Quote from: walkstall on March 13, 2015, 09:57:39 PM
Canadian railway engineer Sir Sandford Fleming.

I was just gonna say "the railroads," but you're right. It was all about their train schedules. Before they instituted the time standards, the local time was just that -- the local time. It was the railroads, saddled with the need to schedule things over hundreds of miles, who came up with the idea.

Along the same lines, we're approaching what a lot of folks call the "first official day of Spring." Thirty or forty years ago, there wasn't any such thing. Only in recent years have the NOAA and the Weather Service adopted the occurrence of astronomical events -- which obviously have nothing to do with seasons or weather -- as demarcations of the seasons.

Seems like everybody wants to set a clock to something or other.

Quote from: TboneAgain on March 13, 2015, 10:05:30 PM
I was just gonna say "the railroads," but you're right. It was all about their train schedules. Before they instituted the time standards, the local time was just that -- the local time. It was the railroads, saddled with the need to schedule things over hundreds of miles, who came up with the idea.

Along the same lines, we're approaching what a lot of folks call the "first official day of Spring." Thirty or forty years ago, there wasn't any such thing. Only in recent years have the NOAA and the Weather Service adopted the occurrence of astronomical events -- which obviously have nothing to do with seasons or weather -- as demarcations of the seasons.

Seems like everybody wants to set a clock to something or other.

My internal clock has a mind of it own. 

I've emphasized two lines from this CBC News item about Daylight Savings Time. Ask yourself: isn't it grand to throw voters into a biological tailspin, just before they vote?...

QuotePlanning ahead

If you want to mark your calendar now so that you don't get caught off-guard by the next time change, here's the schedule through 2019:

    2015: Spring forward Sunday, March 8 at 2 a.m. Fall back Sunday, Nov. 1 at 2 a.m.
    2016: Spring forward Sunday, March 13 at 2 a.m. Fall back Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 a.m.
    2017: Spring forward Sunday, March 12 at 2 a.m. Fall back Sunday, Nov. 5 at 2 a.m.
    2018: Spring forward Sunday, March 11 at 2 a.m. Fall back Sunday, Nov. 4 at 2 a.m.
    2019: Spring forward Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. Fall back Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2 a.m.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/daylight-saving-time-2015-6-eye-opening-facts-about-the-time-change-1.1333086

Quote from: quiller on March 14, 2015, 06:18:42 AM
I've emphasized two lines from this CBC News item about Daylight Savings Time. Ask yourself: isn't it grand to throw voters into a biological tailspin, just before they vote?...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/daylight-saving-time-2015-6-eye-opening-facts-about-the-time-change-1.1333086

I don't see a problem. In the fall, the change gives us a 49 hour weekend. About the only thing that happens on election day is I'll wake a hour early (according to the clock) which, if I desire, I can use for an extra long shower, extra long breakfast, a little morning recreational reading, or some combination of all three.

It's the missing hour in spring I have some difficulty adjusting - though not a lot.

Quote from: zewazir on March 14, 2015, 09:51:40 PM
I don't see a problem. In the fall, the change gives us a 49 hour weekend. About the only thing that happens on election day is I'll wake a hour early (according to the clock) which, if I desire, I can use for an extra long shower, extra long breakfast, a little morning recreational reading, or some combination of all three.

It's the missing hour in spring I have some difficulty adjusting - though not a lot.

I can go to bed at any time.  I don't care what time a day it is.  I get up 4 hrs. later.  It was nice working shift work as I had no problems sleeping.  The kids could run through the house and have fun and I would not wake up.  But let my wife call my name or the house get dead quiet and I would wake right up.   For me time is only for appointments.  My wife at last is starting to enjoy not caring what day it is.

Quote from: walkstall on March 14, 2015, 10:21:35 PM

I can go to bed at any time.  I don't care what time a day it is.  I get up 4 hrs. later.  It was nice working shift work as I had no problems sleeping.  The kids could run through the house and have fun and I would not wake up.  But let my wife call my name or the house get dead quiet and I would wake right up.   For me time is only for appointments.  My wife at last is starting to enjoy not caring what day it is.

Same here. If not for Toy telling me she's off Friday or whenever, I'd never know what day it is.
Don't watch TV, and sure as Hell don't need a watch, time has become irrelevant, except for Toy lives by the clock still, and needs her solid 8 hrs of sleep.

When she retire in 2017, all the clocks go in the trash.