daylight saving time

[Bird]

I do reset the clocks twice a year, after I got to this website to make sure my watch (which I seldom wear) is right, then I reset all the other clocks by my watch. We have an alarm clock/radio in the bedroom that simply has a switch on the side to turn Daylight Savings Time on or off. It's a good clock with a big LCD? display, but it's been so long since I set an alarm, I'd have to get the manual out to see how to do it. And I guess (certainly don't know for sure) that the radio works, since we never turn on a radio anymore.

 

[ray66v]

What if most of us refuse to go off daylight savings time next year?

If we get more than 1/2 the country to go along with us, we could bring a lot of pressure on the rest.

It all starts here, The "JUST SAY NO TO FALL BACK!" campaign for 2009.

We need some one who is popular to be the front man, any volunteers?

 

[dmccarty]

We need some one who is popular to be the front man, any volunteers?

I volunteer Bird!

That will keep him busy and I might catch up to his number of posts so I can be an Epic Contributor.....

Later,
Dan

 

[Bird]

I volunteer Bird!

That will keep him busy and I might catch up to his number of posts so I can be an Epic Contributor.....

Later,
Dan

If I thought I'd have any chance of succeeding, I'd take the job. But I wouldn't even know where to start.

 

[Soundguy]

I seem to have a memory somewhere tucked back in the corner of my brain that ben franklin may have even proposed DST.. anyone verify that?

soundguy

 

[RollTideRam]

*I leave my watch set on daylight savings time the year around and take an hour off what it says in the winter time.

I do that because I got tired of changing it twice a year..
Has worked out very well with me.
I've probably been doing that for 10 to 15 years or longer.

I figured you would have two watches just alike, just different times. JC

 

[RobJ]

Well, if you work 9-5 you can still get home in time to mow the lawn in the daylight, in the fall. I like it.

Me to!

 

[RobJ]

The time zone floats over Arizona, 1/2 the year your on mountain time, 1/2 on mountain time.

Um....huh Yeah Ok!!

 

[RobJ]

I do reset the clocks twice a year, after I got to this website to make sure my watch (which I seldom wear) is right, then I reset all the other clocks by my watch. .

Cell phone easier to get to and uses the same time.

I have a CasioWave Ceptor watch, has a weird way of resetting the time, had to look at the manual for the last 3 time changes.
Went to change the sprinkler system...oops, stays on standard time
same with the deer feeders, I let the corn run out the after Thanksgivin anyway
truck/cars, easy to change

All in all, I miss daylight in the evening.

 

[JDeerekid]

*I leave my watch set on daylight savings time the year around and take an hour off what it says in the winter time.

I do that because I got tired of changing it twice a year..
Has worked out very well with me.
I've probably been doing that for 10 to 15 years or longer.

Is this because iyou have a hard time changing it back and forth. Seams like I would keep forgetting and I would be early or late for things.

The truck clock is a pain to change for me as I keep forgetting how to set it.

 

[Lasgambler]

The time zone floats over Arizona, 1/2 the year your on mountain time, 1/2 on mountain time.

Living in Arizona, It is as confusing as the above statement.
1/2 the year we are on Mountain Time, 1/2 the year we are on Pacific Time.

I work in Las Vegas from time to time, 1/2 the year I can get to and from Las Vegas in in about 2 and 1/2 hours.

Then 1/2 the year I can get to Las Vegas in about 1 and 1/2 hours, but it takes me about 3 and 1/2 hours to get home. I hope I cleared this up about Arizona without confusing anyone.

 

[ray66v]

Ok Bird, your elected. We've got a front man, now we need a strategy.

How do we get the word out?

There are enough great minds on here to do this, we just need a plan.


--JUST SAY NO, TO FALL BACK!-- 2009

 

[Doc_Bob]

I seem to have a memory somewhere tucked back in the corner of my brain that ben franklin may have even proposed DST.. anyone verify that?

soundguy

The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.
Bob

 

[dqdave1]

Take a vote on how many want DST all year round.

Vote # 1 is my vote to keep it all year

Next person will be vote # 2; and so on. We will see how high the vote goes.

Dave

 

[LBrown59]

Is this because iyou have a hard time changing it back and forth.
Seams like I would keep forgetting and I would be early or late for things.

The truck clock is a pain to change for me as I keep forgetting how to set it.

I've been doing it so long it just comes natural.
So forgeting is not a problem.
Way easier and simpler for me than setting the clocks and watches twice a year.

 

[Soundguy]

The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.
Bob

See the post by Dm above.. ben beat him too it by quite a few years!

As for watches.. i stopepd wearing one.. 1, because they get beat up so much me working on tractors.. and 2, I have a pretty good sense of time passage.. usually accurate to within about 5-10 minutes over the course of the day... 3, if i really.. really need one.. my cell phone has one that is always up to date due to tower time..

soundguy

 

[tommu56]

My vote would be to stay on DST year round. I would rather have the daylight in the evening than in the morning.

my vote too

tommu

 

[JazzDad]

I hate this fall back/ spring ahead an hour business. So, I propose we gradually change to and from DST, like 2 minutes per day, except on Tuesdays when we move 3 1/4 minutes. In leap years we will have to add another 1/2 minute on those days that have the letter "r" in them. No wait, it gets better...

 

[Bird]

I hate this fall back/ spring ahead an hour business. So, I propose we gradually change to and from DST, like 2 minutes per day, except on Tuesdays when we move 3 1/4 minutes. In leap years we will have to add another 1/2 minute on those days that have the letter "r" in them. No wait, it gets better...

I think you only want to make those adjustments on the second Tuesday of each week.