Daylight Savings Time 2011: Don't Forget To Set Your Clocks

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

Daylight Savings Time 2011: Don't Forget To Set Your Clocks

AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 03/12/11 04:57 PM Updated: 03/12/11 04:57 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the weekend to spring ahead to daylight saving time.

For one night, there's the prospect of 60 fewer minutes of shut-eye, but ahead are many months with an extra hour of evening sunlight.

The official change was at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/12/daylight-savings-time-201_n_834970.html

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. Weird how now most all of my time keeping devices do this for me

I still have an antique Seth Tomas clock I have to set forward, but the rest do it themselves now.

Times have changed so much since I was a kid. :D

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. My most important clock doesn't reset automatically - my alarm clock

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Thanks for the reminder!

Though I hate the part where we lose an hour. :(

[stevedeshazer]

3. It is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight 'Savings' Time

Sorry, this just makes me want to stick a knife in my eyeballs.

AARRGGHH

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Yep, but he was just following the rules

Huffington Post's writers are the twits.

Oh, and I totally agree in regards to the knife in the eyeballs. Argh! It's really not that freaking difficult to understand! :banghead:

[EFerrari]

6. At least they didn't use "saving's".

Yet.

lol

[ChromeFoundry]

7. And here I thought I was the only one...

that was bothered by that. Good to know I am in homogeneous company.

[MH1]

10. the fact of it rather than the variations on the name

is what makes me want to stick a knife in my eyeballs.

Ben Franklin's dumbest idea. If EST should be different by an hour relative to the sun rising and setting, then freakin' change it once and be done with it.

I really don't care what they call it, it's stupid either way. Maybe the extra 's' is just for stupid.


Edit to add because I realize that I probably have to here: 'EST' is just an example. Applies to whichever time zone(s) you'd like it to.

[EFerrari]

8. "Don't forget to turn your clocks back 50 years."

http://twitter.com/#!/davidcnswanson/status/46766219717648384

:rofl:

[LiberalEsto]

9. For me it's an extra hour in the garden

but then dinnertime creeps up somehow and I realize how late it is.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. We have several battery clocks, not enough "automatic" clocks.

Back when we were working and dependent on alarm clocks, I had the brilliant idea to get power failure proof clocks.
Now somehow we have acquired 6 battery powered clocks thru out the house.

I was surprised to realize the microwave sets itself automatically
(yet if the power blinks for a nano second, I have to hand set it, which means several times during heavy storms).