Time Change This Weekend for North America

Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

This Saturday night / Sunday morning, groggy Americans will turn their clocks forward one hour (and losing an hour of sleep or work), marking the start of Daylight Saving Time (DST) for this year.

Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii and the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are the only places in the U.S. that do not observe DST but instead stay on "standard time" all year long.

Source: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

This always falls on the cast party day every year, so it really doesn't bother me much, because I'm usually at someone's house when it happens, so instead of the cast party going until 3, it ends up going until four....oh well.
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

^^ Strange, I always seem to have some sort of late night gathering on time change days. This year, we're celebrating out final performance night at the theater. Apparently, I'm supposed to be hosting it this year. But I'm not :lol:.

I can't wait to see all the people late for church on Sunday.
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

Don't forget to change your batteries in your smoke detectors this weekend. It's always a good idea to get in the habit of changing them when we do the clocks. Smoke detectors save lives. It takes maybe 5 minutes to do them :)
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

Bumping as a reminder.

It's tonight, people. Do you lose an hour of work (like me), sleep, television, partying, or something other?
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

Overall I personally love DST because it stays bright longer in the evening, but I hate the loss of one hour sleep. :(
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

Kudos to Dynamo1 for reminding me :D

I too lose one hour of work. It'll be weird. It's the first time I'm awake during the actual time change.

I like the fact that it stays bright longer in the evening, but dislike the fact that the mornings will be dark again. I love driving to school when the sun is just rising.
 
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The time change doesn't happen tonight for people in the UK. That's in a couple of weeks. But I personally hate time changes, unless it's the one where I get an hour's extra sleep... ;)
 
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Daylight saving always confuse me.

I have to remind myself that MY daylight saving (since I don't live in the US) hasn't arrived yet. Actually...I don't even know when it is. :eek:
 
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I think UK day light saving starts 30th March!

EDIT: I just noticed that Elsie already posted about it :p
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

I did read this and think oooh clocks then realised i'm in a different time zone... would have been screwed if i did.
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

Dawni said:
I did read this and think oooh clocks then realised i'm in a different time zone... would have been screwed if i did.
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There is a link in the first post of this thread that has the following information:
Also in 1996, members of the European Union agreed to observe a "summer-time period" from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.
 
Re: Time Change This Weekend (March 9, 2008)

Yeah its funny in our house my brother birthday is 29th march when the clocks change well round that time and my birthdays the end of october (28th) when the clocks change.... my family rarely forgets lol.

Easy way to remember it.

Yeah noticed that after... i always skip to last page, sometimes not a clever idea.
 
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Yep, a few weeks after they changed on the other side of the pond, the clocks are going forward this weekend in the UK. British Summer Time is upon us! :D It sounds good because it's got the word 'summer' in it, but really it means that we lose an hour in bed. :scream: :p
 
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