Unfortunately, I was working for that extra hour, and I have reason to believe I won't get any overtime for it since the person who loses an hour (6 months away from this day) doesn't lose an hour of pay. (Does that sound wrong to anyone?)

But, I'm off work shortly so I will be sleeping.

Nothing personal, but I want to point out there is no 's' on the end of Saving in Daylight Saving Time.

It is a very common mistake, but a mistake none the less.

@TacoChuck: This early and nothing better to do than nit pick? wow just wow.

@Tawnie is Monster Mashing: It's not early everywhere, y'know.

The posting mentioned "twice-yearly change of the batteries in your fire and smoke alarms." A twice yearly check would make a lot more sense. Most batteries in smoke alarms are good for far longer than 6 months. Some last for years, especially if they are in hard-wired detectors. You'll save a lot of money, and keep a lot of perfectly good batteries out of landfills if you buy an inexpensive battery tester and check your smoke detectors batteries every six months rather than automatically throwing them away every six months.

Actually, daylight saving time ENDS today, standard time STARTS.

And we're not selling mattresses here, no "s" at the end of saving.

@TinaBringMeTheAx: Exactly. DST ends, ST returns.

@Tawnie is saving no daylight: Who's nit picking? I am pointing out the actual term for the subject of the article. I appreciate it when someone points out I am misusing some word or phrase.

Nit picking is if there was a typo in the article and I pointed that out.

Also a good time to change your windshield wipers!

Its only wrong until we get everyone to call it Daylight Savings Time. Then its right.

Don't inhibit progress!!!

Yes on the two nits already pointed out. It's called "Daylight Saving Time", and it ENDS now, not begins.

My VCR already changed its time several days ago. I didn't notice that and it failed to record last week's episode of The Mentalist 10PM (recording the 11PM news and part of David Letterman, instead). I wish I was more observant of that.

This is a problem of (choose):

1. Government changing stuff that is already programmed into devices.

2. Devices having stuff programmed in that the government changes.

IMHO, we don't need Daylight Saving Time at all. We don't really even need time zones anymore. Time zones were intended to help trains stay on schedule. Now days, with computers, GPS, etc, we can have multiple discrete times for many smaller areas (it can still be good to have the same time within one metro area), and dynamically adjust it according to the time of year so that it maximizes sun time. The idea is for the clock to adjust so that a given time begins at approximately sunrise for the locality you are in. Different latitudes have a different amount of change in sun times, so the daily increment would also vary by location. But this is all manageable today (unlike back in the days when the railroads began).

I was disappointed to learn that, once again, sites and papers have failed to misspell CLOCKS in their daylight savings time stories, missing out on literally minutes of unintentional hilarity.

I woke up at 8am, to realize it's only 7am. And that I have 15 hours before bed again, instead of 14. What am I doing with my extra hour you ask, Ben?

Nothing. Never makes a difference to me until Monday hits.
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Let me speak on behalf of Indiana and say that this whole time-change notion is for the birds!

What did I do with the extra hour? RESET THE DAM CLOCKS! !$!#@$
4 wall clocks, 1 Coffee maker, 1 Microwave, 1 Stove Clock, 2 Analog watches, 4 Televisions, 2 Car Stereos, 3 Digital Cameras & a partridge in a pear tree! (!@#!@$)

THANK GOD we have 2 Mac's, 2 cell phones & 1 Atomic clock that needed no "Human Intervention" to make this !#$!$ time adjustment! I'm going to go watch "Flash Forwad" now where the have a REAL problem with time.

@Tawnie is saving no daylight: In general I think Consumerist could use a little MORE nit picking. Sometimes I wonder if they even have any proof readers.

@mobilene: Unfortunately there are relatively few people who agree (I'm one of them). The only change that should have been made to this mess in recent years is to eliminate it.

November is National Novel Writing Month, so I spent the extra hour writing. And, unlike most the wusses who "spent the extra hour" at some later point in the day, I've been up since midnight writing, so I was actually spending that hour during that hour at the change over.

On that note, Daylight Saving Time is ridiculous, and should be completely abolished. Skaperen, your suggestion is more ridiculous. I don't want to worry about what time it will be in the neighboring town/county/state because it's 23 minutes difference compared to my current location. Imagine trying to schedule a meeting with five people who all live within 100 miles of each other, but are all on different times. Trying to schedule across time zones is onerous enough, thank you very much.

Visit www.time.gov for the correct time - if you're in the US, that is.

@lunasdude:

Just be glad it's not spring - then you'll be losing two hours.

@Tamakun23: Dude! By law, your employer owes you overtime.

Conversely, the guy who worked a 7-hour shift in March is only legally entitled to 7 hours of pay. If the employer chose to pay for 8 hours of straight-time back then, that in no way relieves their legal responsibility to pay you overtime now.

[I am not a lawyer. Just another P.O.'ed worker bee.]

Those who think this is the "good" time change obviously don't have small children. Now my 7-month-old twins think that 4:45am is time to be up for the day. Hurray...

@Skaperen: It is not manageable and it makes my head hurt to think about all the ways that is a bad idea.

@Tawnie is saving no daylight: That's what he's doing with his extra hour!

@Skaperen: Yeah, that'd be AWESOME for store opening hours, factory shift work, school hours, etc.

However, with plenty of electricity we could just get rid of the stupid DST. I loved living in Indiana with no time shift. I would bribe a legislator to get that done here!

@lucasbeth: Yeah, I'm like, "awesome, so now morning comes at 4:30 and I have to go to bed at 9 to get reasonable sleep!"

@TacoChuck: Now if we could just get everyone to understand the difference between EDT and EST. No one seems to grasp that there is a difference.

Excuse me, there's a windmill that needs tilting.

The same thing I do with every extra hour, Popky. Try to take over the world.

Benjamin Franklin was a brilliant man, but this was his worst idea. In this day and age most places of business leave all their lights on 24/7 for either marketing or security anyway. I still turn on the lights when I wake up in the morning. Contrary to popular belief, setting my clock back doesn't change the rate the earth turns. I still get the same amount of sunlight. Nobody is gaining anything.

Rant complete.

@jaket: I know that in California, the law is very clear about the cases of Daylight Saving Time shifts, that you're paid for hours worked, not for the differences in clock time. I would assume that all states are the same (except those few states (such as Hawaii and Arizona) that don't celebrate DST).

@Tamakun23:

I work third shift and encounter this often. You get paid for hours worked, period. That person who gets 7 hours only actually WORKED 7 hours. You on the other time actually worked 9. The clock is irrelevant.

@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): I lived in Indiana when they didn't observe DST, too. Now they're just as messed up as the rest of us, though. Some of the counties by Chicago stayed on Chicago time all year, and I have relatives that lived in a county that didn't change it's clocks, but worked in one that did. Imagine how confusing that would be.

@czadd: You can take back your rant; Benjamin Franklin did not invent Daylight Saving Time (though he did publish a satire that used the notion, though it was an old one). DST was not needed until long after his death, when railroads became larger and timekeeping became standardized. DST was most popularly proposed by George Vernon Hudson in New Zealand in 1895 (and later William Willett in England), which is 105 years after Franklin died. It first became official in 1916 in England and 1918 in the USA.

But you're probably right about that it does no good. A study done recently on electricty usage by folks in Indiana, some of whom moved from no DST in 2006 to DST in 2007, showed that there was no gain.

@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): But we don't have plenty of electricity. There's a reason off-peak electricity is so much cheaper - during peak hours, when everything is running, power companies are running their inefficient, crappy power generators. In off-peak, companies use only their cleanest, most efficient plants. Ok, yes, we CAN meet demand, but not well, and not cleanly. Dynamically shifting this constantly would be a power nightmare.

My extra hour? Spend it at Consumerist. Duh.

@lucasbeth: Yup there I am, awak at 5:15 AM.. I hate this crap. They should just leave the time at DST. I'd rather have an extra hour of daylight in the afternoon/evening.

@subtlefrog: Fewer posts on Sunday, though

@Skaperen:
If you go into the menu of your VCR, you can turn off automatic DST & set it manually.
I just did that for five VCRs.

@Woodside Park Bob:
Completely agree.
The twice yearly battery change is a gimmick that the battery manufacturers came up with to sell more batteries. When smoke detectors first came out, they came with a standard battery in the box, not a long life alkaline that most people use.
I change my smoke detector batteries when the detector starts to beep every 30 seconds, which all are designed to do when the battery gets low.
And I remember the late night phone call from my terrified sister about a mouse running around her apartment, when all it was, was the battery beeping every 30 seconds!

@TacoChuck: But if we are talking about more than one DST, wouldn't it be pluralized? Like more than one me is GitEmSteveDavii.

@TinaBringMeTheAx: But we're supposed to leave off the last "S" for savings.

@Skaperen: Last weeks Mentalist? Here you go: [eztv.it]

@Segador: I was disappointed they didn't cover glass meat clocks in their reporting.

@Segador: BTW, you need to listen to Bill Ritters newscasts to possibly get what you are looking for:

@Verucalise(countingcalories): Nothing? Good. Could be worse. You could spend that extra hour drinking down Dn'D swill.

What the hell is the point of changing the clocks for anyway?
It's so stupid, just leave it at one time then get rid of it.

@lunasdude: Yeah, all my cable boxes, my 5 computers, my Casio G-shock, and my two wall clocks have all reset themselves. Only have microwave, stove, alarm clock on top of TV, and lamp timers to reset.

@wrjohnston91283: +1

I lost track of time, so last night at 2 AM by my computer clock, I realized the time had already changed, and I had already wasted the extra hour. Disappointing. :(