Spring Ahead, Fall Back

[OldMcDonald]

bcp, It is called flexi-time, and many companies around the world permit employees to start and finish at their own chosen time - often it involves everyone being there between certain core times, say 10 and 4.

dsgr, You obviously have not read post my post #8.

 

[Looking4new]

I have 2 clocks here that are right twice a day. They are both brass, both Chelseas and one is worth 6 grand to replace. I will keep them until I drop dead.

 

[MF283]

I think we should spring ahead and fall ahead even further so that it's not dark at 6pm in the winter. ..would be nice to have a couple of hours daylight in the winter for after work to be able to do things outside...

Yes Sir, it's dark around here around 5 PM.

Ronnie

 

[OldMcDonald]

You in USA (excluding Alaska) are all fortunate that you live so far south. Nowhere is beyond the 50th parallel. Nowhere in England is below it. Before coming here I lived north of Inverness which is above the 57th parallel. You can all quite reasonably operate on what is now your summer time all year round. In fact it would make sense to do so. It is not much fun when it is not full daylight at 10 a.m.

I am still waiting for an answer whether this weeken is your normal time to change the clocks instead of the last weekend in March. When do you change in autumn?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My clock changes automatically, based on the old time change. Now i get to change it 4 times a yr.

 

[von-mil]

I am still waiting for an answer whether this weeken is your normal time to change the clocks instead of the last weekend in March. When do you change in autumn?

Yes, we move the clocks ahead one hour on the second Sunday of March and move them back on the first Sunday of November. It has only been that way for the last 9 or 10 years. Prior to that the change dates were the first Sunday of April and the last Sunday of October. And prior to that (mid-1980's and earlier), it was the last Sunday in April though the last Sunday of October, making one half of the year on Daylight Saving Time and one half regular time.

My guess is that the next change will be a permanent change with no more clock changes twice a year - probably a one hour DST-type advance and then leave it.

 

[farmer2009]

You in USA (excluding Alaska) are all fortunate that you live so far south. Nowhere is beyond the 50th parallel. Nowhere in England is below it. Before coming here I lived north of Inverness which is above the 57th parallel. You can all quite reasonably operate on what is now your summer time all year round. In fact it would make sense to do so. It is not much fun when it is not full daylight at 10 a.m.

I am still waiting for an answer whether this weeken is your normal time to change the clocks instead of the last weekend in March. When do you change in autumn?

Yes today is our normal time to change. About 10 years ago or so we moved our time changes 3 weeks earlier in spring and 3 weeks later in fall. We fall back first Sunday in November.
This was all supposed to save an amount of electricity because now for an extra 6 weeks of the year it got dark after people got home. So there was an hour that they didn't need lights or something like that.

I'm also in the pick a time and stay on it crowd.

 

[OldMcDonald]

Thanks both. Your times have been messed about with far too much. I really cannot see that it is necessary for you all.

There is still a strong movement in southern England to change to what is now summer time in order to be in line with France and Spain. It is of course being rebuffed by those further north, but numbers will probably prevail.

We are on the same time as Britain, and being a few degrees further west it makes for maximum daylight at reasonable hours all year round.

 

[RoyJackson]

I was recently read there were several states considering bills to eliminate the time changes. IIRC, Vermont was one of them....doubt Vermont does it though...not unless they can figure out a way to tax it.

I'm another one of the guys who get up well before dawn and in bed usually by dusk.

 

[ovrszd]

Unless they recently came onboard, Indiana doesn't change.