Sign of spring: Daylight saving time starts Sunday

[Steve Williams]

Tomorrow morning at 2:00 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ushering in the bloom of spring, it's time to set the clocks forward for daylight saving time.

At 2 a.m. local time Sunday, daylight saving time arrives with the promise of many months ahead with an extra hour of evening sunlight.

You lose an hour of sleep, but make sure to turn the clock ahead — spring forward — before heading to bed Saturday night to avoid the panic of a late rise.

It's also a good time to put new batteries in warning devices such as smoke detectors and hazard warning radios.

Some places don't observe daylight saving time. Those include Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.

Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3.

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

For once I don't work tomorrow, so the hour of sleep lost is not a bother at all.

Is it me or does it seem earlier this year? No matter really as I always look forward to the longer daylight hours, especially since I suffer fairly significantly from S.A.D. .

 

[Fast/Forward]

When I worked the night shift they never let us go home after seven hours! But then in the fall they never made us work nine hours!

 

[garylkoh]

Daylight saving time wastes electricity:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/03/10/daylight-saving-time-wastes-electricity/

 

[vinylphilemag]

When I finally get around to inventing the time machine, one of the first things I'm gonna do is go back in time to find the clown who invented "daylight savings time" and punch him on the nose. It's the least I can do to make him pay for all the disrupted sleep he's caused me and countless others!

 

[ack]

It was invented in the 19th century; there is a wikipedia article somewhere that explains it all

 

[dcc]

When I finally get around to inventing the time machine, one of the first things I'm gonna do is go back in time to find the clown who invented "daylight savings time" and punch him on the nose. It's the least I can do to make him pay for all the disrupted sleep he's caused me and countless others!

Here you are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Willett. If you cannot afford a time machine, one of his great grand children is Chris Martin .... Go ahead make my day - I don't like Coldplay

 

[ack]

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

The modern idea of daylight saving was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson [SUP][9][/SUP] and it was first implemented during the First World War.

 

[garylkoh]

It was about the silliest things I've encountered since moving to the US. If you think that you can cut a foot off the bottom of the blanket and sew it to the top to get more blanket, something's wrong with your thinking.

 

[amirm]

It is a terrible idea and worse the farther north you live. Just hate it when the time changes in fall and it is dark way before you get home from work .

 

[LenWhite]

I've lived in the south most of my life and I still hate it

 

[mep]

It is a terrible idea and worse the farther north you live. Just hate it when the time changes in fall and it is dark way before you get home from work .

Agreed. I lived in Maine for 12 years and I hated the winter when you drove to work in the dark and drove home in the dark.

 

[carolkoh]

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/eliminate-bi-annual-time-change-caused-daylight-savings-time/ShChxpKh

Petition to end Daylight Savings. This is the official white house site. If it reaches 100K signatures, the White House WILL respond. Even frivolous petitions that reach 100K as evidenced by the Death Star petition.

White House response to the Death Star petition

 

[amirm]

Thanks Carol. I just signed it.

 

[LenWhite]

Thanks for the link - I signed the petition.