Fall Back

[JordyVerrill]

All you folks who hate falling back need an attitude adjustment. Change is good… even time change! Shake up the ol' routine-- light candles and lanterns in the early twilight, take walks by the evening moon, settle in early with a good book, a blanket, and a warm cuppa tea or cocoa. Also, we Stephen King fans can especially savor those long, eerie afternoon shadows that, thanks to the time change, show up around 3:30 in the afternoon. Get your zen going, people…

I'm all for this. I like the hours the way they are during fall and winter. I don't like it being light until 9:30 in the summer, especially since I wake up very early for work and have to go to bed when it's still light out during the summer months.

 

[danie]

Blue= Places DST exists.
Orange= Place it used to exists but no longer does.
Red= Places it has never existed.

We Americans gotta stick to everything no matter what.
That's why we're one of three countries who still haven't switched to the metric system.
"But we like multiplying and dividing by 12, 16, 5280, 36, and all those other numbers not based on 10!!! Don't change it and make it 100 times easier!"

 

[Jojo87]

We turned the clocks an hour back last weekend.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Ours have gone forward an hour--a few weeks ago.

 

[fljoe0]

Blue= Places DST exists.
Orange= Place it used to exists but no longer does.
Red= Places it has never existed.

So, let me translate.

The blue areas are the idiots and the orange areas are for those that used to be idiots and the red area are those that were never idiots.

 

[pegasus216]

The good ol' US of A are idiots??

 

[JordyVerrill]

We Americans gotta stick to everything no matter what.
That's why we're one of three countries who still haven't switched to the metric system.
"But we like multiplying and dividing by 12, 16, 5280, 36, and all those other numbers not based on 10!!! Don't change it and make it 100 times easier!"

If you look at that map, the vast majority of the western world still follows DST, not just America.

 

[FlakeNoir]

The good ol' US of A are idiots??

And Kiwi's!

P.S I love that smiley, it's awesome!

 

[pegasus216]

I've had that smiley saved for years, and I had forgotten about it until now. You may steal take it if you wish.

 

[danie]

If you look at that map, the vast majority of the western world still follows DST, not just America.

Oh, I know. Just sayin Americans don't like change much. Even if there were legitimate reasons to not switch times, most Americans would fight it just because it's change...one of the reasons why we've never switched to the metric system.

 

[jacobtlong]

No daylight savings time in Japan.

Well, it's official: I am totally moving there.

 

[FlakeNoir]

I've had that smiley saved for years, and I had forgotten about it until now. You may steal take it if you wish.

No I won't thieve him... but maybe a wee share isn't out of the question? (He's fabulous!)

 

[pegasus216]

Share away!

 

[Jojo87]

Seems like we here in Finland are also idiots.

 

[fljoe0]

We Americans gotta stick to everything no matter what.
That's why we're one of three countries who still haven't switched to the metric system.
"But we like multiplying and dividing by 12, 16, 5280, 36, and all those other numbers not based on 10!!! Don't change it and make it 100 times easier!"

The metric system thing makes me crazy. Why haven't we switched yet? With as much world wide trade that we do, you would think that we would want a uniform system. Sure, there is a bit of a learning curve but a system based on 10 is sure a lot easier than a system based on 12. I really don't know what happened because when I was in middle school (70s), they were teaching it to us and telling us that within 10 years, this would be the new system.

 

[GNTLGNT]

I wish it would be done away with, period! I live on the east coast so now it will be dark by 5PM. Bummer.

...yep, I hates me this time of year..go to work in the dark, come home in the dark and live in a fog...I'm a lucky dawg...

 

[GNTLGNT]

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I just wish they would leave it one way or the other. DST is pointless in the modern era. Do other countries have a version of DST? U.K.? Anyone?

...love the avatar ghost...lemmee grab my new .45 Hi Point carbine, and we'll go zap some 'bies!...

 

[king family fan]

I got my Halloween stuff put away yesterday. Now must move ahead and put up Thanksgiving decorations. Too back the fall back doesn't just take care of all this.Seemed good waking up to daylight this morning.

 

[Neesy]

The metric system thing makes me crazy. Why haven't we switched yet? With as much world wide trade that we do, you would think that we would want a uniform system. Sure, there is a bit of a learning curve but a system based on 10 is sure a lot easier than a system based on 12. I really don't know what happened because when I was in middle school (70s), they were teaching it to us and telling us that within 10 years, this would be the new system.

Did the Republicans get ahold of it and put the kibosh on it?

 

[Shoesalesman]

Put the clocks back an hour last night, thinking I'd get an extra hour of sleep, but I used it to fiddle with the furnace because of the temperature drop.