My clocks did not change!?!

Time to battle with my digital Casio wrist watch agin...

There's rumbling up here, to stop the bi-yearly changes. And leave it on daylight savings, all the time.

 

My Prius's clock doesn't seem to know to "fall back," either. What a horrible defect! Making it "fall back" is more onerous than making it "spring forward," because now I have to push the hour button 23 times instead of 1.

 

I don't know that our dog heard about the time change. It's cold rain this morning anyway, and he appears to be in no rush.

 

mrs b has a clock radio that had time changes programmed in. when they moved the dates, it basically became obsolete.
she still uses it, but when it changes time on the wrong date, she winds up getting up an hour early, or an hour late.
most people like the extra hour today, but i prefer darker in the morning and lighter in the evening.

we have 12 clocks that have to be manually changed

 

Yeah, my thermostat has the current date rules baked into it. That'll be swell until the next time Congress changes them.

If I remember right, there is a little USB port on it that can be used for updates. It's a dozen years old; I wonder if Honeywell would issue an update for it.

 

Oh, life is so complicated. Pushing buttons! How archaic!

 

My "atomic" clock, which generally syncs to NIST's time stations WWV (Colorado) or WWVH (Hawaii) overnight when shortwave radio propagation is best (and free-runs the rest of the day), missed last night so is still on DST. It isn't unusual for it to miss a time change for a night or two before catching up.

Dad's similar clock erroneously changed to standard time a week early, but returned to the right time the next day. I'm not there now, so haven't heard if it changed back to standard time today.

I've long wanted to stop it too.

Yes, a lousy idea. While many people like the pseudo-"extra" daylight, several recent news articles have pointed out the many health consequences from having DST during winter here at our mid-latitudes.

Numerous school districts have pushed back start times for high school students due to the typical circadian clock schedule of that age group, to improve academic performance. Permanent DST would mean needing to push back those start times another hour, at least in winter, just to maintain the benefits of the original shift.

While many people say they want the earlier clock (i.e. DST), the shift of numerous common retail opening and closing hours over my life strongly suggests the opposite. After a job change two decades ago, to a tech place with a significantly younger average age, the later spread of morning arrival times demonstrated the same thing.

 

Dog bladders may be upsized because of the secondary role of urine in chemical communication. Out where direct meetings may be uncommon. While wishing for high capacity, one might not choose to participate in the scenternet.

 

Speaking of time zones, There is a country spanning about 62 degrees of Longitude with only a single time zone. No fair peeking on internet. As a corollary, more people live in this time zone than any other. Youse can win some bar bets if you happen to be in an area where Geography is not much taught.

 

We’ve oft heard it referred to as “peemail”.

 

wee-wee-web

 

I'm DQ'd for having previously looked at the Internet. Even without that, having some knowledge about the multiple time zones of the wide-longitude competition leads to an answer by elimination.

Are local schools and businesses hours scheduled according to a common national time, or by something closer to local solar time? Or by something else?

 

In far-west China, people do what they do according to sunlit hours. The overbearing national clock system does not prevail. Have I said too much?

 

Sun dials?

Bob Wilson

 

Pineal gland?

 

My older atomic clocks have a DST setting. You need to go into settings and manually turn DST on or off. My newer one updates DST by itself.

 

Mine is automatic only, it cannot be done manually. But it did catch up this morning.