Daylight Saving Time

[DavidS]

When are the clocks shifted forward 1 hour in the USA? (It happened last weekend in the UK (BST), and is due tonight in Israel.)
And Dai Bread - are the clocks in NZ shifted BACK at this time of the year?

<small>[ 03-30-2006, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: DavidS ]</small>

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Good question, David. The calendar on my wall suggests 2 April. That is, of course, if the state in which one resides changes time. California does. Arizona doesn't.

We like a little anarchy, from time to time. Ben Franklin would have approved.

[OperaTenor]

The MST zone is rebellious.

[dai bread]

Originally posted by DavidS:
When are the clocks shifted forward 1 hour in the USA? (It happened last weekend in the UK (BST), and is due tonight in Israel.)
And Dai Bread - are the clocks in NZ shifted BACK at this time of the year?

Yes, back they went on 19th March. winter, or at least Autumn, arrived with a rush as a result, seeing it's dark an hour earlier.

[monkeymd2b]

If my dad hadn't sent me an email about this, I probably would have forgotten to do it and would miss my flight home tomorrow. I actually turned my clocks forward around noon today so I wouldn't forget before I went to sleep. pathetic.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

I also received e-mails. Yesterday at work and at home, today at home. All from the secretary at work: the clever woman has figured out how to tell Outlook to send timed emails. I wouldn't be surprised if her computer sends me more messages tomorrow.

Don't ask me how she does it. Outlook outwits me, on a regular basis.

[Schmeelkie]

Had a coworker show up off by an hour today - by the time she remembered her daughter was already late for school...

We tried to stay pretty much on the normal schedule yesterday so Pumpkin wouldn't stay up too late. Gave him some Benedryl thinking it would make him crash early - was up for almost an hour and a half after...if we hadn't changed the clocks he would have only gone to sleep about 20-30 minutes earlier than normal... May try again tonight as he has to get up earlier tomorrow... Just don't think we can explain this to a 2-year old.

[treebeau]

They should do the time change on Saturday instead of Sunday, so people have another day to catch a clue.

Regards,
Tim B.

[treebeau]

Outlook info:
Create a message
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I suspect it's that "Delay delivery" part that the woman used. I've never done it myself.

Regards,
Tim B.

[piqaboo]

From within the email, select
View
Options

2/3 down is delivery options
Do not deliver before......


I've used it, its fun.
Nice of her to send reminders.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

See, there's lots of clever people! :admiration:

(I'm making another pot of coffee. Maybe that will help.)

[DavidS]

Originally posted by treebeau:
They should do the time change on Saturday instead of Sunday, so people have another day to catch a clue.

Regards,
Tim B.

Yes, they do that in many countries, especially at the beginning of summer time when clocks are turned forward.
That way people have a non-working day in which to get over their "mini-jet-lag".

[trombonepirate]

I agree an extra day would be nice. Feeling so lethargic. 'Course writing listening logs on romantic symphony not helping. I love the music but after a while need something to keep you attentive (four down and one to go).
TBP

[Shapley]

When I was in the Navy, we used to traverse a lot of time zones. They always set the clocks back during the day, so you had an extra hour of work, but advanced them at night, so you were shortchanged an hour of sleep.

[treebeau]

That reminds me of a silly time change story.

My brother has been a flight attendant for a LONG time. And he has come across his share of silly passengers. On one flight, from the East Coast to the West Coast he had an anal retentive passenger that wanted to be notified of when he could do the time changes on his watch. My brother told him "You can just set your watch back 3 hours now and it will be right when we arrive."

Passenger got cranky and loud, wanting to know the EXACT time when he could change the watch. So my brother pacified him. 3 times during the flight he walked over to a window, looked out and called over to the passenger "not yet...not yet...almost...ok, NOW!" And the passenger was COMPLETELY satisfied with that, never questioning how my brother knew.

In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny..."What a maroon!"

Regards,
Tim B.

[Shapley]

I think I can top that. A woman wrote a letter to our local newspaper complaining about daylight savings time. Her complaint: The extra hour of daylight was killing her plants.

V/R
Shapley

[treebeau]

OMG!
What's gotta be funny is that her name probably accompanied the letter!!

Regards,
Tim B.

[Schmeelkie]

one of the things I like about living on the east coast (OK, I'm like 6 hours driving from the coast, but you know what I mean) is that going to conferences on the west coast is great - so easy to get up for those 8 am sessions on the first day or two.

Also thought it was fun one spring driving to Chicago from PA - think there's a point there where a county or two (in Indiana, Illinois?) isn't on DST so they effectively switch time zones every 6 months.

[Shapley]

Schmeelkie,

Yes, the Southwest portion of Indiana, which is the Central Time Zone wile the rest of the State is in the Eastern, doesn't change. Half the year they are on the same time as the rest of the State, the other half they're not.

V/R
Shapley

[OperaTenor]

:confused:

But the rest of CST changes, right? I thought MST was the only one that didn't shift.