started this time change garbage and offered lame excuses for what they did. Bow down to your politician masters.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1322700188624932869
Daylight saving time is necessary, it helps shift perceptive, try not to abolish ancient understandings of our planets how decisions were made. These are survival decisions. Let’s not cancel ourselves. President Trump will win decisively late in the the night but no later than after 1am EST. It will be clear fast.
Mine gonna be set a whole lot farther back than an hour…
Don’t make the mistake of telling your age twenty something children to turn their clocks back. They will tell you their phone does it for them. As if I don’t know the phone does it!
The worse night of the year if you happen to work graveyard shift–I remember a few 12 hour 7pm to 7am nursing shifts where we had to work an extra hour –setting the clock back a 2 am was absolute torture.
Yes, listingstarboard, I have been in that situation. I also worked when we set the clocks ahead. Much better. However it is, even retired, I am messed up for a couple days when the clocks change.. I do like DST though.
Retired military here w/ my share of 12 hour night shifts.
Yes, yes, and yes!
Thanks for the reminder!
I was told many years ago (in the 50s) that this time change was to keep the kids in their houses right after school so more products could be sold to them by watching tv. That still works today. Instead of playing outside after school in the warmest part of the afternoon, the rural kids get home just before dark, and its right in to tv and screen time. On my farm, I get the hour in am when its so blue cold you can’t stand to be outdoors, and lose the daylight hour in the afternoon when its above freezing and you can actually get something done. Just one more reminder that most politicians are totally unrealistic and out of touch with the working world.
Agree lest we not forget our farmers . Lost if nutrition source is lost by time measure alienation. Stay grounded. Works for me.
I’ve read that the lobbying from air conditioning, electricity and BBQ grill industries is supportive of DST.
Nahhh… It’s the Big Golf lobby.
After work golf leagues need the extra hour to get their weekly nine holes in after work.
?
I already forgot ?
You’ll remember Monday when you show up an hour early at work to an empty parking lot, Baby Hurley.
That’ll be the DOH! moment.
.
.
.
P.S. Years ago, I actually did that. Funny thing was that there were about a 3 – 4 of us, out of 120 or so employees, that showed up early on Monday morning. The common theme was we forgot to set only the bedroom alarm clock, so we woke up and saw that – Omigosh! – jumped up out of bed and headed into work.
Since then, I’ve made sure I reset ALL of the clocks. [grin]
Glad to have the rest of the country come back to reality… Arizona never leaves it. I always say we have more sun than we know what to do with anyway.
One of the many perks of living in AZ–Hawaii doesn’t change either.
Thanks SD. Just changed all the house clocks and my watch. I always forget. Don’t like it but I live wit it. I grew up in the Caribbean. No time change there. Loved that.
I like Daylight Savings fall back. It makes me feel like I’m getting up earlier. 😀
Repeal DST! My job actually shifts start and out time to conform with DST in the other 49 states because I work for an airline in AZ.
I bitch and moan twice a year about daylight savings time. I don’t care if we fall back or spring forward I complain bitterly. I hate it. I just want it to stop. Pick a time and then leave it alone!!!
Thank you Sundance for the reminder. Hugs. 🙂
I…..Hate…..This…..Day!!!!!
Senators Scott and Rubio of Florida have a bill introduced to end turning the clock back. Please let this bill pass and be signed into law!
Just the opposite here – I hate the time-change in the spring. Can’t stand trying to go to bed with sunlight still shining. (Plus losing that hour of sleep.)
Having a sneezing fit in the cold Hudson Valley and doing this now!!!
I HATE this!!!!! Keep the hours for kids and farmers and be done with this CRAP!
We were supposed to believe that we were going to save energy when DST was begun – in a time when lines for gas wrapped around the block! Personally, I always felt like it was robbing Peter to pay Paul! People were not going to sit around in the dark, with their HVAC system off, no matter what the clock said!
Another reason given was that kids would be safer if they didn’t have to walk to school in the dark! No, they just couldn’t go outside to play after school! Ask any kid which they’d prefer! Especially those who catch the bus or get driven both ways.
The time changes made for some interesting situations! Instead of 8:30, drive-in theaters used to BEGIN their double features about 9:30 where I grew up! Try explaining that to the folks! ?
I just wish we had DST year-round. It might be worth mentioning that the Vitamin D the body absorbs through exposure to sunlight boosts the immune system. That would be especially valuable during this year of COVID!
Thanks for the reminder!
These time changes play havoc with my body clock. Glad I’m retired now so I don’t have to deal with the struggle of remaining alert at work.
However, if we must turn the clocks back how about making it worth my while and turning it back to 1976.
Great thought, altho I could do without a Jimmy Carter redux.
It also occurs that was the beginning of the end of the Democrat party as we knew it.
About daylight savings time…A wise old Indian once told me that’s it’s just like a white man to think that if you cut the bottom off a blanket and sew it on top that you have a longer blanket
I choose to be positive. I’m getting an hour back that I wasted watching the House Judiciary Committee pester Bill Barr on July 28. “I’m reclaiming my time!”
Thanks for the reminder!
what time is it?
are you not fully aware you are in control of your time?
I don’t wear watches
i AM the clock
I like the extra hour and prefer shadows, darkness. Never been a sunshine person. Been out west all of my life and the best years were spent in Northern Arizona living at 7300 ft. I have more mechanical, electric clocks in my house by far than electronic, digital ones. My alarm clock is a early 1940s Westclox Big Ben chiming alarm,electric. I have a few mechanical alarm clocks in storage if needed. I have one quartz wrist watch I seldom wear, 24 mechanical wrist watches which are both mechanical and automatic plus 13 antique and vintage pocket watches. Serious addiction here to clocks and watches. All Swiss, vintage American with two Japanese, Seiko and Orient.
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