Time Change already this weekend

[Sigarms]

Make fun of me all you want.

First time in my life, last night, I turned my clock ahead an hour on the wrong date.

I have a pretty good internal clock, and I always get up at 0500.

I had a pretty messed up morning

 

[BravoXray]

Honestly, an hour forward or an hour back doesn't even affect me in the least.
I could never see why some people got so screwed up over and hour more or an hour less of sleep.

 

[MossRoad]

Honestly, an hour forward or an hour back doesn't even affect me in the least.
I could never see why some people got so screwed up over and hour more or an hour less of sleep.

Agreed. The only thing I don't like about it is now it's darker earlier when I get off of work. We like to go for a walk after dinner. Sunset is 5:30 now, instead of 6:30. I get about 45 minutes of daylight with my wife on weekdays. Oh well.

 

[Mendonsy]

My problem with the time change is that my alarm cat doesn't understand it. Now he's waking me up at 5:30 am to feed him breakfast.

 

[lman]

Agreed. The only thing I don't like about it is now it's darker earlier when I get off of work. We like to go for a walk after dinner. Sunset is 5:30 now, instead of 6:30. I get about 45 minutes of daylight with my wife on weekdays. Oh well.

The thing I like is dawn comes earlier so I don't have to use a flashlight when I start work. It's safer for the kids waiting for the school bus also.

 

[NHBX]

 

[ponytug]

Honestly, an hour forward or an hour back doesn't even affect me in the least.
I could never see why some people got so screwed up over and hour more or an hour less of sleep.

Agreed. The only thing I don't like about it is now it's darker earlier when I get off of work. We like to go for a walk after dinner. Sunset is 5:30 now, instead of 6:30. I get about 45 minutes of daylight with my wife on weekdays. Oh well.

I'm with you two. I have never bought the arguments either way for or against it, as there are many countries north of the continental 48 that seem to do just fine, with darkness that sets in much earlier.

When we were actively training horses for long distance rides, the end of DST meant the end of evening training rides off the property.

My spouse is a different story. To her, the end of Daylight Savings Time is an apocalypse. She is pretty rational otherwise, but the time change is weeks of disruption to her. She complains of only seeing the animals in darkness, except on weekends. Like @MossRoad, to her, the loss of the evening light is some sort of triumph by an ancient, all powerful god of darkness, who might not ever give the light back.

So, there is at least one person out there for whom the change from DST to standard time is a big deal.

All the best,

BG

 

[BravoXray]

My problem with the time change is that my alarm cat doesn't understand it. Now he's waking me up at 5:30 am to feed him breakfast.

My previous experience with an alarm cat is that it takes a few days for them to reset their internal clock to the new schedule.

 

[lman]

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I guess there are a lot of people that eat lunch late, maybe they need to get out of bed before noon. I'm getting ready to eat lunch and looked up at the sun at noon and the sun is nearly at it's high point. Last week it seemed like it was still about 10:00 when looking at the sun at noon.

 

[Sigarms]

Honestly, an hour forward or an hour back doesn't even affect me in the least.
I could never see why some people got so screwed up over and hour more or an hour less of sleep.

Assuming your comment is directed towards my confession...

As noted, I get up (for better or worse with my wife) generally at 0500 every day, 7 days a week. I use a alarm clock if I need to get up earlier for something important for work, as I still work for at least two hours for work on the weekend to the dismay of my wife because I actually love my job.

Time changes always happen on Saturday night going into Sunday morning.

Just so happens we had to be at Church early this past Sunday morning for some volunteer work. Thing is, we also planned a to go for a early morning walk to get it in before we went to church (and time to shower as well), and it was my job to wake my wife up because I'm the "early riser". My wife however does not use a alarm clock but her cell phone.

Let's just say I woke up at my general time, my alarm clock was really screwed up, but that's the time I thought it was looking at my clock, and after getting my wife up ready for a walk, she asked me some questions because she was confused to what her cell phone was telling her.

THIS is why my day was pretty screwed up. Hopefully this makes a little more sense.

As noted, first time in my life I put the clock AHEAD instead of backwards on the proper date. For whatever reason, never thought to think Spring Forward, Fall Back, and had it in my mind for whatever reason that I had to turn the clock ahead an hour.