ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

really confused about what time it is

The hour goes forward in the autumn and back in the spring - it's easy to remember with the rhyme "Fall Forward, Spring Back".

u evil

fucking DLS means I have to cycle home in the pitch black.

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.

no this says it's next week! http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=179

ok my phone and computer didn't do anything because it's not daylight savings time yet. ilx did it a week early?

We went from BST to GMT last night, here in Britishland.

oh. i see what the problem was. my ilx prefs time zone was "Cuba"

haha

lmao

DST adds an hour to everyone's halloween partying

living through another cuba

rip Fidel

oh hello it's time saving time in longdong

RIP one hour

hate it so much

Balls to this

ftge imo

lol shit THAT'S what just happened to that hour.

Computer clock reset itself.

more like gaylight savings

there's been a thread on why it's not Daylight SavingS, right?

daylight saving$

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

i hate this it's like the day is half gone already!!!!!!!!!

every farmer needs to be punched in the face rite now

While I love the later sunsets and all, waking up this morning at 5:30 for work was a bit of a drag...

xp except the ones in arizona and hawaii you mean

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

at least they only have to go one hour forward instead of 11/23

it is bullshit

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.

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

The Wag Party

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.

arsebiscuits dark mornings again

messin' with the clock

Now we all have one more hour in our Daylight Savings Account. Maybe when we die, we'll get to spend them!

arsebiscuits dark mornings again

The one thing I hate.

Arsebiscuits truly are the worst things about daylight savings, can't wait to avoid them when I move to Arizona.

Is that what the have as their license plat motto?

"Live free from Arsebiscuits"

dark mornings > > > > dark evenings

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.

sounds like a taxi problem, not a DST problem

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.

530 still feels like 930 suppp

"The only way to end this is the Solomonic solution: spring 30 minutes ahead and leave it there forever. "

There are those crazy time zones that have the 30 minute difference like in New Delhi.

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.

And I was just getting up, hit the road before it's light
Trying to catch an hour on the sun

yo fuck this, it's 6:30 not 5:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo

Otoh the clock in my car is telling the correct time again

nice work

no point in changing the clock for just four months

back in my day we had *real* standard time

ha it's true! this is a watered down compromise, nobody is happy

Man, Day Three and I don't know how Mountain Time people get up an hour early like this.

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?

wow you must be young, it was April to October until Bush Jr.

Thanks Dubya.

wow you must be young

thank you *blushes*

I just don't remember it or why they adjusted it

i love the sun

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.

when I win the lottery I'll just have two houses in adjacent time zones and move between them accordingly

I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.

xxp Aimless-- I thought it was the centerpiece of his administration's "Energy Conservation Plan"

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.