⏰ Daylight Savings!!!

[SummerOnTheWay1]

Do you like or dislike this TIME CHANGE?  🤔

Lol, any "funny" experiences for example FORGETTING the time CHANGE & arriving at your destination TOO EARLY OR LATE? 😅

Nicole!

[GailL1 · Accepted solution]

Well, here we are again - Falling back this weekend 

I have a “Bird Clock” - everybody knows what that is, right ?  Every hour has a different bird sound to mark the hour.  I love it but . . . . 

for the last 25 years, twice a year, I have to reset it and it is not a simple task since you have to do it just like the directions say or all the bird sounds get messed up and the Western Screech-Owl sounds like the Whooping Crane.  Yuck!

So 

1. remove the back of the clock
2. remove the batteries
3. set hands only moving clock-wise to ten minutes to 1:00
4. reinsert batteries
5. set clock to the right time (moving only clock-wise)
6. attach back of clock

Then last year, I had to take it completely apart since the face was curling because it is so old and I glued it all back down again. 

Well now, with any luck, it will now outlast me and the bird sounds are still all correct.

I don’t really notice it anymore - but if somebody is visiting, it is a real “Hoot” to see their reaction and the 1st thing they say is “What is that”?  

[SummerOnTheWay1]

📎 [2/21/24] GOOGLE!

When does daylight savings start?

Daylight saving time will begin for 2024 on Sunday, March 10, at 2 a.m. local time.

[Tempest332]

There are a couple of my clocks I never bothered changing in the fall, so why would it matter?

I nearly fell off a ladder changing the clocks at work a couple years back, I'm getting tired of this.   Leave it on DST year round. 

[Tempest332]

We are still going to do this?  It's become such a nuisance. They are always talking about staying on DST, & I wish they would. 

As far as staying on standard time, it gets light too early in the summer.  One more thing to hate about fall. 

[EricC28201]

Including a link to a brief History Channel synopsis of what is now known as DST...this article claims farmer don't like it.

https://www.history.com/news/why-do-we-have-daylight-saving-time 

All in all DST seems wasteful since humanity, in general, adapts to gradual change better than abrupt change....supported by (4) Tips on making the "adjustments"