Fall Back -- Daylight savings time ends tonight

Gollnick

Gollnick

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For those on Daylight Savings Time, tonight is the night to set those clocks back one hour before turning in. Use your extra hour to change smoke and C0 detector batteries and check fire extinguishers and flashlights.
 
Thanks for reminding me, ya bastid. I'll be working thirteen hours tonight and only getting paid for twelve. :mad:
 
one45auto said:
Thanks for reminding me, ya bastid. I'll be working thirteen hours tonight and only getting paid for twelve. :mad:
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I hear ya. I'm on call...25 hours instead of 24. But I get paid for them all. You should to, Its against the law not to pay for time worked.

But in the spring you get a 11 hour shift.


Paul
 
one45auto said:
Thanks for reminding me, ya bastid. I'll be working thirteen hours tonight and only getting paid for twelve. :mad:
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Consider the lament of a draftee on a troopship enroute to Frozen Chosen [Korea ] in 1952 . " Damn army & government,they dragged me in,shaved my head,pulled a lot of teeth,clipped my foreskin,robbed me of all dignity & NOW the sonsabitches are sending me across the International Dateline & stealing my effing birthday ! "

Cheer up . Even the subway is in the hole this year !


Uncle Alan :thumbup:
 
Why do we still bother with daylight savings time?

I understand the principles that generated it in the first place. But I have to wonder if the lights and electricity I burn when I get up in darkness really compensate for the extra hour of daylight. Like cutting off 12 inches of a blanket at the bottom and sewing it to the top.

I've even heard it suggested that we go to daylight savings time year-round; which makes no sense whatsoever.
 
I get annoyed with changing the times. A couple of years back i changed all the clocks in the house but i forgot to change my watch. I actually went through the whole day of classes one hour ahead. I managed to get there on time 'cos when i woke up i woke up to the alarm clock which i changed. And on the way i just looked at the minute hand of the watch and didn't notice the hour. After a few classes i didn't realise how much time had past and just went with the watch. I actually wanted to go home early and missed a class 'cos i went in the room at the wrong time and nobody was in there. I thought the class was cancelled.

So this year i changed the time yesterday. And left only one of my watches on correct time.

Anyway, thanks for the reminder. I don't know whether i even have a smoke alarm. hmmmm.....
 
Okay...

It's 2:35 now but it should be 3:35. Who's bright idea was it to use Daylight Savings Time, anyway? Is the wretched geezer still alive?!? What nursing home is the bastid in?? :mad:
 
one45auto said:
Okay...

It's 2:35 now but it should be 3:35. Who's bright idea was it to use Daylight Savings Time, anyway? Is the wretched geezer still alive?!? What nursing home is the bastid in?? :mad:
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It was one of Al Gores many ideas and inventions so you might ask him.
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one45auto said:
Okay...

It's 2:35 now but it should be 3:35. Who's bright idea was it to use Daylight Savings Time, anyway? Is the wretched geezer still alive?!? What nursing home is the bastid in?? :mad:
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The wretched geezer was one of our founding fathers - Benjamin Franklin. He came up with is when he was an American delegate in Paris in 1784. He documented his concept in an essay, "An Economical Project."

Just one more accolade to ol' Ben. Patriot, Ambassador, Humorist, Ladie's Man, and the bastid that screwed up everybody's schedule.

I wonder if we can consider him the "original" bastid?
 
I hate daylight savings, I set one of my digital watches to the new time, then use it to set all the other watches including the two mechanicals that I regularly use, then set the video recorders, then go around the house setting all the clocks: bedroom, studio, kitchen, living room, and the big one on the wall over the stairs ( I need a ladder for that one). It's good that some things, like the computer, change automatically but my cell phone is supposed to do it and still hasn't changed, last year my work computer went back two hours instead of one, I think it picked up the new time from the network and then went back another hour because it was so programmed in windows.

Yes, this thing was Ben Franklin's idea, he was a very smart fellow but I think he was wrong here, along with all those who actually like it.

I hate daylight savings.....

Luis
 
Just Great! I had to word from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. TWICE last night! And no, I didn't get extra pay - our billing is per day.

-Bob
 
We have the same thing over here, early this morning we ditched British summer time (BST) and went back to GMT. Did anyone else here spend Sunday wandering round the house unsure as to what time it actually was and then getting that weird sense of wellbeing when you realized that whatever clock you were looking at was an hour fast? It's almost as good as the feeling you get when you wake up in a heaving panic on Saturday morning thinking that you're late for work..
 
zulutime said:
Its not daylight savings time.
It is daylight saving time.
There is no "s" on the word saving.
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Really?

Even though you are right. I think it sounds better with an S.
 
I work weekends in a bar- EVERY year there is at least one knucklehead who thinks the 2:00am closing time shouldn't apply to them. Sat. night was no exception. Jerks. We have the keys. We close at 2:00. They do not win.
 
Why on earth would you bump it? Last night was to set the clocks forward one hour not back again.

Duh
 
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