Standard time

[Johnny Dangerously]

standard time Capitalize Eastern Standard Time, Pacific Standard Time, etc., but lowercase standard time when standing alone.

daylight saving time Not savings. No hyphen.

When linking the term with the name of a time zone, use only the word daylight: Eastern Daylight Time, Pacific Daylight Time, etc.
Lowercase daylight saving time in all uses and daylight time whenever it stands alone.
A federal law specifies that daylight time applies from 2 a.m. on the second Sunday of March until 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November in areas that do not specifically exempt themselves.


JD says if you're early for everything today, you may have missed the memo.



(This is the first one in a long time that snuck up on me. If I hadn't caught it, I might have been an hour early for my first day on the job tomorrow. Not that it would have been a bad move ...)

 

[BTExpress]

Dog's bowels are still on standard time.

So much for that extra hour of sleep.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

There's a lot of that going around, apparently.

 

[TrooperBari]

 

[imjustagirl]

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Dog's bowels are still on standard time.

So much for that extra hour of sleep.

Way to crap on the thread. Send the pooch our regards.

 

[KP]

Dog's bowels are still on standard time.

So much for that extra hour of sleep.

Wouldn't the dog's bowels be on daylight time?

 

[BTExpress]

oops. uh, yeah.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Poops. uh, yeah.

Fixed that one for you ...

 

[dixiehack]

for my first day on the job tomorrow.

Having missed this news elsewhere, congratulations.

 

[Starman]

 

[Football_Bat]

Sad day. I'm the biggest DST fan on the board. Darkness before 6 p.m. sucks.

 

[JackReacher]

Sad day. I'm the biggest DST fan on the board. Darkness before 6 p.m. sucks.

I hear so many different things regarding DST. Are we going to have it all year round soon or what? I never know what to think or believe.

But yeah, darkness before 6 p.m. is terrible.

 

[Steak Snabler]

All I know is that last week, the kids around here were having to catch the school bus in the dark ... and that sucks, too.

 

[Football_Bat]

I'd just as well do away with time zones, period. Put the whole country on Eastern Standard (or if one must, half on Eastern and half on Mountain). Call it American Time, dammit.

Time zones are quaint and harken back to the days when trains needed to run on time and every town had its own noon based on where the sun was.

 

[JackReacher]

I loved some Central Standard Time. Sadly, that lasted only two years. I call it the perfect time zone, but I may be underestimating Mountain time.

 

[Football_Bat]

Central Time (a/k/a God's Time) is all I've lived in -- in the U.S. It's nice getting all the East Coast games in by about 9 p.m. If a West Coaster goes fast enough we can squeeze them in.

I'm no fan of waiting up to 11 for late local news ET and PT. I'm conditioned for 10 CT. (I don't know what Mountain Time, the ******* of time zones, does.)

 

[JackReacher]

FB...you can never appreciate CST until you live on the East Coast. But your points stand.

I'd like to live on Pacific time for a year, maybe two, just to experience it. You know, 9 a.m. college football, 10 a.m. NFL. Silly.

 

[Football_Bat]

FB...you can never appreciate CST until you live on the East Coast. But your points stand.

I'd like to live on Pacific time for a year, maybe two, just to experience it. You know, 9 a.m. college football, 10 a.m. NFL. Silly.

When I was in Europe, 7 p.m. CT games started at 2 a.m. on AFN. The Super Bowl started after midnight. But noon games were in prime time over there.

For the other extreme, I'd guess Hawaii would be cool — unless you were hauling ass home to catch MNF at 3:30 in the afternoon.

 

[TrooperBari]

For the other extreme, I'd guess Hawaii would be cool — unless you were hauling ass home to catch MNF at 3:30 in the afternoon.

DVR is a must if you're living in Hawaii. I would always watch PTI at 11:30 a.m. before running off to work.