I did downstairs, hope i remember upstsirs. And my watch. And my car. Thanks!

I know! Luckily we just got a new dishwasherb installed and the tech was setting the clock and asked if he should set it an hour back.

We completely firgotvitcwas this weekend. I would have been an hour late for my book club tomorrow morning!

No need to remind me, The Night Minion. I am working tonight so I will have a 13 hour shift instead of a 12.

I will reset whatever clocks are in my house when I get home in the morning.

I worked many nights as a nurse, I understand.

I’m not complaining after seeing this. 😁

why, your cellular phone does it anyway ...

Thank you Judy. I appreciate the reminder. I often don't look at my cell phone till later in the day. The stove clock doesn't reset itself.. young lady

Good news is, if you forget, you'll be an hour early this morning. I was awake, and thought " it's 5:30, not so bad ." I got up, started coffee, then flipped open my tablet. Ugh, it's 4:30. Oh well, it's going to be a long day.

I'm glad for it! It will be daylight at 7 am instead of 8 am this morning! YAY!

The hardest to reset are the kitties who want to know why they aren't being fed yet!

this struggle is very real for me, too! the danes often take long afternoon naps after they've had a good romp at the fairgrounds. these naps consist of snoring loud enough to shake the house. like clockwork, they just suddenly wake up at 5:30 pm (now 4:30) and start circling me for supper. trying to make them wait another hour is an exercise in futility!

My pet bird doesn't seem to mind the time change, but it's affecting me! I started intermittent fasting about 10 days ago, and I was already getting used to not eating until noon - but now there's an extra hour of fasting today! My stomach's grumbling just thinking about it.

I am not a fan of this time of year and this archaic practice. I live so far north that they refer to this time switch as the "big dark"!! It's dark late into the morning and gets dark again too early in the afternoon. Right now, we have 14 and a half hours of darkness and it will just get longer the closer we get to the winter solstice.

I can live easily enough with the time change but I do tend to be more of a homebody at this time of year as my aging eyes are not all that comfortable driving at night in my pretty rural area with zero street lights. And bad weather doesn't help much either.

I never rush to turn back the clocks. My phone and computer will have the correct time and I change what few other clocks I have as I get around to them.

The Big Dark

And in another 4 months we can change again!!

I am not a fan of this time of year either. In fact, this year I bought a 'happy light' and am giving myself an hour of artificial daylight in the morning at my desk, see if that increases my energy. I am very much light affected, even a day with relentless coastal fog can weigh me down.

I changed the clocks as I was considering starting dinner last night, I even backed my car out of the garage and changed the time in it. I'm going to have to fine tune the timer on garage lights later this morning though, I didn't get those quite right and they came on a little late. That timer hates me. It's hard wired to the inside wall and I can't take it down and hold it in my hands - it's just out of my reach and requires a three step stool. I don't know how anyone with larger fingers than mine could do it at all without something like dental tools - short and strong 😂

I changed mine before I went to bed last night, the clock in car this morning. Glad to do so. I much prefer standard time, I sleep so much better.

"I much prefer standard time " Yes, lets quit playing around in the government. Just keep it to regular, standard time all year. The time I grew up with, and although, it is off a bit the more you go east and west in a time zone, the standard is the same. Noon is when the sun is at zenith at 12PM in the center of the time zone.

Let those who want sunlight to play sports use the new LED lights to screw up the night. Let those of us who like twilight and sunrise, enjoy them at the normal time of day.

ETA: They would rather play around with the time than face the real problems.

Time change doesn’t bother me. And this one especially. In the ”energy crisis” of the early 70s I waited for the school bus, no sidewalks or lights, in the dark. Now our time change occurs just in time for our local kids to wait for the bus in daylight, especially nice when snow intrudes on their waiting area. OTOH, tonight it will feel like it should be dinner time an hour before it really is. And I used to really dislike driving home from work in the dark. Fortunately, in less than two months, the days will start to get longer.

We could compromise by 30 minutes, if that's what it takes to set a single standard time.

Why change everyone's clocks 'to protect schoolchildren' when we could just change the school schedules!

Unrelated to the clock change but an underlying theme for the coming months is seasonal affective disorder, with the appropriate acronym SAD. Shorter days, less daylight no matter what the clock says and more dreary weather in many locations, can lead to a type of depression. And increased rates of suicide. With a geographic component, days are shorter leading to greater concern the more north the location.

The time change doesn't affect me. It's no different than travelling to the adjacent different time zone or two, without having to quickly change back after a few days upon returning home.

Chisue, I think our schools did! But it was, I think my younger son’s senior, and IIRC the bus didn’t work for him that year so he was getting a ride.

I have been suggesting splitting the hour for years. That way everyone gets the benefits and suffering.

The heck with the daylight part. I was so happy to leave the house an hour WARMER this morning. Being able to load the truck in daylight was an added plus, however.

Kind of an interesting debate because while polls show the majority of Americans want to abandon the practice, the preference for which time to adopt is less clear, and varies by poll.

If I were forced to choose, I’d give a slight edge to daylight time all year. But really, I feel like each time serves a purpose and as such I’m fine with keeping things as they are.

" the preference for which time to adopt is less clear, and varies by poll. "

I don't care - I can adapt to either, and they both have pros and cons - but I'd be very happy not to have to switch back and forth.

Ah I hadn’t thought about people like you. I had been thinking we were about evenly split between Daylight, Standard, and Status Quo in which case my math says Status Quo would keep the most people happy the most amount of time. But adding a 4th group and again assuming an even distribution, the most people would be happy with either Daylight or Standard full time.

Of course none of this means anything because I’m just making a guess at the distribution. I guess I should stop wasting my time and put my faith in the inability for Congress to get anything done.

5:00pm at the dog park. Ugh.

This afternoon I was working on something off-site, not really paying attention to the time. When I got in the car and looked at the clock, I panicked. 5:00 on a day I need to leave at 5:50 for my evening practice! I race home, come in the house and the kitchen is vacant, nothing simmering…DH makes early dinner on Mondays for me. I really panicked…looked at the kitchen clock. 4:15? Oh…wait…and went back out to the car to change the clock. Whew.

Im so proud. Today I changed the clock in my car without reading the manual.

@kanooka - It never ocurred to me Standard Time is so brief! That makes me feel better - thanks!!!

Annie, exactly! Sam cannot understand why he has to wait so long for dinner now, especially since I obviously have nothing more important to do! ha.

well, sadly, it didn't work.

I think people's preference for standard time or daylight time depends in what part of a timezone they live. There is a big difference in sunrise and sunset time on the eastern edge of a timezone compared to the western edge. I live in about the middle of the central timezone so I'm not exposed to the extremes.

I would vote for staying on Standard time all year. I'm sleeping so much better since the change and feel more rested. From the time DST starts until it ends, I feel like I didn't get enough sleep. Thankfully, we will be on Standard time until early April.

Sorry, woodrose, Standard time ends on March 10 next year.

If the daylight is not correct with the time zones as they are now, why not just add MORE zones? That way it would be a win-win for everyone.

You have your north south thing as well. Those of us in the north already have very long days in summer and very long nights in winter. Staying on DST means it would still be dark at 8 in the morning and dark at 5 in the evening during the winter. It is bad enough on standard time.

why not just add MORE zones?

Because the country is only 4 time zones wide based on longitude. Do you want there to be even more time difference between eastern time and pacific time?

Yes. eta;If that would mean NO twice a year changing.Yes that would be fine.

If the daylight is not correct with the time zones as they are now, why not just add MORE zones? That way it would be a win-win for everyone.

Not for people on the west coast who have to do business with those on the east coast. Not for travelers who would be even more jet-lagged than they already are. I could go on, but you get the idea.

But you do not like daylight saving time, which is the same thing????

I haven't said a word about what I like: the above was my first post in this thread. But in fact I don't mind the time changes at all. They've never bothered me, and I appreciate not waking up in the dark these days.

But DST is not the same thing as adding extra time zones: almost everyone switches, so there's still the same 3 hour difference between the coasts.

Our students come to school in the dark. I can't imagine the luxury of waking to sun light.