What time is it?

[Ace]

Weird thing is we left Lakeland Fl around 12:30 or so and arrived in Montgomery Al around 9:30 our time. Now they are an hour behind us so now it's actually 8:30. Wait, after settling in our room and taking care of walking Bud, we turn the clocks back. Ok so the way I figure it is I made record time any way I look at it!
Now the alarm goes off at 7 am which is their time but in actuality it's 6 because the room clocks weren't turned back and in our time it's really 8 or now 7 and btw I'm confused!
On the road to Memphis!


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[luvrbus]

Sure glad I live in AZ where the clock stays the same year round

[bevans6]

Up here in Nova Scotia we are pretty far north (Not as far as Northern Maine but up there) and the late change to standard time was kicking my butt.  the sun wasn't rising until 8 am, and I couldn't get out of bed before 7:30.  All of a sudden this morning I am getting up at 6:15 again and feeling normal.  Totally astounding how big a change it is some years.  I was actually outside in the shop working by 9 am today, I am putting a new high compression (8.5-1 is apparently high on these things, stock is 7:1) piston and doing a mild head port on my old Royal Enfield 500 single so I can try to get it up to highway speed.  We have amazing mountain dirt roads around here (you all would call them hills, around 3500 ft max elevation) and I want to make it into a back road explorer bike.

Brian

[bobofthenorth]

We're like Clifford - we always know what time of day it is.  While the rest of you are leaping back and falling ahead we just keep soldiering on.  That's why when we travel we don't change our clocks when we enter a new time zone.  We figure if the rest of you don't know what time it is from one month to the next why should we try to adapt to your notion of time.  We always know what time it is. 

[CrabbyMilton]

It's 12:17 pm as I type this in Milwaukee at this time. The story I remember is that daylight savings time was established to give farmers extra light. Now tractors have headlights so I day get rid of day light waste of time and just leave it where it is now. If you want more hours in a day, GET UP EARLIER.

[Lostranger]

The story I remember is that daylight savings time was established to give farmers extra light.

Oh no no. You labor under a common misconception. Daylight savings time exists so that elected officials in Washington can have more time to play golf.

Jim H

[HB of CJ]

Years ago around April the phone would ring at about "7:05 am" and the guy would ask; "Hey dude, are you coming to work today?"  The guy in bed would answer; "Well, yes, I intended to get there at around 7:45."  This young man still in bed drove a fire engine for a living and had to be at work on time ... one would hope.  Sober was good.

You get the rest; day light savings time only works if one remembers to set back the clocks ... or set forward ... or something.  Then of course, he would might be an hour early on duty about 6 months later.  Would the world work with only one time ... for everybody?   Dunno.  The clocks would not reflect what is outside.  HB of CJ (old coot)

[luvrbus]

When I was a kid I remember my granddad calling it wartime he had a little problem with FDR telling the country to go on wartime I think  

[Oonrahnjay]

Sure glad I live in AZ where the clock stays the same year round

     Out here in the rest of the country, all that extra time makes the grass brown in the summertime; now that winter time is fewer weeks, the grass will never recover!  Oh, yeah, grass ... I guess you don't know what that is!

[luvrbus]

I never could understand why DLS you still get the same amount of daylight no matter what a clock says

[Oonrahnjay]

I never could understand why DLS you still get the same amount of daylight no matter what a clock says   

      Here on the East Coast, you can sit outside and read at 9PM (if the weather is otherwise good) for a couple of weeks in the summer.  That _almost_ makes up for the hassle of the clocks being juggled around.   Since I'm no longer a useful, productive, and valued citizen (only fodder for them Gummint Death Panels) and I can get up whenever the h**l I want too, having more daylight before about 9AM doesn't do me any good!!!   

[Dave5Cs]

All I can say about it this morning is I set my Watch last night back and the bedroom clock also. I had 3 Roosters caged in the back of my truck to go to the auction down the street this morning when it opened at 5am. For some reason I woke up 1/2 dazed and looked at the clock without my glasses on. I thought it said 5:30am. I threw on my clothes grabbed jacket and hat and out to the truck I went. I fired it up and drove out thinking i was going to have to wait in line with 3 crowing roosters and everybody else goats cattle etc. I got there and the gates were not even opened. I looked at the clock in the truck finally and it said 3:44am which was actually 2:44am. I went home and went back to bed. the wife said where did you go? I told her I took the roosters for a ride in the truck. Later though I did get 27.00 for the 3. I don't drink either. maybe I should start, LOL Somedays ya know!....
Dave5Cs

[somewhereinusa]

DW said.--It's getting light earlier again
Me--No,it isn't, it's getting light the same time it always did. The clocks are just different.
DW--The dogs got me up earlier ths aM
Me--No, they got you up the same time they always do. The clock is just different.
DW, gave me THAT look.

[bobofthenorth]

In our connected world what would make the most sense is if everyone worked on Zulu time.  Airport flight times would be meaningful - no more getting on the plane at 23:00 and getting off at 04:00 but its a 9 hour flight; no more worrying about schedule changes caused by the time change.  If you want to make a phone call to someone in Tokyo or Amsterdam you just pick a time and its the same for both of you.  We'd have to get used to eating dinner at 01:00Z and getting out of bed at 11:00Z but so what?  Its just a number.  Right now the number isn't all that useful but if the whole world worked on Zulu time it would be a useful number again.

[Lee Bradley]

At least the planes and controllers use Zulu