New daylight savings - March 11. Any worries?

I hate springing forward because I lose an hour of sleep that weekend, but otherwise I do not foresee difficulties I wouldn't have run into a month later (i.e. change in kids' sleep schedules, which is a pain but does work itself out).

Daylight savings has been moved back from April to March, starting this year. xxpost.

Actually, my work sent out an email a few days ago advising that all of our meetings might appear an hour off in our calendars from the 11th. This just seems like a fantastic reason to miss meetings.

now i'm thinking too soon, too cold

Sweet Jesus, it's this weekend?

surprise!

Guy on the radio this morning was suggesting keeping daylight saving going thru the winter... and then adding an extra extra hour on in the summer! Double daylight saving! What is this fascination with shifting the hours of darkness back and forth. Also this is in the UK so that would mean no more GMT?!

and then adding an extra extra hour on in the summer! Double daylight saving!

What? It's not like cell phone minutes, you know. Daylight doesn't roll over.

Andy Rooney had an old old piece about the opposite. Instead of Daylight Saving, there should be Bright And Early Morning time i.e. go back ANOTHER hour instead jumping ahead one.

oh Andy Rooney.

i don't know which i hate more: losing an hour of sleep this weekend or andy rooney

i'll just be glad when i get back to the loop and it's not dark out.

waht? it's on March 30th over here :-/

oh you crazy belgians

yes, crazy... like a waffle

Double daylight dude was "yes it means extra dark extra long mornings but more daylight in the evening saves lives because people driving home are more dangerous than people driving to work and i have the figures to prove it".

Louisville's gonna hate this.

coping?

"yes it means extra dark extra long mornings but more daylight in the evening saves lives because people driving home are more dangerous than people driving to work and i have the figures to prove it".

Tell that the guy who got plowed over by a car a block away from me this morning.

But these are Seattle drivers, so time of day isn't really a factor.

surely extra daylight would save on energy guzzling light bulbs?

what about huge mirrors in space to reflect the sunlight onto the dark side?

What about the extra hour of maximum air-conditioning BestBuy has to crank out, what with those huge windows at the front of the store.

We use light bulbs on dark mornings, so turning them on later doesn't help.

I enjoyed not having to deal daylight savings time when I lived in Arizona. I live in the Bay Area now, and the weather is nice right now, so it's almost like early summer. Not sure if I'm ready for summer yet.

we're ready in cold NYC.

Daylight Savings wastes energy

can a mod change the date in the title? it scared the shit out of me for a second

waht? it's on March 30th over here :-/

-- StanM, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:41 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

The US extended its daylight saving last year:

In 2007, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States. DST started on the second Sunday of March (March 11, 2007), which is usually three weeks earlier than in the past, and it ended on the first Sunday of November (November 4, 2007), usually one week later than in years past (more details on the new DST start and end times can be found here). This resulted in a new DST period that was four weeks longer than in previous years; however, in some years, such as in 2008, the extension will be four weeks in the spring if there are five Sundays in March (with the 2008 DST beginning on March 9, rather than on April 6 under the previous law), thus, five weeks in total.[24]

As a result, they are now out of sync with the rest of the world for three weeks in March. E.g. NYC is currently four hours behind London, not five.

actually it's different in differnt countries innit

xpost

xpost, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y2K7

In Terre Haute, apparently they're going to jump ahead two hours…

http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/9579/beforethi.jpg http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/8295/afterthi.jpg

Ft. Walton Beach, Fla.
SUNRISE: 6:05 am
SUNSET: 7:40 pm

Williston, N.D.
SUNRISE: 6:31 am
SUNSET: 9:30 PM

Both in the same time zone. This time of the year is always so weird.

"Your brain has an internal clock. It helps keep time each day, making sure the right things are happening at the right moments inside our bodies, such as cardiac functions, metabolic processes, hormone fluctuations and sleep.

But for most of us, that internal clock runs slightly longer than 24 hours.

Luckily, the sun steps in to help us by sending signals to specialized receptors in our eyes."

BY AARON STECKELBERG AND LINDSEY BEVERTHE WASHINGTON POST

meanwhile ....
"Last March, the Senate passed a bill that would make daylight saving time a year-round standard and end the “fall back” and “spring forward” clock changes that make Americans even groggier and crabbier than we usually are."

BY TOM PURCELL, GUEST COLUMN

clocks wounded the world

without clocks we would not know what time is

why is this man so magenta!?!!

https://www.eunicetoday.com/columns/hey-congress-stop-fiddling-our-clocks

he's been looking at clocks too much

I cannot wait for Sunday morning. I can finally see my book when walking.

It seems odd when they worry about our eyes not getting proper photon bombardment - when everyone is bathed daily in the glow of screens and artificial lights

this autumn time change was a big bummer when I was still working in the office everyday - getting off work, walking on the streets, getting on a bus and it's already dark. Very disheartening

The last couple years at my kitchen table, it hasn't been so bad

Otm