Daylight Saving Time

[ashling]

[Wolf Frankula]

1. Daylight Saving Time is..

Making a string longer by cutting a piece off one end and tying on the other.

Wolf

[Lex]

6. No, it's not longer.

Why do people think it's longer?

[Wolf Frankula]

9. I Should have Said

'trying to make a string longer.' There are still only 24 hours in a day.

Wolf

[Lex]

14. Who thinks DST changes 24 in a day?

Maybe someone somewhere does?

[kentauros]

2. So,

that's why The Lounge is so dead tonight? I guess they're all watching TV. You know, it sure would be phenomenal if someone invented a way to, oh, I don't know, record TV shows on a computer hard-drive built into the television programming provider's central electronics box. You could even call it a "digital video recorder" if you wanted to be all geeklike, or just DVR if you're an American in marketing

Later tonight, I'll probably watch Ripper Street from last night, and maybe see what's on TCM, or finish watching their biography on Robert Osborne. And then go to bed early to reset this federally-mandated jetlag

[marzipanni]

3. Do you set your clock an hour ahead

on Saturday night before you go to sleep, or on Sunday?
Since we don't usually need to know what time it is on Sunday, we just sleep until we wake up, then say, "Oh, yeah it's really an hour later than what the clock says."

[Tobin S.]

4. I set it forward on Saturday night when I go to bed.

I have an alarm clock that runs on batteries and sounds like and ambulance siren going off in your ear. Say what you will, but I have not been late to work in the three years that I've owned that clock. I am a punctual person. Being late for something makes me anxious and being late for work makes me feel terrible.

[Lex]

7. I wish we could set it back on Friday night/early a.m. on Saturday

so we'd have 2 mornings to adjust to it before Monday morning.

[marzipanni]

8. Oh, I hope you didn't set it

back! Spring ahead in the spring, fall back in the fall.

[pokerfan]

11. The mayor of Toronto told his twiiter followers to spring back

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/mayor-rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet-turn-clocks-back-article-1.1715918

[marzipanni]

10. Unless you need to get up to work on Sunday, or go to church at the right time,

or have some activity to go to at a certain time, there's no need to try to wake up at, say 6:00 am, if you changed the clock from
10:00 pm, to 11:00 pm. before going to bed... your bio clock might resent that.
I'd rather subtract the hour from my awake time than my asleep time, is what I mean.

[csziggy]

13. Some of my clocks don't get changed!

The clock in my truck is finally correct today - it's been an hour off since last fall.

We've got two clocks that set themselves by connecting to a time service. Others get reset whenever we get around to doing it - the one over the window in the library will get reset when my husband is willing to climb on a step ladder, take it down, and do it.

The grandfather clock will get reset the next time I wind the weights back up. The rest, the same, whenever it's convenient, needed or we feel like it.

ETA - at least I no longer need to set the VCR clock - the DVR takes care of itself!

[fizzgig]

15. i do it before i go to bed saturday

the alarm clock is the only thing that needs reset, but that guarantees i won't forget it.

[El Supremo]

5. I have to reset 17 wathches and clocks.

It is a pain. At least my computer resets itself.

[pokerfan]

12. A man with one watch knows what time it is;

A man with two watches is never quite sure.

A man with seventeen timepieces is selling...