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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 09:58 PM
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Time Change tonight. Set your clocks back. Fall Back Spring forward
personally, I hate the time change. I don't like getting up in the dark and coming home in the dark
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:03 PM
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1. Change your smoke detection device(s) battery, too.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:04 PM
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2. oh good point
Thanks
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:27 AM
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20. just realized my ex disconnected mine at some point during the last six months
good thing I checked earlier tonight
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 04:20 AM
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27. My friend, you have a bigger issue.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 04:53 PM
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28. indeed
but probably went off when she was cooking and she just got it to stop and forgot to mention it to me.

at least I'll give her the benefit of the doubt on that one.
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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:05 PM
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3. Whoa! Thanks for the reminder.
I'd have felt fairly stupid getting to work at 5AM and discovering it was actually 4AM. :hi:
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:11 PM
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4. Thanks for the Reminder
I was wondering whether it was this weekend or not.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:13 PM
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5. I hate time changes!!!
Screws me up every time!
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:19 PM
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6. I hate it, too
Standard time gives me more of a morning and I am not a morning person.

I'd be thrilled to have DST year round.

If parents blow a gasket about kiddies going to school in the dark, let the damn schools start an hour later. The teenagers would really appreciate it.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:30 PM
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7. me too
hate going to work in the dark AND coming home in the dark

leave it DST year round


there are some places that don't change
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:41 PM
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8. Arizona doesn't change
We're on standard time year round.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:49 PM
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10. Neither does Hawai'i but now
it's only 5 hours difference between here in New York and Kaua'i where my son is.

I like the time change tomorrow bc I feel I can have extra sleep.:)
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 11:04 PM
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13. The problem for us is we have to adjust to everyone else's changes
We'll now be 2 hours behind the east coast instead of 3. All of the cable tv shows are now an hour ahead. It can be hard to keep track of the changes.

Enjoy the extra hour of sleep! :)
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PSzymeczek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 11:10 PM
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15. Everything comes on an hour later
except the Tucson channels.
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 11:13 PM
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16. In the Phoenix area, all of the network shows stay at the same time.
Edited on Sat Oct-31-09 11:14 PM by DesertRat
When the time changes elsewhere, I always miss Keith and Rachel the first couple of weeks because I forget about the change!
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Desertrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:43 AM
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23. I know, me too. (Glad that KO is on twice. haha)
I have to remember when trying to call my east coast relatives that we are now only 2 hrs diff.

The worst is the spring when they forget it's 3 hours earlier here and call me like at 6am to "chat". Right.
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:58 AM
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26. Now in CST Leno comes on at 9.
there is no more prime time just Leno and the news.
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Feron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:43 PM
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9. Fortunately the bulk of my older devices..
set themselves back a few days ago. I just have to change one clock. :D
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 10:58 PM
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11. Aren't cell phones supposed to automatically adjust?
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 11:00 PM
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12. Mine does
but my alarm clock doesn't

neither does my Bose radio/CD player or my car
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 11:05 PM
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14. Yes they do. They adjust when you travel too. n/t
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-31-09 11:15 PM
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17. Yeah, I realized that last week when I flew to KC, MO.
When I first turned my phone on after landing, it still had Pacific Time. But as soon as it picked up the 3G signal, it self adjusted. Nice.
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:42 AM
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22. My old cell phone used to adjust, but I don't think my Blackberry will
The BlackBerry doesn't pick up time zone changes when I travel; I have to set it for the new time zone. It's aggravating. I'm not sure if it will automatically adjust for the end of DST.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:22 AM
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18. Thanks! I forgot!
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:37 AM
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21. I fucking hate this.
I'm from Indiana and we only started this shit a few years ago. It's still annoying.
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boppers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:23 AM
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19. I'm from Arizona, but now live in Oregon.
I thinks it's glacially stupid, and does nothing... if it saves so much energy, why don't we do more hours forward and back? Hey, maybe if we went "forward" or "back" in time by years (instead of hours), it would "save" that much more?
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:50 AM
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24. I used to live in Arizona too!
I was glad they didn't do it there either. Though that was years ago, I don't know if Arizona does it now.
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 01:55 AM
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25. DST is folly. It's mid-day when it's mid-day, not when the government says it is.
(A repost from an old thread on the same subject).
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redwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-01-09 04:55 PM
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29. Again?
Yippee! More sleep!
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