Author Topic: Daylight Savings Time: North Americans (Read 5910 times)

aupointillimite · « **on:** March 10, 2007, 01:34:44 pm »

Set the clocks forward tonight, bitches. Oh yes.

With the exception of those who live in states and provinces where it is observed, of course.

I love it when this happens... no more crippling depression! No more early sunsets! No more stupid thoughts of winter!

Huzzah!

Dachshund · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2007, 01:50:57 pm »

Quote from: aupointillimite on March 10, 2007, 01:34:44 pm

Set the clocks forward tonight, bitches. Oh yes.

With the exception of those who live in states and provinces where it is observed, of course.

I love it when this happens... no more crippling depression! No more early sunsets! No more stupid thoughts of winter!

Huzzah!

/quote]

If God would have wanted us to spring forward he would have put clocks in our butts.

Nadine · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2007, 01:52:18 pm »

YAY...Spring is on the way!

But won't I lose an hour of precious beauty sleep tonight? $:-\$

aupointillimite · « **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2007, 01:53:09 pm »

Quote from: Nadine on March 10, 2007, 01:52:18 pm

YAY...Spring is on the way!

But won't I lose an hour of precious beauty sleep tonight? $:-\$

We all will.

Small price to pay for late light though, in my opinion...

Queen Tokelove · « **Reply #4 on:** March 10, 2007, 02:23:59 pm »

Hell, I sleep way over 8 hours, so I won't be losing much. I think most of my clocks reset themselves except for the microwave....

MSPspud · « **Reply #5 on:** March 10, 2007, 07:48:43 pm »

Honestly, I just wish we stayed in Daylight Savings all year around. The most depressing week of the year is when we revert to standard time in the Fall.

Yeah, to the mania of spring/summer and burning the candle at both ends!

Longislander · « **Reply #6 on:** March 10, 2007, 07:51:26 pm »

brings Benj one hour closer to his 2nd date....

Basquo · « **Reply #7 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:01:52 pm »

I HATE DST!!!

I want it to be dark when I go to bed. And the real bitch is that if they change the fall-back time, not only will it not be dark for trick-or-treating on Hallowe'en, we won't get that extra hour to drink at the bar on Saturday before Hallowe'en!

Longislander · « **Reply #8 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:04:02 pm »

wow, what time do you go to bed??

milker · « **Reply #9 on:** March 10, 2007, 08:20:46 pm »

me too i'm a night owl i completely relate to Basquo, it p* me off to wake up in full day light and I don't like watching the 6pm news with a glare on the tv. grpmmph.

koi1 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 10, 2007, 09:04:04 pm »

Do you also suffer from SAD Aupoint. I hate bad weather. That is why I could not live in Berkeley for college. I need the sun. Cloudy weather really gets me down.

Rob

aupointillimite · « **Reply #11 on:** March 10, 2007, 09:11:17 pm »

Quote from: koi1 on March 10, 2007, 09:04:04 pm

Do you also suffer from SAD Aupoint. I hate bad weather. That is why I could not live in Berkeley for college. I need the sun. Cloudy weather really gets me down.

I wouldn't say that I suffer from SAD... but I do get more withdrawn and nasty during the winter months. It's nothing crippling... probably just the winter blahs.

In spring and summer, I'm quite energetic and get out of the house at every available opportunity...

Although, I love seasonal changes... I think I appreciate the nice weather more when we've had a few months of crap to judge it by.

AlanBama · « **Reply #12 on:** March 10, 2007, 09:12:48 pm »

I just wish we could LEAVE it one way all the time. The changing drives me (and my confused old body) nuts.

koi1 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 10, 2007, 09:42:40 pm »

Definittely one of the better points of Los Angeles is the weather. Today it was in the 80's. Feels like spring already. But we have days like those in the winter.

rob

aupointillimite · « **Reply #14 on:** March 10, 2007, 09:43:32 pm »

Quote from: koi1 on March 10, 2007, 09:42:40 pm

Definittely one of the better points of Los Angeles is the weather. Today it was in the 80's. Feels like spring already. But we have days like those in the winter.

rob

It almost broke 70 today, and there was practically dancing in the streets!

koi1 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 10, 2007, 09:49:59 pm »

Yeah like in Sweden where the sun will come out and people will take off their bras and start sunbathing in the park.

rob

aupointillimite · « **Reply #16 on:** March 11, 2007, 01:51:06 pm »

Late daylight tonight!

I'd try to enjoy it more, but my everything hurts.

Oooog....

Sparks+My friend Tim+Dancing around my apartment to Serge+Beer= Somebody please kill me now.

It's so bright outside! Aaaaaaahhh!

Coffeechick88 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 11, 2007, 03:40:32 pm »

I was glad that this time has come. This is actually only the second time my state has actually observed daylight savings time, so it's thrown some people. It made my job very stressful last night--nurses were ordering timed cardiacs one hour off than they should have been (evidently taking into account that we switched one hour ahead was too difficult for them to grasp) and the computers were going crazy (after all those downtimes that supposedly "fixed" the problem)--we had to switch the lab program to atlantic time until they figure out how to get the time to change right. But I am so happy about this almost being spring.

Grinch · « **Reply #18 on:** March 12, 2007, 09:06:06 am »

This little change in daylight savings time is costing lots of companies a boat load of money. It's also making our field engineers work all damned weekend. Lots of medical equipment is PC based these days, while Billy Gates did release a patch to fix this mess you can't just plop it down on a medical device. No...the FDA must approve it! Once approved... 3 days before the damn change... It must somehow be installed on every device in the country or effected countries.

They even tried to get me back out into the field driving from hospital to hospital changing time and installing patches.
If you had an X-ray, CT, MR, or PET scan this weekend, chances are it took longer than usual. Here's why.. the clock has to be right or the documents aren't legal. Someone had to run around changing all the clocks and the techs can't do it.

northernguy · « **Reply #19 on:** March 13, 2007, 03:02:25 pm »

Yes, we're on track to summer. Can't wait to June 21 when we receive 16h 14m 27s of sunlight!

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #20 on:** March 13, 2007, 04:34:27 pm »

When I was in Iceland last summer in this very northern part I went to (Akureyri) the sun didn't set at all. I can only imagine winter.

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