For those in cold climates

[Jon]

It's past time to set your clocks to DST!! I hope you reset at 2AM.


Don't forget or you'll be late for work or that hot date!

[mia/susannah]

have already set my clocks forward. Thanks for the reminder though.

[Storyslinger]

Set them forward, but I forgot to set my alarm. Oh well, you can't win them all, and in my case, you just can't win. :lol:

[Wuducynn]

I just wanted to remind everyone that starting next week we also have to set our clocks two hours back. Don't forget now.

[Storyslinger]

Thanks, I would have missed that. ><

[Wuducynn]

Because, you know, its a leap year...and mostly, because I said so.

[Storyslinger]

Thats all the reason I need :lol:

[Girlystevedave]

I wish I had "accidentally" forgot to set mine forward. "Oops, sorry I'm late for work."

[obscurejude]

I was late to work yesterday, and very hungover.

[Hannah]

I set back every clock in my house except the one that mattered most: my alarm clock. So I woke up to the alarm at 630 am, snoozed it for 45 minutes like I usually do, and Aaron told me I should probably get ready for work as it was 820 am. Lame.

[Mattrick]

I'm still messed up from the clocks going back, they really messed me up going forward again.

[Hannah]

It doesn't mess me up for that long - it just throws me off that Sunday the clocks switch.

[Rjeso]

Not late to work, but feelin' the change for sure. I hate DST. <_<

[obscurejude]

Blame all these troubles on Benjamin Franklin, the progenitor of all the sorrows listed in this thread.

[Hannah]

So Old Ben came up with the idea to go forward and backwards in time then? Well I'll be damned.

[obscurejude]

He did Hannah. I just learned about it in a colonial lit seminar last semester. I never knew.

[Rjeso]

The thing is, farmers have these nifty little things called "lights" on their "tractors" now, so we don't need DST to occur anymore since they a) can see at night, and b) have such equipment that they can get (most of) their fieldwork done during regular daylight hours.

I hope to see the practice get abolished soon. It's outdated and only serves to throw people off-balance time-wise.

[TerribleT]

I despise standard time, and love daylight savings. I love those long summer evenings when it stays light until almost nine. I like having the extra daylight this time of year, because now I can start going out and riding my bicycle after work when it's nice. The most depressing day of the year for me is when we go back to standard time, and we go from there being a little light left when I get home from work, to walking into a completely dark house.

[Girlystevedave]

I do like the long days because I can walk my dog after work every day now. (No more living in fear for me:nana:

[Wuducynn]

I love the long nights and the cold, and the snow. I also love the summer, but only for so long. Three months here in New England, is perfect for me.

[Girlystevedave]

I love the cold weather too. I'm really gonna miss it when I'm nearing heatstroke in the summer.

[obscurejude]

Benjamin Franklin is ves ka gan on our level of the tower.

[Wuducynn]

I love the cold weather too. I'm really gonna miss it when I'm nearing heatstroke in the summer.


A lady after my own heart.

[Girlystevedave]

Well, we just got our first "really good" snow here. And it's going away soon:cry: I'm gonna miss sweaters and Green Day hoodies and stocking caps.

[Wuducynn]

Where is "here", cause here in New Hampshire we had lots of snow, as a normal winter is supposed to be like. Only problem is that we would get lets say, 9 inches one day and then in a couple of days it would melt off...then we would get some more and it would melt off..it was annoying, but at least we got plenty of it.

[obscurejude]

CK, is that normal for up there, or do you think its a result of climate change?

[Wuducynn]

The melting off? Its not normal, but New England weather tends to be weird at times.

[Girlystevedave]

Where is "here", cause here in New Hampshire we had lots of snow, as a normal winter is supposed to be like. Only problem is that we would get lets say, 9 inches one day and then in a couple of days it would melt off...then we would get some more and it would melt off..it was annoying, but at least we got plenty of it.


TN...we're not always guaranteed a lot of snow. So, when we get it, I get excited. Then I want more of it. But stupid spring is gonna come in and screw it all up.

[obscurejude]

I'm just hearing things like that more and more, and its a little worrisome. I haven't been up there since 97. Thanks for the info CK.

[OchrisO]

On saturday night, I told a manager at work that I wouldn't be setting my clock forward because it was against my religion, so I would be in the next day at 5pm by the store's time instead of 4pm. She said "Really?" and I said "You....are the most gullible person I know."

[Girlystevedave]

:lol: :thumbsup: