We get an extra hour of sleep tonight (or, if you’re a workaholic, an extra hour of work tomorrow). Daylight Saving Time ends tomorrow in the U.S. (at 2 a.m. to be precise), so set your clocks back an hour before you go to sleep:
Set your clocks back tonight!
November 4, 2017 • 8:15 am
Nice clock. If g*d wanted us to mess with time he would have invented the atomic clock. Oooops…
When my father was a kid, people referred to Standard Time as “God’s Time,” as opposed to Daylight Saving Time, which is man-made.
Clearly, g*d was British, since all Standard Time zones are based on Greenwich Mean Time, and hence on the Greenwich Meridian. Don’t tell the French 😉
Those who do not reside in the US can ignore this message.
Yes, that’s why I addressed it to U.S. readers.
Except the following places also change to Standard Time along with the US. Many others moved to Standard time in October (curse you GWB for changing it to November)
– Bahamas
– Bermuda
– Most of Canada
– Cuba
– Haiti
– Saint Pierre & Miquelon
You should curse the candy makers. Congress passed the bill to extend DST to allow more daylight time for Halloween trick-or-treaters.
We can’t ignore it because if you DVR something like CNN’s State of the Union that plays at 2am Monday in NZ, the time hasn’t been fixed because the platform is used by the US companies who forget that their time has changed in relation to NZ. So the wrong show gets recorded. Then there’s a couple more days where they change it, but get it wrong, so then it’s two hours out instead of just one. So you have to record a whole lot of extra shows in the hope of getting the one you want to watch while you wait for the USians to work it out.
It’s kind of like all that Y2K stuff. It just gives me a headache. They are now down to about 4 months off of daylight savings. Just leave it alone, I think we can survive for four months without jerking the clock around. Most people have no idea why this do this.
I think you mean Daylight Saving Time ends at 2AM. We will be back on Standard Time.
Indeed; I’ll fix it. Thanks!
Why do they always change it at 2am? I find it such a pain to get up at 2am just to reset my clocks.
And then an hour later, it’s 2am again, and you have to do it all over.
😀
I see an endless loop here.
A more sinister version of he mobie, Groundhog Day
Ms Cher’s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Vm9v4J-3E
Likely not a popular opinion and I have no
knowledge of surveilled poll results, say,
to report here; but I ‘d like to have
“savings” time in the USA altogether go away
… … back to “regular” scientific, (whatever that means !) “time”. For always.
As far as I am concerned, I would like to
have clocks, calendars and all other alleged
“measurings” of “time” go all the way away
… … and I ? I ‘d be and go wholly and
utterly, then, off of the grid. For always.
Blue
Arizona eschews it. In Canada, Saskatchewan never bought in. There are pockets here & there. I personally hate losing the hour in the summer. Just leave the time alone. If I have to get up earlier, I will.
I have not worn a wristwatch … … inside
or if going out … … since, aaaah, since
I cannot remember when. Decades at least.
Blue
I don’t mean to be a stickler, but Daylight Savings ends tomorrow. We want to “save” an extra hour of daylight for the evening during the summer when most people are awake (as opposed to 4:00am).
It’s Daylight SAVING Time, not Savings like a bank account.
Thank you for your courteous correction.
When are we going to get rid of this aberration?
I believe one problem is that most people who want to do away with adjusting their clocks twice a year want to go with permanent daylight saving time rather that permanent standard time.
Does anyone else see the logical flaw with that idea?
We’ve had the same debate in the UK. Apparently, somebody did a study and found that, if we kept on BST (British Summer Time) all year round, there would be fewer road traffic accidents on account of it not being so dark in the evenings. Apparently, it doesn’t matter in the mornings because people diving are not so tired.
We can’t have it though because farmers don’t like it and it would still be dark at about 10am in Scotland.
There was a trial from 1968 to 1971 when Britain kept its clocks an hour ahead of GMT permanently. It was abandoned eventually after a free vote in Parliament. Opposition from farmers and from Scotland was cited during the debate. It seems that evidence about road traffic accidents wasn’t conclusive either way.
For those that are interested in the history, the Hansard record of the debate in Parliament about ending the British Standard Time experiment is available online:
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1970/dec/02/british-standard-time
It was actually a very interesting and non-party political debate.
And no, I don’t see a logical flaw. The amount of actual daylight doesn’t change depending on when you set the clocks, it’s really just a case of which end of the day you want to be light in the winter.
@ Diana MacPherson: Years ago, I was to take the train from Oporto, Portugal to Vigo, Spain, scheduled to leave at 14.00 hs. Ten minutes earlier, the only other person at the otherwise still empty station was the man behind the ticket-window. I was about to ask him if I was misinformed, when I looked at the clock in the waiting room: 12.50.
I then realized that Portugal had not followed the rest of West Europe’s time schedule. Luckily, the difference was in my favor; in the opposite case, I would have missed a good walk. Nothing special to see but: in no hurry at all!
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Mainland Portugal is in a different time zone to mainland Spain all the year round. Portugal uses WET and Spain uses CET.