ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

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fucking DLS means I have to cycle home in the pitch black.

Jarlrmai, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:16 (sixteen years ago)

i know how it works but is it 7:16 or 8:16. my phone + computer seem to have gone forward and ilx went back.

harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:17 (sixteen years ago)

no this says it's next week! http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=179

harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

ok my phone and computer didn't do anything because it's not daylight savings time yet. ilx did it a week early?

harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

We went from BST to GMT last night, here in Britishland.

Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:25 (sixteen years ago)

oh. i see what the problem was. my ilx prefs time zone was "Cuba"

harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:26 (sixteen years ago)

haha

ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:55 (sixteen years ago)

lmao

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 October 2009 14:19 (sixteen years ago)

DST adds an hour to everyone's halloween partying

cutty, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:36 (sixteen years ago)

living through another cuba

velko, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

rip Fidel

lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

oh hello it's time saving time in longdong

warmsherry, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:44 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

RIP one hour

all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:29 (sixteen years ago)

hate it so much

mookieproof, Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:31 (sixteen years ago)

Balls to this

First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:49 (sixteen years ago)

ftge imo

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:09 (sixteen years ago)

lol shit THAT'S what just happened to that hour.

Computer clock reset itself.

hills like white people (Hurting 2), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:21 (sixteen years ago)

more like gaylight savings

itchy rainbolt (clotpoll), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:27 (sixteen years ago)

there's been a thread on why it's not Daylight SavingS, right?

Not the real Village People, Sunday, 14 March 2010 08:32 (sixteen years ago)

daylight saving$

shite new answers (cutty), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:26 (sixteen years ago)

feeling bad for the housekeepers at hotels worldwide who on this morning in addition to their typical turn-down procedures must also manually adjust every single alarm clock

iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:36 (sixteen years ago)

i hate this it's like the day is half gone already!!!!!!!!!

harbl, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:40 (sixteen years ago)

every farmer needs to be punched in the face rite now

david foster ballaz (m bison), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:43 (sixteen years ago)

While I love the later sunsets and all, waking up this morning at 5:30 for work was a bit of a drag...

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:45 (sixteen years ago)

xp except the ones in arizona and hawaii you mean

iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:45 (sixteen years ago)

feeling bad for the housekeepers at hotels worldwide who on this morning in addition to their typical turn-down procedures must also manually adjust every single alarm clock

at least they only have to go one hour forward instead of 11/23

mookieproof, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:10 (sixteen years ago)

it is bullshit

akm, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:24 (sixteen years ago)

My extreme laziness has finally paid off and not changing any of the clocks in my apt the last time this happened means that I didn't have to do shit this time around.

t(o_o)t (ENBB), Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:54 (sixteen years ago)

wow, The Wikipedia features so many interesting and potentially untrue facts about this fascist lie of a proletariat yoke

A 2008 study found that although male suicide rates rise in the weeks after the spring transition, the relationship weakened greatly after adjusting for season.[75] A 2008 Swedish study found that heart attacks were significantly more common the first three weekdays after the spring transition, and significantly less common the first weekday after the autumn transition.[76] The government of Kazakhstan cited health complications due to clock shifts as a reason for abolishing DST in 2005.[77]

In the mid-1980s, Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to U.S. DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes;[3] in 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied for the 2007 extension to U.S. DST.[72]

Daylight saving has caused controversy since it began.[1] Winston Churchill argued that it enlarges "the opportunities for the pursuit of health and happiness among the millions of people who live in this country".[86] Robertson Davies, however, detected "the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves",[87] and wags have dubbed it "Daylight Slaving Time".[88]

oh you melodramatic wags

iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 16:59 (sixteen years ago)

The Wag Party

How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:33 (sixteen years ago)

It's like the Whig Party but all your political points are in the form of horrible puns.

How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:33 (sixteen years ago)

I told a friend to meet me for brunch today at 11 am, and of course, he calls 45 minutes ago to tell me he didn't reprogram his alarm clock. Ugh.

The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 March 2010 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

arsebiscuits dark mornings again

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 11:16 (sixteen years ago)

messin' with the clock

not_goodwin, Monday, 15 March 2010 11:38 (sixteen years ago)

Now we all have one more hour in our Daylight Savings Account. Maybe when we die, we'll get to spend them!

Aimless, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:01 (sixteen years ago)

arsebiscuits dark mornings again

The one thing I hate.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:05 (sixteen years ago)

Arsebiscuits truly are the worst things about daylight savings, can't wait to avoid them when I move to Arizona.

How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

Is that what the have as their license plat motto?

"Live free from Arsebiscuits"

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:27 (sixteen years ago)

dark mornings > > > > dark evenings

Mr. Que, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:28 (sixteen years ago)

In principle yes, but my first DST morning and the pleasure I derived from it was grounded in the fact that my flight home last night was late, too late for the last bus and the taxi queue was long and cabs few. Ended up with less than five hours sleep last night and the alarm woke me up to dark grey misery.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:31 (sixteen years ago)

sounds like a taxi problem, not a DST problem

Mr. Que, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:32 (sixteen years ago)

More of a pittsburgh problem. In general DST means awake to see the sunrise for the next month or so and my living room has east facing windows which makes me happy.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:34 (sixteen years ago)

I took advantage of DST a coupla years ago to sleep in and show up for work an hour late & real faux-apologetic, knowing that my supervisor would be amused at my boneheadedness (and that I'd work late to make up for it)! It worked jsut like I planned, but it's not something I'd dare repeat.

Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:43 (sixteen years ago)

i didn't even notice until seeing this thread just now. who cares

am0n, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:55 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

f this

iatee, Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:48 (fifteen years ago)

oh is this tonight?

fuck this

sleeve, Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:49 (fifteen years ago)

this seems appropriate. also GRRR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:04 (fifteen years ago)

Oh weird, DST isnt ending here for another month almost.

one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:07 (fifteen years ago)

Which now i think on it seems odd because I'm sure it *used* to end on the march long weekend - which is today - so I dunno.

one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:08 (fifteen years ago)

Keep imagining Tech N9ne yelling this thread title as a chorus

Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 March 2026 16:58 (three months ago)

https://www.hcn.org/articles/welcome-to-daylight-nonsense-time

mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 March 2026 23:42 (three months ago)

I didn't know time zones were a Canadian invention, thanks a lot us

symsymsym, Thursday, 5 March 2026 01:48 (three months ago)

People in the Yukon should be allowed to function on whatever time they want, that's a brutal winter

symsymsym, Thursday, 5 March 2026 01:48 (three months ago)

In response to that article - I think latitude has everything to do with it.

People in far northern climates experience extreme effects from time change in a way we in the US don't. For them daylight savings is about how early the sun rises, and with daylight savings in the Winter it could be as late as 10:00 am or later. That is not good. They should go back to standard time

For us in the US, daylight savings shifts light from the morning to the evening in a graceful way in the Summer when there is a lot of sun. Shifting to later daybreak in favor of later sunset makes sense. In Fall and Winter it doesn't.

I don't want to wake up and have it be dark until 8:00 am in the Winter (which would be the case under daylight savings time), and also don't want to be blinded by sunlight coming into my bedroom at 5:30 am in the Summer (which would be the case under standard time)

The change to daylight savings annually in the Spring and then back to standard time in the Fall is a good thing

Dan S, Thursday, 5 March 2026 02:16 (three months ago)

Hm probably the first argument for DST that has made sense to me.

disco stabbing horror (lukas), Thursday, 5 March 2026 02:47 (three months ago)

Just make it 5 o clock all day

Abby Gore (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 March 2026 04:21 (three months ago)

That’s the case in Margaritaville, obviously

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 5 March 2026 05:19 (three months ago)

Hey, it's gotta be five o'clock everywhere, right?

pplains, Thursday, 5 March 2026 13:45 (three months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UpEKX39ZY

mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2026 02:34 (two months ago)

rude

mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2026 07:00 (two months ago)

omg that's fantastic

kinder, Sunday, 8 March 2026 10:33 (two months ago)


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