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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:02 AM Nov 2012

Daylight Saving Time 2012: Turn Your Clocks Back and Gain An Extra Hour Tonight

Source: ABC News

Daylight Saving Time 2012: Time to Set Clocks Back This Weekend

Nov. 3, 2012

You'll lose an extra hour of light but gain an hour back this weekend as daylight saving time officially ends.

As standard time resumes at 2 a.m. Sunday, it's time to "fall back," so set your clocks back one hour when you go to bed tonight.

Hawaii and most of Arizona do not observe daylight saving time.

- snip -

Previously, daylight saving time was observed in the United States from April until mid-October.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/daylight-savings-time-2012-time-set-clocks-back/story?id=17632283#.UJX4VrRKsyk

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Daylight Saving Time 2012: Turn Your Clocks Back and Gain An Extra Hour Tonight (Original Post) Hissyspit Nov 2012 OP
daylight savings time ENDS tonight Danmel Nov 2012 #1
Yeah, the wording in that article sucked. I switched it with a different one. Hissyspit Nov 2012 #2
But back when I went out bars on Saturday night, the bars never stay open an extra hour... Up2Late Nov 2012 #3
Get rid of this stupid thing... SoapBox Nov 2012 #4
So, if I forget, am I stuck in a time warp? ashling Nov 2012 #5
I can't sleep. PossumSqueezins Nov 2012 #6
---> Hissyspit Nov 2012 #8
LoL Paulie Nov 2012 #11
Heads Up: Due to the time change tonight, your DU 'My Post' page list will be screwy for 1 hour Tx4obama Nov 2012 #7
Unless you're UK whatever dipsydoodle Nov 2012 #9
You Get the Illusion of an Extra Hour UStillLose Nov 2012 #10
It's real I tell ya Paulie Nov 2012 #12
"You'll lose an extra hour of light" BumRushDaShow Nov 2012 #13
wonder what it will take for us to get rid of this bs RedstDem Nov 2012 #14
Like it? NO!!!! SoapBox Nov 2012 #15
I hate, hate it. n/t RebelOne Nov 2012 #16
My cat hates it CountAllVotes Nov 2012 #17
I like it JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 2012 #18

Danmel

(4,916 posts)
1. daylight savings time ENDS tonight
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:05 AM
Nov 2012

We return to Standard Time, and lose an hour of daylight.
Which is just what the millions still without power because of Sandy need.

Up2Late

(17,797 posts)
3. But back when I went out bars on Saturday night, the bars never stay open an extra hour...
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:29 AM
Nov 2012

...or at least that was true when I lived in California. Not sure about the spring forward, close an hour early, though.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
7. Heads Up: Due to the time change tonight, your DU 'My Post' page list will be screwy for 1 hour
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 03:00 AM
Nov 2012

In your 'My Post' list when you post a thread (and when someone replies to one of your posts) it will show up lower down the page on the list in 'time' order.

Took me a bit to figure out why my newest posts weren't showing up at the top of the list.

It should work it's self out after 'one hour' after the time change.

Depending on your time zone if you're on the west coast then this might not have happened to you yet.

And any new threads on the LATEST THREADS PAGE will also show up lower on the list too (because they will have a one hour earlier time stamp on them)



 

UStillLose

(10 posts)
10. You Get the Illusion of an Extra Hour
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 07:30 AM
Nov 2012

Time is a constant and did not change; the earth did not speed up or slowdown in its spin rate over night.

The only thing that changed is YOUR reference point of time.

Paulie

(8,462 posts)
12. It's real I tell ya
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 09:06 AM
Nov 2012

Now when I try to get the kid to go to bed at 8pm and up at 7am, it may actually work now that there is another hour....

BumRushDaShow

(129,096 posts)
13. "You'll lose an extra hour of light"
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 09:24 AM
Nov 2012

WTF is wrong with these people?

For people in the northern hemisphere, the number of hours of light WILL BE less and less until (at least here in Philly) there are only about 9 hours of daylight and 15 hours of darkness in winter.

As it is, the "extra hour of light" so-called "lost" in the afternoon has meant an "extra hour of light" GAINED (at least briefly) in the morning, so I'm not going out to work in the pitch dark like I was the past month or so. But I know that by December/January, I will be leaving in the dark and getting home at dusk.

 

RedstDem

(1,239 posts)
14. wonder what it will take for us to get rid of this bs
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 09:53 AM
Nov 2012

daylight "savings" time, I'm really tired of it. I thought it would be gone by the time I hit 40.
that was 8 years ago....lol

does anyone actually like it?

CountAllVotes

(20,876 posts)
17. My cat hates it
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 03:14 PM
Nov 2012

She has to wait an extra hour for the household to get up and ... let her outside so she can tend to the grounds and come inside and have her breakfast.



JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,350 posts)
18. I like it
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 05:03 PM
Nov 2012

I like June, when it is still light out past 9:30pm. Of course it helps being at the western end of a time zone.

We could forget about changing the time, just leave Daylight Saving Time "on" all year, that would be ok.

That's one Bozo's opinion, moving from GMT-4 to GMT-5.

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