OT: DST Ends Sunday

[T]

Hi All,

Daylight Stupid Time ends Sunday, November 5, 2023, 2:00:00 am clocks are turned backward 1 hour

-T

[Snag]

The computers auto-update . I'll reset the rest before the wife gets up .

[rbowman]

Here we go again... At least the clock in this car is easier than the last one. I pulled the battery out of the V-Strom so I'll deal with that in the spring. The coffee maker, microwave, and VCR aren't mission critical.

[Cindy Hamilton]

I was quite pleased I was able to sleep until 3:30 this morning. I'd feared I'd be awake and alert at 2:00.

I don't care about the clocks; that's just a little busywork. Moving my sleep cycle around is difficult.

[Ben Verified - ✅]

We're stuck with DST until our technocrat overlords rule that it causes climate change.

[invalid unparseable]

It is a real PITA with all the devices today with clocks in them. The microwave oven and stove are prominent and I reset those but ignore coffee pot and fax machine. I figure the time shifts cause more loss of work time they were supposed to gain because of all the fuss of changing our clocks.

[micky]

Until I was 10, there was a clock in the kitchen and another in my parents' bedroom.

Then we moved and the bank was giving away clock radios if you opened an account, plus I had to wake up for school. But even then the car clock had stopped ticking years earlier. (It worked on a spring but had been electrically wound every once in a while.)

Now there are clocks everywhere. Darn 555 timer, iirc. Some I leave in summertime all year round.

[Cindy Hamilton]

I can't remember not having a clock in my bedroom. The living room had one of those mid-Century Modern starburst clocks on the wall.

We didn't have a car after Mom lost her license due to being unable to pass the eye test. Her last car was a Corvair.

That would drive me crazy. It would drive my husband crazier.

[micky]

I hope this doesn't make you feel bad, but my mother drove until she was about 83. She might have had a tiny acciddent 40 years earlier, not necessarily her fault.

It is a problem. I have to rememberr which clocks to ignore. Mostly it's the clock in the telephone which says when people left messages. I don't get that many messages and when they arrive is usually of no importance. Plus I don't remember how to set the time in the phone.

Speaking of the phone, I've had this Uniden base phone and 3 cordless extensions for about 15 years, and just this week I learned about one of its features. (I'm sure I read the whole owners manual but I can only absorb so much at one time.) When I'm in the room with the base phone and someone is leaving a message, I can hear it, but with the extensions, I had to wait until they hung up and play the message. Wednesday, I was looking at the phone and there was the wordd Screen. Yeah, I know it's got a screen. Then it dawned on me and I learned if I push the button next to Screen I can hear them leaving their message!!! Amazing. That it took me 15 years to learn this.

[rbowman]

We had one of these on the dining room table. It was a drop leaf table and seldom used as a table except for holidays. Art Deco meets the jet age. Like a lot of '50s things it would set off a Geiger counter.

[Mark Lloyd]

I carry my phone (which is a computer) around when setting the clocks that need it. There are some clocks which aren't set automatically, but are supposed to adjust for DST. You still need to check those.

[invalid unparseable]

The PITA can extend for a few days. My smart watch was off this am and I had to re-sync it to the smart phone. Had to reset old atomic watch and still screwing with another clock. Few years ago with a new car it must have taken me a half hour to reset the clock. Newer car is easier to reset with buttons under the clock.

[Bob F]

Yes. One of my older ones set back a week or 2 ago, and i changed the the zone to correct it. This morning, I reversed that change.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Nice.

Ours was sort of like this:

[Snag]

There are 3 clocks in the house that don't auto-update : the stove , the wall clock and the bedroom alarm clock/radio . I will get to the cars when I get to them .

[rbowman]

Y'know, some things are better forgotten...

I don't remember my parents having one but my uncle had the black panther model. Those weird LED backlights just ain't the same.

[rbowman]

I used the phone to change the clock in the car but the GPS came uop with the right time too.

[rbowman]

Yeah, the last car had some cha-cha involving the odometer reset to get the clock digits flashing. This one has two separate buttons marked H and M. That's more my speed.

[rbowman]

I'm proud of myself. I went for a hike today and didn't come stumbling out of the woods after dark. The only upside I can think of is I won't be driving home into the setting sun.

[AK]

I very hardheartedly agree with you.

DST is a monumental waste of resources.

I will make a wild guess.

The government of the U.S. has control over that.

:-)