Time Change

[MileHigh]

I personally lead dark when you go home, but again, know I am in the minority it seems. I lived in Arizona and as weird as it may sound the lack of time changes was the best part of the place. It's amazing how much of a suck they really are. It's standard time there and none of the sunrises or sunsets really bothered me too much any time, although my oldest who was then like 4 did go through a phase of waking up with the sun in the summer, which was something like 4:30 a.m., and that was no good. But we got on top of that pretty fast!

Still, I am on board with ditching it one way or the other.

Arizona is weird because the reservations use DST and the rest of the state does not, so you could be switching time zones a handful of times depending on where you're traveling, notably in the Tuba City area.

 

[Songbird]

Has anyone ever figured out how much extra farming the farmers have done with the extra hour?

 

[Azrael]

Funny thing is, it was never really for farmers.

It made things harder on them.

8 Things You May Not Know About Daylight Saving Time

5. Daylight saving time in the United States was not intended to benefit farmers, as many people think.
Contrary to popular belief, American farmers did not lobby for daylight saving to have more time to work in the fields; in fact, the agriculture industry was deeply opposed to the time switch when it was first implemented on March 31, 1918, as a wartime measure. The sun, not the clock, dictated farmers’ schedules, so daylight saving was very disruptive. Farmers had to wait an extra hour for dew to evaporate to harvest hay, hired hands worked less since they still left at the same time for dinner and cows weren’t ready to be milked an hour earlier to meet shipping schedules. Agrarian interests led the fight for the 1919 repeal of national daylight saving time, which passed after Congress voted to override President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. Rather than rural interests, it has been urban entities such as retail outlets and recreational businesses that have championed daylight saving over the decades.

One Hundred Years Later, the Madness of Daylight Saving Time Endures | History | Smithsonian Magazine

 

[User 149557]

Reading 1910s newspapers in the morgue where each town decided when they’d change the clock independently was wild.

Imagine that chaos.


But I live in a town straddling Ohio and Indiana, so that used to be chaos for half the year, too. Your appointment across town could be an hour apart.

 

[User 150927]

My sister used to live in a place like that. Small town, but the time difference could be an issue.

 

[Roscablo]

Reading 1910s newspapers in the morgue where each town decided when they’d change the clock independently was wild.

Imagine that chaos.


But I live in a town straddling Ohio and Indiana, so that used to be chaos for half the year, too. Your appointment across town could be an hour apart.

My mom grew up in Richmond, Indiana, and my grandparents never lived anywhere else. Visiting in the summer you got all sorts of primetime there!

 

[da man]

Am I the only one who remembers when they kept daylight savings time year round during the “energy crisis” of the ‘70s? I was in high school, and yes, it was pitch black out when we walked to school. Seemed like a very dangerous situation to me.

 

[Driftwood]

Driving to work this morning in the daylight was weird. It not even being 6 p.m. and dark outside blows.

 

[playthrough]

Reading 1910s newspapers in the morgue where each town decided when they’d change the clock independently was wild.

Imagine that chaos.


But I live in a town straddling Ohio and Indiana, so that used to be chaos for half the year, too. Your appointment across town could be an hour apart.

Years ago, the riverboat casinos in southeast Indiana actually went out to cruise the Ohio (just so you could see the clear blue water, ha), so if you were driving there from, say, Bloomington (like this degenerate), you'd have to take the time change into account for half the year while figuring out your boat departure time.

 

[User 149557]

And my wife had the fun of growing up in one of the few Indiana counties that were on Central time. Indiana was a patchwork quilt of clocks.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Falling back is the worst. It's almost 7:30, should be 8:30 and feels like 9:30.

 

[User 11148]

MommaQuant: You know it's only 7:30, right?

Me: ****!

 

[da man]

MommaQuant: You know it's only 7:30, right?

Me: ****!

And did she?

 

[Batman]

And my wife had the fun of growing up in one of the few Indiana counties that were on Central time. Indiana was a patchwork quilt of clocks.

I remember reading an AP story on that many, many years ago. Between the two different time zones, the state not observing daylight savings time but some border counties still following it, and a few other quirks, there were something like 10 different time zones in the state.
Have they finally sorted it all out, or is it still like that?

 

[Cosmo]

I personally lead dark when you go home, but again, know I am in the minority it seems. I lived in Arizona and as weird as it may sound the lack of time changes was the best part of the place. It's amazing how much of a suck they really are. It's standard time there and none of the sunrises or sunsets really bothered me too much any time, although my oldest who was then like 4 did go through a phase of waking up with the sun in the summer, which was something like 4:30 a.m., and that was no good. But we got on top of that pretty fast!

Still, I am on board with ditching it one way or the other.

The only weird thing was that if you had cable, you picked up the Pacific time zone feed, so you had to adjust your timing for shows that were on networks like Comedy Central, etc. For a good week, you had no idea when South Park was on. Or if you were calling your family back in the DC area, you forgot it was two hours instead of three. But it was quickly figured out.

 

[Roscablo]

I remember reading an AP story on that many, many years ago. Between the two different time zones, the state not observing daylight savings time but some border counties still following it, and a few other quirks, there were something like 10 different time zones in the state.
Have they finally sorted it all out, or is it still like that?

Indiana went to DST time changes a while ago. Without Googling hard enough to confirm for sure, it looks like 2006.

 

[Roscablo]

The only weird thing was that if you had cable, you picked up the Pacific time zone feed, so you had to adjust your timing for shows that were on networks like Comedy Central, etc. For a good week, you had no idea when South Park was on. Or if you were calling your family back in the DC area, you forgot it was two hours instead of three. But it was quickly figured out.

My main thing was the NFL all of a sudden being on at 10 a.m. That was something new and different. I moved there from the Central Time Zone, too, so a bit of an adjustment.

 

[User 11148]

And did she?

Ha ha! No!

 

[Cosmo]

My main thing was the NFL all of a sudden being on at 10 a.m. That was something new and different. I moved there from the Central Time Zone, too, so a bit of an adjustment.

I moved there from the Eastern Time Zone, so it was a massive adjustment. College football especially. A lot of 9 a.m. games. I didn't watch soccer at that point, so morning sports were not something that I ever watched. There was a sports bar in Flag that used to open for breakfast at 9 on Saturdays for a handful of East Coast fans. It changed the entire dynamic of Sundays. You were kind of done with football by 4:30 or so and still had a Sunday evening to do other things. I kind of miss it, though now as a soccer nut, the 4:30 a.m. and 7 a.m. PL games would be tough.

 

[Driftwood]

I had a big day. I cut wood most of the morning and fished all afternoon. I'm beat. It's 5:45 p.m. and dark out.
Serious question: If I haul myself to bed right now like I could honestly do, what time would I wake up, and how long would tomorrow be?