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Dittohead not!

Dittohead not!

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Spring forward! Fall back!

Resetting clocks twice a year is a pain. I just get used to one time, and bang, it changes back.

I think California should set its clocks forward a half hour, then just leave them there. It's a good compromise. Besides, California time would then be a half hour off from everyone else's, thus confirming what so many believe: This is a screwy state.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Spring forward! Fall back!

Resetting clocks twice a year is a pain. I just get used to one time, and bang, it changes back.

I think California should set its clocks forward a half hour, then just leave them there. It's a good compromise. Besides, California time would then be a half hour off from everyone else's, thus confirming what so many believe: This is a screwy state.
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I agree. Just because the earth tilts on it's axis and takes away your duration of daylight during the winter, doesn't mean that the time has changed. :dito:
 
Dittohead not! said:
Spring forward! Fall back!

Resetting clocks twice a year is a pain. I just get used to one time, and bang, it changes back.

I think California should set its clocks forward a half hour, then just leave them there. It's a good compromise. Besides, California time would then be a half hour off from everyone else's, thus confirming what so many believe: This is a screwy state.
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Agreed. I lived in AZ for 12 years and they don't move their clocks. It worked just fine even while everyone else was jumping around.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Spring forward! Fall back!

Resetting clocks twice a year is a pain. I just get used to one time, and bang, it changes back.

I think California should set its clocks forward a half hour, then just leave them there. It's a good compromise. Besides, California time would then be a half hour off from everyone else's, thus confirming what so many believe: This is a screwy state.
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I'm of the opinion that we set the clocks forward 1/2 an hour (from standard time) and leave them there.
 
poweRob said:
Agreed. I lived in AZ for 12 years and they don't move their clocks. It worked just fine even while everyone else was jumping around.
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I hear ya. I was just getting used to daylight appearing a few minutes before 7AM here. Now, I have to deal with an extra hour of dark in the morning, and worse--it won't get dark until almost 9PM. In the height of summer, it stays light here until 10 PM, but sunrise is never before 6AM.

Not to mention, if I want to ride my bike to work tomorrow morning, I'll have to get up at what last week was 4AM.
 
we should just spring forward and never fall back. changing the clocks back to standard time for a few months is utterly useless.
 
poweRob said:
Agreed. I lived in AZ for 12 years and they don't move their clocks. It worked just fine even while everyone else was jumping around.
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my state used to skip DST, but then our governor at the time decided it would help businesses somehow if we joined the clockswitching cult. it didn't.
 
Helix said:
my state used to skip DST, but then our governor at the time decided it would help businesses somehow if we joined the clockswitching cult. it didn't.
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My state is moving a bill through to kill the time jumping.
 
poweRob said:
My state is moving a bill through to kill the time jumping.
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good. hope that it passes. it's about time for the modern world to wake up from this annoying piece of **** policy.
 
Helix said:
good. hope that it passes. it's about time for the modern world to wake up from this annoying piece of **** policy.
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I didn't know this but...

New Mexicans react as bill to stay on Daylight Saving Time advances

Arizona and Hawaii are the only two states that have opted out of the time change. If the bill passes, the federal government would have to also approve the change in New Mexico.​

I'd be surprised if it gets signed by the governor anyways though.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Spring forward! Fall back!

Resetting clocks twice a year is a pain. I just get used to one time, and bang, it changes back.

I think California should set its clocks forward a half hour, then just leave them there. It's a good compromise. Besides, California time would then be a half hour off from everyone else's, thus confirming what so many believe: This is a screwy state.
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I know. I didn't even realize I had lost an hour until about 1:00 yesterday. :doh

DST is outdated and needs to be abolished.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Spring forward! Fall back!

Resetting clocks twice a year is a pain. I just get used to one time, and bang, it changes back.

I think California should set its clocks forward a half hour, then just leave them there. It's a good compromise. Besides, California time would then be a half hour off from everyone else's, thus confirming what so many believe: This is a screwy state.
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I procrastinated and never changed the time on my alarm clock or jeep since the last time change, it worked out rather well I think.
 
Helix said:
good. hope that it passes. it's about time for the modern world to wake up from this annoying piece of **** policy.
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Oh hell yes! I utterly despise clock-jumping. Pick a time zone and keep the damned thing. Our kids won't melt if it's dark when they go to school in the winter, nor will they weep if it gets dark an hour earlier in the summer. And I wouldn't have to argue with my computer twice a year (which refused to acknowledge Calif's stupid 2-extra-weeks of DST) and petulantly kept turning itself back an hour.

The only thing this fractured country would probably universally be on board with is to drop the damned clock-switching. Twice a year this gives me an OCD-type obsession and homicidal impulses toward any piece of technology that insists upon knowing what time it is.
 
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