Daylight Savings Time

[Ree]

Because... we switched to standard time? So what was formerly 8 o'clock is now 7 o'clock.

OK...that makes sense.

I was sitting here, doing it in my head, and I was thinking, "Yeah....I'm waking at 7, and it used to be 8," but then I started second-guessing myself on it, because I thought I was wrong after HYHYBT posted.

[BroomJockey]

OK...that makes sense.

I was sitting here, doing it in my head, and I was thinking, "Yeah....I'm waking at 7, and it used to be 8," but then I started second-guessing myself on it, because I thought I was wrong after HYHYBT posted.

I think the one thing this thread's proven, beyond preferences for anything, is that above all else, DST is confusing.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Okay. I'm still confused.

Is standard time when it gets dark later or when it gets dark earlier? Like, we just switched a couple weeks ago to...is that standard or not standard?

Alls I know is we switched and now it's dark early.

Sorry to be so dense, I am having trouble with the "forward backward" concept. "set your clock back an hour" I more or less get. "lose an hour" I don't. Just tell me what we are in now.

[Boozy]

Standard time in the winter. DST in the summer.

That's all you have to remember, other than "FALL back, and SPRING forward", which is a mantra I still need to repeat to myself twice a year when adjusting my clocks.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Standard time in the winter. DST in the summer.

That's all you have to remember, other than "FALL back, and SPRING forward", which is a mantra I still need to repeat to myself twice a year when adjusting my clocks.

Same here. XD And of course, sod's law always seems to come into play when putting the clocks forward; I nearly always am working the following day, so lose a precious hour of sleep.

[HYHYBT]

Sometimes I wonder if it's the battery companies that got them* to switch from recommending changing a smoke alarm battery once a year to changing it whenever the time changes. They actually last quite a bit longer than a year, and the alarm tells you unignorably when it needs one anyway...

[Ree]

They actually last quite a bit longer than a year, and the alarm tells you unignorably when it needs one anyway...

Well, it's still a good idea to put in a fresh one with each time change. If there's still life in it, you can always reuse it in something that isn't quite so important.

I'd rather shell out for a fresh battery twice a year than find out my battery is dead when I really need it.