Springing forward an hour to me is a sign of warmer days to come, unfortunately my regret for trading my Jeep will only get worse with the arrival of Summer.
I chose "Falling back one hour", mostly because it's the result of "Springing ahead one hour". I wish we didn't have to do it at all. There would be plenty of ample light in the early evening during Spring and Summer months, without the need for the stupid time change. I've never been a fan of DST and probably never will be. I envy Hawaii and Arizona this time of year, for this reason. I guess the one way to live in a place that uses DST is to visit a place without it the weekend the change occurs. This happened to me once when I was in Hawaii during the "Fall back" change. I returned to SoCal the Sunday of the change, missing it completely. I never felt the awkward adjustment to the hour (gained or lost) that inevitably happens. Maybe I should plan an Arizona trip for the time-change weekend next year...
Normally I love fall back - it gets me back on a normal sleeping routine. Except this year, when I happened to be working a month of night shift, of which that Saturday/Sunday I missed the extra hour of sleep. Though I did get an extra hour of pay!
I voted "No", in reality I like both: 1. Fall - I get to sleep an hour later and 2. Spring - I get to enjoy some daylight during week days and signifies warmer weather is on the way.
What's interesting about all of this is the extra daylight thing, which depending on your latitude and longitude closest to a time zone border, is far longer the more north and west you are. In L.A., all DST means in the Summer is it being light out until roughly 8:30pm. There may be some ambient light almost till 9pm. We are about the same latitude as Dallas and Atlanta, so those of you north of this get light much longer that we do. So does the need to change time really matter? I guess it's all a personal preference (and state law). Just as I get used to the later days, the first day of Summer hits and we head back to shorter days. I get used to shorter days and kablammo, December 21 arrives and longer days start... I'd rather keep time simple, as life is far too complicated as it is, IMO.
I voted 'spring ahead' because it is one of the mileposts that indicate warmer weather coming. Atlanta is pretty close to the the western edge of the Eastern time zone (the AL border). I remember long days of summer daylight when I lived there. :coolshade
I am tired of the clock manipulation! I like the extra hour of sleep and daylight. So it is hard choosing! I love the 9PM darkness during the summers Being an Atlanta native (and Tallahassee resident), I have come to enjoy that. It was weird going thru Alabama and everything ending earlier than normal.
I love 10pm twilight in the northern states - harder to get the kids in bed, but those long days are just perfect.
The only good thing about living in Phoenix is not having to change the clocks. Time zones are so messed up anyway. Pensacola, FL is in the same time zone as cities in Texas just east of El Paso? Makes no sense.
Yep, makes as much sense as one county in Oregon (Malheur) on Mountain time, while the entire state of Nevada is in the Pacific time zone. Not to mention the geniuses who decided the entire GIGANTIC state of Alaska should be in ONE time zone (instead of the three that use to straddle it in the past). Just plain nutz! :loony:
It is weird... I went to Port St. Joe (SE of Panama City) and I wondered why my phone's clock didn't change... that's when I found out that they're Eastern just like most of Florida. When I go to that part of Florida, I get weirded out because of the time zone boundary... Even Gulf County is split into 2 zones (I couldnt believe it until i went to http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2006/octqtr/pdf/49cfr71.5.pdf). Mostly, everything west of the Apalachicola River is Central time. I think all of China is on one time zone as decreed by its government... otherwise it would be in 3 or 4 time zones.
Even if the time zone boundaries are clear, not all municipalities follow them. A great example of this is West Wendover, Nevada. It is a city on the state line with Utah. It is an outgrowth of Wendover, Utah. West Wendover has surpassed Wendover because of the revenue from casinos in Nevada. West Wendover should be in Pacific time with the rest of the state, but it's on Mountain time due to its connection with Wendover, Utah and it technically being an outer "suburb" of the Salt Lake City area, even though it's 120+ miles away from SLC. A Nevada city on the northern border with Idaho also adopts Mountain time because its economic ties are with the Boise, Idaho area. The Chattanooga metro area straddles the Central and Eastern time zones. That must be fun for people living in the Central TZ area and working in the Eastern TZ area, ALL within the same metro area...
Yeah, there are quirks like this all over. It's rather comical. Indiana has always been a weird one. Back when Indiana, as a general rule, did not observe DST only the parts of the state in the Eastern time zone didn't change their clocks. The Chicago suburbs were always in the Central time zone, so they changed their clocks to be in tune with Chicago. Likewise, the suburbs of Cincinnati that were within the eastern time zone in Indiana DID observe daylight time in order to stay on the same time as Cincy. So in essence you had the Central time zone section of IN that always had daylight time, the majority of the state, which always remained on eastern standard time, and the Cincy and Louisville suburbs which would make the switch to Eastern Daylight time. Essentially there were three different "zones" in Indiana at various times throughout the year. I think they cleaned it up some so that the entire state observes daylight time now.
I like the "spring forward" time change. To me, it means that summer and warm weather is on the way. From June to August it is usually light until 10:45PM and some twilight until 11:10-15PM Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
