Daylight Saving Time

[femurphy77]

Is it safe to come out of the bunkers yet?

 

[Hawkeye]

Is it safe to come out of the bunkers yet?

I think so. The magic witching hour has passed and the world has seemed not to have ended...

 

[eldirector]

All is quiet. Too quiet....

 

[femurphy77]

I think so. The magic witching hour has passed and the world has seemed not to have ended...

Somehow I always seem to miss it; you'd think a cosmic shift would be apparent but I've slept thru it again.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I'm happy to see the sun rising instead of having to wait another hour (by the clock) for it.

 

[eldirector]

I'm happy to see the sun rising instead of having to wait another hour (by the clock) for it.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.... the sun is coming up? Someone forget to reset it? I told you I would get the clocks INSIDE, and you get the ones OUTSIDE.

 

[eldirector]

Just to continue the whining.....

Reset the clocks this morning. No big deal. EXCEPT... the one "atomic" clock. Supposedly gets the time via radio. Yeah, right. Sure, the HOUR switches, but the damn thing is off by 12 minutes. AND I CAN'T CHANGE IT. Can only set the time zone and DST on/off. All the other clocks are within a minute of each other. Its on our weather station, so I don't want to just throw it out. I can get the temperature, pressure, and even a forecast. But time? HA! Sucker.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Just to continue the whining.....

Reset the clocks this morning. No big deal. EXCEPT... the one "atomic" clock. Supposedly gets the time via radio. Yeah, right. Sure, the HOUR switches, but the damn thing is off by 12 minutes. AND I CAN'T CHANGE IT. Can only set the time zone and DST on/off. All the other clocks are within a minute of each other. Its on our weather station, so I don't want to just throw it out. I can get the temperature, pressure, and even a forecast. But time? HA! Sucker.

It's for your own safety, and the safety of the world. You go messin' around with an atomic clock and there could be a nuclear disaster. I heard that's what really happened at Chernobyl and Fukushima. Oh sure, they blamed it on equipment failure and all kinds of things, but it was really some low-level tech trying to monkey around with the clock.

 

[Gabriel]

Somehow I always seem to miss it; you'd think a cosmic shift would be apparent but I've slept thru it again.

It was amazing. It was 0159, then it was 0100. I wept.

 

[Ingomike]

It was amazing. It was 0159, then it was 0100. I wept.

Are you sure that wasn't the drinking? LOL

 

[Ingomike]

Feeling so refreshed! I actually split the hour, had one more bourbon for a half hour and slept a half hour extra. Life is good!

I do have fun bantering with you guys...

 

[foszoe]

I gained two hours this time around. Most of my clocks/phones/watches set themselves back one hour automatically but since I can never get enough of a good thing, I set them back ANOTHER hour!

 

[femurphy77]

I gained two hours this time around. Most of my clocks/phones/watches set themselves back one hour automatically but since I can never get enough of a good thing, I set them back ANOTHER hour!

You sick little monkey!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I gained two hours this time around. Most of my clocks/phones/watches set themselves back one hour automatically but since I can never get enough of a good thing, I set them back ANOTHER hour!

I tried setting mine back to June. Thought it might warm up, but no luck.

 

[ATM]

I left my clock alone but did set my thermometer ahead 10 degrees.

42 will be my winter freezing point.

 

[SnoopLoggyDog]

Hope in my lifetime, we see thus stupid practice of springing forward and falling back, be terminated with extreme celebration.

 

[eldirector]

Since we are so worried about the AMOUNT of daylight, why not shorten the hours? We could cram more in if they were 45 minutes, instead of an hour. Or, shorten the minute, so you still have 60-min hours. Either way, with less time, you could have more of it. Imagine a full 12 hours of daylight EVERY day of the year. Think how productive you would be. Now, of course, you will need to work/play much faster to get it all done in less time, but you will have more of it, so it works out.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Since we are so worried about the AMOUNT of daylight, why not shorten the hours? We could cram more in if they were 45 minutes, instead of an hour. Or, shorten the minute, so you still have 60-min hours. Either way, with less time, you could have more of it. Imagine a full 12 hours of daylight EVERY day of the year. Think how productive you would be. Now, of course, you will need to work/play much faster to get it all done in less time, but you will have more of it, so it works out.

 

[femurphy77]

Since we are so worried about the AMOUNT of daylight, why not shorten the hours? We could cram more in if they were 45 minutes, instead of an hour. Or, shorten the minute, so you still have 60-min hours. Either way, with less time, you could have more of it. Imagine a full 12 hours of daylight EVERY day of the year. Think how productive you would be. Now, of course, you will need to work/play much faster to get it all done in less time, but you will have more of it, so it works out.

As long as it's still an 8 hour work day and a 5 day work week I think it's a brilliant plan!

 

[eldirector]

As long as it's still an 8 hour work day and a 5 day work week I think it's a brilliant plan!

If your job is to produce 100 widgets an hour, just work faster.

Now that I know you can do 100 widgets in a reduced hour, you can do 125 in a long hour. For the same $$$.