Strider Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Ok folks, it's Daylight Saving Time again. It seems DST has arrived a bit earlier this year...maybe because it's a leap year? Don't forget to set your clocks ahead one hour tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul carruthers Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Damn clocks, robbing me of an hour of sleep. Grumble, grumble... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fool In The Rain 60 Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 DST begins on the 25 March, so if you live in the UK leave those Clocks alone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Led Zep Girl Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Ugh, I know...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fool In The Rain 60 Posted March 10, 2012 Share Posted March 10, 2012 Who came up with this stupidity? It's like setting the clock ahead by five minutes so you won't be late. It doesn't change the actual time. In 1784, while he was serving as the American ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay entitled “An Economical Project.” In this satirical essay, Franklin claims to have discovered that the sun “gives light as soon as he rises.” He says that the people of Paris are intelligent and economical people, and he cannot imagine that they would still be using so much candlelight at night if they knew they could get sunlight in the morning for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fool In The Rain 60 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I used to think it was Franklin, but I recently heard it was some kind of insanity cooked up during WWI to save energy, or some such nonsense. As well as Franklin, in 1895 an entomologist in New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society outlining a daylight saving scheme which was eventually trialled successfully in New Zealand in 1927. I believe that it was during WW1 that the UK adopted the practice, but the Idea was around before... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 I used to think it was for the farmers...something to do with them having more daylight hours to harvest in the afternoon. I remember also hearing as a child that the reason we moved the clocks back in the fall was so school kids weren't walking to school in the dark. Anyway, here's the relevant info: http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fool In The Rain 60 Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 The trouble with Roosters is that with so much artifical lighting about these days it throws their timing out of sync... Which makes them unreliable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledzepfvr Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Thanks for the reminder. It usually takes me a week for me to get used to the time change. Our bodies are used to certain things happening at particular times and the hour change throws me off. But I do like the daylight lasting later into the evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I know it was G W Bush who moved the dates closer a few years ago, so we "fall back" in November instead of the weekend before Halloween and "spring ahead" before Easter..... This "spring ahead" isn't even in Spring either!!! We are on daylight savings time more than the normal time anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted March 11, 2012 Author Share Posted March 11, 2012 Apparently this Forum's clocks don't adjust automatically, as it is still an hour behind. Or does this board run on UK time? Personally, I don't mind it...as Ledzepfvr said, it's nice to have the extra daylight in the evening. Who needs daylight at 4am? I'm asleep by then. Besides, since most gadgets these days seem to adjust the time for you, it doesn't matter if you remember or not. Fortunately I am one of those people whose body doesn't have trouble adjusting to the time change. Just as I never get jet lag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivingLovingHeartbreaker Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 Apparently this Forum's clocks don't adjust automatically, as it is still an hour behind. Or does this board run on UK time? Personally, I don't mind it...as Ledzepfvr said, it's nice to have the extra daylight in the evening. Who needs daylight at 4am? I'm asleep by then. Besides, since most gadgets these days seem to adjust the time for you, it doesn't matter if you remember or not. Fortunately I am one of those people whose body doesn't have trouble adjusting to the time change. Just as I never get jet lag. I use my cellphone instead of a alarm clock now, the fact that it adjusts itself comes in handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles J. White Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 They should put an end to that shit. Changing the time every 6 months is hell on the body. Our circadian rhythm will point this out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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