Topic: Time Change Today

[Ken (OP)]

Today the time gets rolled back an hour and everything gets whacked for a day!   

At 2 a.m. Sunday, daylight saving (not savings) time comes to an end for most Americans. Good riddance. Turns out it’s a lot like Justin Bieber – way overrated.

People think that farmers like DST, but that’s a myth. Author Michael Downing points out his book “Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time” that farmers were the main group lobbying against the first peacetime imposition DST in 1966.

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It seems farmers don’t like the later sunrise created by DST and dairy cows adjust poorly to moooving the clock.

But DST helps conserve energy, right? No, that’s another myth, burst by a study by the California Energy Commission that found a reduction in energy use under DST of less than two-tenths of 1 percent.

And National Geographic reported that a 2008 National Bureau of Economic Research study of DST in Indiana “found that lighting demand dropped, but the warmer hour of extra daylight tacked onto each evening led to more air-conditioning use, which canceled out the gains from reduced lighting and then some.” As a result, electric bills increased slightly under DST.

The real beneficiaries of DST are the charcoal and grill industry, which lobbied successfully to tack a seventh month on to DST, and the candy companies, which pushed Congress to add an eighth month so they could sell more mini-Kit Kats in the days before Halloween.

[Skhilled]

Most of the clocks I have adjust themselves so it's not that big of a deal for me anymore.

[Mick]

Most of the clocks I have adjust themselves so it's not that big of a deal for me anymore.

Did ours on Sunday 29 October here in the UK.  Luckily only two clocks I have to change manually, one in our front room, and the one in my car.  It does amaze me that some of my work colleagues leave their car clocks a hour out for the whole year, just because they can't be arsed to learn how to change it. lol... 

[Skhilled]

Yeah, some people are like that...

[Ken (OP)]

Most of the clocks I have adjust themselves so it's not that big of a deal for me anymore.

Did ours on Sunday 29 October here in the UK.  Luckily only two clocks I have to change manually, one in our front room, and the one in my car.  It does amaze me that some of my work colleagues leave their car clocks a hour out for the whole year, just because they can't be arsed to learn how to change it. lol... 

Kay and I were out in her car yesterday and discovered that the clock in her car was saying that the year is 2012! Her car was not yet even manufactured then!!! 

[Lesmond]

I had forgotten to change my clock in the car after we change the clocks back