Daylight Savings Time starts on Sunday

[beemerdons]

Daylight Saving Time is stupid. For a state as messed up as Arizona , they have the right idea.
After having Daylight Saving Time explained to him, a wise old Indian Chief said, "Only the government would belive you can cut a foot off one end of a blanket, sew it onto the other end, and end up with a longer blanket."

Hawaii also has the right idea! As well as Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, Guam and all the other US Territories. C&C's right, pick a time and stick with it!

 

[Crash Cash]

Yep, we need to pick a time and stick with it; messing with the body clock (albeit just a little) twice a year is pretty darn ignorant (especially in a near 24 hour society we typically employ).

+1000... 'specially when your body clock's as busted as mine and your preferred working hours are 10pm to 6am. It's hard enough to get up in the morning as it is.

(edit: and when I wanted to get to Daytona last week at 10am, I couldn't even barely get up at 10am )

 

[SacramentoMike]

Hawaii also has the right idea! As well as Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, Guam and all the other US Territories. C&C's right, pick a time and stick with it!

I pick 5:00.

 

[beemerdons]

Hawaii also has the right idea! As well as Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, Guam and all the other US Territories. C&C's right, pick a time and stick with it!

I pick 5:00.

SacramentoMike: Did you already clear this with Old Michael, madmike2, exskibum, Bokerfork, gregory, HYCLE, the rest of your NorCal screwballs and with Dr. Rich??

 

[SacramentoMike]

No, that's just for me. I think some of them might go along with it anyway. Works for Arizona, too, btw.

On reflection, I might just get a wristwatch tattoo that always reads 5:00 (but I think I'll go analog).

 

[Silver Penguin]

On March 14, 2010, at 2:00 a.m. - set your clocks ahead one hour.

At last -my bike clock will be right for six months. (It's been that long that I've been promising myself that I'd get out the manual and see how to reset the BMW clock)

 

[Reaper]

On March 14, 2010, at 2:00 a.m. - set your clocks ahead one hour. (Spring forward)

Tyler,

You gona have to whisper that in my ear on March 14, 2010 at 2:00 a.m........ or I'll forget.

 

[Tyler]

On March 14, 2010, at 2:00 a.m. - set your clocks ahead one hour. (Spring forward)

Tyler,

You gona have to whisper that in my ear on March 14, 2010 at 2:00 a.m........ or I'll forget.

On my calendar...

 

[wfooshee]

Those of you complaining about how stupid DST is, try living 20 miles from the eastern boundary of your time zone! In December it's dark before 4:30. I don't mean sunset, I mean DARK. For my money DST should be the standard, year round.

But then when I lived in Oklahoma (the other side of the Central time zone) I'd be complaining about how late it was when it finally got dark.

And it's exaggerated for you northern folks. Summer/Winter daylight difference is much greater at 50 degress latitude than it is at 28. When our family was in Germany in the '60s it was only actually dark for 3 or 4 hours each night.

 

[Fred W]

Walt is right. That is part of what makes the winter so depressing for us northerners. Lack of daylight has real and tangible influences on your mental state.

But I guess the upside is how freeking fantastic it is to get to play for 15 hours of daylight on June 21st up here at 42.5N. Of course MEM gets an additional 1/2 an hour up there in Fredericton, NB at 45.6N

I think I gleaned this link from a previous post on this forum, but it is worth repeating. Here is an awesome little web site that shows hours of daylight based on your latitude: Cool clicky

Cool little tidbit of trivia: One only needs go to 66.6 degrees N (or S) to reach a point where there will be a day when the sun never sets. Now there is a ride goal worthy of striving for, by Gawd!!

 

[gregory]

Hawaii also has the right idea! As well as Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, Guam and all the other US Territories. C&C's right, pick a time and stick with it!

I pick 5:00.

SacramentoMike: Did you already clear this with Old Michael, madmike2, exskibum, Bokerfork, gregory, HYCLE, the rest of your NorCal screwballs and with Dr. Rich??

It's

, might as well be here!
Now, where did I put that flip flop?

 

[Fred W]

I missed the point of the 5 o'clock reference.

Of course, 5 o'clock is the perfect time, as it is ubiquitously the start of happy hour. Who can find fault in that?

I used to have a small mechanically wound clock that I could never quite adjust to be accurate. I'd fiddle with the speed adjustments every time that I rewound it and it would never maintain the right time. It was always either too fast or too slow.

Finally in complete disgust I just stopped winding the damn thing and set the hands to 1:50 (aka 10 till two) because I liked the look of it that way.

I was later asked why I quit winding the clock. I replied that it was now far more accurate than it had ever been before.

"Huh? But the damn thing is stopped! How accurate is that?"

"Well," I replied. "At least now it is 100% correct twice a day."

Time is the most relative of all measurements.

Think about it.

 

[Crash Cash]

Cool little tidbit of trivia: One only needs go to 66.6 degrees N (or S) to reach a point where there will be a day when the sun never sets. Now there is a ride goal worthy of striving for, by Gawd!!

Congratulations! You've rediscovered the Arctic (and Antarctic) Circle. Have a cookie.

 

[SacramentoMike]

I missed the point of the 5 o'clock reference. Of course, 5 o'clock is the perfect time, as it is ubiquitously the start of happy hour. Who can find fault in that?

Sounds like you didn't miss it after all. Now, if I'd said "4:20," would you have caught that?

 

[MEM]

But I guess the upside is how freeking fantastic it is to get to play for 15 hours of daylight on June 21st up here at 42.5N. Of course MEM gets an additional 1/2 an hour up there in Fredericton, NB at 45.6N

REALLY?! It's no wonder I feel like vajazzling and then going bowling :yahoo:

 

[Fred W]

Cool little tidbit of trivia: One only needs go to 66.6 degrees N (or S) to reach a point where there will be a day when the sun never sets. Now there is a ride goal worthy of striving for, by Gawd!!

Congratulations! You've rediscovered the Arctic (and Antarctic) Circle. Have a cookie.

I'll take that cookie, but 66.6 degrees was my point.

666 :devil: Get it?

I missed the point of the 5 o'clock reference. Of course, 5 o'clock is the perfect time, as it is ubiquitously the start of happy hour. Who can find fault in that?

Sounds like you didn't miss it after all. Now, if I'd said "4:20," would you have caught that?

Yes. But I never inhaled.

But I guess the upside is how freeking fantastic it is to get to play for 15 hours of daylight on June 21st up here at 42.5N. Of course MEM gets an additional 1/2 an hour up there in Fredericton, NB at 45.6N

REALLY?! It's no wonder I feel like vajazzling and then going bowling :yahoo:

I'll admit it, MEM. I had to Google that one. :blink:

Vajazzling your vajayjay? :dribble:

"Who said disco sucks?"

 

[Zorlac]

"Vajazzling your vajayjay? "

I don't get it. How are the crystals put on? With hot glue???

 

[Fred W]

Not sure. But I think we need a "How-to" video or something.

 

[FJRBluesman]

Are we saving daylight or time? I'm always confused.