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Remember to Fall Back

ScarletKnight41 Oct 29 2005 05:07 PM

Tonight is the night that we go back to Standard Time.

cooby Oct 29 2005 08:02 PM

An extra hour's sleep!

SI Metman Oct 29 2005 08:29 PM

Only 1 more year of this before we start doing it a week later in November.

Willets Point Oct 29 2005 08:31 PM

In college, some of my friends & I started a faux-fraternity called Nu Alpha Pi in honor of our love of sleeping. This night was the night of our fraternity formal, in otherwords, we wore a tie to sleep.

sharpie Oct 31 2005 09:26 AM

This board hasn't fallen back. We're on Central Time now.

SwitchHitter Oct 31 2005 09:29 AM

You need to go and adjust your personal settings. I'm on Central time because (ta-da) I live in Houston. I was also on Central Daylight Time before Change-the-Clock Day.

sharpie Oct 31 2005 09:52 AM

Thanks, SH. I thought it was all done for me.

Frayed Knot Oct 31 2005 10:06 AM

SI Metman wrote: Only 1 more year of this before we start doing it a week later in November. So what's the deal with next year anyway? One week earlier and two weeks later, or something like that? And what was the impetus behind this?

Elster88 Oct 31 2005 10:07 AM

I dislike the darkness at 5 pm.

sharpie Oct 31 2005 10:28 AM

I had always heard that daylight savings time and standard time were the products of farmers who needed to get up and milk the cows before going off to their 9-to-5 jobs at the grain silo so they need morning daylight. The disappearance of the small family farmer has probably a lot to do with the encroachment of DST.

MFS62 Oct 31 2005 10:33 AM

I fell, and now I can't get up. Later

Elster88 Oct 31 2005 11:14 AM

sharpie wrote: I had always heard that daylight savings time and standard time were the products of farmers who needed to get up and milk the cows before going off to their 9-to-5 jobs at the grain silo so they need morning daylight. The disappearance of the small family farmer has probably a lot to do with the encroachment of DST. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I thought we were falling back to "normal". So if we're keeping the spring forward part longer, then it would seem like we're trying to keep it on ther farmer's time around more.

MFS62 Oct 31 2005 12:18 PM

sharpie wrote: I had always heard that daylight savings time and standard time were the products of farmers who needed to get up and milk the cows before going off to their 9-to-5 jobs at the grain silo so they need morning daylight. The disappearance of the small family farmer has probably a lot to do with the encroachment of DST. I had always heard that it was to protect kids from waiting for the morning school bus in the dark. Later

SI Metman Oct 31 2005 02:16 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: ="SI Metman"]Only 1 more year of this before we start doing it a week later in November. So what's the deal with next year anyway? One week earlier and two weeks later, or something like that? And what was the impetus behind this? [url]http://www.infoplease.com/spot/daylight1.html[/url] Those are the new dates. Basically, all the runners will get their extra hour of sleep before the NYC Marathon in 2007, and those early April Mets night games will be started in daylight.

Elster88 Oct 31 2005 03:46 PM

This board forgot to fall back. My posts are dated an hour off.

Edgy DC Oct 31 2005 03:48 PM

You have to go into your own profile and reset your clock.

Elster88 Oct 31 2005 03:50 PM

No! It's the admin's fault! Not mine! Thanks Edgy ________________________________ This post had the designation 133) Roberto Alomar.

sharpie Oct 31 2005 03:57 PM

Switch Hitter told me the same thing earlier in this thread.

Elster88 Oct 31 2005 03:58 PM

Wow. Like on this page and everything. Talk about RMPL biting you in the ass.