You can keep your clocks any way you want but if the rest of the people are on Standard Time (or DST as the case may be) you are going to be late (or early) for such things as doctor's appointments, etc.
Doctors' appointments? They're never on time, either (lol). I just keep in mind that the other idiots are on a different time than me. All I do, if the appointment is set at 9am, I write down 8am, or whatever it happens to be.
Like Bill and Jeff, we pay attention to the clock, though we are retired. There are 14 clocks in the house and cars, not counting the computers which change themselves, and we will go around and do some of them tonight, the rest in the morning. It's a hassle. It's already dark when I get up, now it will stay dark longer and still get dark late in the afternoon. That's okay if they would just leave it alone.
Earlier today I answered a phone call from someone (an engineer by trade!) who was leaving a message for my husband about a church meeting in the morning. "And remember, you're going to lose an hour tonight," he said. "Don't we gain an hour tonight?" I asked, baffled. "Oh no," he responded earnestly, "tonight the clocks go back." Hmmmm, well that explains that--even an engineer doesn't get it!
Best comment on Daylight Savings I ever heard was on Car Talk: "Every Spring, everyone loses an hour. Then in the Fall, those who are still alive get that hour back. Meanwhile, thousands of people have died--their lives tragically shortened by Government interference."
And I may have to go with Tom's approach; I can't figure out how to e-set my $10 digital wristwatch!
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I never change my clocks. I go to bed when I want, and get up when I want to. It's so nice being retired, and not controlled by thew clock.
That's because it is f#cking pointless, Bill.
Jeff
I'm still controlled by the clock, retired or not. And I agree with Jeff that it's pointless to make all these changes.
You can keep your clocks any way you want but if the rest of the people are on Standard Time (or DST as the case may be) you are going to be late (or early) for such things as doctor's appointments, etc.
Jeff
Doctors' appointments? They're never on time, either (lol). I just keep in mind that the other idiots are on a different time than me. All I do, if the appointment is set at 9am, I write down 8am, or whatever it happens to be.
Like Bill and Jeff, we pay attention to the clock, though we are retired. There are 14 clocks in the house and cars, not counting the computers which change themselves, and we will go around and do some of them tonight, the rest in the morning. It's a hassle. It's already dark when I get up, now it will stay dark longer and still get dark late in the afternoon. That's okay if they would just leave it alone.
Just leave it one way or the other, that's all I ask. Is that too much? Apparently so.
Earlier today I answered a phone call from someone (an engineer by trade!) who was leaving a message for my husband about a church meeting in the morning. "And remember, you're going to lose an hour tonight," he said. "Don't we gain an hour tonight?" I asked, baffled. "Oh no," he responded earnestly, "tonight the clocks go back." Hmmmm, well that explains that--even an engineer doesn't get it!
/Guy worked on the space shuttle.
//I'm not joking.
"/Guy worked on the space shuttle."
This explains a lot.
Best comment on Daylight Savings I ever heard was on Car Talk:
"Every Spring, everyone loses an hour. Then in the Fall, those who are still alive get that hour back. Meanwhile, thousands of people have died--their lives tragically shortened by Government interference."
And I may have to go with Tom's approach; I can't figure out how to e-set my $10 digital wristwatch!
Click and Clack nailed it.
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