About time for me to get grumpy

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Ark68SS

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• Mar 7, 2014

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Time changes this Sunday, I hate it when that happens. I'll be PO'd for a couple of weeks until I adjust to it [u:b37a4cdf2b]again[/u:b37a4cdf2b]! I don't like it in the fall any better, either. I swear, if I were a rich man I'd have two homes in different time zones and move twice a year.
At least now I'll have more daylight after work to do my outside projects.
Thanks for reading, I feel better now. :wink:
BillL

 

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ShadetreeRet

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• Mar 7, 2014

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Y,know,I don't remember ever talking to someone who said, "Oh Boy, daylight saving time starts Sunday, I can hardly wait!" Yeah. it does have it's advantages, such as you mentioned, but it can also put you in a bind, as when I used to come home from work and work in the garden until I couldn't see, then try to eat supper and get some rest. There weren't enough time! I still ain't crazy about it, but when you aren't required to punch a time clock anymore, you can set your own schedule.

 

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redforlife

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• Mar 7, 2014

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ya. I hear ya. I wish they would just set the time half-way in-between and leave it there year round. the time change doesn't help me out at all, and like you its just a pain to get use to 2 times a year.

 

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Alan K

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• Mar 7, 2014

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I hate having to wait up till 2am to change the clocks......................

 

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Dr. Walt

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• Mar 8, 2014

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Bill:

Don't sweat the 1 hour time change. Just think, if
you had a house on Millennium Island in the South
Pacific which is on the International Date Line, if
you walk to one side of the house you're in
yesterday & if you go to the other side of the
house you'd be in tomorrow. LOL!

 

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Hoofer B

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• Mar 8, 2014

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better yet would be having a 28 hour day so I can get all my work done.

 

showcrop

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• Mar 8, 2014

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What day does it change back in the fall? I'm going to put a note on the calendar and see if I can be the first grumpy ole fart to complain, LOL.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Mar 8, 2014

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Boy, I feel the opposite. I truely cannot wait for thr change.
My body will gladly adjust for the extra hour of evening
light.

Don't let a swing shift worker (not me) hear you complain
about a one-hour change!


Glenn F.

 

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just another old geezer

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• Mar 8, 2014

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I've got me one of them self-setting clocks. Never been up at 2 in the morning to see it re-set though.

 

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just another old geezer

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• Mar 8, 2014

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I believe that there is 1 state that does not follow
the time change ritual. Consider finding out witch
one and moving there.

 

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60 acre hillside

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• Mar 8, 2014

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I work efficiently, I can get a day's work in in about 4 hours. At least tired in about 2 hours

 

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BIG RUH

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• Mar 8, 2014

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That would be Arizona

 

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Tramway Guy

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• Mar 8, 2014

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Hawaii also does not observe daylight savings time, also most
of Saskatchewan.

 

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fixerupper

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• Mar 8, 2014

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Doesn't bother me much. When I was in Eastern Europe time zone it took me a good five days to adjust. Here at home, not much. Jim

 

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Richard G.

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• Mar 8, 2014

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It has nothing to do with energy savings anymore. The rich folks that own golf courses and those who play golf is the reason for the change.
I agree with moving it a half hour and leave it all year.
Richard in NW SC

 

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Richard G.

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• Mar 8, 2014

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Oh, I had a horticulturist standing around the heater in my shop 2 days ago. He said people have asked him how the plants adjust to the extra hour of light that they get in the spring and lose in the fall.
I just thought of something, maybe that extra hour of sunshine is what is causing all this 'global warming' we are having. LOL
Richard in NW SC

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Mar 8, 2014

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I believe the date is Nov. 2 if I remember right. Check your calendar. Most have it written on the calendar.

 

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farmerwithmutt

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• Mar 8, 2014

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The amish around me dont change there time its always a
pain to have to ask your time or mine at least in the
summer there on the same time

 

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fixerupper

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• Mar 8, 2014

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A former neighbor told me his mother's chickens were messed up for two weeks after the time change. Jim

 

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jennifer408

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• Mar 8, 2014

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(quoted from post at 22:24:20 03/07/14) ya. I hear ya. I wish they would just set the time half-way in-between and leave it there year round. the time change doesn't help me out at all, and like you its just a pain to get use to 2 times a year.

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i agree

 

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rrlund

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• Mar 8, 2014

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I just wish they'd move it out one week later. I've got Board of Review at 9am Tuesday,so I'll have to be out there doing chores in the dark to make it on time,then I'll be dragging and falling asleep all day. God help anybody who gets ugly with me that morning.

 

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PJH

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• Mar 8, 2014

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Just Another Old Geezer sez, "I've got me one of them self-setting clocks. Never been up at 2 in the morning to see it re-set though."

I've got one, an analog version, but it's useless because they keep hopping the change date around. It's liable to change two weeks before or after it's supposed to. And I caught the thing changing once, in the fall, and instead of turning one hour backwards, it turned 23 hours forward. I had time to wake up the wife so she could see it. She thought I was nuts! I also have one of those that responds to the WWV station, and it changes on order from them, which is nice. And that reminds me - WHO decides exactly what date the change is made? Pretty powerful person, if you ask me.

My Dad refused to change his watch - he called his time "railroad time". And we NEVER asked Dad what time it was, because there was a ten minute dialog about "railroad time" that went along with his response, ha. I wish I could hear him gripe about it again. . .

Paul

 

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Alan K

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• Mar 8, 2014

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That reminds me of the sci-fi movie Paul. Paul (the alien) was jumping back and for between a couple of time zones...he was coaxing the other two guys to join in..He said if you really think about it..its time travel lol...

 

rustred

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• Mar 8, 2014

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yep, another absolute useless crock. no power saved , nor does it affect golfers. but I do believe it does cause more accidents due to more tired people being on the road. also less production on the job. just leave the time alone as it is, is my thoughts.

 

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kj(seil)

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• Mar 8, 2014

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most of Indiana

 

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Old weldor

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• Mar 8, 2014

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When I was growing up my dad used to say it was so city
people would have more time to play golf. My wife grew up in
the city,she said her dad said it was for farmers to have more
daylight to work.

 

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Brian Allen

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• Mar 8, 2014

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I don't like the time changes either!
Just leave it alone!
Brian

 

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada

• Mar 8, 2014

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I don't change in the fall , just stay the same all year round. Drives my wife crazy, but it sure is easy at time change.

 

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ShadetreeRet

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• Mar 8, 2014

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LOL!

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Mar 8, 2014

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Grew up on a dairy farm, and going on daylight saving in the spring was a nightmare. Had to do it, because dad milked then went to his town job, so if town job started an hour earlier, so did milking.

I was 10 or so, and had to go out in the field and get the cows, at about 4:30 AM. Cattle have a great internal clock, and normally when I went out, they would be getting up, yawning and stretching, and starting toward the barn. On daylight saving morning in the spring, different story- all asleep, and when I'd knee them to get them up, they'd look at me like, "What the h--- are you doing out here at this hour?" Get some up and going, go to get some others, and the first bunch is laying back down and going to sleep. This would go on for about a week, then they'd be adjusted.

Bonus was in the fall- round-up was much easier- they'd all be standing at the gate to the holding pen, looking at their watches and wondering what was keeping me.

I'll turn 66 in August. Lots of water under the bridge, lots of woulda-coulda-shoulda's. Would give anything to go back to those days, for just a week or so, and live it again. They say we remember the good and forget the bad. I'd love a chance to test that theory. Gotta go- seem to have something in my eye. . .

 

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FBH44

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• Mar 9, 2014

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I agree with the one below; move it 1/2 hour some time, and leave it alone.

 

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Leroy

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• Mar 9, 2014

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It just put it where when conditions were correct for work you had a breakdown it was after all stores were closed so you could not get the repairs you needed to keep going so that put you a day behind in work unless the weather got bad then it might put you a day behind. All it does is give the 9-5 worker more play time if he only has one job.

 

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toolz

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• Mar 9, 2014

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How's the joke go? "Only the government would think that by cutting a foot off the top of a blanket and adding it to the bottom, you would get a longer blanket". And the liberals that think the daylight "saved" contributes to global warming. I really wish it would just stay the same year-round.