Hey, it's Daylight Savings tomorrow!

[conuly]

Daylight Savings is absurd, but you have to go along with it, so don't forget to set forward any clocks that don't reset themselves.

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[trialia]

*chuckling* Not here, it's not. I'm pretty sure we've got another week to go 'til British Summer Time kicks in.

ETA: Correction, another two weeks here. :)

[pne]

Got me scared, too, so I checked my calendar to be sure.

Two weeks in Germany, too. (I suspect this is uniform EU-wide.)

[pne]

Well, you US guys have the luxury of moving to parts of the country without DST. (Though they're getting fewer, I think: bits if Indiana keep "seceding" from the DST-free zone, I think.)

[conuly]

Yes, but then I'd have to move out of NYC. Forget that!

What I want is for DST to be eliminated entirely. I mean, does anybody really enjoy changing their clocks twice a year? Car accidents go up because of it, you know.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

I wish they would just stick to one time, instead of making us change the clocks twice a year. =P Really. I'd much rather have it be lighter for one more hour in the evening even if it means one extra hour of darkness in the morning, than to "gain" that one hour when we turn the clocks back in the fall. =P

[conuly]

Deaths in accidents increase for a week around the time switch every year, twice a year. It's such a stupid waste.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Speak for yourself. Over here we have two weeks yet before they steal an hour...

[conuly]

I am speaking for myself!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Sorry then! I was reading the "don't forget..." part as an imperative directed at your readership.

[conuly]

I blithfully assume everybody is Just Like Me.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

When the time comes, I'll do that... but I've never figured out why, over there, you call it "Daylight Saving". Unless things work very differently, no daylight is saved at all, you get exactly the same amount as before, only labelled differently.

[conuly]

I think the idea is not that we're saving daylight but that we're saving money by USING daylight in the evening instead of using electricity to light our homes and/or factories.

Of course, Daylight Saving used to be the British term too, but then you guys changed it.

[janewilliams20.livejournal.com]

But that just means we have to use the electricity in the morning instead.

[conuly]

*shrugs*

At any rate, it was promoted as a money-saving effort during the world wars.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Only for the first month or so - afterwards, the sun will rise so early that nobody will be awake before there's daylight.

... that's the theory, anyway. And, of course, irrelevant these days, as computers and other machinery need electricity all day long...