https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:44:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2152144 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:51:04 +0000 cindysmith 2152144@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm just glad I got an extra hour of sleep out of it. Work has been kicking my butt (we are selling WAY more firewood than produce these days).</p> <p>And didn't Australia or somebody do a study that wound up showing that DST actually caused people to use MORE electricity? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2152133 Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:45:03 +0000 Anonymous 2152133@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>"Fall back" time is traditionally an antiholiday in this house. But this year I'm appreciating the light mornings so I can hike in the woods before work. If I can stay home, the dark afternoons aren't as big a deal. Why again did I insist on being out til 7 after work every day BC19? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151608 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 04:59:49 +0000 shiny 2151608@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am pretty sure I have a mild case of delayed sleep phase disorder so I have a love/hate thing going on with this. Sometimes it's awesome especially Fall. It easily re-sets me back on to normal people's time. Sometimes Spring helps re-set too, but not as easily as Falling back.</p> <p>Then again I'm the person who adores going to Iceland or similar during the darker days when I can sleep with no sun waking me. Just sleep when I'm tired and wake when I'm rested. Ahhhh... heaven! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151468 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 20:16:25 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2151468@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Stephen Kern also gives an interesting account of how railroads were behind standardized time in his book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151378 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:14:22 +0000 JAileen 2151378@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jenn, ha ha! &nbsp;I probably read it in Smithsonian! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151354 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:12:59 +0000 Jenn 2151354@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><b>JAileen,&nbsp;</b>you're right. &nbsp;It's a fascinating story:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-standardization-time-changed-american-society-180961503/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com.....erican-soc</a> </p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://time.com/5730146/standardized-time/">https://time.com/5730146/standardized-time/</a></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151260 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 02:40:34 +0000 JAileen 2151260@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think in the US, it was the railroads that wanted a standardized time. &nbsp;I read that somewhere, anyway. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151256 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 02:08:33 +0000 Gigi 2151256@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hee hee, I was just thinking last week how much I think Daylight Savings Time is a good idea. I love it in the summer, because there is daylight late into the evening, so there is enough light for outdoor social gatherings.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151188 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 16:24:45 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2151188@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cindysmith, you too? High five! And govt became the boss of time when capital needed it to—railroad schedules were a nightmare when each location had its own local time zone. But I don’t think the current situation serves anyone. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151158 Sun, 01 Nov 2020 14:11:54 +0000 cindysmith 2151158@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I do not understand daylight savings time. Like, when did governments become the boss of time? Thank heaven my phone automatically adjusts its clock when the time comes, because I used to remain hopelessly confused for weeks after time changes (always discovering YET ANOTHER CLOCK THAT I HAD FORGOTTEN TO CHANGE). My phone is my only clock these days </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2151058 Sat, 31 Oct 2020 22:51:01 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2151058@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just occurred to me that this might be an appropriate time/place to mention one of my favorite nerd websites. I can dawdle on it forever. <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/germany/berlin" rel="nofollow">https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/germany/berlin</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150936 Sat, 31 Oct 2020 11:13:13 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2150936@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cardiff, but we’re losing that fun anyway—I completely missed that it was time to reset clocks, complained for a couple days about how quickly days were getting shorter, and then found out Apple, Google, et al had changed the clocks on me!</p> <p>Robin, BD, JAileen, Rachylou and Nemo, absolutely—I’m with you 100%. Sounds like we’re building a little army here. </p> <p>Anchie, yikes. Hadn’t thought of that. But the thing is, if we didn’t reset the clocks like this, people might change the starting and ending time of various activities to fit the “new” reality. </p> <p>BD, what’s your latitude? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150850 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 23:18:00 +0000 Cardiff girl 2150850@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I dunno,if we stopped doing this all the fun of watching the one person who forgot turn up late to church the day after will be gone forever.l like the fact that autumn and spring are marked so decisively . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150840 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:50:32 +0000 nemosmom 2150840@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm with Robin! Pick a time and leave it alone! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150763 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:40:45 +0000 Barbara Diane 2150763@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I need to stop complaining about how early it gets dark here now that I know how little daylight you have in winter. </p> <p>I’ve already tempered my complaining about the cold since hearing about the winters of many of our intrepid YLFers.</p> <p>Yes, we have it. I wish we left it so we had more daylight later in the day in winter. Without changing our clocks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150734 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:16:23 +0000 rachylou 2150734@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I agree JAileen! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150728 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:40:41 +0000 JAileen 2150728@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like daylight savings time. &nbsp;I wish we would stay on it. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150719 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:06:42 +0000 RobinF 2150719@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hate it and complain about it every year. I don't care which time we go with, just pick it and stay with it. It isn't as bad now as it was with little kids but still! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150717 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:04:29 +0000 Lynne 2150717@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It always catches me off guard! Happily we don't do it where I live now. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150704 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:09:16 +0000 anchie 2150704@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>But you know, this is actually the 'real' time. Stopping this would not prolong daylight in winter. I don't see the point in prolonging already longer summer daylight. But this may be the last year of doing it anyway.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/clock-changing-madness#post-2150697 Fri, 30 Oct 2020 06:42:27 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2150697@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Clocks here changed last weekend; with all of ours connected to various servers elsewhere, we didn’t even notice. I just thought the shortening of days was happening very fast. This morning I told my son that next week the sun would set just after he got out of school (because I thought clocks would be reset this weekend). Thank goodness I was wrong! </p> <p>Daylight savings time never made sense to me, but it really doesn’t make sense here, where are less than 8 hours of daylight on the shortest day of the year. This week, sunset has been around 4:45. Towards the end of December, it will be before 4:00. Sunrise will be around 8. I guess the thought is to let people have a chance at daylight for at least one commute by entirely sacrificing the other? I really don’t see why the disruption twice a year is necessary—in the summer, there’s more than enough daylight to go ‘round. There are plenty of studies that show there are more car crashes, kids have a tougher time at school, and so on, in the days following a clock reset. Stop the madness! </p> <p>Are clocks reset twice a year where you live? What do you think about it? Do you have a preference for one time or the other? </p>