Daylight Savings Time

[GalvestonDuck]

Okay, if I'm not mistaken, isn't it NEXT Sunday???

This says THIS weekend:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... s.html&e=7

Got the above from here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=964 in the most popular stories section.

However, this says the LAST Sunday in October:
http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html

[Stephanie]

I thought it was the last Sunday in October as well, which would be the 26th. :?

[TexasStooge]

It's usually the last Sunday of October.

[Lindaloo]

Daylight time begins in the United States on the first Sunday in April and ends on the last Sunday in October. On the first Sunday in April, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the last Sunday in October, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time.


Not all places in the U.S. observe daylight time. In particular, Arizona, Hawaii, and most of Indiana do not use it.

In 2003, daylight time begins on April 6 and ends on October 26.

In 2004, daylight time begins on April 4 and ends on October 31.

In 2005, daylight time begins on April 3 and ends on October 30.

Many other countries observe some form of "summer time", but they do not necessarily change their clocks on the same dates as the U.S.

[GalvestonDuck]

Thanks, gang. That's what I thought.

I think Yahoo News needs a nap.

[coriolis]

:bx I hate going back to standard time. I'll go to work in the dark, let me come home to some daylight. I've always wanted to move to western Ohio, which is the westernmost edge of the eastern time zone, to maximize the evening daylight. I figure that on Jun 21, sunset must be about 9:30 pm, as opposed to about 8:50 pm here.

Here's an address of a sunrise/sunset calculator.

http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sun ... nrise.html

[TexasStooge]

:bx I hate going back to standard time.

Same here.

[bfez1]

I love it!!! I go home and settle in for the night!

[JCT777]

I will welcome the extra hour on the weekend of 10/25-26!

[Stephanie]

So will I JCT!

[Lindaloo]

I agree Ed... school children have to be out in the dark too while waiting on the school bus. I have NEVER liked that. That is one reason why my children have never ridden a school bus. But some children have to.

[GalvestonDuck]

I agree.

And it's worse for kids who are on the "bussing" plan. I don't know if they still have that or where they have it, but we had it in Louisville. The first letter of your last name determined whether or not a student was bussed. I was supposed to be bussed in 2nd and 7th grade. Yet, my best friend didn't have to be bussed in any grade.

Kids from downtown schools rode one bus to their usual school and then hopped on another bus to come to a suburban school. Kids from a suburban school did the opposite, going to a downtown school. So we all had to get up earlier, leave earlier, travel longer, go further, and not get home until later. Depending upon what time of year it was, we may have had to leave when it was dark AND come home when it was already dark. I know my mom always watched out for me. But still, it was a bit of a pain for a second-grader.

Moved to Lexington in 6th grade, so I didn't have to worry about it in 7th.

[Lindaloo]

I do not believe in all that bussing hoopla either. I do not agree with the reasons behind it.

[janswizard]

ok, one more time - what do we adjust our time zones to on this board when the clocks change?

[mf_dolphin]

Here's the settings for the change:

EST = GMT -5
CST = GMT -6
MST = GMT -7
PST = GMT -8

[pojo]

My planner says its the last sunday in October....that's how I've always remembered it.

[Bestofour]

I don't like changing the time either. I say leave it one way or another. As for busing. I was at the first high school in Charlotte, NC to have students from an inner city all black school bused too. We were already an integrated school, but with a low ratio. The students that were bused were from an all black high school. It was terrible for all of us. The bused students would have been on the student council at their school, on the football team, cheerleaders and whatever else. But of course, all those things had been already chosen at my school. They were mad and rightfully so. I spent most of my senior year locked in my homeroom because there was constant fighting in the halls.

[azskyman]

We're so fried by the summer sun down here in the desert that we can't remember to change our clocks. Most other places do, but we just stay the same year round.

I've liked it since moving here.

Mostly because I remember taking my boys to a haunted house on the last Saturday night of October one year. While they were in the longest line and waiting to go through it, I sat in that car for a good hour trying to figure out how to reset the clock to the new time. Never did get it.

Funny....I can change any clock anywhere else, but no two cars have the same way of changing it.

I also bought a Maxima back in '99. One of the biggest selling points? A way to change the hour and minute using two buttons just for that purpose.
Had forgotten, of course, that I would never have to do that again here in Phoenix anyway.

Dah!

[AussieMark]

We start daylight saving on October 26.

Note: I liv in Australia

[opera ghost]

I LOVE changing over in the fall. I'm a night owl naturally- my eyes are unusually light sensitive (so bright sun gives me a headache) and I love the winter- any chance to do things in the dark is great for me *grins*