Did everyone change their clocks???

[ski diva]

I am so totally screwed up with time.

First of all, I've been in Chicago since Thursday. So that's one hour's difference from my usual east coast time. And since it's just an hour, I never bothered to change my watch.

Now the clocks changed last night. So now my watch is two hours behind, leaving me thoroughly confused.

I fly back tomorrow, if I can ever figure out when my plane leaves!

As the old song goes, "Does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care?"

My answer (at least as it applies to me): NO and YES!!!!

 

[Lilgeorg]

We have the new fangled clocks that change themselves!! The radio is old fangled,however. So the alarm came on 1 hour early this morning!

 

[IntheClouds]

No more POPCORN

So my 10 yr old & I had a little dispute over when time change takes effect. He wanted to go to the store & I'd said no, it's 8 o'clock. He said it's time change night & it's only 7. I handed him my cell phone to call POPCORN for the REAL time. It's been discontinued for almost 6 weeks ! Gone for good. What's up with that ? Kinda sad that's gone. My whole life getting the real time from popcorn & I've been abandoned by that old standby. When the power goes out during the winter, just how am I going to find out the real time ? Especially if I left my cell phone in the car & the battery died.

 

[abc]

I fly back tomorrow, if I can ever figure out when my plane leaves!

Don't you have a cell phone? The clock in most cell phones are syncronized by the tower (if you hadn't turned that feature off). So that's the "official" time, locally.

Don't ask anyone who live at the edge of the time zone though...

 

[abc]

We have the new fangled clocks that change themselves!! The radio is old fangled,however. So the alarm came on 1 hour early this morning!

"New fangle clock"? How new? If it's older than a year, it probably changed last week!!!

 

[ski diva]

Don't you have a cell phone? The clock in most cell phones are syncronized by the tower (if you hadn't turned that feature off). So that's the "official" time, locally.

But that means I'd have to REMEMBER to look at my cell phone. And that's another story.....

Actually, that's what I'm doing (took a while to occur to me, though). I'm not as bad off as all that, after all.

 

[Jilly]

I really hate this. It's 5:30pm and pitch black outside. I woke up this morning at 6:30 to a weak sunrise. I think I rather see sunrise at 7:30 and see sunset later. In a month its off to work in the dark and home in the dark!!

 

[abc]

I really hate this. It's 5:30pm and pitch black outside. I woke up this morning at 6:30 to a weak sunrise. I think I rather see sunrise at 7:30 and see sunset later. In a month its off to work in the dark and home in the dark!!

Except this is the REAL time. The summer time of last week is "artificial".

 

[num]

My stuff changes itself too, so I'm set, as long as I'm not looking at someone else's clock, which happened to me today while carpooling with a friend. I looked over at the car clock and thought "holy crap we're late! where did the time go?" then I realized exactly where it had gone.

How'd you like Chicago, Ski Diva?

 

[ski diva]

How'd you like Chicago, Ski Diva?

Really, really nice, but crazy traffic. Much worse than Philadelphia. We've been in Park Ridge, mostly, for a wedding, plus Mr. SD had two readings: one Thursday evening at the library in Vernon Hills, one this afternoon at the Waconda library.

 

[Native Vail Gal]

I forgot! Arrived an hour early to work! People looked at me like I was over-ambitious! Sheesh! I hate that!

 

[abc]

I don't know if my co-workers had forgot to change their clock, or their body clock work against them (like mine did to me). I arrived at work 15 min early, everybody was already there!

(I'm sure ambition has nothing to do with it)

 

[cloudpeak]

I already miss daylight savings time (DST), and we've only been back on standard time for one day. Since I don't mind getting up in the dark, and I love having extra daylight in the afternoon, DST suits me. I hope some day we switch to DST all year long.

 

[ski now work later]

I'm actually relieved to be on EST. It was very dark here in the Northeast in the mornings the past few weeks before DST ended. I don't know if it's the approach of ski season or my Russian heritage, but I feel more in sync with the schedule (and more energetic) since DST ended.... I'm just a winter girl I guess!

 

[volklgirl]

Ummmm....

Actually, I forgot.
A friend invited us to the free matinee movie on Sunday at 10am. I "slept in" a bit then hurried to get ready and get out the door. Hubby kept sleeping, so I almost ran out the door without him. Then I looked at the cable box. 8:15am?????? D'oh!!! I went back to bed. Hubby rolled over and grunted "We forgot to set the clocks, didn't we?". Uh, yup.

Oh, and I tried to get all my buddies together for an after-work ride on Friday, but only hubby and I showed. It occurred to me as we arrived back at the car that it was probably our last after-work ride for the year, since it's now almost dark by the time I get home.

 

[Pequenita]

I had a SkiDiva-like experience. I was in Chihuahua, MX last week, which is in the Mountain time zone. I arrived Oct. 27. Mexico ended daylight savings time on Oct. 28. Then I flew back to the US on Nov. 4, and it's only because the pilots told us what time it was did I know when I landed back in DC.

This was a much better scenario than last year, though, as I flew out to Saipan (sometimes 13 but other times 14 hours ahead of the east coast), which doesn't observe DST, before DST ended on the east coast and returned after it ended. Since it was a work trip, I had the worst time trying to figure out what time my conference calls were...and to make things worse, the TV shows in Saipan are shown a week and a day after they are in the US -- so, I was watching the Halloween episode of the Today Show on November 8! It hurts my head to even think about it now!