Fall Back one hour

[unjonharley]

Storm Sandy has brought attention to the emergency KIT..

Time change batteries in everything.. Even if they are battery/hand cranked..

Pour off the stored gas into the van and refill the jerry cans 15gal.

I eat out of my stored food and shop to replace every month. So eat up deep stored foods/water and replace..

Check medical kit for any outdated and replace

Remove and fluff ( in dryer ) stored blankets and shelter,

Wash KIT container and refill..

Start and run two generators.. Put in a small amount of fuel to run for a half hour.. Run fuel tanks empty.

[Ugly Dougly]

Might as well make it a party while you're at it.
That's Sunday night/Monday morning at 2 AM.

[Elliot]

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Good and well.

But I would like to talk to the people who are in charge of this preposterous changing of the clocks twice every year. I cannot help but think that somewhere somebody is laughing his head off for having conned half the world into doing something so stupid -- something that causes so much confusion and wasted time, missed appointments and so forth.

Kudos to Arizona and any other state that refuses to participate in the madness!

[Ugly Dougly]

Do I remember one winter when the Government decided they would Help The USA Save Energy, and eliminated this whole "fall back" nonsense.
We ended up going to school in the dark.

[Ugly Dougly]

Oh, and Elliot, talk to this moron, it was his fool idea:

[Elliot]

We ended up going to school in the dark.

This phenomenon is easily solved. Countless businesses and organizations operate different hours by the seasons -- a garden center, just as an obvious example. Much easier to use logical "summer hours" and "winter hours" as called for, than to fool with something so fundamental as The Time.

[Elliot]

Oh, and yes, Benjamin Franklin was brilliant, and wise and much more -- and also a notorious prankster. That just might explain it!

[Ugly Dougly]

<Elliot paints his faces and runs around shouting: "FREEDOM!">

(Actually, we are going back to Standard Time after a summer of Daylight Saving Time. So everything is okay now.)

[unjonharley]

It's still a good bench mart (time) to refresh the batteries, fuel, food, first aid and the water filters.

[theCryptofishist]

Oh, and yes, Benjamin Franklin was brilliant, and wise and much more -- and also a notorious prankster. That just might explain it!

YEah, I heard he went to the burn in 1996 and 1998.

[Box Burner]

Oh, and Elliot, talk to this moron, it was his fool idea:

During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, publisher of the old English proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.


Franklin-Benjamin-Journal-de-Paris-1784

[Ugly Dougly]

I seem to recall him also doing some work vis-a-vis this thing called liberty.
Or maybe that's another Ben Franklin.

[maryanimal]

Oh, and Elliot, talk to this moron, it was his fool idea:

Fred Mertz?

[Sham]

Isn't it, spring back, fall forward? Maybe this explains why I'm always 2 hours late for everything.

[Box Burner]

Isn't it, spring back, fall forward? Maybe this explains why I'm always 2 hours late for everything.

You mean spring back fall on face don't you?

[ygmir]

I think he means spring back and home there's something yummy behind you.

[Rice]

I love living in Saskatchewan. One of the few places that does not have daylight savings time...

4 pm is always 4 pm, regardless of the time of year.

[Elliot]

4 pm is always 4 pm, regardless of the time of year.

AMEN -- and I'm not even religious.

[Sham]

I love living in Saskatchewan. One of the few places that does not have daylight savings time...

4 pm is always 4 pm, regardless of the time of year.

What a weird concept. That's just craziness!

[knowmad]

Yes, that probably is nice. but do you know what year it is?
For a period of 170 years (1582–1752), both dating systems were in concurrent use in different parts of Western Europe. The Latin equivalents for O.S. and N.S., which are used in many languages, are stili veteris or stilo vetere, abbreviated st.v. and meaning "(of) old style", and stili novi or stilo novo, abbreviated st.n. and meaning "(of) new style". The Julian calendar had drifted by 11 days from the solar calendar (due to its excess of leap years), so dates differ between the systems.
to be a true believer you have to look at the stars, you have to be able to see the subtle differences. and of course that means you have to be sober during the Winter solstice, good luck with that!!

[Ugly Dougly]

Fuck, you mean it's not even today? Now isn't now?

How confusing. When is now then????

[ygmir]

Fuck, you mean it's not even today? Now isn't now?

How confusing. When is now then????

[media]

[knowmad]

Fuck, you mean it's not even today? Now isn't now?

How confusing. When is now then????

[media]

[thisisthatwhichis]

Fuck, you mean it's not even today? Now isn't now?

How confusing. When is now then????

Look out at the stars tonight..... It's actually occuring when the dinosaurs ran around..... Now you can be confused....

[BBadger]

Daylight Savings Time still has use today with energy conservation, and often gets modified during "energy crisis" type situations to reduce power consumption. The most recent change was during Dubya's reign (2007), when DST was switched from April 2 - October 29 to March 11 to November 4. How much energy those 30 or so days really saved is debatable. All I know is that the switch coincided with the exact week that I had to travel somewhere in Europe so I had to deal with that DST clock change twice which threw me off quite a bit.

[Nipple]

Fuck, you mean it's not even today? Now isn't now?

How confusing. When is now then????

[media]

[media]

[Ugly Dougly]

Apropos of not very much at all:

[media]

[gyre]

I hate dst.

They move up prime time tv, so kids spend less time outside.
Fucking brilliant.
Actually when it gets hot here, no one is going outside if they have a choice anyway.

It's calculated that morning accidents rise sharply.
Who could have seen that?

Now my computer has thought it is another time for a week.
I have to reset everything manually.
Those hours are worth something to me.
I don't use half my clocks because it's too much fucking trouble.
Half the tv stations have had different times all week.
Recording timers won't work.

If you want to get up early, get the fuck out of bed.
Fuck off

[Ugly Dougly]

I hate getting out of bed while it's still dark. Unless I'm going hunting or something. But I work by the clock (unless the rest of you I guess). Better be at work, whether its still dark out or not.

[Rice]

I hate getting out of bed while it's still dark. Unless I'm going hunting or something. But I work by the clock (unless the rest of you I guess). Better be at work, whether its still dark out or not.

In the summer here the sun is up around 4am, in the winter it is up around 9am. For me, it is weird to have the sun rise and set at the same time all year around...