Spring Forward!

Just in case it had slipped up on you, this is the weekend to change our clocks!!!

Hallelujah! Finally some daylight to be able to get some tasks done.

Hopefully the extra time in the afternoon will melt some snow!

I agree on the Hallelujah part.
Here on the radio as mattress store is running a promo which is focused on the 1 hr of sleep you will loose. Boy, they could not be more wrong. I will gladly give up 1 hour if that means I can get "the lights" turned back on in the evening for the next 6 months. Living all my life in the Midwest, daylight savings time (DST) is one of the best days of the year as it signals winter is near over.

One of the security questions for my online banking is "favorite holiday?"
It would not accept my answer of DST.

I wish we could just "spring forward" 30 minutes and leave it the bleep alone!

I agree with the 30 minute modification.

Otherwise, if you hate it so much, adjust your schedule to wake up and go to bed earlier or later. My .02.

JohnRW1621 wrote: One of the security questions for my online banking is "favorite holiday?" It would not accept my answer of DST.

It is totally a holiday in my mind.

the only thing I didn't like about it as a kid was that I had to go to bed before it was even "dark."

I just wish we could leave it on DSL all year long!

One of the reasons we were told you had to change it back was that the poor little school children wouldn't have to go to school in the dark, but around here they come and the go home in the dark during the winter. It doesn't help them, but it does help the rest of us.

And RossD you watch in a very short time this extra hour of sun will melt all the snow and give you green grass and pretty little birdies again.

It's like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders I hate non-DSL so much. It also doesn't hurt that all my free outdoor music venues begin again once the time changes so now I'll get to have a lot more fun again.

Working nights Saturday. Work 11, get paid for 12

I'm also not a fan of the dark evenings.

When I was in school, we had to walk to school uphill--and in the dark--both ways.

I just hate winter, dark when you get up dark when you get home. Too damn long!

I'm in the leave-it-on-DST camp.

Daylight available after work is what decides whether I can fit in a ride or do work outdoors. I'd have more useful afternoons in the spring and fall if the light's receding wasn't compounded by the end of DST...

I really don't care .. at least this time of yr ... during the summer when the light lasts so long ( mid-summer here it stays light 'til about 9pm)

but this particular weekend ..meh.... Carolina and Duke play Sat night at 9pm ... (in reality that makes it at 10pm) so it won't be over 'til about midnight ( DST) and I have to be up at 4:30 to be on the road to an a-x before 5:30 ... I don't do all that well with 4 hrs sleep

David S. Wallens wrote: I'm also not a fan of the dark evenings. When I was in school, we had to walk to school uphill--and in the dark--both ways.

I work 12's, so some parts of the year, nights or days, I'm going to work in the dark, and coming home in the dark.

Zomby Woof wrote:

David S. Wallens wrote: I'm also not a fan of the dark evenings. When I was in school, we had to walk to school uphill--and in the dark--both ways.

I work 12's, so some parts of the year, nights or days, I'm going to work in the dark, and coming home in the dark.

Even with a standard 8 hour day (arrive and leave 9 hours apart) that's the case for me in December/January.

Only the government would believe that if you cut a foot off the top of a blanket, and sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, that you end up with a longer blanket.

it does make sense in a twisted sorta way ... EST means the sun is up earlier in the morning ( and down later at night ) as measured by the clock .... and since most of us are accustomed to getting up in the dark/early light of morning, the extra hour of light at the end of the day is ( for most of us) more useful .... so for maybe one of the few times in history the gumment may have actually done something that made sense .... sorta ...

mtn wrote: Only the government would believe that if you cut a foot off the top of a blanket, and sew it onto the bottom of the blanket, that you end up with a longer blanket.

I think this is more akin to noting the extra foot past your feet and pulling it all up so it doesn't end halfway up your torso...

mtn wrote: if you hate it so much, adjust your schedule to wake up and go to bed earlier or later. My .02.

The trouble is everyone else would have to do it to make it work out right.

I say pick the time and stick to it. Regardless of time changes, there will be more and more light everyday until the summer solstice.

Meh I hate it. My natural clock is set the other way. I won't be to work on time until we get to fall back. You all are wrong.

I'm a combination of nicksta and Anti-stance.

I hate it too. Lets just leave it the same all the time. It really berkeleys up my sleep schedule.

nicksta43 wrote: Meh I hate it. My natural clock is set the other way. I won't be to work on time until we get to fall back. You all are wrong.

OK.

Daylight savings, my ass.

I took a class on solar energy that involved a good bit of background in time to get us started.

The expert opinion? Daylight Stupid Time.

Arizona and Hawaii don't participate in this mess, they're the smart ones.