did daylight savings/non-daylight savings thing just happen?

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my computer says it's 4:00

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

never mind, cnn.com hooked me up

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

And?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, okay.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

it's ON.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man. I was playing a game of Literati and suddenly thought I'd been on the same board for almost two hours. I'm not crazy, hooray.

― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

I wouldn't have known until now if my friend Ben hadn't mentioned it at the bar a few hours ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

it's good that we all have a place we can gather and share our experiences.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I stopped at a friend's studio on the way back from the bar and thought I must've lost track of time. If I didn't check ILX I would've missed my gig tomorrow morning.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

ilx: the gig-saver!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)

the reason this sneaks by confusingly = we don't mark it with a giant pagan bonfire to welcome the return of the sun, or similar appropriate social activity

i bet stone-age man never missed the eastenders omnibus just bcz he hadn't phoned anyone all day

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

Why doesn't my new cell phone know that we've sprung forward? None of my other phones required me to manually adjust for DST.

― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

My work shift starts at 4:00 so that meant I had to get up at feels-like-3:00 :-( I'm owlish and knackered.

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Sunday, 2 April 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

xpost actually, ilx has cost me a gig! (I was engrossed in it when I was supposed to be generating leads via telephone for Monsanto genetically modified corn seed)...but that lead to me finding a job I actually like, so...thanks ilx!

Thanks god for spring forward. I really did not need that extra hour to get more drunk than I already was last night.

― emilys. (emilys.), Monday, 3 April 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, God.

― emilys. (emilys.), Monday, 3 April 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha just yesterday i was like "geeta, it's not 2:15, it's actually ONE fifteen!!" and she was like "wha" and i'm like "yeah! the time changed today!" and she's like "wouldn't it be—" and i'm like "geeta just remember: SPRING forward, fall BACK.fall BACK, see?" and geeta looks at me and says "tracer, it's april"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 3 April 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 April 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Reset your clocks this weekend...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, Ned. I would have forgotten, as I'm in an especially fine daze of my own oblivion today. Doesn't NPR always tell you ahead of time? I hadn't heard them mention it. They're trying to ruin me.

― molly d (mollyd), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

The UK as well? I'm so confused by it all.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yay, I get to lose an extra hour's sleep!

― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

i think it is, in the uk, on saturday night.

just from past experience. part of me thought i'd be rocking up at work on monday an hour early last week.

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not gonna lose any sleep over this.
ROFFLE?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

when i was younger, and actually left my apartment, this weekend usually meant an extra hour of drinking. now i am happy to know i will get an extra hour of sleep. i am becoming crotchety.

― molly d (mollyd), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yay, I get to lose an extra hour's sleep!

Serves you right, you selfish Scots git!

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Later! You get up later! It's excellent. As the Autumn SAD kicks in and I can't get out of bed before the sun is up anyway.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Hooray for the Scots!

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad this was the last morning I had to get up in the total pitch black for a bit. How do people survive in more northerly latitudes at this time year?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

especially their politicians and rock stars!

xpost

― benrique (Enrique), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

And their sci-fi series heroes!

― The sun sets on twelve tons of pickled onions. A dynasty is dying... (Dada), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I live really close to Eastern / Central timezone line (reside in Central), and this daylight savings time only means it's going to get dark at 4:30pm. Ugh.

― molly d (mollyd), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I like getting up in the dark. I feel like a farmer.

― lk (lawrence kansas), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad this was the last morning I had to get up in the total pitch black for a bit. How do people survive in more northerly latitudes at this time year?

Seattle people have evolved phosphoric retinas like the drooogs

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, it's already dark grabbing a bus at 7:30am now.

The standard time jump is jarring, because it's lighter at that same time for 2-3 weeks then back to dark again, then REALLY dark around Xmas until Jan.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Happy daylight saving for all the ozzers and kiwers. :D

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

wait what? When does this happen? No.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

this weekend.

Starting next year, the U.S. starts daylight saving in mid March and goes back to standard time in early November

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

"It's just the wasted years so close behind
Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call It's nothing at all"

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

when this weekend? Sunday night?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Saturday night/Sunday morning

― lk (lawrence kansas), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

At least I won't have to rush to the computer after I wake up Sunday morning to see if Chris Henry is playing.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

;_; that means football starts at NOON in my mind, not at 1pm. horrors.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

You guys should all move to Hawaii. We dont have to mess around with any of this nonsense.

Neither does Arizona.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

yes but most pizza hut coupons don't work in hawaii grady. not a good trade-off!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, and Arizona plain out sucks dude.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

haha.

The other this is, I have to call the mainland pretty much every day at work, and talk to friends and family several times each week. So we're stuck doing this "wait, are we five hours behind NY or six?" routine for a while.

My parents live in Arizona so we're always three hours different.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna tell this story again: In New York, on the phone with a nice woman in Hawaii. "Can you fax that to me right away?" "Sure, dear, I'll put it in right now, but there's a time difference, you know. You won't get the fax for six hours."

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

My parents also live in AZ, so sometimes they're like 2 hours behind, sometimes 3. It's irritating.

xpost LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO OMG WTF

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Try dealing with the Australian continent. They fall back when the U.S. springs forward and vice-versa. And sometimes, not even on the same weekend.

You shouldn't have to look at a calendar to figure out what time it is.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

I flew into Auckland April 1st this year even though I left SFO on March 31st, which means I had slept through about 4 hours of April 1st and that was it, except April 1st was much of the north went into daylight saving, however Auckland had not adopted standard time yet as it was due a week later. And Oz was delayed due to Commonwealth Games issues.

So, basically the upshot is, despite that most of the year, East Oz and NZ are either 19/21 hours ahead (our fall/winter) or 17/19 hours ahead (our spring/summer/early fall), my cell phone was stuck *18* hours behind both Oz and NZ, because I flew over the Pacific during the big time change, and my cell phone doesn't get reception down under.. it was just a clock to me there. So I had to always subtrack 6 hours from Pacific Time (plus a day, but that part doesn't matter, there's no such thing as 24 hour jetlag, as long as you know what the IDL does.)

ugh, sorry, that was pointless.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

the trick is to swap sim cards

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

That should suprise me, but it doesn't.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

and id like to say FUCK YOU to whoever decided to extend daylight savings. between this and global warming peeps be tryin to kill winter altogether.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

how is extended daylight saving negatively affecting the environment?

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

more sunlight = less winter good vibes

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

ie: it doesnt FEEL like winter until the sun sets at 4pm

ps: dont even try to get into an environmental debate with me because you know im gonna lose.

― sunny successor (katharine), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

More sunlight = less black in my soul. Which you can laugh at or whatever. But I can't even begin to describe it to you when it is at its worst.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

sunny, can you ask to arrive at and leave work an hour later then?

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

My kids will still get up at the same time. This morning it was 5:43 a.m. So does that mean I'll be getting up at 6:40ish on Sunday or at 4:40is? I'm confused.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

sunlight on a crisp day like today is indeed a wondrous thing. but in tx the sun often = crushing your will to live.

fall back Maria.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

oh dear god

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

PBS Kids doesn't start until 6 a.m.!

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

yeah, fall = not sweating like swine.

Winter in the northeast means dark at 4:30, during the depths of it.

― patita (patita), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Have them play in the ocean. (Remind them not to drown.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

For me this oncoming winter means less time between leaving the office and dusk to go surfing.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

hilarious xpost.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

You party monster.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Bud, Let's Party!

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

Letter to the editor from a recent edition of the Arkansas Democrat*Gazette:

You may have noticed

that March of this year was particularly hot. As

a matter of fact, I understand that it was the

hottest March since the beginning of the last

century. All of the trees were fully leafed out

and legions of bugs and snakes were crawling

around during a time in Arkansas when, on a

normal year, we might see a snowflake or two.

This should come as no surprise to any reasonable

person. As you know, Daylight Saving Time started

almost a month early this year. You would think

that members of Congress would have considered

the warming effect that an extra hour of daylight

would have on our climate. Or did they? Perhaps

this is another plot by a liberal Congress to

make us believe that global warming is a real

threat. Perhaps next time there should be serious

studies performed before Congress passes laws with such far-reaching effects.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

... not sure how to react

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

― Ed, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't sure how to react either. Either that's the dumbest or the smartest letter to the editor I've ever read.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

It's like the time I heard an old man calling into a radio show, telling the host how you know how coal miners send canaries down into the mines, right? And the canaries were the first to take in noxious fumes so they'd die first, right?

So where are the canaries today?

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

DONT FERGIT

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 March 2009 22:33 (sixteen years ago)

this weekend? whoa early.

― He grew in Pussyville. Population: him. (call all destroyer), Friday, 6 March 2009 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah crazy early.

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

Isn't this like the earliest it can possibly be basically?

― Alex in SF, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:01 (sixteen years ago)

Ours is ending way late this year. I could swear it usually happens today (Labor Day weekend) but it isnt happening til April this year, wtf? And because of this, it's still fucking pitch dark at 7am at this point.

― one art, please (Trayce), Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:36 (sixteen years ago)

The clock-changing thing definitely applies inside the USA this weekend, at 2am on Sunday (the 8th). Jump yer clocks ahead an hour. It's so early this year because of a somewhat recent change in the law. Supposedly we will save a bit of energy this way.

I don't know about anywhere else in the world. You non-USA guys are on your own on this one.

― Aimless, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:53 (sixteen years ago)

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