Changing the clocks BOO!

[pagebypage]

Does anyone else suffer from changing the clocks like I do? Although "Fall Back" is touted as getting an extra hour of sleep, by going to bed early by an hour it seems to take me 3 hours to fall asleep instead of the usual 10 minutes. It takes me 3-5 days to adjust. It seems worse in the fall, but I also have some trouble in the spring.

[Hawthorne]

Yes, I have trouble for a few days after the fall time change in particular. I am sleepier during the day and hae trouble getting to sleep when I first go to bed for a couple of nights.

I have no idea why.

[BleepingBeauty]

Come to Arizona!

I like that we don't change the clocks here, but it makes it impossible for anyone anywhere else to know what time it is here at any given point in the year. (In the summer, I'm on Mountain Time; in the winter, I'm on Pacific Time.) It's confusing for everyone else, but I like not changing the clocks twice a year.

[-SWS]

The DST adjustment at spring can supposedly cause even more problems for some of us than the fall time change.

Article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 123249.htm

Supporting study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17964164

[Slinky]

This changing clocks' time is a crock of horsepuckies. Always has been, always will be. The animals are smarter than we are. They know what time it is and when to do what in concert w/nature. Its only egomaniac humans and politicians that feel they have to play around w/the "clocks". Ahhhh, what a sense of POWER, we changed the time. Whoopee doo. Idiots!

[-SWS]

Oh... I forgot to add my opinion of DST: I also hate it with a passion!

... horsepuckies.

Slapped around by horses on ice with hockey sticks.

[millich]

I struggle with fallling asleep for about a week with either time change.

An email I received last week was humerous. It said (paraphrasing):
An old Indian summed up Daylight Savings Time as "Only the government could think that taking a foot off the top of a blanket and sewing it onto the bottom of the blanket would that blanket a foot longer".
True.

[Slinky]

That ole Indian is one heck of a whole lot smarter than our politicians!!!! All winter long we get to get up in the dark and go to bed in the dark. Go to work in the dark and come home from work in the dark. But this saves energy and money. SNORT!

[bearded_two]

It takes me about a week to adjust to the time change, I wish we could stay on DST year-round. I have almost gotten to the point that all of my clocks automatically change to/from DST; the clock on my digital hygrometer, the clock in my car, and my bathroom clock are the only ones left that don't automatically change.

[weebl]

I don't mind the fall change, as it gives me an extra hour of sleep, but I do hate with a passion the spring change as I lose an hour of sleep. I think the whole DST thing is pointless in this day and age. Enegy savings? Really? Show me the proof. Arizona and Saskatchewan have the right idea.

[Snorebert]

I always figured that we don't change the clocks here in Arizona because the extra hour of sun would just burn us up

[Uncle_Bob]

I always figured that we don't change the clocks here in Arizona because the extra hour of sun would just burn us up

Although the clocks are not supposed to change in Arizona most of mine do because that's the default setting

And i'm too lazy to figure out how to change it

[timbalionguy]

As a broaodcast engineer, the two time changes are a major concern.

It seems our automation system, which does most of the program switching to air, cannot deal with 23 and 25 hour days. (As an interesting historic perspective, PBS used to have a 30 hour day, with the new day overlapping the old day. This allowed the now-archaic-but-then-modern systems in use at the time to have a continuously increasing time frame to work with for each broadcast day.) So, it has to be stopped, the time change made manually, and the whole system restarted (it is spread over six computers, five of which get rebooted in the process). I also use this time to confirm the time change occurred on computers that either can change automatically, or have software that compensates for the change. I have to stay for at least an hour to make sure the automation 'caught up' and that the next programs air as scheduled.

What makes this all more interesting is that many devices get their time reference from a master clock that is referenced to the GPS system. That clock is set up to UTC, because UTC never changes. All devices that use it calculate local time against this reference, whether or not they can automatically handle the time changes. The same GPS reference also provides us with a standard frequency reference that we lock our master synchronizing generators to. The sync generators (two of them, actually, backing each other up) sends signals to all the video and audio equipment to keep their signals 'in step' with each other.

In any case, depending on what other out-of-service stuff needs to be done, I can plan for 2-3 hours at the station at a time when I should be 'snuggling with my hose' (And the cats!).

[Lou Cypher]

I hate the time changes and could never figure why they just don't leave things alone, I don't care which one they pick, just PICK ONE AND LEAVE IT ALONE !!!!

Yes I have trouble adjusting and getting back into the old way of falling to sleep immediately. grumble grumble

[Muse-Inc]

The last of our cats, a handsome Russian Blue, used to totally freak with the time changes...he knew when food was supposed to be served, when we were suppose to go to bed and made a blanket nest for him, and when we were supposed to get up; he complained when the schedule changed. Usually took 6 wks for Nikki to adjust. Now, I have the same problem...takes me a month or so to adjust.