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― adaml (adaml), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. O.k.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Goddamn, I'm in Indiana. Now the timezone I'm in relative to all my non-local friends shifts. That's just fucked.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, Indiana is like Arizona and Saskatchewan?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

unless your friends are in arizona or hawaii!

xpost haha

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

you don't know the extent to which IN is fucked up timezonewise, they have like three.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus, China only gets by with one, what's Indiana's problem?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

It's secretly three states.

All I care about is my part of Indiana, though: Central time until everyone changes their clocks tonight, Eastern after that. Yes, I know that's technically not how it works. All I care about is whether or not I'll wake my mother up when I call her.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

(Worst and strangest part of Indiana timezone weirdness: explaining the specifics of it to people who don't know is like a sport. In the last week, I've overheard over a dozen conversations ranging from "what?"/"seriously!" to pedantic bickering about the origins of Daylight Savings, and I haven't even been on campus much!)

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html

http://www.mccsc.edu/images/timemap2.gif

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

also, it's 'daylight saving' in case you want to get all pedantic on those undergrads.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 October 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a real problem with the clocks going back. It's the biggest downer of the whole year!

― dog latin, Sunday, 26 October 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

It gets me too, if only because I hate the night starting sooner and sooner each day -- at least things start turning around after the end of December, but still, *sigh*.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 October 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

daylight savings was weeks ago.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 26 October 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

we had it last night, 'cept we put our clocks fwd

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 26 October 2003 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

long sunny days are soooooo good.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 26 October 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

it's kinda fucked in Seattle because it's already dark at 7am until now... with standard time, now it will be brighter at 7am, and then in November it will be dark at 7am again. It's like this is an exercise to just force me to see how much daylight i'm losing... arrrg.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 26 October 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

but hey, it's an hour extra of sleep.. PARTY HARD tonight i guess.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 26 October 2003 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

what other countries other than America do it?

― A Nairn (moretap), Sunday, 26 October 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Us brits do it - and tres annoying it is too. Farmings knackered in this country anyway - they won't mind if we get rid of daylight saving. It doesn't even save any daylight, for gods sake!

― Johnney B, Sunday, 26 October 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin3.html

Because of this, I believe that Ned Raggett is the living, breathing reincarnation of Ben Franklin.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 26 October 2003 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

man it's only 1:30 and i'm home and too drunk to take advantage of the xtra hour. (i started to type too crunk. heh.)

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 26 October 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Crunk time = just point the hands on the clock wherever you're feeling it (lower the better)

― rob geary (rgeary), Sunday, 26 October 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Indiana's gotta fuckin' get it together!

― rob geary (rgeary), Sunday, 26 October 2003 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, i rather enjoy not having to mess with my many clocks. It's never affected me or my farming friends. Its all nonsense really.

― dju, Sunday, 26 October 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

It's one of my favourite days of the year! Hoorah!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 26 October 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Because of this, I believe that Ned Raggett is the living, breathing reincarnation of Ben Franklin.

I've heard odder.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

remembered to do the clock thing, even on my antique watch where the button to change the time doesn't work and so I have to take the back off (I think the button doesn't align properly with the casing). Yes, I know I should get a new watch but there is something appealing about 1982 retro cool and it'll be fun next year to tell any new starters in my office, frresh from uni, that my watch is older then they are!

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

haha txt from my friend PT on my mobile this morning when i got up (11.15 = 10.15 hurrah):

i had 2 tel sum1 - i got up 2 pic my friend up 4 usual swim at 7.40 this morn only 2 find clocks went bak. its 6.30 sitn in mcdon carpk x p

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

BUT YOU GET AN EXTRA HOUR IN BED! This factor is urgent and key - bugger sunlight and the weather, it'll happen anyway.

I forgot. In fact, I thought I was too late getting up to go and meet my friends to watch the Charlton/Arsenal game. The sudden extra hour was like a gift from heaven.

Goodbye British Summer Time.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

RoSPA are apparently calling for British Summer Time to be introduced all year round, but with the clocks still going forward for an hour in the summer, giving us "double summer time" which was introduced as an experiment in the 1960s, but abandoned. They think this will reduce road accidents. However, I think the Eurosceptics will prolly view this as an EU plot to standardise time across europe. Will the portly John Bull figures with their placards now proclaim "Save GMT" as well as "Save the Pound"?!

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish my signature looked like this:

http://media.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/i/ben-franklin-signature.gif

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 26 October 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Abusing Indianans (?) about their reluctance to do DST is fun. I met someone from Arizona last week and abused him about it too.

I arrived in the NW corner of Indiana (the red (2) area on the map Teeny posted) last fall just after the time change and had to ask the desk clerk at the hotel what time it was.

The scary part is that Microsoft Lookout Calendar has separate settings for Indiana and Arizona. I'm betting that last summer's Sobig proliferation was caused by someone driving from Gary to South Bend with their laptop running.

― Jeff Wright, Monday, 27 October 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate the start of southern hemisphere daylight savings. i prefer it when it ends

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 27 October 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread title should have totally had an apostrophe in 'CLOCKS'

― Aaron A., Monday, 27 October 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha it was an extra hour of drinking, awesome.

― Allyzay, Monday, 27 October 2003 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

They used to do it in Japan after the occupation, but after the Americans left they went back to their backward non-daylight-saving ways.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 27 October 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

That area in NW Indiana observes DST because Chicago does and it's basically still part of the suburbs.
Some reservations in AZ do observe DST, no?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 27 October 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

To celebrate, we went to the Prime Meridian yesterday. (OK, we were in Greenwich anyway scrounging for second hand books before we visited HSA's mum.) It's really quite disappointing - it's got these silly lights in it. There were too many annoying tourists around to have any fun with "I'm east! I'm west" type leaping shennanigans.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

*sigh* If we'd only seen this thread on Saturday... We went round a friend's house on Sunday at 9:30 for breakfast and the England/Samoa game. Except when we got there it was actually 8:30 and everyone was still in bed :(

― robster (robster), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

What followed was a 3 second shock/denial/anger/resignation process and a strong cup of coffee.

"Shit!"
"No!"
"Grrr!"
"Oh well."

― robster (robster), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

it was light when i got on the tube this morning! therefore for the first time ever i approve of the clocks going back. this will prob change c. 5pm today.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

b-but what time have you been leaving your house? wouldn't it be darker rather than lighter?

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Greenwich Meridian is the official rubbishest tourist attraction in London. It's just a LINE. A brass line in a dank plant-filled alley. And that's it.

Hey Kate, I was in that 2nd-hand bookshop yesterday. It's great. Well, for about ten minutes worth of fruitless browsing before heading to the pub opposite for the rest of the afternoon, ahem.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but it's a brass line with FLASHING RED LIGHTS!!! It's very silly. But I liked the 24-hour clock.

Your browsing in the bookshop was obviously fruitless because we'd already got there and got all the good books ahead of you, ha ha!

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Flashing red lights? Are you making this up? I haven't been past it for a while, but that does indeed sound like the rubbishest attempt to sex up the rubbishest tourist attraction in London.

They used to have a GIANT GREEN LASER that fired from the top of the Observatory right down the meridian line to the Dome every night. That was cool. Cooler than fairy lights, at any rate.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

climbing the hill to the Greenwich Meridian is always a good way of reminding myself how unfit I am.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The mist rising off the River Lea this morning, filtered by incredibly strong sunlight was an incredible sight. It made Walthamstow marshes look like the Argentine pampas. Without the gauchos, natch.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure if the lights flash, but there are indeed red lights on it. Though green lazers sound a lot cooler. :-(

You're right, MarkH, that hill is a bitch. Though there was a strange patch of orange light about halfway up (we went right around sunset) that kept turning people the strangest colours.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

It's laSer, Kate, and your yankee spelling can't bastardise it.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

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EXTRA HOUR'S SLEEP WHOOOOO

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:10 (seventeen years ago)

EXTRA HOUR'S VIDEO GAMES

― I love a man in chloroform (salsa shark), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:12 (seventeen years ago)

WELL I ACTUALLY MEANT EXTRA HOUR'S WATCHING THREE-CUSHION BILLIARDS CLIPS ON YOUTUBE

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:13 (seventeen years ago)

wait is this for U.S. too i thought that was going to happen next week?

― horrible (harbl), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

argh it is, i really want an extra hour now though

― horrible (harbl), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

innit yr b-day soon, in which case happy b-day and sorry i was mean to you

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:15 (seventeen years ago)

no need to apologize, this is the internet

― horrible (harbl), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

ah man! cool then.

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 26 October 2008 01:41 (seventeen years ago)

what the hell i have to do something with a clock tomorrow???

― my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:18 (seventeen years ago)

wait this is good, right?? cuz I'm supposed to be in SURGERY tomorrow morning?!?!?!

― my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

Nov 2nd this year

― burt_stanton, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

for AMURRIKKKA

― burt_stanton, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

I have exactly no idea what time it is right now

― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:23 (seventeen years ago)

"way past your bedtime"

― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:24 (seventeen years ago)

that much I know

― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:28 (seventeen years ago)

When exactly do computers/cell phones do this automatically? At midnight?

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:30 (seventeen years ago)

The exact time change is at 2 a.m., so probably then.

― Joe the C.R.E.E.P. Operative (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:31 (seventeen years ago)

My computer did this automatically so I thought drinking whisky at 2am was cool, now I know it's 3 I need to speed up.

― what U cry 4 (jim), Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:33 (seventeen years ago)

But it's falling back. It'd be 1am.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 26 October 2008 02:35 (seventeen years ago)

In USA we don't change until after Halloween, as of last year when a new USA law took effect which postponed Standard Time to early November in an effort to save on energy.

― Aimless, Sunday, 26 October 2008 04:08 (seventeen years ago)

to save on energy = 1000 BestBuy's running their A/C at full blast from 10-8 instead of 10-7

― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 26 October 2008 04:35 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah. The actual energy savings are calculated to be pretty meager in terms of percentage.

― Aimless, Sunday, 26 October 2008 04:48 (seventeen years ago)

It's testament to my extreme laziness that the clock on my boiler timer is now correct again.

― krakow, Sunday, 26 October 2008 08:12 (seventeen years ago)

this shit only wreaks havoc on my two year old's bedtime and waking habits and causes misery for a week.

― akm, Sunday, 26 October 2008 14:55 (seventeen years ago)

(xpost) Just tell everyone your boiler is set to Zulu Time.

― snoball, Sunday, 26 October 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

EXTRA HOUR'S SLEEP WHOOOOO
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:10 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

EXTRA HOUR'S VIDEO GAMES
― I love a man in chloroform (salsa shark), Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:12 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

WELL I ACTUALLY MEANT EXTRA HOUR'S WATCHING THREE-CUSHION BILLIARDS CLIPS ON YOUTUBE
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:13 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

Extra hour's ironing.
lol parent.

― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 26 October 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

Rats! This thread being revived tricked me. Goddam USA buncha humbo jumbo

― ╓abies, Sunday, 26 October 2008 15:45 (seventeen years ago)

i told a bunch of ppl at a party last night to set their clocks :-/

i hope they didn't listen to me

― my other son is a zamboni (gbx), Sunday, 26 October 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

guys, I set my clock back last night... do I have to do it again tonight?

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 26 October 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

yes.

― Mark G, Sunday, 26 October 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

wait, what? The interwebs sez no rollback of daylight savings time until nov 2nd.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 26 October 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

This was in the UK.

― snoball, Sunday, 26 October 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

apparently my phone is on uk time because it set itself back last night and i got super excited. then i had to sadly put it forward again :(

― highly theoretical, of course. (tehresa), Sunday, 26 October 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

Okay wait a minute. The fucking UK-ers get to do this a week before we do??? NOT FAIR!!!

― Get Your Goth On (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 27 October 2008 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

That's because we like it dark - sunset at 4:45PM this ~~evening~~ afternoon...

― snoball, Monday, 27 October 2008 09:31 (seventeen years ago)

i wasted my bonus hour on sleep!

― horrible (harbl), Sunday, 2 November 2008 15:20 (seventeen years ago)

Tsk.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 November 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

We went into daylight savings almost a month ago already ;P

― Trayce, Sunday, 2 November 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

HAHAAH Trayce and her daylight savings bragging. Good god. We United States-ers really missed out this year. We were late to the daylight savings time party. I was worried I was gonna miss this but I suddenly noticed my computer time was different than the time of the digital clock on the oven (jesus I almost typed "cock on the oven").

― The Ungrateful Dead (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 2 November 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

If we didnt have daylight savings in summer here, the sun would come up at like, 5am in summer... fuck dat for a lark :(

― Trayce, Sunday, 2 November 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

We do have daylight saving here, and the sun STILL comes up at 5 in the summer. Daybreak, anyway. Full light by 6-ish. If not for DST, light would b4eak at about 4-4:30. It's weird enough as it is.

― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Monday, 3 November 2008 00:02 (seventeen years ago)

Fuck daylight savings. its some kind of communist plot to make us share our hard earned darkness.

― grab the rabbit and punch it (sunny successor), Monday, 3 November 2008 00:14 (seventeen years ago)

WTF was daylight savings at noon today or something? The clock in my room is an hour ahead of my phone.

― BODY PROP (nickalicious), Monday, 3 November 2008 00:28 (seventeen years ago)

I was waiting for my atomic clock to do something at two last night since that's officially when the change happens. I was surprised when it kept on truckin' to 2:01 and then realized that oh yeah, Fort Collins is an hour behind my time zone and my clock would have to wait until 3 AM, by which time, I was fast asleep.

― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 November 2008 04:36 (seventeen years ago)

i dont want to blow your mind or anything but 3AM was 2AM

― don't bite your friends (sunny successor), Monday, 3 November 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)

same shit every year - notice it's dark outside, look at clock - "4.43 WTF?!"

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2008 16:44 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Just got really confused by ilx threads being updated -25 seconds ago. I'm in the future, guys.

― emil.y, Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:21 (five years ago)

wait, so is this shit happening tonight?!?

― 빨간 럼 ఎరుపు రమ్ רום אדום (Eisbaer 👼), Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:33 (five years ago)

oh wait, another week till this happens.

― 빨간 럼 ఎరుపు రమ్ רום אדום (Eisbaer 👼), Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:34 (five years ago)

It's tonight in the UK.

― emil.y, Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:50 (five years ago)

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