Whatthehell?!?!? We set our clocks forward THIS weekend?

luckyducky · Mar 4, 2009

I have a 9 a.m. EDT (for my PST self) flight Sunday after a long Saturday of work. Had we all been reminded a month ago, I definitely would have scheduled the later flight. Crap.

luckyducky · Mar 4, 2009

Batman said:

Sadly, Indiana has adopted daylight savings time, thus ending generations of mindbending confusion around this time of year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana

I remember a great AP story a few years ago about how, because of the state's two time zones and its refusal to adopt DST, the state was losing businesses and nobody could figure out what the hell time it was. There were goofy things, too, like if you lived in the Central time zone and worked in the Eastern time zone, you'd leave at 6:30 to drive 30 minutes to work, and get there at 9.
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Ok, so they do now observe it? (Indy is where I fly out of Sunday) I thought the only states that didn't were Arizona and Hawaii...

gingerbread · Mar 4, 2009

Worst day of the year for people like me who hate summer and love the snow.
(Hi Moddy!)

mike311gd · Mar 4, 2009

I'm turning my clocks ahead 12 hours.

Football_Bat · Mar 4, 2009

It's gonna be a glorious day.

Wish it was year round. Hell, I wish we had Double Daylight Saving Time. I'd love to see daylight at 11 p.m. without flying to Alaska.

In fact, I'd like to see the whole Central Time Zone combined with Eastern so I don't have to change all the times on the agate.

Shoeless Joe · Mar 4, 2009

slappy4428 said:

Oggiedoggie said:

I blame Bush.

. A U.S. law signed by President George W. Bush in 2005 extended the length of daylight saving time by four weeks. It now begins at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March. It ends on the first Sunday in November.
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From: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/sleep/2009/03/03/13-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-daylight-saving-time.html

There's other goofy facts there.
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Another stupid move by President Stupid.
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I'd put it on the short list of things he got right.

I Digress · Mar 4, 2009

Shoeless Joe said:

I Digress said:

Ohio University, first institute of higher education west of the Alleghenies.. if you can't be best, be first!!!! Not too long ago, I was in The Junction, and I"m pretty sure it's layered with dirt that was there when I was an undergrad. And that was the 80s. And we didn't riot. We went quietly into the night at 1:30 when the bars closed early on spring forward night. Of course, we were drunk as shit and most likely puked in an alley on the way home, but I Digress.
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Incorrect.
Ohio Univ. founded 1804. Tusculum College founded 1794.

As for the time change, I dig the early forward, later backward thing. I like DST.

When was in the Navy, if you had pissed off the watch commander you got the mid watch in the fall, making your four-hour watch in the wee hours five. If he liked you, you got it in the spring so you were only on watch for three hours.
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Ahem. Tusculum is west of the Cumberland Mountains. The Allegheny portion of the range is farther north and does not extend south out of West Virginia.

playthrough · Mar 4, 2009

ducky said:

Batman said:

Sadly, Indiana has adopted daylight savings time, thus ending generations of mindbending confusion around this time of year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana

I remember a great AP story a few years ago about how, because of the state's two time zones and its refusal to adopt DST, the state was losing businesses and nobody could figure out what the hell time it was. There were goofy things, too, like if you lived in the Central time zone and worked in the Eastern time zone, you'd leave at 6:30 to drive 30 minutes to work, and get there at 9.
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Ok, so they do now observe it? (Indy is where I fly out of Sunday) I thought the only states that didn't were Arizona and Hawaii...
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Yes.

Shoeless Joe · Mar 4, 2009

I Digress said:

Shoeless Joe said:

I Digress said:

Ohio University, first institute of higher education west of the Alleghenies.. if you can't be best, be first!!!! Not too long ago, I was in The Junction, and I"m pretty sure it's layered with dirt that was there when I was an undergrad. And that was the 80s. And we didn't riot. We went quietly into the night at 1:30 when the bars closed early on spring forward night. Of course, we were drunk as shit and most likely puked in an alley on the way home, but I Digress.
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Incorrect.
Ohio Univ. founded 1804. Tusculum College founded 1794.

As for the time change, I dig the early forward, later backward thing. I like DST.

When was in the Navy, if you had pissed off the watch commander you got the mid watch in the fall, making your four-hour watch in the wee hours five. If he liked you, you got it in the spring so you were only on watch for three hours.
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Ahem. Tusculum is west of the Cumberland Mountains. The Allegheny portion of the range is farther north and does not extend south out of West Virginia.
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Actually, Tusculum bills itself as the oldest west of the Appalachians, which is all-encompassing. Tusculum is actually east of what are considered the Cumberlands, but west of the Smokies.

I Digress · Mar 4, 2009

OU has never billed itself as oldest west of the Appalachians.. just the Alleghenies.

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