We just wanted to remind you, in case your electronics didn’t get the message, that Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, November 2nd at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time.
In case you’re interested the official “rules” are:
On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time.
Daylight Time
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Whoa, this had completely fallen off my radar.
Might need to tweak some weekend plan scheduling to make sure my colleagues and I are all on the same page.
Boo, hiss, I vote for daylight savings year round!!
I have an alarm clock that automatically sets itself for DST. Funny thing is, this clock was made before the goons in Washington decided to change the rules. With no way to update the firmware, I’m stuck changing the time back to normal when it rolls over to false DST, and then changing it myself when the real DST hits.
@novacthall: I think we’ve got the same clock:
When I first got it, I didn’t realize that it was pre-programmed – I thought it got the time from the wireless networks because it also automatically resets itself after a power outage.
I live in Arizona, so muahahaha, I don’t have to deal with this shit. Well, I don’t have to change any clocks. It DOES make doing business difficult, because I always forget what time it is everywhere for like, two months following the change. And, as I grew up RIGHT on the AZ/Cali border … ugh.
And for those of us in Europe, well, we changed on 10/26.
And yet they’d never let the bars stay open another hour when I was in college. Fascists!
Has anyone heard any news in regards to switching DST back to the old schedule? I do recall reading some reports that the extended DST schedule that Congress and GWB signed into law didn’t actually save any more energy.
Little Stripes-at least you can adjust your clock’s time: as my (nice) Sony CD player/alarm clock uses the atomic clock sync to set the time, it doesn’t have any ability to change the time at all manually-none! Of course, it too has stuck firmware that changes weeks earlier. (I have to adjust my alarm time!)
Yea, why bother adding the ability to change time on an alarm clock (I won’t bother to complain on the DLS silliness.)
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Oops-my earlier post meant for Novacthall.
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dang! your title is misleading! I Thought you meant “ends” as in forever. I was about to hop up and dance.
could you change it to “rolls back” or a less misleading title?
@Swizzler121: That be way too cool.
Good bye DST! Hellooooo Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Good, I need more hours of sunlight …
Those of you pooh-poohing DLS are either ignorant of or are forgetting that the best morning of the year is Monday, when you’re getting up an hour early but don’t feel tired!
I ride that feeling clear on through to Thanksgiving.
Stupid daylight savings… Grrr.. They should have settled in the middle, half an hour ALL YEAR LONG!
The number of cranky tired people, AND accidents on the roads, since sleeping schedules were completely fucked up and the body needs at least a week adjusting…
I like more daylight in the evenings for March, but the one week later change to DST in the fall means the kids in our neighborhood are trick-or-treating in the twilight hours which is the worse time for them to be walking around traffic.
Wow, I didn’t know it was this early. I guess this means an extra hour of Fallout 3 for me!
Since I live in the UK, we already switched, but I have a question, why do we change forward/backwards at 2:00AM?
Why couldn’t we just change them at midnight?
We progressed from the horse and buggy.
We progressed from gas lamps.
We progressed from coal furnaces in every home.
We progressed from telegrams.
Why can’t we do away with this archaic practice of time change? Settle on one time and LEAVE IT ALONE.
It was created for the farmers … yet the farmers don’t use it. What gives? Can’t the technologically advanced civilization move on? :rolleyes: