Oh shit...Sunday starts daylight saving time.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

:grr:

[AsahinaKimi]

1. so...SPRING FORWARD...

We lose an hour. I wonder why we still have it when there are a few states that don't use it. Do they use it in Canada? I don't think Hawaii uses it..or Alaska.. I know Arizona doesn't use it.

I remember the Joke in Utah when I was living there; someone told me they always turn the clocks back ten years.

[fishwax]

2. lol

"I remember the Joke in Utah when I was living there; someone told me they always turn the clocks back ten years."

:D

[Zomby Woof]

14. Arizona does so only on the Navajo reservation

I lived there for 2 years, and resided very close to the Navajo reservation. Some of my co-workers who lived on the res had to adjust accordingly when coming to work in town.

Alaska does observe it.

You are correct about Hawaii. It and AZ are the only 2 states now which opt out.

Canada observes it in most provinces and regions.

When I lived in Spain in the 70's, they observed it, and still do. But now as part of the EU, it is called European Summer Time, and runs from the last Sunday in March through the last Sunday in October. Even the non-EU countries in Europe observe it.

Mexico, some nations in South America, parts of Australia, all of Russia, some nations in the middle east, and a few nations in Africa observe it.

[av8rdave]

3. I'll be flying then....how depressing is THAT!

Should I be worried about some Y2Ten something or another?

[liberaltrucker]

8. Hopefully not near Bermuda

:scared:

[av8rdave]

11. No....will be somewhere over the Ca - Nv border, I'm guessing

[vadawg]

4. yes one hour less at work that i still get paid for woohooo

[astral]

5. Just leap ahead a little earlier in the weekend

don't lose any sleep over it~!

[AllenVanAllen]

6. I've been staying up so late

the longer days will be kinda' nice. I'm way behind on vitamin D production. :hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

7. I love that it's light out longer...

I have night blindness. But I just can't deal with losing an hour of sleep, screws me up for a few days... :hangover:

[Atania of Sargeras]

9. working tonight....

but I still get paid for the hour I lose :)

[kedrys]

10. Wait, what...?

...I thought it wasn't for a couple of weeks...!

The cats *are* getting up a tad early lately. :P Maybe darker in the morning would help - except for Socrates, who has taken to doing donuts in the living room at 3am no matter what.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. I think Prez GWB extended Daylight Saving Time

maybe the only thing he got right!

:hi:

[Zomby Woof]

15. Congress did

He may have signed it, but it was their legislation.

[MilesColtrane]

12. SONOFABITCH

I'd forgotten.

I just went from getting six and half hours of sleep tonight, to five and a half hours.

[Zomby Woof]

16. According to many studies

It may really be an energy-saver. It may be the best rationale for maintaining it, even as we are no longer an agriculturally-centred society.

[femmocrat]

17. I saw some guy on TV say the opposite.

He maintained that more daylight means people are out driving around more, so they use more gasoline.

:shrug: