[MorTech]

It is odd we still do this time change....Here is the "reason".

Why Daylight Saving Time Is Stupid - LewRockwell

[Two Bills]

I am old enough to remember 'Double Summertime' when clocks went forward two hours during WW2. in UK
Silly when you look back, as the amount of daylight was still the same, you just started work an hour later!
I too vote for Standard Time.

[Sabella]

What leadership?

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

Doesn't anybody wear a watch?

Nope. Not since I started carrying a phone.

[bowlingal]

It's no big deal to change the clocks. We do not live in a war zone. so count your blessings.

[Bearlythere]

Very simple folks ,check Accu weather app. Comparing up north to Florida. First day of spring and first day of fall , daylight hours dang near the same .First day summer and first day of winter nearly 1hour difference. Florida having less daylight in June , more in winter.

[mntlblok]

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

Doesn't anybody wear a watch?

The wifey has to change mine for me. They don't seem to like being thrown against the wall (the watches).

[mntlblok]

Originally Posted by Tvflguy

grrrrr. That time of the year. Finally done with all of ours. I think. Worse in Fall Back.

Why can’t our Leadership pass a simple one-time annually?

OK, I’d better get ready to change all our clocks AGAIN in the Spring.

grrrrr.

Trying to picture that "once annually" thing. :-)

Would personally prefer switching to the permanent "daylight savings time" version, preferring that it remain light out past 4:30pm come the winter solstice period.

The "midnight sun" aspect is interesting and a great point, but the "up north" thing would seem more related to where "east-west" one may reside "up north". I believe the issue is whether one lives nearer the eastern or western border of his time zone. The drive-in movie couldn't start in Louisville, KY, until nearly 10pm come summer solstice as we were on the far western edge of the eastern time zone.

Time zones and jet lag sorts of things are, to me, just about as difficult as general relativity, so I don't even try. :-) Oh, and not all time zones around the world even cut off "on the hour". Half Hour and 45-Minute Time Zones Fascinating subject.

Had to google it as my memory was fuzzy, but it was close:

"However, the whole country observes the same local time. In theory, China could have five time zones, but the country has only one official time zone. In spite of being almost the same size as the continental USA, China has only one official time zone".

Over-thinking it, again. . . :-)

[ddesjardin]

How much time did it take to complete this "arduous" task? Does this twice-annual task actually impact your quality of life enough to complain in this forum? I hear a similar complaints when retirees gripe about a 30 minute wait for a dinner table at popular restaurants upon their 6 p.m. arrival or when there is more than one additional shopper in the grocery checkout line or a line of pickleball players awaiting their turn. I've heard that prisoners muse "all they have is time." Extra time and lots of it is one of the greatest gifts in retirement. I changed all my clocks in less than ten minutes...including the irrigation controller and SUV.
Probably most of us completed this semiannual chore in even less time...giving us lots of additional time to practice PATIENCE! Hoping everyone has an outstanding day!

[Switter]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

It’s not changing the clocks that bothers me, it’s the loss of daylight in the late afternoon/evening. I’m not an early morning person so there is no advantage to the sun coming up earlier, just the disadvantage of it getting dark our earlier. I suppose those that are early risers have a different point of view. Moving the clocks back is especially painful for us part timers stuck up north this time of the year. The sun sets a full hour earlier at or northern home compared to the Villages, and in mid December the sun sets at the ridiculously early time of 4:18 In the afternoon.

^^^^
This.

I'd rather lose the time in the morning. Right now at 7 AM it's 46° outside. I moved to Florida to not be outside when it's 46°, so gaining daylight in the morning and losing it in the evening (when it's warmer) is a net loss to me. i'm hoping someday they scrap daylight savings altogether.

[Zenmama18]

Originally Posted by Tvflguy

grrrrr. That time of the year. Finally done with all of ours. I think. Worse in Fall Back.

Why can’t our Leadership pass a simple one-time annually?

OK, I’d better get ready to change all our clocks AGAIN in the Spring.

grrrrr.

I changed all the clocks but one and that was the one I looked at before leaving the house for a baby shower. Of course I was an hour early!

[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by Tvflguy

grrrrr. That time of the year. Finally done with all of ours. I think. Worse in Fall Back.

Why can’t our Leadership pass a simple one-time annually?

OK, I’d better get ready to change all our clocks AGAIN in the Spring.

grrrrr.

Leave it on Standard Time, or move the Chang dates back to April and October. 8:00 sunrises are a bummer.

[mntlblok]

Originally Posted by Switter

^^^^
This.

I'd rather lose the time in the morning. Right now at 7 AM it's 46° outside. I moved to Florida to not be outside when it's 46°, so gaining daylight in the morning and losing it in the evening (when it's warmer) is a net loss to me. i'm hoping someday they scrap daylight savings altogether.

Scrap it or make it permanent?

Still finding this subject particularly fascinating. Journeyed even *further* down that rabbit hole and found *this* fun fact. Had no idea!

"Ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than DST does, often dividing daylight into 12 hours regardless of daytime, so that each daylight hour became progressively longer during spring and shorter during autumn.[17] For example, the Romans kept time with water clocks that had different scales for different months of the year; at Rome's latitude, the third hour from sunrise (hora tertia) started at 9:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 6:58 and lasted 75 minutes.[18] From the 14th century onward, equal-length civil hours supplanted unequal ones, so civil time no longer varied by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as monasteries of Mount Athos[19] and in Jewish ceremonies.[20]"

Well, *I* thought it was interesting. :-)

[airstreamingypsy]

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

Doesn't anybody wear a watch?

Not anymore. I carry mine around, it's so fancy it can take pictures and make phone calls.

[bragones]

Originally Posted by fishon

The clock in the golf cart is the worst.
I now take out the little battery behind the speedometer and reinstall it at noon.
Easy.

Too funny. I hope the clock eventually stops blinking/flashing at you screaming to be set.