Time Change

[Bay Kid]

2 times a year we are tortured by an unnecessary time change.

Why not just spring time forward 1/2 an hour this Saturday and leave time alone. Simple fix.

[Stu from NYC]

My guess is people do not really care

[Bill14564]

2 times a year we are tortured by an unnecessary time change.

Why not just spring time forward 1/2 an hour this Saturday and leave time alone. Simple fix.

Simpler still: do away with DST and just stay on standard time.

Workable solution: Simply adjust the time you do things. If your alarm was set for 7AM last month, set it for 8AM next month. If you went to bed at 11PM last month, go to bed at midnight next month. We're retired so no longer tied to a clock for anything other than happy hour.

[Michael 61]

Retired, so really doesn’t matter.

[Dusty_Star]

2 times a year we are tortured by an unnecessary time change.

Why not just spring time forward 1/2 an hour this Saturday and leave time alone. Simple fix.

I agree with you. Spring ahead & then leave it alone. I have hopes it will happen soon (within the next few years).

[manaboutown]

Or one could move to Hawaii or Arizona...

[Keefelane66]

We have 2 clocks to change microwave and stove and might get around by Monday.

[tophcfa]

I very much prefer more end of the day daylight than early morning daylight. Here is a vote to move the clocks forward two hours and keep them there forever.

[Laker14]

When I lived up north I looked forward to the Daylight Time "spring forward" weekend because it meant that Spring was coming (well once upon a time when it was the 3rd weekend in April it meant Spring was here), but more importantly for me, it meant I could take my dog to the river after work and get an hour of brisk exercise before the sun set.
Now that I'm in Florida, not cooped up inside all day at the office, I completely forgot about the impending change until I saw this thread. Thanks for the reminder.
Other than setting a few clocks forward, it really has no effect on my lifestyle anymore.

[Laker14]

2 times a year we are tortured by an unnecessary time change.

Why not just spring time forward 1/2 an hour this Saturday and leave time alone. Simple fix.

"tortured"?

More like "mildly inconvenienced" in my book.

[Blueblaze]

Personally, I find it easier to deal with the inconvenience twice a year than every day. This way, I always know that a 8:00 tee time works instead of having to check an almanac to see if the sun is up that early today.

Lot's of stuff in this life is needlessly annoying -- like that silly way our planet keeps wobbling back and forth, and that stupid water that falls from the sky periodically. I think that's why they call it "Earth" rather than "Heaven". But at least God gave us a brain so we can sorta fix stuff like that, with an umbrella and daylight savings time!

[Velvet]

I don’t like having to adjust the clocks, climbing up ladders etc twice a year in 2 houses. Checking on TV schedule etc. Am I late/early for an event? Also sleep and eating pattern is changed. I prefer one set time throughout the year.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I'm retired, but I don't understand the mentality of people who dismiss the topic with that excuse. Some retired people like playing golf, and have to have tee-times scheduled in advance. If the retired person isn't in sync with the scheduler, the retired person might show up at the wrong time, and not be allowed to play. Can you imagine a doctor's office saying "oh, you're an hour late for your appointment! Come on in, our office and all our employees rearrange our schedule and their lives, just to accommodate your retirement."

Or worse: "Yes I know you're on time for your chemo treatment Mr. Cancer-Guy. But the woman who gives you the chemo uses the sunlight for her alarm clock, and the clouds obscured dawn this morning. So she's running three hours late. You can call your dentist's office and reschedule THEM for another day if you want."

I'm retired, but being retired doesn't mean I don't have morning doctors appointments, or breakfast with the ladies, or a meeting of the club that doesn't schedule itself around my personal wake-up habits. I don't mind the time changes down here, since even during the shorter daylight times, dusk is later than it was up north. So I get more daylight hours in Florida anyway. It's one of the only things I actually like about the state.

[Topspinmo]

We are retired and don’t have say how working world functions. The only time I look at clock when I have to be somewhere on time.:spoken:

[Topspinmo]

I'm retired, but I don't understand the mentality of people who dismiss the topic with that excuse. Some retired people like playing golf, and have to have tee-times scheduled in advance. If the retired person isn't in sync with the scheduler, the retired person might show up at the wrong time, and not be allowed to play. Can you imagine a doctor's office saying "oh, you're an hour late for your appointment! Come on in, our office and all our employees rearrange our schedule and their lives, just to accommodate your retirement."

Or worse: "Yes I know you're on time for your chemo treatment Mr. Cancer-Guy. But the woman who gives you the chemo uses the sunlight for her alarm clock, and the clouds obscured dawn this morning. So she's running three hours late. You can call your dentist's office and reschedule THEM for another day if you want."

I'm retired, but being retired doesn't mean I don't have morning doctors appointments, or breakfast with the ladies, or a meeting of the club that doesn't schedule itself around my personal wake-up habits. I don't mind the time changes down here, since even during the shorter daylight times, dusk is later than it was up north. So I get more daylight hours in Florida anyway. It's one of the only things I actually like about the state.

Why you have watch.:)

[Topspinmo]

I don’t like having to adjust the clocks, climbing up ladders etc twice a year in 2 houses. Checking on TV schedule etc. Am I late/early for an event? Also sleep and eating pattern is changed. I prefer one set time throughout the year.


Easy fix don’t put clocks up so high…:oops:

[Topspinmo]

I agree with you. Spring ahead & then leave it alone. I have hopes it will happen soon (within the next few years).

Not really good for working world. Kids catching bus in dark. O wait privileged kids don’t ride buses anymore. Sorry.

[Topspinmo]

I very much prefer more end of the day daylight than early morning daylight. Here is a vote to move the clocks forward two hours and keep them there forever.


Clocks don’t matter still only so many sunlight hours in day. What it does eases most of the working world so they don’t go to work in dark and come home in dark.

[Stu from NYC]

Easy fix don’t put clocks up so high…:oops:

Better to leave it up high so if clock falls time can really fly

[Skip]

Simpler still: do away with DST and just stay on standard time.


No, do away with Standard Time and stay on Daylight Savings Time. It SAVES. That's why they call it that ! :duck:

Skip

[shaw8700@outlook.com]

I live in Arizona now and it sure has been nice not setting our clocks/microwave/stove twice a year. Am hoping that someone in the state legislature does some thing about this!

[NoMo50]

I look at it kind of like Groundhog Day. The start of DST means 6 more weeks until the snowbirds go home.

[retiredguy123]

One way to save a little money is to stop following the outdated advice to replace your smoke detector batteries when the time changes. Even if you have alkaline batteries, they should last at least 5 years, not 6 months. Lithium batteries will last even longer.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Definitely a ‘spring forward’ person. The perfect reset

[paminix]

My daughter in Alaska says there is a saying up there that the white man is the only one who can cut off 1 foot from the bottom of his blanket, sew it to the top of his blanket, and convince himself he has a longer blanket.

[Shipping up to Boston]

My daughter in Alaska says there is a saying up there that the white man is the only one who can cut off 1 foot from the bottom of his blanket, sew it to the top of his blanket, and convince himself he has a longer blanket.

Glass half full/Glass half empty type metaphor?

[Laker14]

One way to save a little money is to stop following the outdated advice to replace your smoke detector batteries when the time changes. Even if you have alkaline batteries, they should last at least 5 years, not 6 months. Lithium batteries will last even longer.

Absolutely correct.

I change all of mine after a year, tested them all with my multimeter, and they all registered at full strength. Another myth busted!

[Bay Kid]

No, do away with Standard Time and stay on Daylight Savings Time. It SAVES. That's why they call it that ! :duck:

Skip

This is the reason to only change 1/2 hour and forget. People can't make up their mind which way to change. 1 and done.

[tophcfa]

I look at it kind of like Groundhog Day. The start of DST means 6 more weeks until the snowbirds go home.

The snowbirds are at home, their other home.

[Shipping up to Boston]

The snowbirds are at home, their other home.

Love a little snowbird on snowbird crime....err, I mean bustin’ ‘em

[Bay Kid]

The snowbirds are at home, their other home.

So right. It is funny how people complain about snowbirds after being here for only a few years. I'm lucky to have my home here or there.

[Shipping up to Boston]

So right. It is funny how people complain about snowbirds after being here for only a few years. I'm lucky to have my home here or there.

So true. People complain when they were that same snowbird at one point. If you’re looking for the same neighbors without interruption...and solitude, try the pan handle!

[mtdjed]

I very much prefer more end of the day daylight than early morning daylight. Here is a vote to move the clocks forward two hours and keep them there forever.

Thank goodness that changes like this are not subject to individual preferences.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

just put the world on one clock, everyone has the same time, no changes, no times zones,
when you say i will call you at 5PM, its 5 PM everywhere so no having to add or subtract zones.

it just takes awhile to reprogram the grey manner, and then all good!

[coffeebean]

This is the reason to only change 1/2 hour and forget. People can't make up their mind which way to change. 1 and done.

Why hasn't this solution been looked into? Seems like a very logical solution to this conundrum. I've always been an advocate to just "pick one" and go with it. This half hour deal appeases both trains of thought. I LIKE it.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Why hasn't this solution been looked into? Seems like a very logical solution to this conundrum. I've always been an advocate to just "pick one" and go with it. This half hour deal appeases both trains of thought. I LIKE it.

It has. It’s been kicked around Congress for decades. They used to argue on behalf of farmers for not changing it. But I believe (and stand to be corrected) that even with an act of Congress, the States have the right to opt in/out

[shaw8700@outlook.com]

It has. It’s been kicked around Congress for decades. They used to argue on behalf of farmers for not changing it. But I believe (and stand to be corrected) that even with an act of Congress, the States have the right to opt in/out

Obvious they do as I am in Arizona where we don’t have DST. I’m going to write letters to my representatives as soon as I get there.

[Bay Kid]

Why hasn't this solution been looked into? Seems like a very logical solution to this conundrum. I've always been an advocate to just "pick one" and go with it. This half hour deal appeases both trains of thought. I LIKE it.

It just seems like common sense. We are lost if expect our leaders to agree on something as simple as this.

At least most of my clocks will be right again come Sunday.

[Bogie Shooter]

It just seems like common sense. We are lost if expect our leaders to agree on something as simple as this.

At least most of my clocks will be right again come Sunday.

Posters on this thread cannot even agree…….:loco:

[gorillarick]

Used to be good to set your clocks once a year. Now most clocks are automatic.

Old indian say: 'Take a foot off top of blanket and add it to bottom; blanket still same length.'

[dhdallas]

When told the reason for Daylight Savings time, the old Native American said "Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of the blanket, sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, and you'd be left with a longer blanket."

[Shipping up to Boston]

When told the reason for Daylight Savings time, the old Native American said "Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of the blanket, sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, and you'd be left with a longer blanket."

See post #25

[Shipping up to Boston]

Methuen casket company calls on America to ‘bury’ daylight saving time – NBC Boston (https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/methuen-casket-company-calls-on-america-to-bury-daylight-saving-time/3303164/)

[John Mayes]

It has. It’s been kicked around Congress for decades. They used to argue on behalf of farmers for not changing it. But I believe (and stand to be corrected) that even with an act of Congress, the States have the right to opt in/out

States have the right to opt out of DST but they cannot impose DST year round without a congressional act to permanently implement DST.

[AZ SLIM]

See post #25

Both posts 25 and 42 seem inappropriate for this forum, or any forum.

[Shipping up to Boston]

Both posts 25 and 42 seem inappropriate for this forum, or any forum.

Post #42 (mine), is only making poster #41 aware that poster #25 posted the same quote. Glad I could set the record straight

[AZ SLIM]

I live in Arizona now and it sure has been nice not setting our clocks/microwave/stove twice a year. Am hoping that someone in the state legislature does some thing about this!

We agree. We came to FL from Western Arizona where time never changes (not a metaphor) but we lived in other western states first. We liked it better than changing time twice a year. Although it was a little odd being in one time zone for half the year and another for the other half, they call it "Arizona time".

We lived in Lake Havasu City, which is a retirement area with people from all over the country. Everyone that we knew preferred it, even locals with school-aged children.

Come to think of it, "locals" is a misnomer. A LOT of younger people in AZ and NV came from CA where it is more expensive to raise a family.

[retiredguy123]

Did you change all of your clocks?

Non-internet clocks
Microwave oven
Regular oven
Thermostat
Vehicles
Irrigation controller
Watch
Landline digital phone
Blood pressure digital cuff
Others???

[Mleeja]

Personally, I find it easier to deal with the inconvenience twice a year than every day. This way, I always know that a 8:00 tee time works instead of having to check an almanac to see if the sun is up that early today.

Lot's of stuff in this life is needlessly annoying -- like that silly way our planet keeps wobbling back and forth, and that stupid water that falls from the sky periodically. I think that's why they call it "Earth" rather than "Heaven". But at least God gave us a brain so we can sorta fix stuff like that, with an umbrella and daylight savings time!

If people get their wish and we stay on DST, you will not get your 8:00 am tee time in the winter months!

[Topspinmo]

One way to save a little money is to stop following the outdated advice to replace your smoke detector batteries when the time changes. Even if you have alkaline batteries, they should last at least 5 years, not 6 months. Lithium batteries will last even longer.


I don’t replace mine till start chirping…

[Topspinmo]

The children, the poor children catching bus in Dark. For children…..retired coots don’t count. :coolsmiley:

[Topspinmo]

No, do away with Standard Time and stay on Daylight Savings Time. It SAVES. That's why they call it that ! :duck:

Skip

Depends on when you go to work and when get off….:throwtomatoes:

[Topspinmo]

:undecided:The problem are the time zones are vertical and axis is not…time zones should align with axis. O wait I forgot the summer and winter sclerosis?

[Bay Kid]

The children, the poor children catching bus in Dark. For children…..retired coots don’t count. :coolsmiley:

Start school 1/2 hour later. Just saying time change can be solved in an half hour!

[coffeebean]

Did you change all of your clocks?

Non-internet clocks
Microwave oven
Regular oven
Thermostat
Vehicles
Irrigation controller
Watch
Landline digital phone
Blood pressure digital cuff
Others???

I even remembered our Watts hot water re-circulation pump. Yay me.