Time change. Again.

It's a beautiful, sunny, warm day here. I'm sitting on my deck, looking out over the water, enjoying a glass of wine and the extra hour of daylight.



Just kidding

The Juggler said:

brianlux said:

The Juggler said:

Extra hour of sleep last night. Feeling refreshed!

How did you do that?  I'm impressed!  I got one hour less sleep.

When I got up this morning my wife (who is always up before I am) said, "Somebody stole an hour from my iPhone last night." 

What do you mean? I set my clocks back an hour like everyone else. 

Yes, that's exactly what we mean.

I hate that Verizon decided to move my phone clock forward an hour despite living in a state that doesn't recognize the time change. Causing me to think I was late for work and scrambling around the kitchen getting ready until I glanced at my microwave. 

F Me In The Brain said:

WhatYouTaughtMe said:

I hate that Verizon decided to move my phone clock forward an hour despite living in a state that doesn't recognize the time change. Causing me to think I was late for work and scrambling around the kitchen getting ready until I glanced at my microwave. 

Isn't it Indiana where part of the state changes and part of it does not?
#dumb

The part of Indiana in the eastern time zone used to not observe it, but the whole state does now.

Currently, only Arizona and Hawai'i do not observe DST, except for the Navajo Reservation in AZ, which does observe it.

Florida recently passed a bill which allows the state to observe DST year round, but it cannot take effect unless federal law is amended to allow it.

PJ_Soul said:

I think it's dumb for some places in the same country to not do it while others do. Everyone just needs to stick to the same plan. I don't really care if we do it or not, but it's got to be all or nothing. These little pockets that seem to drop it just out of spite really complicate things.

The reason part of Indiana didn't is because it splits two time zones, so they opted out to keep the entire state on the same time.  A bunch of counties in the western part of the state were moved from central to eastern time zone a few years back and when that occurred, the whole state opted in.

Same with Florida. Since it spans two time zones, they can opt in or out.  Why they'd want to opt in year round is beyond me. It's location pretty much guarantees uniform sunrises and sunsets year round already.  Hawai'i opts out for that exact reason.

As for Arizona, I think they just don't want the sun to still be out and have it be 100 degrees at 10pm.

HesCalledDyer said:

PJ_Soul said:

I think it's dumb for some places in the same country to not do it while others do. Everyone just needs to stick to the same plan. I don't really care if we do it or not, but it's got to be all or nothing. These little pockets that seem to drop it just out of spite really complicate things.

The reason part of Indiana didn't is because it splits two time zones, so they opted out to keep the entire state on the same time.  A bunch of counties in the western part of the state were moved from central to eastern time zone a few years back and when that occurred, the whole state opted in.

Same with Florida. Since it spans two time zones, they can opt in or out.  Why they'd want to opt in year round is beyond me. It's location pretty much guarantees uniform sunrises and sunsets year round already.  Hawai'i opts out for that exact reason.

As for Arizona, I think they just don't want the sun to still be out and have it be 100 degrees at 10pm.

Well to have one state with different time zones is super stupid too... it's like a chain reaction of dumb things, lol.

rgambs said:

I can't recall a single time that the spring time change has had a negative effect on me.
The thought of living my life by a schedule strict enough that deviating by a single hour causes distress is almost enough to make me sick lol
The biggest negative effect the time change has on my life is the people I hear bitching about it hahaha.

For me it's all about sleep. I've got chronic insomnia, so yeah, 1 hour difference really matters to people like me who have sleep disorders. Otherwise, I can't see why it would bug anyone... but studies to indicate that it makes a difference. It is true that car accidents increase noticeably on the Monday following the time change. Interestingly, this is true in both spring and fall.

PJ_Soul said:

HesCalledDyer said:

PJ_Soul said:

I think it's dumb for some places in the same country to not do it while others do. Everyone just needs to stick to the same plan. I don't really care if we do it or not, but it's got to be all or nothing. These little pockets that seem to drop it just out of spite really complicate things.

The reason part of Indiana didn't is because it splits two time zones, so they opted out to keep the entire state on the same time.  A bunch of counties in the western part of the state were moved from central to eastern time zone a few years back and when that occurred, the whole state opted in.

Same with Florida. Since it spans two time zones, they can opt in or out.  Why they'd want to opt in year round is beyond me. It's location pretty much guarantees uniform sunrises and sunsets year round already.  Hawai'i opts out for that exact reason.

As for Arizona, I think they just don't want the sun to still be out and have it be 100 degrees at 10pm.

Well to have one state with different time zones is super stupid too... it's like a chain reaction of dumb things, lol.

No argument there. I mean, I could see if a state stretched from like the MIssissippi River to the Pacific splitting it into different time zones. But theres no reason to split Indiana into two zones. It's only 140 miles wide.