The flip side of daylight savings

/ March 11, 2014
That's 6:40 a.m.

That’s 6:40 a.m.

I do admit that I dig the extra hour of daylight after dinner.

But as I opened my eyes to face the morning side of Daylight Savings Time, I was again reminded that it’s just one big Ponzi scheme.

I had waited all winter for daylight to greet my opening eyes, day by day, minute by minute.

Gone, stolen away by a clock change.

Today, I shall call it what it really is. Hello again, Daylight Switching Time.

Do you think the second week of March is too early to change the clocks? Have you ever overslept and missed something important because your body was still on Standard Time?

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55 thoughts on “The flip side of daylight savings”

  1. What is up with my reader? I got barely any updates in my feed from my favorite blogging pals…good day to you Mark. I’m with the masses on this one. This time chg stinks!

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  2. i understand your pain and was in a different time zone when it happened, putting me in the same time zone somehow and on vacation so i could sleep extra hours under a palm tree.it seemed to work out as the perfect natural transition. maybe i should plan it this way each year?

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    • That time zone change thing certainly worked in your favor. Sleeping extra hours under a palm tree sure sounds like the best transition method EVER! If you can pull that trip off every year, you will be my hero. Welcome home from the DR, Beth. I missed your posts and comments, my friend. I can’t wait to hear your take on the trip!

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      • yes, it certainly is the way to do it with absolutely no pain involved. happy to be back just in time for another snowstorm in a few hours ) thanks, mark and i look forward to sharing, maybe i can catch up on my missives tomorrow with another snow day looming – happy to be disconnected for a bit but also missed by blog family)

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      • You’re getting the same storm we’re expected to be hit with tomorrow, I take it. They’re calling for sleet then a foot of snow, starting around noon tomorrow. Just after our lovely little patch of green had emerged in the backyard. Your first day back, a snow day? You are living right, Beth!

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      • it’s pretty crazy, but who am i to question the universe? yes, we seem to pass storms back and forth between us, like a bad case of the flu )

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  4. I think the whole DST needs stopped. I love the saying I read back in the fall about only the government would believe cutting an inch off of one end of the blanket and sewing it to the other end of the blanket makes the blanket longer.

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  5. I think March is too early and November is too late. They always want to change things around when they were just fine the way they were. I hate when we lost this hour. but not at as much as when I was working. 🙂

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  6. It shouldn’t be called Spring Forward if it’s not spring. For that matter, it shouldn’t be called Spring Break. It’s still winter, and it’s often grey and cold and drizzly. The band was supposed to arrive at church at 8am two days ago, which was really 7am, and I knew they would not all show. Lo and behold, both the drummer and the electric guitarist were an hour late, so I wanted to shake them. I do not recall ever oversleeping for anything, as my body usually wakes up before sunrise. Fortunately for others, they can sleep through trains passing 20 ft from their pillows.

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  7. I wonder why we are not on it all year long. As it is,, there are only four month when we are on standard time. In AZ which is filled with sunlight all day long, there is never day light savings time…only state in the Union, I think. And in India…same…no need for more daylight. We sure need more sun and light in Upstate!

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    • We don’t actually get more daylight from this trick, Anne, but I know you know that. Wouldn’t it be nice, though. And, by the way, Hawaii is another state that always remains on standard time.

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  8. Yes, it is too early! I wish they would just leave it one way or the other. My inner clock gets very confused and I have to live in a state of stupor for about a month every spring and fall. And I remember with the “spring forward, fall back.” too. There, I have released you from the curse of confusion. LOL! 😀

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  9. When I was a student I changed the clocks the wrong way – (stop laughing!) – I stood waiting for a bus for absolutely ages – I was so early the timetable hadn’t started. Funnily enough I wasn’t the only one. There was a lady at the bus stop who’d done exactly the same thing and it was she who realised our mistake.

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      • I always have trouble with that saying because can’t you just as easily spring back and fall ahead?
        We change the clocks on march 29/30. Wish me luck.

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      • Now you’ve gone and confused my memory trick forever, Rachel. I shall be waiting for something to start by myself come October change. Good luck for you come the more reasonable spring date of last weekend in March.

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  11. I was so exhausted when I got home yesterday, this really does mess with you.

    I don’t know if March is too early or whenever we moved them last time is too late. I end up driving in the dark one way or the other, so it’s no benefit to me either way.

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  14. In Australia daylight saving seems to throw people into violently opposing camps with a vehemence usually reserved for political or religious debate. In Qld we operate on ‘normal’ hours while around the country it varies from time differences of 1/2 hour to 3 hours. Wacky bunch that we are down under.

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      • Northern NSW where it borders Qld is the 1/2 hour and then as you move south or west the time increases – and I agree it is more than a little out there.

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