Reminder America

[Titanicbuff 1,262]

Hey- I know some people have a hard time remembering- so I thought I'd hep with that- Here in the USA (not sure of the rest of the world) We have daylights savings time. Don't forget to turn your clocks FORWARD 1 hour before bed tonight- This means 1 hour of less sleep but more light during the day to do stuff. Of course a few states and ever half states don't observe daylights savings, but if you do, you have now been reminded. Sorry about the size of the font- I have bad eyesite.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Rats. I hate that. Here we go getting up in the dark again. Grrrr.

If you can't see the small type, hit CTRL++ a few times until it is big enough for you. It is a feature of many browsers.

[Alejandro24 575]

Are you afraid of forward your clock 1 hour? That's nothing, the time zone that should be used in my city it must be the Mountain Time Zone -7 GMT, but our actual time zone is Central Time, -6 GMT. This is because as we are the second largest city in Mexico, we should share the same time zone as Mexico City. Absurd, not?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

The whole thing is silly. It was devised for agrarian societies that don't have power to light fields at night. I'd like it to go away.

[Jazzmaster 716]

I like what my friend has to say about daylight savings time:

"The idea that removing the top half of a blanket and sewing it to the bottom will yield a better blanket".

I laugh every time I read the metaphor.

[s.i.X 13]

It allows us to wait longer in the evening before turning lights on. This of course is balanced by the fact that we once again are required to turn lights on in the morning.

In the summer in my region it is sunny from 6am to 10pm, so there is no need for artificial indoor lights at all between late May and mid July, unless you stay up all night.

[Easy Bakes 253]

DLST has no use now and had no use when it started.

The farmers were already getting up before sunrise and ending work after sunset,

they didnt care if it was 5am or 6 am.

[Duke87 1,070]

DST is most useful in middle latitudes, where you take an hour of sunlight in the early morning when most people are still asleep and move it to the evening when most people are awake. Too close to the equator, and the hours of sunlight per day don't vary enough for it to be meaningful. Too far from it, and they vary too much for it to be meaningful.

In New York City in the summer, with DST, the sun rises at 5:30 AM and sets at 8:30 PM. Without DST, it would rise at 4:30 AM and set at 7:30 PM. Now, this may be the city that doesn't sleep, but really, how many people are awake before 5:30 in the morning? I normally get up at 7:30... an extra hour of daylight early in the morning would be utterly meaningless to me but I enjoy having it in the evening.

[Alejandro24 575]

Middle Latitudes? Like the tropics. Actually mostly part of the tropical contries doesn't apply the DST.

Sonora doesn't use the DST because it is inconvenient in the use of the energy because the high temperatures of the desert. In another side, the municipalities in the border with United States (exception the State of Sonora) anticipate the DST synchronizing it with the hour in United States, while the rest of the country the DST starts in april first.

More about the hour at this side of the world.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Actually, the tropics are between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. Days are longer and more even there while the sun never sets in Arctic summers. Therefore Middle latitudes are most benefitted.

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Here's a good video explaining how DST works and how odd it actually is:

[Cobraroll 138]

Hey, DLST is really helpful here up north. When you live in a place which only has daylight one quarter of the day during winter, and even then the sky is hardly clear, you want to get the most out of the light. It's a waste if the sun rises and is up several hours before we get up in the morning, then goes down early in the evening. Corrected back during the other half of the year.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Sorry, I meant the uppermost inhabitated lattitudes.

Daylight savings time is of no use to me because I like staying up past midnight on my computer and sleeping in with the shades down when I have no morning classes or shifts. I also live in a part of the country where the morning is most likely to be raining and miserable and the evenings to be clear (sunsets are beautiful, pretty sunrises are so rare that Mom would wake Rissy and I up to see them).

I don't consider myself agoraphobic but I stay indoors most of fall through spring quarters with me always prefering the most comfortable spot so I don't need to worry about regulating body heat when reading or playing.

[airman15 4,111]

Daylight savings can go one of two ways for me:

1- I will have to go through the process of asking people if we gained or lost an hour and then try to remember how to set the time only to find out later the time was off

2- I can choose to ignore going through that cycle and just remind myself that my clock is an hour fast (the clocks in the family vehicles are always 10-20 minutes fast)

More often than not, I choose to go the 2nd route to save going through all that trouble.

  Edited March 16, 2012 by usfighter15  

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I guess you don't know the mnemonic: Spring forward, Fall back.

[airman15 4,111]

Never thought of it that way, you just made setting my clocks easier.

[Cobraroll 138]

Always set the clocks towards summer. Easy as.

[Merlin of Flyote 8]

Never thought of it that way, you just made setting my clocks easier.

In Britain we can buy clocks that set themselves for about £10.