Daylight Saving Time this weekend....turn it forward!
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17798)
United States
March 8, 2013 7:41pm CST
This saturday you have to turn your clock forward one hour for Daylight Saving Time. Well, if you live in Arizona or Hawaii you don't, but the rest of us do! Anyway, that means we will start having day light hours longer...like dusk starts at 8pm instead of 5pm! I sure do hate it getting dark so early, seems like the day is so short.
But I love Spring and look forward to it and get excited about nice weather instead of the cold all the time..but not looking forward to the heat.
Do you like the Daylight Saving time better? They say they started this in WWI (or was it WWII, can't remember which) cause the country was having food shortages cause of sending food over seas..and they did the Daylight Saving time to give farmers more daylight to do their planting and harvesting to get more food to market.
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11 responses
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
9 Mar 13
This will very likely confuse some people. It mainly applies to the United States and Canada only. Europe and some other countries will change on 31 March 2013.
Here is a breakdown of which countries implement it and when: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country together with a brief history.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
10 Mar 13
I was merely pointing out that what you posted is actually only relevant to about a quarter of MyLot members (and rather less than 5% of the population of the world). 
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
10 Mar 13
Well, I don't know where everyone is..so I just post it and those that it effects will know what I am talking about. THose that it doesn't effect, will read on I guess.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
10 Mar 13
Oh, I don't think it confuses anyone, I do know that it is everyone's favorite excuse twice a year "i forgot to turn my clock back" (or forward) and that is their excuse for being late!
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
9 Mar 13
For me, DST is better because I get off from work at different times and when I get ready to get off the bus, the first part of the street is abandoned and pitch dark, and that bothers me a lot. sometimes I walk it most times, I walk down another street,so I am truly glad DST is around the corner.
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
9 Mar 13
THat is so sad. really. jobs are getting to be something that are aggravated at times.I got another post on something that happened at work.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Oh I know. When it gets dark at 5pm...people are just getting off work and walking here and there. I remember back in 1999, I was working for a mortgage place and we put out loans in a Trans Box thing that picked them up every night. It was in this flower bed and a curb was there and it was not lite. I had all daylight saving time...I put them in at 7pm when I left..it was still light. Clocks were turned in the fall, and the first night I took them out, it was so dark, I tripped over the bumper stop, fell on the curb and dislocated my knee! After that, I told the agents, the if they weren't ready to be taken out by dark, I was not taking them unless the owner put some kind of light out there. I would call them and tell them to come get their loan and take it out. They hated it but I was limping around and then I was later terminated cause I had to take time off for knee surgery!
@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
21 Mar 13
This is always so rough when you have to turn your clocks forward and loose an hr. I usually end up dragging for a couple of days until I catch up again. It reminds me too much of when I travel. Then when you set your clocks back it is not easy as well as you have to readjust so in reality I would really do best in a State like AZ.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
21 Mar 13
It only happens twice a year and frankly, I don't see what people make so big a deal out of it. They complain the "loose" and hour, when they dont'...days are always 24 hours...and..where does this hour go that is "lost"? You get it back in the fall..where's it been all year long!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
10 Mar 13
I agree. The planets spin and rotate as they will and that is what makes the time and daylight etc. Our changing the hands on a machine is just a man made tradition, I guess! These days, I would think that they'd want to leave things so that we have as many hours as possible of full sunlight/daylight to delay the turning on of electric lights and heaters and stuff...you know, ease up on the demand for electricity and save the environment and all!
@mariaperalta (19073)
• Mexico
9 Mar 13
thanks, we do that here in mexico sat. night as well. I always forget which way to change them. You have helped me here.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
9 Mar 13
mariaperalta - I always just turn my clocks back before I go to bed Saturday night. Getting up to do it a 2am is stupid and if you wait till morning, you're an hour off already!
Catkin - my daughter learned that in high school some time and told me and that is how I remember it to...Spring forward, fall backwards. Works every time!
@starnguyen (18)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Remember its Spring forward Fall backward what a cheesy phrase xD
not all countrys do it but the U.S. Europeans and I think south and central Americans .Now I know why daylight saving time was created thanks coffeebreak
that was a nice tip.Have a good day
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
10 Mar 13
I aim to please! Yeah, kind of cheesy but...everyone remembers it!
@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
9 Mar 13
My husband said there was talk of not doing this anymore. There really is no reason anymore. I have to work Sunday morning, so I will have to try to go to bed earlier than usual. That won't be easy as I am a night owl. It has been so nice to get up and have it be light already. I hate driving in the dark.
I like the cute little saying that goes with it though. Makes it so much easier to remember.
I do like the Fall Back much better, as it gets me an hour more sleep!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
10 Mar 13
I like it better on daylight time.. I hate it getting dark at 5pm. It makes the day seem so short..and by 7pm I'm going "been dark so long, time for bed" then look at my watch and it is only7!
@AmbiePam (85273)
• United States
9 Mar 13
I am going to miss the cooler weather. The warmer it is, the more migraines I get. And I like that it gets dark early. I think I'm in the minority on this. I probably felt differently when I was a little kid. I kind of would like it if we were all like Arizona, which doesn't do the whole daylight savings time thing.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
9 Mar 13
I am not looking forward to the heat at all! But the cold, is getting annoying! And being dark so early, it really takes time away from kids playing outside for exercise or for fun. And I'll be doing whatever and suddenly think..."I am tired, it has been dark for a long time, must be bedtime"...and look at my watch and it is only 6pm! Then I thihnk, oh no...3 more hours!! and that really makes me more tired!
I dont' know why some turn back and some dont. It really doesn't give more time either way, just more daylight and I would think that they'd want to keep it ligher longer year round to save electric being turned on so soon. But at the end of the day, what diff does it make...the earth spins and rotates and that is what tells the time!
@mrswhitfield (2044)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 13
Daylight Saving Times not applied in my country 
but it affect my routine because my boyfriend living in California. We used to chatting before he leave to work or when he is back from work. Now I have to wake up earlier in the morning so we can chat before he get into bed. It's bit confusing at the 1st day because I forgot about the time is forward one hour than usual.
but it affect my routine because my boyfriend living in California. We used to chatting before he leave to work or when he is back from work. Now I have to wake up earlier in the morning so we can chat before he get into bed. It's bit confusing at the 1st day because I forgot about the time is forward one hour than usual.
@echoforever (5180)
• United States
9 Mar 13
thanks for letting me know i didn't know that until now. well it will mean moer sunlight on this side of the world and i will appreciate it.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
9 Mar 13
I have never seen the advantage of getting dark so early! It is like turning the day off!
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
10 Mar 13
Technically you aren't "loosing/gaining" an hour either way. There are still 24 hours in a day..and when they "take" the one in the spring..where does that 60 minutes go so that it is available to be taken back in the fall? No one ever has an answer for that. And...the reason they do it at 2am on Sunday morning is so that the "missed" hour is during sleep time and no one really misses it anyway.
