Did you FALL BACK?

[Maddy McCall]

Poll question: Did you FALL BACK?

Time to set your clock back an hour. Have you done this yet?

I am headed to do so and then to bed. Goodnight, DU.

[arwalden]

1. It's All Automatic

Someone else does it for me.

[alexwcovington]

2. You fall back at 2:00 AM

After that my watch will be one hour (and three minutes) fast because I can't reset it!!

But I use my PC as my alarm clock and it resets itself automatically on two levels... Windows knows when to spring forward and fall back... and then every now and then it checks an internet time server. So I'm mostly covered.

[alexwcovington]

3. :P And I'm on Central Time BTW

So I don't need to do it yet.

I've seen Windows set the clock forward and back automatically several times now. Never in XP though. Could be interesting.

[Maddy McCall]

5. LOL...but alex, there is no rule that says you have to wait until

2:00 AM to reset wall clocks in your home! LOL! ;-)

Where in Central Time are you? I am in central too--Mississippi.

I will watch my XP fall back, also.

[alexwcovington]

17. If it wasn't obvious

North Dakota

[Maddy McCall]

4. It is after 2 AM on the East Coast.

It's about 1:35, Central time.

Admin must have just reset the time on DU, because I posted the poll at 1:30 and went back a minute later to edit the third choice, and it said that editing time had expired. Oh well.

I have about 10 clocks in my house...have reset several of them, and will finish the rest in the morning.

[Hogarth]

6. My Macintosh does it automatically ...

... so of course I had to watch it happen. Sure enough, at 2:00, the computer reset to 1:00. Woo-hoo! Time for another beer.

[FDRrocks]

7. Done it!

Set my clock back and my computer did it automatically.

Thank whoever for one hour!

Can someone explain this to me... Why do we set it back in fall, and ahead in spring... wouldn't it just even out if we didnt? one hour?!?!?!? whats the dillyo?

[Maddy McCall]

9. It has to do with the agriculturally based economy of the past...

but I am not sure exactly how, except that it gives farmers an extra hour of daylight in which to work...something like that anyway.

[FDRrocks]

10. Well I guess the economy is still based on agriculture...

If you shift the definition to include farming for metals...

There must be a better way!!!!! Didn't Ben Franklin come up with all this shit?

[Maddy McCall]

11. Dunno...But we can thank railroad companies for having

so many time zones.

[FDRrocks]

13. And probably the Grant administration...

for being all cozy with them there railroads.

[Maddy McCall]

14. Well, you learn something every day...it all began with WWI

We are ending DST right now and reverting to Standard Time. Indiana doesn't do it because farmers actually DO NOT like DST.

Daylight saving time did indeed begin in the United States during World War I, primarily to save fuel by reducing the need to use artificial lighting. Although some states and communities observed daylight saving time between the wars, it was not observed nationally again until World War II.

Of course, World War II is long over. So why do we still observe daylight saving time?

The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided the basic framework for alternating between daylight saving time and standard time, which we now observe in the United States. But Congress can't seem to resist tinkering with it. For example, in 1973 daylight saving time was observed all year, instead of just the spring and summer. The current system of beginning DST at 2 AM on the first Sunday in April and ending it at 2 AM on the last Sunday in October was not standardized until 1986.

http://www.standardtime.com/

[FDRrocks]

15. I could've swore my school taught me Ben Franklin...

came up with the idea... maybe it was just a rough draft of the idea.

Anyways, I don't like it :)

[blackcat77]

8. I live in Indiana -- clocks don't change here. nt

[Maddy McCall]

12. Why not? (edit: googled for the answer)...

you guys are just REBELS, aren't you! :-)

[Booberdawg]

16. My PC, cable, and clock radios all do it automatically.

Just have one battery operated clock to do myself. Haven't worn a watch in 6 years

[Maddy McCall]

18. Ooo...thanks! Gotta rewind the watch an hour...

would have forgotten it!

[Piperay]

19. I'm on the West Coast

and it is only 1:15 am here so I haven't done it yet. :-)