― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
really confused about what time it is
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The hour goes forward in the autumn and back in the spring - it's easy to remember with the rhyme "Fall Forward, Spring Back".
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
u evil
― StanM, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
fucking DLS means I have to cycle home in the pitch black.
― Jarlrmai, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i know how it works but is it 7:16 or 8:16. my phone + computer seem to have gone forward and ilx went back.
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
no this says it's next week! http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=179
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
ok my phone and computer didn't do anything because it's not daylight savings time yet. ilx did it a week early?
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
We went from BST to GMT last night, here in Britishland.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
oh. i see what the problem was. my ilx prefs time zone was "Cuba"
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 October 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
DST adds an hour to everyone's halloween partying
― cutty, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
living through another cuba
― velko, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
rip Fidel
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
oh hello it's time saving time in longdong
― warmsherry, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP one hour
― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hate it so much
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Balls to this
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
ftge imo
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lol shit THAT'S what just happened to that hour.
Computer clock reset itself.
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link
more like gaylight savings
― itchy rainbolt (clotpoll), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link
there's been a thread on why it's not Daylight SavingS, right?
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 14 March 2010 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link
daylight saving$
― shite new answers (cutty), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
feeling bad for the housekeepers at hotels worldwide who on this morning in addition to their typical turn-down procedures must also manually adjust every single alarm clock
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate this it's like the day is half gone already!!!!!!!!!
― harbl, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
every farmer needs to be punched in the face rite now
― david foster ballaz (m bison), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
While I love the later sunsets and all, waking up this morning at 5:30 for work was a bit of a drag...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
xp except the ones in arizona and hawaii you mean
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
at least they only have to go one hour forward instead of 11/23
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
it is bullshit
― akm, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
My extreme laziness has finally paid off and not changing any of the clocks in my apt the last time this happened means that I didn't have to do shit this time around.
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, The Wikipedia features so many interesting and potentially untrue facts about this fascist lie of a proletariat yoke
A 2008 study found that although male suicide rates rise in the weeks after the spring transition, the relationship weakened greatly after adjusting for season.[75] A 2008 Swedish study found that heart attacks were significantly more common the first three weekdays after the spring transition, and significantly less common the first weekday after the autumn transition.[76] The government of Kazakhstan cited health complications due to clock shifts as a reason for abolishing DST in 2005.[77]
In the mid-1980s, Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to U.S. DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes;[3] in 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied for the 2007 extension to U.S. DST.[72]
Daylight saving has caused controversy since it began.[1] Winston Churchill argued that it enlarges "the opportunities for the pursuit of health and happiness among the millions of people who live in this country".[86] Robertson Davies, however, detected "the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves",[87] and wags have dubbed it "Daylight Slaving Time".[88]
oh you melodramatic wags
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
The Wag Party
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
It's like the Whig Party but all your political points are in the form of horrible puns.
I told a friend to meet me for brunch today at 11 am, and of course, he calls 45 minutes ago to tell me he didn't reprogram his alarm clock. Ugh.
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 March 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
arsebiscuits dark mornings again
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
messin' with the clock
― not_goodwin, Monday, 15 March 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Now we all have one more hour in our Daylight Savings Account. Maybe when we die, we'll get to spend them!
― Aimless, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
The one thing I hate.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Arsebiscuits truly are the worst things about daylight savings, can't wait to avoid them when I move to Arizona.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that what the have as their license plat motto?
"Live free from Arsebiscuits"
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
dark mornings > > > > dark evenings
― Mr. Que, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
In principle yes, but my first DST morning and the pleasure I derived from it was grounded in the fact that my flight home last night was late, too late for the last bus and the taxi queue was long and cabs few. Ended up with less than five hours sleep last night and the alarm woke me up to dark grey misery.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like a taxi problem, not a DST problem
― Mr. Que, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
More of a pittsburgh problem. In general DST means awake to see the sunrise for the next month or so and my living room has east facing windows which makes me happy.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I took advantage of DST a coupla years ago to sleep in and show up for work an hour late & real faux-apologetic, knowing that my supervisor would be amused at my boneheadedness (and that I'd work late to make up for it)! It worked jsut like I planned, but it's not something I'd dare repeat.
― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't even notice until seeing this thread just now. who cares
― am0n, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
An overlooked factor in all this chatter is that no matter which setting we are using, sunrise and sunset times are nearly an hour different from one side of a time zone to the other just because it takes the sun roughly an hour to traverse a zone.
It also often takes way more than an hour to drive (or even fly) from one time zone to another. We're being cheated.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 13 November 2023 02:23 (seven months ago) link
And I was just getting up, hit the road before it's lightTrying to catch an hour on the sun
― brimstead, Monday, 13 November 2023 03:53 (seven months ago) link
yo fuck this, it's 6:30 not 5:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:33 (three months ago) link
Otoh the clock in my car is telling the correct time again
― sarahell, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:43 (three months ago) link
nice work
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:45 (three months ago) link
no point in changing the clock for just four months
back in my day we had *real* standard time
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:51 (three months ago) link
ha it's true! this is a watered down compromise, nobody is happy
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:17 (three months ago) link
Man, Day Three and I don't know how Mountain Time people get up an hour early like this.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:18 (three months ago) link
Yeah, I know it's time-trickery but I feel a big relief when Daylight Savings comes around... finishing work and still having some light to go for a walk
Husker Du: "Somewhere in April time they add another Owwerrr!" Did it used to be in April or is that just a songwriting/syllable convenience?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:51 (three months ago) link
wow you must be young, it was April to October until Bush Jr.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:53 (three months ago) link
Thanks Dubya.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:55 (three months ago) link
wow you must be young
thank you *blushes*
I just don't remember it or why they adjusted it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:04 (three months ago) link
i love the sun
― ivy., Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:07 (three months ago) link
Congress moved the dates when DST started and ended because estimates predicted a net energy savings nationally if the changes were adopted. Dubya's only involvement was signing the bill into law.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:10 (three months ago) link
when I win the lottery I'll just have two houses in adjacent time zones and move between them accordingly
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:28 (three months ago) link
I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:13 (three months ago) link
xxp Aimless-- I thought it was the centerpiece of his administration's "Energy Conservation Plan"
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 20:01 (three months ago) link
It could have been touted that way when introduced. It's the sort of thing presidents love to mention in their State of the Union address (speeches which I have mostly ignored since about 1994). I can't recall his ever mentioning an interest in it after that, only the stupid wrangling about how many more schoolkids per annum would be crushed by school busses compared to the status quo.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 20:15 (three months ago) link