Get ready to lose an hour's sleep this weekend in exchange for more daylight in the evenings. Daylight Savings Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday. So remember to set all your clocks ahead one hour.


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Much as I like having the sun still out when I leave work in the evening, I hate losing an hour of sleep. Boooooooooooo!! :mad: :lol:

Much as I like having the sun still out when I leave work in the evening, I hate losing an hour of sleep. Boooooooooooo!! :mad: :lol:
:yeahthat

I guess I'll have to go to bed an hour earlier tonight. :lol:

I'm probably the only one here who thinks this, but it doesn't really bother me to lose an hour. Maybe because I don't have to be up early tomorrow to go to work!

Meh, it's the weekend and I'm on break so I can sleep anyway. I'm just excited for it to stay light out longer!

I'm probably the only one here who thinks this, but it doesn't really bother me to lose an hour. Maybe because I don't have to be up early tomorrow to go to work!
Or church!!

I guess I'll have to go to bed an hour earlier tonight. :lol:
Same here Sonny. Like 4am instead of 5am for me. :happyface

I guess I'll get busy doing all the resetting now. I've got about six watches, two alarm clocks, microwave, stove clock, grandfather clock, two wall clocks, the timestamp on my phone answering machine. He can do the car clock. I guess that's twelve altogether. I'm glad the computer, and cable boxes set automatically.

I guess I'll get busy doing all the resetting now. I've got about six watches, two alarm clocks, microwave, stove clock, grandfather clock, two wall clocks, the timestamp on my phone answering machine. He can do the car clock. I guess that's twelve altogether. I'm glad the computer, and cable boxes set automatically.

I already got my clock radio & oven set forward. All I have to do is my 2 wall clocks. I'll change my car clock next time I drive.

Yeah and I'm already tried.

Guess I'm already losing an hour has gotten me tired.. LOL

I'm actually glad we're going back to the normal time period. DST throws me off in the winter and I end up staying up way too late. During the Spring and Summer months I tend to sleep early and wake up early. I'd rather be up at 5am than be awake until 2am and get little sleep.

Crap, that's in the morning? Wow. I thought it was going to be next Sunday. Dang! Thanks for the reminder. :) I only really have to reset my watch, the microwave, and the wall clock. Everything else will reset themselves. Woo!

I'm actually glad we're going back to the normal time period. DST throws me off in the winter and I end up staying up way too late. During the Spring and Summer months I tend to sleep early and wake up early. I'd rather be up at 5am than be awake until 2am and get little sleep.
To each his own!! :D

I'm actually glad we're going back to the normal time period. DST throws me off in the winter and I end up staying up way too late. During the Spring and Summer months I tend to sleep early and wake up early. I'd rather be up at 5am than be awake until 2am and get little sleep.


Huh? We're actually going into Daylight Savings Time. We've been on Standard Time during these winter months. You have it backwards I think. ;)

I liked that it was still dark when I got home from work (overnights; typically finish shifts at 6am). Now it's going to be sunny as **** when I get off work... ugh. Time to break out the sunglasses. LOL!

I liked that it was still dark when I got home from work (overnights; typically finish shifts at 6am). Now it's going to be sunny as **** when I get off work... ugh. Time to break out the sunglasses. LOL!
Yup, I now have to wear my shades on the drive to AND from work. :cool:

I've already lost 4 hours going from HST to CST, so what's one more hour? :faint:

what year did they move Diylight saying Times to March

I've already lost 4 hours going from HST to CST, so what's one more hour? :faint:

I don't mean to sound like an idiot but what is HST?

I set my bedroom clock forward at 11:24 PM

I don't mean to sound like an idiot but what is HST?
Don't feel like an idiot, I don't know what it means either. :lol:

My Clock's Change on there own

Don't feel like an idiot, I don't know what it means either. :lol:

I was thinking Hawaiian Standard Time!!:D

But I think Hawaii would be Pacific Standard Time.

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I don't think Hawaiian does Dayligh Saving Times

I don't think Hawaiian does Dayligh Saving Times

Really? I did not know that. I don't think Arizona & Indiana do Daylight Savings, either.

Everyone in Canada does daylight savings time except Saskatchewan. By the way HST is Hawaii Standard Time. The Pacific time zone covers California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia(yeah!!!!) and The Yukon. Hawaii is definitely not in the Pacific time zone.

^ and for some weird reason, Newfoundland is always an extra half hour ahead of everyone else...???? ONLY in Newfoundland! ;)

I think it's pointless to change times twice a year. Just PICK ONE and stick with it. Many countries in the world are on Standard Time year round. I would prefer DST because of the later sunsets but I know it presents problems with the sunrise being so late in the morning during the winter months if you didn't switch back.

Yeah, HST is Hawaiian Standard time. :) They're 4 hours behind CST right now, but in 19 mins, they'll be 5 hours. They don't change.

The flight back east is a killer when it's an overnight flight and you don't sleep.

^ and for some weird reason, Newfoundland is always an extra half hour ahead of everyone else...???? ONLY in Newfoundland! ;)

Places where the time is "off"...for whatever reason. Taken at :45 after the hour.


Adelaide (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=5) *Sun 6:15 PM
Caracas (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=58) Sun 3:15 AM
Chatham Island (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=63) *Sun 9:30 PM
Darwin (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=72) Sun 5:15 PM
Mumbai (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=44) Sun 1:15 PM
Kolkata (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=54) Sun 1:15 PM
Kathmandu (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=117) Sun 1:30 PM
Kabul (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=113) Sun 12:15 PM
New Delhi (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=176) Sun 1:15 PM
St. John's (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=175) *Sun 5:15 AM
Tehran (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=246) Sun 11:15 AM
Yangon (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=208) Sun 2:15 PM

I was thinking Hawaiian Standard Time!!:D

But I think Hawaii would be Pacific Standard Time.
Nope, Hawaii has its own time zone (-2 from Pacific). Ditto with Alaska (-1 from Pacific).

Soooooo right now in Alaska, it is 11pm. Hawaii is 10pm.

The More You Know! *insert wooshing star here*

what year did they move Diylight saying Times to March
March 2007. :)


Oh, and maybe this map of which place observes DST will help ya guys...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png

BLUE - DST used
ORANGE - DST no longer used
RED - DST never used

Interesting to see that most of Africa has never used DST!

What sleep anyway......another migraine....another totally sleepless night. Forget clocks - I live in my own little Las Vegas here.....

March 2007. :)


Oh, and maybe this map of which place observes DST will help ya guys...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png

BLUE - DST used
ORANGE - DST no longer used
RED - DST never used

Interesting to see that most of Africa has never used DST!

Yeah it is. Most countries that never use DST are near the Equator where the sunrise/sunset don't vary nearly as much and therefore there's no point in changing.

There really isn't a point in us changing, but I give up.

March 2007. :)


Oh, and maybe this map of which place observes DST will help ya guys...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png

BLUE - DST used
ORANGE - DST no longer used
RED - DST never used

Interesting to see that most of Africa has never used DST!
Odd...a tiny piece of Quebec (that is Quebec, right?) and a tiny piece of Arizona, both surrounded by blue, don't do dst anymore.

Saskatchewan is the one that mostly doesn't observe DST now. One over, that's Manitoba. Two over (with the orange in the middle), that's Ontario. Then after THAT (with the orange way on the right), would be Quebec. :)

(not sure which province you were referring to, since two of them both had orange dots)

Saskatchewan is the one that mostly doesn't observe DST now. One over, that's Manitoba. Two over (with the orange in the middle), that's Ontario. Then after THAT (with the orange way on the right), would be Quebec. :)

(not sure which province you were referring to, since two of them both had orange dots)
I was looking at Ontario and calling it Quebec. Oops. lol

Used to drive me nuts when I was doing inside sales because I had the Bay Northern Store accounts and you had to check to see who "participated" and who didn't.

I'm glad we have it and I'm glad it was extended. Best thing Bush ever did. ;) I hate going in to work in the dark and leaving in the dark. I also have more problems driving the dark so the more light I'm awake for the better. The evenings feel longer too.

I was looking at Ontario and calling it Quebec. Oops. lol



How DARE you! :lol: ANY other province wouldn't have been so bad! ;)

I'm surprised there's small parts in both provinces actually. There's that tiny dot in northern ontario....

You know what bugs me about time? Time zone lines, specifically.

3/4 of North Dakota is in the Central zone. The SW part of ND is in Mountain, and I just happen to live about 45 minutes from it. The rest of the states in the same column as ND (SD, NE, KS, OK and TX) are alllllll in the Central zone. I don't get why all of ND isn't in Central. It makes more sense to run the lines by state boundaries. :crazy:

You know what bugs me about time? Time zone lines, specifically.

3/4 of North Dakota is in the Central zone. The SW part of ND is in Mountain, and I just happen to live about 45 minutes from it. The rest of the states in the same column as ND (SD, NE, KS, OK and TX) are alllllll in the Central zone. I don't get why all of ND isn't in Central. It makes more sense to run the lines by state boundaries. :crazy:

I know!! I've been in those states driving west on the interstate and I never understood why the time zones are in the state rather than the state line. Same goes for Fla. In the panhandle, it goes from Eastern time to Central just west of Tallahassee. I mean I know the panhandle is long(it's about 350 miles from Jacksonville to Pensacola), but you'd think that Central time would start in Alabama.

I liked that it was still dark when I got home from work (overnights; typically finish shifts at 6am). Now it's going to be sunny as **** when I get off work... ugh. Time to break out the sunglasses. LOL!

Is it normally sunny in North Dakota at 5am? Technically, you're getting off at 5 even though the clock says 6. When I leave the house at 6:45 in the morning, it is going to be dark here because it is still dark at 5:45, and since the time jumped up, 6:45 is going to be 5:45.

I know!! I've been in those states driving west on the interstate and I never understood why the time zones are in the state rather than the state line. Same goes for Fla. In the panhandle, it goes from Eastern time to Central just west of Tallahassee. I mean I know the panhandle is long(it's about 350 miles from Jacksonville to Pensacola), but you'd think that Central time would start in Alabama.

I KNOW. I DON'T GET IT. Texas juts out farther west than lowly 'ole North Dakota, and it's still in Central farther west than ND. Oops, I was wrong... HALF of South Dakota is in Mountain. Geez... Glad I don't live there. And there's that tiny part of Kansas that's in Mountain. Huh? But all of Oklahoma IS in Central. And only a little bit of the western part of TX is in Mountain, so that's good. I've been asked before if I lived in the Mountain or Central zone. :crazy:

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The Central/Eastern line isn't as stupid as Mountain/Central, but wow. The panhandle thing doesn't make sense to me either! "Oh hey, I'm in the tiny part of Florida that's in Central..." I thought ALL of Florida was in Eastern!

Is it normally sunny in North Dakota at 5am? Technically, you're getting off at 5 even though the clock says 6. When I leave the house at 6:45 in the morning, it is going to be dark here because it is still dark at 5:45, and since the time jumped up, 6:45 is going to be 5:45.

Hmm, you know... I'm not sure. LOL! I went to bed around 6 this morning, but I was in my room and I have dark dark dark towels covering my window in there, so I didn't see if it was sunny then.

It won't be so bad *NOW* but it will be in the summer, when I'm getting off work. Now that will hurt walking out from work in the morning. :lol: Okay, I see the sun will start coming up around 8... Good enough for me. :)

Hmm, you know... I'm not sure. LOL! I went to bed around 6 this morning, but I was in my room and I have dark dark dark towels covering my window in there, so I didn't see if it was sunny then.

It won't be so bad *NOW* but it will be in the summer, when I'm getting off work. Now that will hurt walking out from work in the morning. Okay, I see the sun will start coming up around 8... Good enough for me.

I think it depends on different regions too. These time zones sure can be confusing! Thanks for posting that map. I'm very close to the Central time zone. In the summer, it is probably going to be sunny out by the time you get off work. I prefer a later sunrise myself. I love cloudy, rainy days so a later sunrise sounds good to me. I also do love the sunshine though. There's just something theraputic about a sunny day.

For about 3 years I lived in a town on the AL/GA line that was on Eastern time because it was a tri-city area with one of the cities being in GA. Otherwise the rest of the state is on Central. I live only 10 miles from the Georgia line and Eastern time here, so it can be confusing at times since half my TV stations come out of Atlanta(and the other half Birmingham or Montgomery and Central Time), but I've gotten used to it over the years.

Here in the UK we don't set the clocks forward until the end of the month.

My grandmother told me that the reason they started Daylight Savings Time to begin with was for farmers, so that they could work out in the fields longer during the warmer months.

Don't know if that's true though or not LOL

I like it cause it means it doesn't get dark as soon

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WTF is up with Indiana...make the whole thing in one or the other!