For those who are subject to Daylight Savings Time, don't forget to turn your clocks ahead 1 hour at 2:00 am Sunday morning.

Is this a late April fools joke???? :)

Attached Link: http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

You spring ahead 1 hour the first Sunday in April, and fall back 1 hour the last Sunday of October. Unless my computer clock is wrong, today is the first Sunday of April :)

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Here in Spain was past weekend. I'm not sure but I suppose the same for all Europe

was a couple of days ago in sweden actually...nevermind that, I'm senile and obviously losing days.. was last weekend here too

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yes it was last weekend here in Denmark as well. Hmm I seriously thought it was the same all over. Now I'm confused. Must be hell to make international plane/train schedules if not all countries switch at once. But welcome to the summer time then :o)

I'm in Canada and out time change happens today. One Province doesn't change time, and another Province is wanting to start theirs one month earlier and end one month later. Try and keep that one straight, LOL I do know that Europe changes a week ahead of the rest of the world though.

Until quite recently, the US situation was even more confused. Half of Indiana, part of Kansas, all of Arizona, and several other isolated counties and pieces skipped daylight time. As of this year, I think only Arizona still refuses. It's sort of ironic that DST is finally becoming standardized and universal now, because there's less reason for it now. In the days when most people worked the same shift, and when non-air-conditioned houses were intolerable in summer, it made more sense to give people extra outside time after work.

In UK we put our clocks forward last weekend. Get really fed up with all the palaver. Next year there's a discussion in the House of Lords (may go on the statute books) to put the clocks forward 1 hour as usual next spring, then another hour to bring us in line with Europe - that will be for good - or till the next Gvt gets in and changes it again, lol. From a personal point of view I'd like us to be on CET (Central European Time) as it's a pain having to alter watches when we travel to our son's in Austria.

I think the whole purpose was for 9-5ers to not be going and coming from work in the darkness - so, yes, I agree with you ockham (any relation to the razor?). ;) Considering that time is relative (just ask ole' Albert), I don't get why we need such inconveniences. To cause a discussion to ensue, I remember reading where the idea of changing the number of days in a week was considered since the periodic repetition is too quick for most people and that something like 7 days of work with 3 off had favorable consequences. The idea was to make a 'week' last 10 or 14 days instead of the 7 instituted in Rome a couple thousand years ago (although this up for dispute - i.e.: discussion!) ;) Something else to consider is the disparity of daylight time between the equatorial and polar regions - where it would seem that such inconveniences are nonsensical. I've always advocated a universal time (which does exist and is used by scientists and astonomers - you'll see times listed with UT). Of course, even that would become problematic with the advent of interstellar travel...

I hadn't heard about the Lords discussion till now. I can understand the debate regarding the usefulness of BST/DST in today's society... but I'm not so sure about converting the UK to CET. It's not that I'm anti Euro, or anything like that. But the time zones are based on latitude and the position of the sun (noon being th epoint where it's at it's zenith), so pushing us forward an hour just to 'fit in' seems odd to me. jonthecelt

I just realized this. Time for bed!!

What is daylight savings time?

Attached Link: http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html

Thank the PTB that our computers automatically adjust for this. :)

As a Brit, I think you should all follow us and use the Greenwich Meridian as your standard. ;)

"As a Brit, I think you should all follow us and use the Greenwich Meridian as your standard. ;)"

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/home.htm

Heh, everyone does. All time zones are known as GMT+ or GMT- as well as their local names. And the aforementioned Universal Time (known as Zulu in the military) is Greenwich Mean Time. A US Navy ship visiting Australia will have its clocks set at GMT.

"But the time zones are based on latitude..."

They're based on longitude.

""But the time zones are based on latitude..." They're based on longitude. " Yeah... that's what I said :sheepish: jonthecelt

The time went forward an hour last week in Ireland! :)

To make things even worse, we Americans will have to relearn everything next year when the new law takes effect to increase the amount of time we are on Daylight Savings Time.

Growing up in Kentucky, we made our own Daylight Savings Time before it existed by switching from Eastern Standard Time to Central Standard Time during the Spring/Summer.

All I know is that there will be more auto accidents tomorrow than on a normal Monday commute because there always are following the time changes. Spring is doubly bad because you have adjustment time, sleep deprivation and shortened weekend. Why can't the time change on Monday morning so that day is shorter???? Edited for grammar.

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Actually the Daylight Savings Time was originally made (at least here) to save energy. Not to be "nice" to working people, but to minimize the amount of time where they had to use electric lights. First time Denmark had Daylight Savings Time was during World War 2 (and possibly World War One, I'm not too sure about that) Then it was cancelled again until 1985 - there was a Royal Decree no. 636 from 9.November 1984 which officially reinstated it from the year 1985 :o) Of course things like that gets more useful the further you get north (or south for those on the southern hemisphere) as days get longer in summer and making people get up an hour earlier when it's light anyway. Since 1984, the dates has been moved several times. Back when it started, DST ended around my birthday in September, now it's not until October. But the start has been more or less fixed to the last weekend in March :o)

Im in Arizona and we dont change time...thank gawd........LOL use to take me 6 months to get use to the time change..by then...was time to change it back!!!!! ~Nancy~

AHRRRRRG! where was this massage this morning when I was an hour late for work? Where???? Well it's all good. I got a free hour because the manager forgot to change the clock on the computer before I showed up :P Stupid DLS if you can't roll over and go back to sleep on your own then get up and do something with yourself... or just close the blinds before you go to sleep ;)

In the UK we went forward last weekend. I love the extra hour in the Winter but find it difficult to adjust to losing the hour in the Spring. I love the lighter evenings though! :0)

I wish they would pick one and just leave it. If it's all about conserving energy, then why not leave the time advanced 1 hour all year long. This switching back and forth has never made any sense to me.

Well, looking at the name - daylight savings time - also suggests another reaosn for it. In the summer, with the longer days, having an 'extra' hour allows people who work in the outdoors, or in areas which rely on natural light, a little more time to work: it's light enough in the mornings anyway, and 7pm is a lot brighter at DST than it is regular time. This is pointless in winter, however, when the sun sets around 4pm standard time anyway, and people would be coming into work before the sun rose... jonthecelt

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" ...Ford Prefect and that makes DST triply so an illsion. Isn't it like an imaginary flux capacitor? I was working on a Flash project at 2am on Saturday and all of a sudden my clock "skipped over that hour to instantaneously arrived at that moment in time"

All I know is Daylight Savings Time messes up my Cats, my dogs and my kids! Everyone wants to get fed at the wrong times!

OMG.. I hadn't thought of that. So THAT is why my cats are craving food on the wrong time.. Honestly I hadn't even though about that, but of course, their bellies are not settled into DST yet LOL!