Daylight Savings Always Confuses Me.

[ozguy]

Anyone else find they are a bit disorientated when daylight savings starts??

Nope .... I just put the all the clocks in the house forward 1 hour before I go to bed.

I love daylight saving!

 

[gmoney]

^^ So if we go backwards while you guys go forward, what does that mean in time difference? I know; a dumb question, but my brain is too tired to figure it out.

 

[Dobson73]

A bit of trivia for you (I don't know if this still holds true or not) but more car accidents occur on the Monday following the start and end of daylight saving than on any other single day of the year. Something to do with drivers being a bit bleary eyed and their body clocks out of sync for the first 48-72hrs.

Bizzaro!

Why do people call it Daylight savingS? How many daylights are we saving?? That always intrigued me.

 

[Golliwog]

We do not acquire different hours. We simply rename the ones we already have.

The memory cue:
SPRING forward in the spring,
FALL backward in the fall.

 

[crowboy]

fyi: it doesn't start until next week.

...and that would now be this week. It started here last night.

I'm glad for daylight saving.

The last few weeks in the morning it has been bright and the birds chirping like crazy.

I much prefer a darker, quiet start to the day. It more suits my mood.
It takes me a while to get going in the morning.

I know that the night shift workers where I work liked it starting last night. They worked one less hour last night, but they still get paid for the full shift. Lucky buggers.

 

[3nipples]

Nope .... I just put the all the clocks in the house forward 1 hour before I go to bed.

I love daylight saving!

... and then in the morning, eventually realizing your mistake, you put them all backwards 2 hours to join the rest of your district's timezone

 

[ozguy]

... and then in the morning, eventually realizing your mistake, you put them all backwards 2 hours to join the rest of your district's timezone

ummmm ..... no.

 

[treanir]

I love seeing how it confuddles people in so many different ways.

 

[gsdx]

... and then in the morning, eventually realizing your mistake, you put them all backwards 2 hours to join the rest of your district's timezone

Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere. Their time changes and seasons and such are totally opposite to ours. We're in Autumn now. They are in Spring.

^^in the US, it doesn't start until nov. 4.

And Canada. We had to follow along with the US when Bush made the changes simply because it would cause too much havoc with the airlines and businesses and stock exchanges and such. I can't see it saving as much money as Bush thinks it will, though.

 

[scottish1]

I get confused when I forget the change in time zones when making telephone calls overseas,but not as confused as the guy at the Ramses Hilton in Cairo,who called to check on my stay at the hotel. He thought he was calling Austria and not Australia. It was 2am and I answered thinking there was some family problem with bad news. My reply was not fit to publish.

 

[robbieadam]

I got really confused this morning when I glanced at my clock. I thought - I'm sure it was 1:15 about an hour ago.

I then saw star-warrior's thread and realised that the clock had changed for DLT.

 

[Spiff]

^^in the US, it doesn't start until nov. 4.

technically it ENDS Nov. 4.

 

[farmerrex2002]

Nope .... I just put the all the clocks in the house forward 1 hour before I go to bed.

I love daylight saving!

Now come on Ozguy this is the first time you Sand Gropers have moved on to daylight saving for many a long year, in fact so long you may have not even been born the last time WA adopted it! So unless you sojourn in the eastern states you would not have experienced it!
Queensland and NT are still the odd ones out. An our behind (Qld) or 1.5 hrs (NT) or 30 years, take your pick.

 

[farmerrex2002]

^^ So if we go backwards while you guys go forward, what does that mean in time difference? I know; a dumb question, but my brain is too tired to figure it out.

It means that from Sum 4 Nov eastern Australia (except Queensland) is 14 hours ahead of the American eastern seaboard states, and New Zeelund is 16 hours ahead. That is 18 and 20 hours respectively for the western American states (except Hawaii and Alaska).
So you can say at any time during your day with better than 50% reliability it is now tomorrow in the south west Pacific area.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

when the moon hits the sky
like a big pizza pie

you can go to sleep

 

[3nipples]

ummmm ..... no.

Ahh, of course... you're on the other side of the equator Oh well, I enjoyed thinking you were wrong while it lasted

I heard on the news that the EU was going to open up the topic of turning the clocks again: Apparently it has a cost to the economy while the energy savings benefits that were supposedly at the heart of the scheme aren't being realized as expected.

 

[Paws]

I forgot that it's this weekend. My atomic alarm clock and the time in Windows change automatically, so I didn't notice it.

It's only when I just went out and had a look at the time on my cell phone, wondering why I've been out for so long, then seeing another clock in town that I remembered time change.

 

[gsdx]

Daylight Savings Time was never intended to be a 'cost saving' measure. It was created specifically to give farmers an extra hour in the evening for them to do their work.

 

[USEDCAR]

I hate daylights saving i hate when it gets night time at 4 pm

 

[gsdx]

I hate daylights saving i hate when it gets night time at 4 pm

You're talking about Standard time. DST moves the clocks ahead an hour for the 'growing season' in order to have an extra hour of daylight in the evenings.