OK, how many of you have already set your clocks up?

[JatMat]

Tonight is the night, Spring Forward. My better half just made me go ahead and move the clocks up. I just wish they would leave the time alone. Makes no sense to me.

 

[T.K.C.]

I did.

 

[555]

Not yet. Being the weekend, I probably will not change my clocks till Sunday night so we get up on time for Monday morning.

 

[Psychopomp]

The only clock I own is wall clock in the living room. I use my cellphone for an alarm clock and it changes automatically and so does the computer. So I guess I won't need to do too much, and eventually I'll change the clock in the living room.

When the time changed last spring, my girlfriend was going around making sure to remind everyone of the time change. Guess who forgot to change her clock and was an hour late for work? I still make fun of her for it.

 

[hunter s thompson]

I had to I have to work tomorrow and into Monday. Anybody want to guess how I will feel come Monday morning 7 am??

 

[JatMat]

I just want someone to tell me WHY they have to change it at all.:grumpy:

 

[SPXTrader]

Meh. Daylight Savings Time. Why do I have to save daylight? Is it that valuable? Are we running out of daylight? Will daylight be more expensive in the future, and I am actually saving something by using it earlier in the day now? This all seems to suggest that daylight is being wasted during part of the year. Regardless of the date, I resent the implication that I have wasted something if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. I think this year I'll turn my clocks off. :grumpy:

 

[JatMat]

Meh. Daylight Savings Time. Why do I have to save daylight? Is it that valuable? Are we running out of daylight? Will daylight be more expensive in the future, and I am actually saving something by using it earlier in the day now? This all seems to suggest that daylight is being wasted during part of the year. Regardless of the date, I resent the implication that I have wasted something if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. I think this year I'll turn my clocks off. :grumpy:

AMEN!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

[Samael]

All of my clocks automatically adjust (including even the wrist watch), so I don't need to worry about it.

I agree, though, that they should leave it alone. Supposedly it saves energy on lights, but here's the hilarious part: What little electricity is saved on lights is more than used up by people running their air conditioners. No joke. (This from a fairly recent study that just came out a month or so ago.)

Daylight Savings Time - bah humbug!

 

[riffraff]

Actually, it's "Daylight Saving Time." Not "Savings."

Brought to you by your friendly neighborhood pedantic.

http://geography.about.com/cs/daylightsavings/a/dst.htm

 

[Samael]

Actually, it's "Daylight Saving Time." Not "Savings."

Pfffft.

 

[riffraff]

Meh. Daylight Savings Time. Why do I have to save daylight? Is it that valuable? Are we running out of daylight? Will daylight be more expensive in the future, and I am actually saving something by using it earlier in the day now? This all seems to suggest that daylight is being wasted during part of the year. Regardless of the date, I resent the implication that I have wasted something if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. I think this year I'll turn my clocks off. :grumpy:

According to William Willet and Ben Franklin, the answer is yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Origin

 

[riffraff]

Pfffft.

Pfffffft back at ya.

You probably say "Canadian Goose," too.

 

[SPXTrader]

According to William Willet and Ben Franklin, the answer is yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Origin

I guess it must be a good deal. After all, 5,356,869 citizens of Kyrgyzstan couldn't be wrong!

But I digress. Pfffft.

 

[555]

 

[kozak6]

In Arizona, we don't bother with this daylight saving silliness since we traditionally have a quite a surplus, even.

I figure we could probably clear up the State's budget deficit if the governor would just sell it off to you folks who need it so desperately.

 

[JatMat]

Probably the smartest state in the Union.
Jim

 

[Samael]

Have you ever been to Arizona in the summer? There's a real good reason why they don't do DST: the early morning hours are the only time of day that it's even remotely tolerable to be outdoors.

 

[Bufford]

Daylight savings time is really a tax on time. They are forcing us all to shorten our evenings by one hour, and add that quiet evening hour into the morning rush. Daylight savings time doesn't make the evening feel longer, it does just the oposite.

My body runs on the natural cycle of the sun and night, not some dumb time meter stuck on the wall. Most other people do too, which is why accident statistics show a sharp increase after daylight savings time kicks in, and they drop again when we return to real time in the fall.

All we are doing is going to bed one hour earlier, and getting up one hour earlier.

Given the accidents that pile up on a daily bases, people could sure use that extra hour of daylight in the morning for the daily commute.

There are only 24 hours in a day no matter how you slice it up.

Have I changed the clock? I will do them when I feel like it, I have no set schedual anyways.

 

[glockman99]

I just now finished setting all my clocks & watches...Except for the one in my car and the two in my office at work...Those 3 will hold 'till Monday morning..