Getting your hour back

[Loony BoB]

In the UK at least, it's time to change clocks by putting them back an hour - I can only guess that some other nations share the same date as us for doing this. Have you ever forgotten and arrived early/late for something? I remember earlier this year I arrived at work one hour late. =x Whoops.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I've never had the misfortune of not changing my clocks and arriving early/late to anything because of it. The clocks I rely on are from my computer and my phone, which automatically update.

[Pike]

Have you ever forgotten and arrived early/late for something?

No, but I have used it as a convenient excuse on more than one occasion.

[Araciel]

No... Though I have had to work an hour later because the casino I used to work at was also a mental hospital for the management sometimes..

[Mirage]

I don't even get why we use daylight savings.

[Araciel]

To...save...daylight - literally, so that those who work 9-5 won't wake up in complete darkness after a certain point in the year.

[rubah]

Remember when George W. Bush had America change the the dates of Daylight Savings Time, which threw everyone for a loop and ended up being a lot worse and harder for everyone? Why haven't we done away with that change.

[Mirage]

To...save...daylight - literally, so that those who work 9-5 won't wake up in complete darkness after a certain point in the year.

Yeah but so what if we wake up in complete darkness? I live in norway, you don't get much darker winters than up here :p.

And we usually work 8-16, so that's even earlier.

[Awrini]

Yeah 9-5 (9-17) whatever... What about those of us who work 7-3 (7-15) are we not worthy of special dayling saving treatment?

[Araciel]

Well no... the 1% or whatever is all 9-5 most of the time, so no, we're not worthy :(

[Mirage]

Well regardless, the winter time is the "correct" time anyway. Daylight savings are making summer nights darker, not winter nights brighter. Exactly what is the rationale for doing this?

[Jiro]

In QLD we don't use Daylight Savings Time because a) we don't understand it; and b) it's pointless.

[Raistlin]

The only clocks I use nowadays are my cell phone and, to a lesser extent, my laptop, so I never have to think about it. At some point I'll realize that the car or microwave clock is off an hour and fix that.

[Shlup]

My mother-in-law's house is full of clocks; this is like a serious event for her. I just have to change the clock in my car and on my microwave.

[Tigmafuzz]

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[Yar]

Yay the sun can go down at 5 pm now