It takes me two or three weeks to get my internal clock back in whack. They keep making daylight saving time start earlier and end later each year. Pretty soon, it will be all year.
I am waiting for a regulation that takes an hour of daylight from June (when we 20 hours of daylight) and puts it into December (when we have 5 hours of daylight). THAT would be REAL daylight saving for me!
Instead of setting my clocks Back 1 hour, I set them Ahead 23 hours. I never lose an hour's sleep when I set my clocks an hour ahead in the Spring...I just go to bed 2 hours earlier and GAIN an hour! Hal
I did something weird this year,I set all but one clock back one hour yesterday morning. I went to bed a hour and half later.. Bingo.. i think this is better for me than changing before bed or the next morning. I do not like DST
I changed mine late afternoon. Worked well and I tried to stay in bed this morning for an extra hour and I did....otherwise my day would be too long.
Hi, I know we're supposed to set our clocks 1 hour ahead this weekend, but our Grandfather clock does not have settable hands and must be set by turning the internal mechanism which drives the axles which move the hour and minute hands The internal escapement mechanism has one-way ratcheting gears on the drive axles which do not permit advancing, only retarding. Therefore, to set the clock ahead one hour, we will have to set it BACK 23 hours. Thank you, Hal
I wish they'd just do away with the daylight savings time nonsense. How much effort does it take to remember that it gets dark earlier in the winter? If they don't want kids going to school in the dark, or coming home in the dark, change the school hours. We have six, seven, or more battery-operated clocks in our house, and some of them are up high, so a daylight savings time period is half over before I get around to resetting them.
@Hal Pollner Or, you could sell the clock to an Arizonan who would gladly never mess with it's hands! Frank
@Ken Anderson Is it imperative that all the clocks read identically? You could place a label beneath each declaring it's setting: Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time. Frank
@Ken Anderson , just set one and go by that one until next fall. You only need one correct clock, anyway. Or you could just go by the one on your computer. That sets itself.
My wife won't allow that, so I get nagged for the first couple of months every time daylight savings time comes along.
Better than all that, we have an "Atomic Clock" that gets precise microsecond time signals from the National Bureau of Standards Lab in Boulder, Colorado. We don't even have a Grandfather Clock; I just made up that story! I didn't think you'd mind... Hal