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Who here sets their clocks a few minutes ahead to confuse yourself into believing you're late so you'll be early?

I do this with my alarm clock. My logic, to the extent there is one, is that it sort of gives me early warning -- it's not 9 a.m. yet, but it will be soon!

What I like about the time changes is the reminder twice a year of how arbitrary the whole time-keeping system is. If we all agree it's 5 instead of 6, hey presto, it's 5.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

DST in Aus is really no big deal. Dont forget there's HUGE spaces bwteeen major cities and such, and most eastern states are on the same DST time - QLD doesnt bother cos its too far north already (I think?) and WA is 3 hours behind anyway.

The one I dont get is China - isnt it true the WHOLE COUNTRY is on ONE timezone!?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Chinese Standard Time. I guess it makes things easier. Really, there's no reason for the whole globe not to be on the same clock. Why would it matter?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Everyone would be on the same day. Hmmm.

If we were on GMT, "midnight" for me would happen an hour before my usual workday was over. There's gotta be a reason why this wouldn't work, though I can't think of one right now, being that it's past midnight for me as it is.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

You'd still have midnight, it just wouldn't necessarily be at 12 a.m. You could just number the hours 1 to 24 (or whatever, but 24 works OK), and the sun would come up at a different time everywhere. There's probably no great advantage either way, really.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

>Who here sets their clocks a few minutes ahead to confuse yourself into believing you're late so you'll be early?<

I've never understood how one cons oneself this way. Compartmentalization or senility?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

All the clocks in my house seem to be fast - computer, alarm clock, wall clock. (Though not my mobile phone or my watch.) I reset them and a few weeks later they're ten minutes fast again. I have no explanation for this. UNLESS! my house is in some kind of fast-time envelope.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

When you talk to the neighbors, do they swat their hands like there's a bug buzzing around?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

indiana just got on the dst bandwagon!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Next up? DECIDING WHAT TIME ZONE THEY WANT TO BE IN.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 13 October 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

It doesn't make sense, but I always feel like life has returned to normal.

I mean, it was fun being able to mow the yard until 8 pm, but it was also unnatural.

― pplains, Sunday, 2 November 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link

ban lawns

― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Sunday, 2 November 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link

Well, yeah.

― pplains, Sunday, 2 November 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link

no daylight savings = the BEST of AZ's fuckoff maverick poilicies

― Walter MIDI (Crabbits), Sunday, 2 November 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link

Falling back >>>>>>>>>>>>> springing forward

That extra hour is like a mini vacation

― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Sunday, 2 November 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link

Thing about the timeslip for me is that it messes with my meal times. I've already had breakfast and two lunches today and it's barely 3 oclock.

― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Sunday, 2 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link

https://justgngr.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/cher-turn-back-time-daylight-savings-clock.jpg

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 2 November 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X49doPwp0bc

― Thackeray Zax (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 November 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.voanews.com/a/time-may-be-running-out-for-millions-of-clocks/4554376.html

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 September 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link

though the revive would be about this: EU backs ending daylight saving time

but of course trump will try and fuck w/ time if he gets the chance.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 September 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link

Said it before and I'll say it again. I dont understand why people hate daylight savings. Whats not to love about sunshine for hours after work?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link

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