Mar 102019
We should get to Fall back twice per year! 😉
RESIST!!
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We should get to Fall back twice per year! 😉
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I did – but I overslept anyway.
I HATE Daylight Saving Time!
I did – and I don’t even feel jet lagged (I expect that will change.)
This is one of the very few things Nameless and I disagree on. I consider it well worth the effort, and am more inconvenienced by standard time.
Bet you’ve never worked on a farm. Farmers pretty universally HATE DST.
Having spent at least some of my summers working on the family farm and 1.5 years after one of my uncles developed lung cancer, I can see why.
Yeah, I do realize that, though I never worked on a farm. Standard time is just expensive for me because I can no longer see to drive at night, so in order to continue to see DH in prison I have to get a motel room, which is pricey even out there in the middle of nowhere. During DST I can go and return the same day. Of course, I have no control over it, and some states’ legislatures are addressing it now, so if it ends up changing to all standard all the time, I’ll have to adjust.
Looks like we each have our valid reasons. But yours will prevail.
(Just a preference on my part – and certainly not the worst thing that will happen to me … and if it is, I’ll be damn lucky!)
The room is so pricey, because the prison is there.
The nearest largest town is 20 miles away, and has some history so gets some tourists. Its prices are generally even worse. (There is a second motel in the town the prison is in which may be slightly cheaper, but it has a huge “American owned” sign with puts me off. When combined with the fact that the one I do stay at is owned by Asian Americans – sorry, I just won’t stay there. It probably wouldn’t make that big a difference anyway.)
I don’t feel cheated by the change in time, though I do prefer standard time. When we lived in Arizona, we didn’t have to spring forward, as they don’t have it there. Some Nations do, in AZ though.
I did. It has never really bothered me. Being, perhaps on purpose, done on a transit from Saturday night, into a Sunday morning, I get my usual compliment of sleep.
Yes without any problems here. This is the time I like, since it stays lighter later. We voted here in California that we wanted it to be permanent. Hope they do go that way.
I started “sproinging” Saturday afternoon, pretending I was eating a late lunch, having dinner around 5, then going to bed an hour early. I can definitely do without the blasted time changing! More and more people have been calling for DST to end once and for all. First responders know the detrimental effects all too well – increased heart attacks, more accidents during the first morning rush hour after we spring forward.
That’s how the pros suggest you do it. Some even suggest moving things up 10 minutes every day for the whole week. Of course I didn’t read that until today. Sigh.
I was totally sprung like an over wound clock!
When I awoke, I knew I was late for church so I did not go. But when I checked my computer, . . . well, I’m sure you can guess the rest. I would not have been just 15 minutes late for church, I would have been 1 hour and 15 minutes late! What a way to make an entrance . . . as everybody is leaving the church! Good thing I did not have any extra duties at church today.
I did. I love DST. I wish we had it all year long.
Queensland doesn’t have DST, as most of the state is in the (sub)tropics. That’s one annoyance less, but some other states do switch to DST, which means that neighbouring New South Wales will turn back the clock on April 7 to winter time, but my friends and family in The Netherlands will sproing on March 31, while you, my American friends, have just sproinged.
As global citizens who Skype a lot with people all over the world, these different DST beginnings and ends on top of the different time zones are driving hubby and me mad.
Thank you
Here in South Australia –
DST Ends 7th Apr 2019
DST Starts 6th Oct 2019
Thanks and hugs to all. Truth is, I forgot.