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Spring Forward, Fall Back...is it really worth it?

Mar 7, 2015 7:25PM PST

I'm seeing polls suggesting people aren't that interested in making the twice per year clock changes. One such poll at Accuweather has folks almost 3-1 against DST. The jury seems to be out as to whether or not there have been worthwhile energy savings since this began around WWII. Personally, I'd rather pick one or the other and keep it all year. Perhaps lifestyles were different enough decades ago that made it helpful to most but folks keep all sorts of odd hours today. I'd think the biggest barrier to changing the system would be it's affect on PCs and any device that automatically moves the time forward and back. The energy spent to undo the clocks in millions and billions of tech devices just might also undo any energy savings that's been created.

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Not when you get
Mar 7, 2015 9:20PM PST

to be my age and do the opposite change without even thinking about it.......lol Woke up this morning after changing them last nite ahead of time, and found out I was two hours behind the rest of this part of my world. Thank God the computer changes itself automatically or I wouldn't have realized it until later. The only clock I never change is the one in my truck.......at least half of the year, it's right.

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I hate it
Mar 8, 2015 3:56AM PDT

therefore I leave the battery clock by my bed at original time all year. My wife's clock is plugged to wall and changes automatically from some signal, either broadcast or from powerline. So, I woke up at 4:30am this morning and noticed both clock's time matched. At first I thought someone had changed my clock, so got peeved over that. Thought more on it, remembered a power out and decided maybe my wife had looked and reset hers from mine. So, wake her up and asked why both clocks had the same time on them. DST she says. I never even considered that this early in the year. Used to be done in April. Should be delayed till April for Maryland and parts north, we still have a foot of snow melting out there and what about Boston?!

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Here's a method I teach my kids,
Mar 10, 2015 6:53AM PDT

to remember which is which:
ST is Standard Time.
Add a D for Daylight, add an hour.
Later, subtract the D, subtract the hour.

Just remember that one of those is for spring, the other for fall...

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I'd never remember that. Did you invent
Mar 10, 2015 7:24AM PDT

"Common Core"? Devil

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(NT) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Mar 10, 2015 9:09AM PDT
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OK, guys.
Mar 11, 2015 7:49AM PDT

I will start to point out your typos.
Devil
(Don't tell the elders I posted that emotimojicon or whatever.)

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Typos have a useful purpose
Mar 11, 2015 9:51AM PDT

If someone points them out to you, it means they read your post. I test people that way by maching them delaboritely. Happy

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I love putting typos in my code comments.
Mar 11, 2015 10:06AM PDT

Or even the error messages. Later if the company feels they were ripped off we can look for the purposely typo'd phrases.

Bob

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Publishers of reference works
Mar 16, 2015 12:18PM PDT

use the same trick to spot plagiarisers. (In the US they use it to spot plagiarizers.)

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Hah! dummy!
Mar 16, 2015 12:16PM PDT

Should have been "machine".

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Good one
Mar 16, 2015 6:56PM PDT

It's nice to hang out with folks who aren't Mensa candidates. Devil

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(NT) I can't be a candidate- we don't do politics.
Mar 17, 2015 7:53AM PDT