Time Rollback in U.S.A and Canada

[Redwolf]

@Cynth

You are lucky. I have a clock that automatically resets itself, but it was built to reset at the old Daylight Savings Time time. So it changed two weeks ago. Then some clocks drive me mad when I try to figure out how to change them so I give up and try to remember if they are ahead or behind. If I fix them, then I forget that I’ve fixed them and still add or subtract an hour. It’s a real mess.

I have a clock that resets itself as well, but it’s designed to consult the atomic clock in Fr. Collins periodically, so it doesn’t reset itself until the atomic clock does (the other advantage is that it’s always “on-time”…never fast or slow…and it resets itself perfectly after a power outage).

Redwolf

[djm]

I used to have one of those radio-controlled clocks that references an atomic clock like the one in Ft. Collins, but I had to get rid of it. It turns out these damned cesium atomic clocks go out by a full second once every million years, and wasn’t it the one second when I bought mine? So I had to get rid of it. What a piece of junk, and a waste of $2 to boot.

djm

[Charlene]

I’ve set every clock except the ones in the cars and the computer at my husband’s store. He has Windows 98 and never downloaded the patch, so it changed at the old time, and I reset it and he was upset because now someone will have to manually reset it again. I even remembered the answering machine and the clock on the stereo, which are ones that I usually forget.

I’m a bit paranoid about those atomic clocks - how do I know Big Brother isn’t listening in on those? (Where’s my tinfoil hat?)

[peeplj]

Don’t be too paranoid…I have an “atomic” watch and it only finds the sync signal about one day in seven…so I may have to wait a while before the watch is right again.

If Big Brother is listening over my watch, chances are he ain’t hearing much.

–James

[Walden]

@Cranberry

Walden, I love that origami! Can you post a bigger picture?

[Steamwalker]

@Cranberry

@Steamwalker

@Cranberry

I don’t observe it in my apartment. All my clocks have the old time.

I always thought that clock stores must hate the day.

I hope your employer doesn’t have a problem with your non-observance.

None of them do.

That’s a pretty nice employer that doesn’t mind you arriving an hour early or late each day. I wonder how my boss would react if I told him that I no longer observe deadlines or showers.

[SteveK]

@Redwolf

I have a clock that resets itself as well, but it’s designed to consult the atomic clock in Fr. Collins periodically
Redwolf

Fr. Collins has an atomic clock inside him?

In Indiana there used to be debates about daylight savings time. Opinions ran very strong. There would be letters to the newspaper saying “If the Lord had wanted us on daylight savings time..blah, blah.” I believe Indiana no longer changes times but I’m not sure what time they have adopted.

[s1m0n]

@Redwolf

This is too funny not to share, even if you don’t know the original hymn:

http://www.gbod.org/worship/music/timechangesong.pdf

Too true!

For those who have some familiarity with Anglican church music, the tune (Cwm Rhondda) is the one to which “Guide me, O, thou great Jehovah/Redeemer” is sung.

Redwolf

That’s brilliant. I’d love to be in a choir that launched into this on the appropriate sunday, if only to see the congregation blink.

[Charlene]

I just noticed that this forum does not automatically change the time - you have to go into your profile and change it. Not that the exact time of a post really matters.

[Redwolf]

@s1m0n

@Redwolf

This is too funny not to share, even if you don’t know the original hymn:

http://www.gbod.org/worship/music/timechangesong.pdf

Too true!

For those who have some familiarity with Anglican church music, the tune (Cwm Rhondda) is the one to which “Guide me, O, thou great Jehovah/Redeemer” is sung.

Redwolf

That’s brilliant. I’d love to be in a choir that launched into this on the appropriate sunday, if only to see the congregation blink.

I think we’ll have to consider it at next time change. We learned about it too late to do anything about it this time (especially as this is All Saints Sunday, so we already had a full roster of “must-do” music)

Redwolf

[Jack]

@Steamwalker

@Cranberry

@Steamwalker

I hope your employer doesn’t have a problem with your non-observance.

None of them do.

That’s a pretty nice employer that doesn’t mind you arriving an hour early or late each day. I wonder how my boss would react if I told him that I no longer observe deadlines or showers.

Oh, they’d each fire me if I was late or early each day. I observe it at work, just not at home.

[gonzo914]

Jesus lived his entire life on standard time, and if it was good enough for him, it should be good enough for the rest of us.

That’s why I always ask myself “WWJSHCA?” (What would Jesus set his clock at), and I live my life accordingly.

[peeplj]

@gonzo914

Jesus lived his entire life on standard time, and if it was good enough for him, it should be good enough for the rest of us.

That’s why I always ask myself “WWJSHCA?” (What would Jesus set his clock at), and I live my life accordingly.

–James

[Lambchop]

Yes, I think that just about takes care of it.

[Whistlin_Dixie]

Gonzo, you the man!

M

[Doug_Tipple]

I think that daylight savings time makes a lot of sense, else the politicians in our state wouldn’t have voted for it. Right? My wife starts her commute to work at 7:30 am. Last week she was driving in the dark. With the time change this week she is driving in daylight. Rush-hour traffic on the freeway still isn’t safe, but it has to be safer in the daylight.

My proposal to settle this time-change dilemma once and for all is to advance the clocks 30 minutes from standard time and to leave it there with no future changes. In our state that would be right in the middle between Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Daylight Savings Time. You can think of it as a compromise. For the rest of the world, well, they would need to understand the logic and do the same thing themselves.

[springrobin]

Yeah, my clock reset itself last week also. The dogs woke me up early (or so I thought) so I let them out to take care of business, took a shower and made some tea thinking I still had an hour and a half before I had to be at church for preservice handbell rehearsal. Then I looked at my watch and it wasn’t so. Yikes. Thank heavens for the dog alarm…

[I.D.10-t]

@Doug_Tipple

I think that daylight savings time makes a lot of sense, else the politicians in our state wouldn’t have voted for it. Right? My wife starts her commute to work at 7:30 am. Last week she was driving in the dark. With the time change this week she is driving in daylight. Rush-hour traffic on the freeway still isn’t safe, but it has to be safer in the daylight.

My proposal to settle this time-change dilemma once and for all is to advance the clocks 30 minutes from standard time and to leave it there with no future changes. In our state that would be right in the middle between Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Daylight Savings Time. You can think of it as a compromise. For the rest of the world, well, they would need to understand the logic and do the same thing themselves.

I am missing your point. It is light in the morning now because we are now on standard time. The extension of DLST left the morning commute in the dark for a longer period of time.

[peeplj]

I think Doug was pulling your leg.

–James

[CHasR]

@Walden

Daylight Time ends in a few hours in those regions unfortunate enough to observe it in North America.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php

all I can say is;

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
THANK HEAVEN WE"RE BACK ON REAL TIME!!!

For the last month Ive been walking around like a zombie.
The clocks should’ve gone back 2 weeks ago!
Ive had more energy in the last 3 days than I have had all summer!

Unfortunately, they go forward ALL TOO SOON!!!
(and for reasons best kept in the political forum…)