Good thing I heard this on the morning news, else I wouldn't have done so. A dear friend used to email me twice a year about the time change, he has since passed these four years. :( However, I can always see the correct time on my computer monitor - eventually.

Thanks for the reminder.

I would like to let the days and the light do what it does naturally and stop messing around with the clocks twice a year. It used to get the dogs so upset around feeding time. Their stomachs said it was time to eat, but the clock said "no".

Fortunately, now that I'm retired, the change doesn't have as much of an affect on me. I just go to bed when tired and get up when rested.

Regardless, thank you for the reminder!

You are right! I goofed!!

You set your clock back 1 hour when DST ends in the fall (= regain 1 hour).

OH YES!!! HELLO HOUR!!!

The saying, "spring forward, fall back," helps keep the two changes straight in my mind.

We actually gain an hour. It will get dark super early now...I hate it!

I hate it too. I wish the powers that be would just change the time by 1/2 hour and keep it there, so we never have to change again. But if I had my way, we'd stay on Daylight Savings time all of the time.

Hate it here, also !!

I always take "the boys" (two outside/inside cats) down around to the cellar for their supper and for the night just as the sun sets. Pretty soon it will be dark near 4:30p, which is pretty early to go to bed.

Tonight I had to be somewhere at 6pm, so I put them in at 5pm, they were not happy about that! If not for the canned food they get for supper, I probably wouldn't have been able to accomplish it. Just got home and don't hear a peep out of them down there so all must be well.

Isn't the US the only country that has this ridiculous daylight savings? I don't like it one bit. Too much dark for me. And tomorrow I will wake up at 5 because i wont change the clocks till morning but it will only be 4....longest day of my life. I'm going to trick my brain and change the clocks tonight. LOL

It's used in all of Western and Central Europe, where it's called Summer Time. That's several dozen countries and there probably are others elsewhere.

"Fall back, bye bye 1 hour"

I know, Picky, picky! Actually, when you turn the clock back one hour, you gain one hour of sleep time for that night.

I know. I goofed.

The only time the time change mattered to us was when we had our diabetic Lab who needed his shots every twelve hours after meals. We would have to move his meal time by 15 minutes for four days before the clocks were changed. Personally I will be glad to get that extra bit of daylight at the end of the day.

When I woke up this morning I thought, wow, I slept in. Yes, I did... but not according to the computer clock.

My daughter had the clock in the living room changed by 30 minutes yesterday, breaking the kids in to the time change a half hour, to make it easier by Monday.

Yes, I hate the time change too, but I guess, I will use the bonus hour during the daytime today.

Moni

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Elmer, you are right... there is "summertime" in Germany, and I know, they have it in Australia too.

The time change doesn't bother me one bit. It's only an hour. I've lost an hour sleep probably 100 times this year. Then I've gained that hour by sleeping in a few more times. One hour? Nah!

My clocks almost all change by themselves. The only way I can be sure that they all automatically change is by checking my stove and microwave.

The only clocks that change here are my cell phone and my laptop. I am glad I did not change the time yet as we had a very brief power outage a bit ago so now all has to changed anyway. We may may have some really bad storms today.

Sue in Central Indiana

I was really looking forward to waking to some sun this morning, but, no, it's overcast with drizzle. Maybe tomorrow morning.

I want standard time year round.

Lily, I would like to like your post a zillion times.

I like having more sunlight in later evening hours. I'd be happier keeping our clocks advanced one hour all year. Early sunsets in the winter make the already too short days darker and more depressing.

Canada operates on Daylight Saving Time, for part of the year ... is it mainly 'cause the golfers like to be able to play later?

Except Saskatchewan, our central prairie province, that has straight lines for all four borders ... and where ole joyful spent six years in univ. and seminary.

You guys who don't like the dark ... how'd you like to live in the north, where the sun just peeks above the horizon for a month or so a couple of times a year ... and between that they have total dark for a couple of months. And for a fair share of that time the temp is 40 below or so (at which point Fahrenheit and Centigrade are the same). In summer, they have 24 hour daylight for a couple of months.

ole joyful ...who likes a rather moderate temperature

I like the night. I like to have the sunset early. It is terrible when the sun doesn't set until 9PM.

As tempting as 40 below & 24 hours of darkness, I’ll have to pass. I don’t want sun 24 hours a day either. Messes with my biological time clock.

Thumbs down! DST doesn't save, coming home in the afternoon when it's hotter means running the A/C more. I don't want to wake up in the dark in the fall. It's dangerous for children (and drivers) for children to be walking to school in the dark. And what a pain to turn the clock hands back eleven hours every spring.

I don't really care which way they have it, just keep it the same. The chickens are not going to get up any sooner.

Sue

I guess I just don't give a hoot. Time is a manmade construct for convenience. We have the same amount of light in day, time in an hour. It doesn't matter when I get up or go to sleep. The powers that be could alternate times every other month, and it wouldn't change anything.

The neighbor's rooster is now crowing at 3 a.m. :(

My cat is ALL confused. He's pawing my nose, digging me out of bed @ 4:30am .......nooooooooooo....

I don't get why people get so worked up over it. Sheesh. Aren't there a lot better things to stress you out?

Disclaimer: I have mostly atomic clocks so very little resetting around here. I don't have a structured life, having to report somewhere at a certain time. I sleep when I want and do things when I want. The only, albeit slight impact on me is store hours but an hour give or take is petty in my life.

And I'll say that when I was working semi-normal to normal hours I really enjoyed having the sun in the afternoon. When I'd work nights, it was nice to have the sun up "earlier".

Seems to me the ones who go craziest over it are the ones impacted the least! My dad used to get so worked up over DST. He'd be screaming "YOU CAN CHANGE THE CLOCK BUT YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE SUN!" Uh yeah, don't you get it? You CAN'T change the sun, so you change the clock. In today's popular vernacular, "DUH!" And ironically, he seemed to always enjoy having daylight when he'd be driving home from work. My estimate is 90% of people who grouse about DST are hobbyists. They make a hobby out of complaining!

Nothing FORCES you to change your clocks. Go by your own time. I'm on CST (Cynic Saving Time) year round. I don't get worked up over it. Saves me stress and provides entertainment watching people making mountains from the proverbial molehills.

Cynic, I’m glad it doesn’t bother you and you feel everyone should worry about more pressing matters. However it is an annoyance and can affect our health. Some studies say:

“This can cause disruptions to our body clock, otherwise known as the circadian rhythm.”

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-health.html

Bothers me. By the time I get used to this time, I'll only have a couple of months before the-powers-that-be mess it up again. Since some like DST(husband) and some like ST(me), my husband suggested that they move the time 30 minutes forward this spring and then LEAVE IT ALONE! I think it is a great idea if we can't get rid of DST,

Bothers me too. I keep waking up at 7 despite not going to bed till 1 or 2 and I feel tired and unwell with so little sleep (for me). Unfortunately once I wake up it's difficult for me to fall back asleep so I have to get up for a while before going back to bed for a few hours.

I don't understand mocking people who are bothered by it. Not all issues affect all people.

Chi, I could just copy your post and put my name on it. Up at 2;30 AM. Can't go back to sleep. Feeling tired all day. Trying not to nap.

I’m a morning person & I enjoy the sunrise at 7am. But I don’t like that my body is now ready for bed at 6pm instead of 7pm which is technically my bedtime. It takes my body a couple weeks to adjust.