Daylight Savings time tonight

[Adam-Savage]

Before you hit the sack tonight, don't forget to set your clock ahead one hour for Daylight Saving Time, which begins at 2 a.m. Sunday.

[Moore]

Still reading that in Jason Lees voice. o.o

[Cialbi]

Time to throw off the family dog's clockwork schedule!

[Lisaara]

Bleh....but I want my sleep.

[Rawr]

Daylight Savings is weird..............how do you save daylight? I'm lucky I live where we don't observe that weird, ummm......... tradition Do people in Europe and Asia do this too? or is it just a weird American thing, like driving on the right side of the road?

[cowmuflage]

We do it here in New zealand too but its not day light saveings for us yet.

[Saturo]

:lol: Daylight Savings is weird..............how do you save daylight? :lol: I'm lucky I live where we don't observe that weird, ummm......... tradition :headbang: Do people in Europe and Asia do this too? or is it just a weird American thing, like driving on the right side of the road? :mrgreen:

Personally I can't really see the point either, but eh, it's what we do. Yeah, here in Europe we follow the saving-thingy. We also drive on the right side of the road, unlike those of you silly enough to drive on the wrong side.

[cowmuflage]

Um is sweden like in winter anit it like dark all the time? Or am I thinking of iceland. Hmm mum just lols at me when I ask her.

Wait where the hell is Rawr then? I thougt she was a yank XD

[Lisaara]

Daylight Savings is weird..............how do you save daylight? I'm lucky I live where we don't observe that weird, ummm......... tradition Do people in Europe and Asia do this too? or is it just a weird American thing, like driving on the right side of the road?

Personally I can't really see the point either, but eh, it's what we do. Yeah, here in Europe we follow the saving-thingy. We also drive on the right side of the road, unlike those of you silly enough to drive on the wrong side.

Well this was invented by americans so to speak to save on candlewax back in the day....

During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, author of the proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise," anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[15] This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[16] Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_savings#Origin

[Saturo]

Um is sweden like in winter anit it like dark all the time? Or am I thinking of iceland. Hmm mum just lols at me when I ask her.

Wait where the hell is Rawr then? I thougt she was a yank XD

It depends. Swedish winters are either VERY bright or VERY dark. If there are ANY clouds it's dark and grey, if it's a clear sky it's brighter than you could possibly imagine from all the snow.

[cowmuflage]

Ah. thanks for the info mum just says silly things like "only when the dragons are sleeping" O.o

[Saturo]

Ah, yeah. I think she may have been away for a while, the dragons are in Norway atm.

[Arwyn]

Sigh..can't wait to see how many people show up late for work tomorrow because they "forgot" to set their clocks.

[Adam-Savage]

dragons are in Norway atm.

Say what ?

[Cialbi]

Daylight Savings is weird..............how do you save daylight? I'm lucky I live where we don't observe that weird, ummm......... tradition Do people in Europe and Asia do this too? or is it just a weird American thing, like driving on the right side of the road?

Actually, driving on the wrong left side of the road is unique to the British (and some of their former colonies, I believe).

Um is sweden like in winter anit it like dark all the time? Or am I thinking of iceland. Hmm mum just lols at me when I ask her.

Wait where the hell is Rawr then? I thougt she was a yank XD

You have to be of a high enough latitude for the sun to never rise during the winter (and never set during the summer). Someof Sweden does experience that, but most of the country doesn't.

As for your second question, not all counties in the US observe DST. It's weird.

[Ryno]

Oh thanks god, I thought I had time leaped again...

[Chimera]

I kept reminding everyone i knew about daylight savings for the past 3 weeks (i have a absolutely horrid sense of time and days) and i went to bed last night, woke up and my clock said 9am and im like uggguuuuuu why the hell cant i SLEEEEEEP...

I usually wake up around 11-12am but i went to bed early last night... well, noon rolls by and i get frustrated at the fact i cant sleep and i check my phone for txt messages and see its 1pm. @_@ im so glad i didnt have to do anything morning/early afternoon based today lol /whew