Springing forward early this year!

YEAAA!!! First vote.

Edited to add: I think the changing of time clocks in this post-candle age is silly and really wish they would just keep the time the same for the whole year!

This message was edited Mar 5, 2007 8:55 AM

Me too...changing the clocks throws me off for days afterwards...and I hate having to get up in the dark AGAIN once we change the clocks in spring.

I'm SO happy that we are going to DST early! I like to view my blooms daily and photograph them. In early spring before DST I don't get home in time.

I have also wondered why we don't just stay on DST. Then someone explained that in winter it would mean the children would be standing out at bus stops in the dark. That is, if there are actually still children whose parents don't take them to school. (From the looks of the traffic at the school near me it seems that all kids now have personal drivers.)

Yeah, high time this silliness of changing the clocks to make-believe time in summer was stopped!

Resin

BTW, isn't this a bit early yet?? The clocks aren't tampered with until 25 March

Resin

My child has to be at the bus stop at 6:45 am! I'm not getting dressed and out of the house that early... and anyway, for years, I didn't have a car.

xxx, Carrie

LOL scutler!!!! Would you believe we DO have some kids who still ride the bus and I actually see parents DRIVE them, YES, to the bus stop and it's not even ONE STREET from their house!!!! IN a cul-de-sac! But it's still dark here when the kids are getting on the a.m. bus so maybe that's why they drive them?

Resin, does your time change occur later than ours? (Silly me, I assumed everyone who does this was going early this year.) Here in the U.S., ours will change this coming Sunday (at 2 a.m., so really Saturday night for most of us ;o)

I voted for "I don't like changing......" partly because I'm so good at forgetting to do so, despite abundant reminders. Seems like I've spent a good portion of my working life arriving an hour early or an hour late!

Yeah, it's always the sunday after the equinox over here (same throughout the EU; I hadn't thought it would be different anywhere, too . . .)

Just goes to show how artificial the whole business is . . . it doesn't change real time, as measured by the position of the sun in the sky. Must play absolute havoc with transatlantic flight timings.

The most important thing to remember, when meeting people while DST is in operation, is to say "Good morning" until 1pm, and only then to change to "Good afternoon" - because noon (being real time) doesn't change.

Resin

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This message was edited Mar 5, 2007 3:35 PM

Checked in my calendar . . .

This is the first year for ours to be so early.

You know what they say....the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese ;o)

LOL Terry!

Daylight savings means I'll get my lazy parts out of bed earlier, that is, if I can move the two dacshunds and the husky pup up and off of me.

I love longer days although changing times wreaks havoc with my sleep pattern for about a month. I'm not clear on the reasons behind doing this new time change. Does anyone know?

June

Yes, it was part of the Energy Bill in Congress last year. They reasoned that a significant amount of energy would be saved if daylight were extended for another hour.

I love daylight time, but I hate losing an hour's sleep that night. However, that's a minor trade-off for being able to work in my garden later in the day at this time of year. It's warmer! (I have a north-facing balcony...)

It may be more difficult to get ready for work/ school in the morning. for example, my daughter wakes at 7:30 to go to school at 815. next week that would be waking at 830.... too soon this year especially in the north latitudes. sunrise next monday for me will be 7:09 that's like december and january!!

I wish we'd never get off DST. I hate when we change back in the fall and there's NO gardening time when I get home from work.

wow, where have I been. I thought the time changed forward on the first Sunday in April. Why and who changed it?

ROTFLOL!

I'm glad that it's changing early this year though. I like more daylight time at the end of the day....I'm a nightowl.

I thought the reasoning behind time changes dated back to the early days with candles? I won't attempt the story as I don't remember the history facts. Anyone know?

It may have started that way, but they changed it this year.....we are going to DST earlier than we usually do.

Ah I found the info:

I sleep well past the sunrise. I'm thrilled it's being changed to DST earlier this year. Kudos!

Harper

edited to say: Brilliant info Tir. thanks!

This message was edited Mar 5, 2007 1:30 PM

I don't necessarily need the extra daylight yet, but I do think starting to gain back the hour lost in the morning sooner will be good.

A 13-year old boy was kidnapped at gunpoint at his school bus stop here recently (he escaped, thank goodness). That's one of the reasons some parents walk their children to and from the bus stop. It also seems that in this area every year at least one child gets killed while waiting or walking in the dark. If it weren't for those kinds of danger, I'd be happy to change to DST all year.

If I could choose, I'd prefer not to change the clocks ever. All time is just an artificial schedule anyway. But since we live in a modern world, I will enjoy having it light later.
Re: school bus problems. My sympathies, life is so dangerous now. I'm grateful my sons were able to walk safely from the bus stop up a hill for a quarter of a mile to the house without being abducted. One of us did drive them down in the morning, since the bus came at 7:15, first on and last off. When I was a kid we safely roamed the streets, used public transportation alone and generally did as we pleased and no one cared where we were as long as we showed up for dinner. Very sad state of affairs for today's children, imo.

I am with Resin. Thats soooo funny but true.

I don't care which one they choose, just choose one and leave it! All this saying it saves energy by adding daylight, thats just stupid! So no one turns on their lights when they get up in the morning!? LOL Changing the time every year just adds to fact of naturally shorter days in winter and makes it seem more extreme. I wish they would just leave it alone!

I don't understand the fuss, as long as we actually have sunshine, I'm a happy camper.

If there is that much problem with the kids at the bus stops, why don't they change the time school starts and ends? My kids' school starts at 9am and gets out at 3:30pm........I like that we don't have to get up so early.

Time changing is artificial and stupid. Who do they think they are fooling? I hate changing clocks but since most of mine are atomic clocks it's not as much trouble as it used to be. Just decide what time it will be and never change the time again. It's all relative.


Ann

Where is all the daylight we are saving? Now I go to work in the dark and usually come home in the dark. Will the "saved" daylight be available at retirement? Daylight got along just fine without the govermnt messing with it for eons. Lord help us if they decide they can regualte the weather. Leave my time alone. I can get up earlier on my own to.

What I like about DST is that since the sun comes up and sets later (relative to standard time), that means that it gets hot later so I have more time in the morning to do yard work. That isn't an issue this time of year but will be come July. What I hate about DST is getting adjusted to getting up earlier (relative to standard time).

Can someone explain this? *Farmers are opposed because of the impact on livestock.

Regardless of the time system, if kids have to leave for school before 7:15 AM, that's just wrong, IMO. When I was growing up, elementary school was something like 8:45 to 2:45 and high school was 8:05 to 3:05.

There are kids at the bus stops here where I live at 6:30 in the morning. My neighbor had a grandson who spent almost 2 hours a day riding the school bus to and from school. That is ridiculous.

Don't like changing time, just inconvenient. I do enjoy the longer summer days though. Probably the livestock thing has to do with feeding and milking schedules and stuff like that.

Time does not change; DST is a myth.

Keeping time as we know it did not exist until the Transcontinental Railroad was created necessitating the need for standardized time. Before that, the time of day was different everywhere you went.

I really don't care for DST. I'd rather we all go to one uniform method and stick with it.

I didn't vote. I am a sunshine person. I wake up when the sun comes up, clock time doesn't matter. I go to bed when I am tired, usually around midnight. I am trying the after lunch nap. I like it, 15 minutes or so do wonders for the old bod!
Bernie