Daylight Saving Time Reminder: Fall Back
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Kaili | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 07:40 am     Daylight Saving Time Ending....Fall Back When we change our clocks Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time. In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1 am Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It starts the last Sunday in March, and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment. A safety reminder Many fire departments encourage people to change the battery in the smoke detector when they change their clocks, because it can be so easy to forget otherwise. "A working smoke detector more than doubles a person's chances of surviving a home fire," says William McNabb of the Troy Fire Department in Michigan. More than 90 percent of homes in the United States have smoke detectors, but one-third are estimated to have worn-out or missing batteries. |
Squaredsc | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 07:44 am     thx for the reminder kaili, i totally forgot it was this weekend. |
Halfunit | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 08:11 am     Yeah, nothing like 5:24pm sunsets!  |
Ddr1135 | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 08:36 am     Okay, I fell backwards, now what? BTW, it's very difficult typing on your back from the floor. PS Thanks for the reminder! |
Adven | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 09:25 am     Nothing personal, Kaili, but I like to march to my own drummer, and have decided instead to Spring Forward. It does mean I will arrive for movies just as they're ending and miss a lot of flights, but I don't like the government intruding into my life and telling me what to do with my household clocks. I mean, what's next? I have to give them money for schools, roads and hospitals? |
Kaili | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 11:04 am     Adven, not just that, but you also have to give them money to make these decisions for you. If the time thing is a real issue, there are a few places you can go. There is the majority of Indiana, Arizona (unless you're on the Navajo reservation), and Hawaii. Ahh, but I see you're from Canada. Well, how does Saskatchewan sound? I hear that's one of the more rebellious provinces. I would like to suggest that maybe you play along just a bit this year. It's important. Believe me. I've developed a schedule for you so taht the change is less life altering. If you don't want to follow it, that's fine. We'll all be the ones getting taht extra hour of sleep Just try falling back maybe 10 minutes tonight. Sunday you may want to get really wild and move back 15 minutes. Now, by monday I know this may be catching up with you, so for a bit of relief, you may move your clocks forward again by just 7 minutes. Give it about a week and see how you feel. On Halloween, I suggest you adjust your clock back by 12 minutes. This should bring you to a falling back of 30 minutes. I know, I know. It'll take some getting used to. Stick with this until Thanksgiving. You may want some extra sleep that night- I say that night you move it back 15 more minutes. Now, that should be okay for awhile but yeah, I know. Christmas is coming. If it's to your preference, you can do this on Boxing Day instead. I want you to move your clock forward again by 7 minutes. Don't ask why. Just play along, okay? New Year's Day- please adjust your clock forward by 18 minutes. Your next adjustment will be made on Valentines Day. You will be asked to move your clock back (yes, back this time) 14 minutes. Yes- because it's on the 14th. I'm doing this for you- it should help you remember in the unbelievable event that this thread is archived by then. St, Patrick's Day. That's my birthday. I'll be 26. I'd like you to move your clock back by 26 minutes in celebration of me. Congratulations- you have now completed the fall back process. I will get back to you April third so we can devise a six month plan to spring you forward. |
Adven | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 11:16 am     Thanks, Kaili. I think you've given me a schedule I can live with. To be honest, that whole Spring Forward thing was an act of "spur of the moment" bravado that I didn't think I'd ever be able to back down from and still save face. Glad you gave me an out. Although Hawaii sounds lovely, so I may stick to my guns and move there as an act of protest and sacrifice. |
Kaili | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 11:24 am     I was thinking, another suggestion may be to adjust your clock back by 30 seconds a day, weekdays only. you will make it back 58 minutes by the time it's time to switch them again. And like two minutes really matters, right? None of my clocks are exactly the same as it is. Remember, next year we have a leap day. Or just stick with Hawaii. I'm sure it's a great place to go for the winter. It's gotta beat Wisconsin. |
Adven | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 11:52 am     Agreed. My clocks are all over the place, too. One's telling me it's almost time to get up, another seems to be suggesting it's supper time and my watch, which broke a couple of months ago, insists it's 3:02 a.m. I'm guessing they don't even need time pieces in Hawaii. I'm going to go with your 30 seconds a day suggestion, assuming I don't find it too exhausting. I'm not worried about the extra two minutes. I'll just make it 30.16 seconds a day the following year and get caught up. |
Lancecrossfire | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 11:56 am     Adven, if you stay over medicated, you won't care what time it is--lol. |
Sanfranjoshfan | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 12:06 pm     Daylight savings time works my nerves! There is really no valid reason for it anymore. I used to hear that it was done for the farmers or something. It was also used as an energy conservation method during WW2. In any case, I wish they would just average it out or something....by setting the clocks back a HALF HOUR this weekend and then leave it alone! It's pointless....there is no reason to have to go through this disrupting adjustment of our biological clocks by changing our mechanical ones twice a year. It makes me wonder....who makes money from this? That's usually the reason that pointless policies are in place...because it generates money for someone. Rant done.... |
Whoami | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 12:06 pm     <helps Ddr off the floor, pushes a chair under her, rearranges the keyboard.....> There, is that better?  |
Ddr1135 | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 12:11 pm     Thanks Who! |
Squaredsc | Saturday, October 25, 2003 - 09:19 pm     gentle nudge as a reminder. |
Grannyg | Monday, October 27, 2003 - 04:44 pm     this time change is killing me. i usually get up at 4:30 and this morning I woke up on my own, without an alarm clock, at 4. now i feel like it's 10 and it's only 6:45 central time. i'll be in bed at 8 central time. dang i wish they would leave the time alone. am i the only one who's body refuses to change time? |
Reader234 | Monday, October 27, 2003 - 04:55 pm     our bodies are enjoying the time, only when my body got up at 5am on DH clock I did ask if he turned HIS clock back - hoping I had an extra hour!! I thought we changed the clocks so that the kids got on the school bus in light, and they could practice soccer before it got really really dark... |
Ddr1135 | Monday, October 27, 2003 - 06:10 pm     Well the time change has my sleep schedule totally screwed up (like I need help in that area). Didn't get to sleep until after 11:30 pm last night, woke up at 2:00 am this morning. HAD to take nap at 3:00 pm this afternoon. (Thank the Lord I work at home!) Hopefully I can get at least 5 hours of sleep tonight. Gheesh |
Grannyg | Monday, October 27, 2003 - 06:14 pm     ddr, i'm hoping that you get some sleep tonight. it's so miserable to have your sleep schedule messed up. |
Ddr1135 | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 01:05 pm     Don't forget to change your car clock and cell phone clock. That way you can avoid picking up your child one hour before school lets out. I learned this from experience today. |
Kaili | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 01:14 pm     Really? My cell phone updated itself. But that does remind me- I still have to to do the answering machine. So many clocks!!! 1 Stove clock 3 Watches 2 VCR clocks 2 TV clocks 2 Car clocks (radio and dash) 1 Microwave clock 3 Decorative clocks (for lack of a better description...) 1 Alarm clock 1 Coffee maker clock ...and now this. The answering machine! Good thing I got an extra hour out of this cause I spent it hunting down clocks to change back. plus I always have to mess around forever to remember how to change the car stereo one. At least my computer and caller ID updated themselves. |
Dahli | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 02:26 pm     Wow Kaili... I'm impressed, not many folks know we don't change times. (SK) but we do have to remember every body else does and get used to a whole new TV schedule twice a year!! LOL |
Ddr1135 | Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 05:59 pm     Well, I programmed my cell phone to automatically update itself, so I won't have that problem next time. At least my son got to cut out of class an hour earlier, cause I wasn't going back to pick him up, LOL. |
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