We're running out of time!

[Zulu Romeo]

We switched the other week here in the UK. I forgot all about it and got up at my usual time. What a berk.

It could have been worse. You could have turned the clock back just after midnight rolled by, gone to sleep, and woken up and looked at your watch to find it was Monday.

In the interest of not appearing like an idiot, I'm going to pretend I understood that.

Well, after midnight the watch rolls to Sunday, and if the clock is then turned back before 0100, it will appear to be just after 11pm - on a Sunday. Later, the watch will see another midnight in an hour's time, and the watch will then think it is Monday as the calendar has not been changed when the clock was put back an hour.

I think that is why clocks generally change at 0200, to allow a comfortable buffer of one hour, to avoid this sort of calendar rollover problem in today's working modern society.

 

[ITL]

^ Ah, gotcha!

Mind you, my watch don't show what day it is. It only shows hours and minutes, so what you said wouldn't do what you said it would when you said it would in terms of my watch.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Well, after midnight the watch rolls to Sunday, and if the clock is then turned back before 0100, it will appear to be just after 11pm - on a Sunday.

Won't it change back to Saturday when you turn the clock back at that time?

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

Does that mean we get a whole extra hour of drunk Halloween fun?!

They should move the clocks back at 12:30 AM. Then Halloween would have two midnights.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Well, after midnight the watch rolls to Sunday, and if the clock is then turned back before 0100, it will appear to be just after 11pm - on a Sunday.

Won't it change back to Saturday when you turn the clock back at that time?

No, it doesn't.

 

[Lindley]

DST is, in my questionably humble opinion, useless. It should have been abolished across the board, long ago. Time is time, after all. We can't change that just by fudging around with the clocks. We should just shut the fuck up and accept whatever daylight levels we happen to have.

I agree but in the opposite direction. We should just stick with DST year-round.

And we're not an agrarian society anymore...work hours are all over the place. So how much money does DST really save? Not as much as people think, probably.

I haven't seen the latest power load curves, of course, but the idea is less about lowering power consumption than about manipulating the times at which high consumption occurs (dinner, for instance) in order to lower peak consumption. Power stations can be more efficient with a flatter load curve.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Long weekend! Awesome!

 

[Lookingglassman]

A whole extra hour to sleep! YIPPEE!!!

 

[Mallory]

I've been patiently waiting for months now to get my hour back. Victory is at hand!

 

[RandyS]

Ummm maybe if I was 8 I'd be excited about it since I could stay up later, but at this point it just doesn't matter since I can stay up to whevener I want...YAY!!!!!!!!!

However, the one thing I really don't like is that it's going to be darker even earlier now. That sucks.

Really? That's the one thing I do like about it. Now I can go to bed even earlier, and in turn, get up even earlier--which, I guess doesn't make much of a difference, since I wake up automatically at 5am every day anyway, but still....

 

[TGTheodore]

Since I'm a night person, I love Standard Time because it gets darker sooner, but I love Daylights Savings Time because it stays darker in the morning longer. I hate having it bright at 6am. (No, I'm not boarding up the windows )

When I had a full-time job (resisting comment on previous administration), I preferred having the morning commute when it was darker.

--Ted

 

[tomalak301]

Ah yes, the only day in the year we have a 25 hour day instead of the usual 24. I don't have anything special planned, but I was thinking how awesome in would be for the series 24 to take place on a Sunday, and when you have the countdown clock, it resets itself to 1:00 AM instead of 2:00 AM.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Does that mean we get a whole extra hour of drunk Halloween fun?!

I've tried that the bar tenders, waitresses, and bouncers all what to go home so they kick us out at 2:30, they don't buy that line.,

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

I love this time of year but hate the spring!

 

[RoJoHen]

Does that mean we get a whole extra hour of drunk Halloween fun?!

I've tried that the bar tenders, waitresses, and bouncers all what to go home so they kick us out at 2:30, they don't buy that line.,

We got the bar to stay open the extra hour last night!