Daylight savings?!

[Empireth]

EDIT: Wait a minute, another site says No DST for Canada in 2009?

*is officially confused*

Actually, there is DST in Canada... Just not in Saskatchewan. We are a confusing nation to most.

OT: I agree with most other ...Canadians?... here: I didn't think the daylight savings time changed for another week. I'm fairly certain, because when they moved the date to a week later, I remember being disappointed that it would not be dark at the start of Halloween (six o'clock). I thought both Canada and the US had agreed to wait until November for changing DST. Maybe it was just Canada?

 

[Rascarin]

I looked at the time on my phone, and it was 2.30-something. Then I left the room for a while (doing washing up, then my face-cleaning routine), then I came back to my laptop and looked at the time, which read 1.57. I thought "What the fuck, how the shit did that happen!?"

Then I remembered that the clocks change around this time of year, so I checked my calendar, and lo! "Clocks go back".

 

[Altorin]

EDIT: Wait a minute, another site says No DST for Canada in 2009?

*is officially confused*

Actually, there is DST in Canada... Just not in Saskatchewan. We are a confusing nation to most.

OT: I agree with most other ...Canadians?... here: I didn't think the daylight savings time changed for another week. I'm fairly certain, because when they moved the date to a week later, I remember being disappointed that it would not be dark at the start of Halloween (six o'clock). I thought both Canada and the US had agreed to wait until November for changing DST. Maybe it was just Canada?

the US is just as strange for DST

Arizona and I think New Mexico are the only states that don't use it.

 

[RanD00M]

We don´t have daylight savings here in Iceland.We just keep our clocks the way they were when we got them and then leave them alone to let them collect dust.

 

[Triforceformer]

I didn't know it happened, but Daylights Savings Time does seem pretty useless.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Wait...doesn't the US not do Daylight Savings until November?

EDIT: Yeah, where I am (Pacific Time Zone), it's not until November 1.

 

[MelziGurl]

Queensland (Australia) doesn't have daylight savings...this morning, the sun was up at 5am. My partners brother who is up from Victoria, didn't believe us when we said it would get bright early...he usually doesn't wake up until 11am.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I don't think we set the clocks here for another week... Or am I wrong, Torontonians?

tho i'm not a Torontonian or from tarrana but i am close to it, you are correct it is next weekend in Canada and the United States\

Seeing this thread made me remember. Thanks for that!

*rushes off to check everything*

Same here.

And now I am off the change the clocks in my house.

and now you have to change them back, the switch over is next weekend

 

[Ernie Devlin]

I love day light savings!
/hugs day light savings
An extra couple of hours of daylight is brilliant.

 

[Jaythulhu]

Yeah, there are a bunch of knobs from down south who constantly whinge about my state's lack of daylight savings, but hell, we tried it, it was awful. Sunlight and 35C temps at 8pm? No bloody thanks. That was in the early 90s. Queensland is much, much hotter than it was then and still has full sunlight at 715pm in december now, so I can imagine what it'd be like if daylight savings were introduced....

Full sunlight at 9pm and 38-42C with enough humidity to drown a trout? No thanks.

 

[MrGFunk]

I don't think we set the clocks here for another week... Or am I wrong, Torontonians?

This is the time of year when we have five/six days where the UK to US/CAN time difference is 4/5 hours east/west coast to the usual 5/6.
I know this because I work for an American Company in the UK and we have to consider this when corresponding.


I also suspect this is why the London NFL game is happening today. The game can start earlier in the UK and still air at the 1pm slot in the US.

 

[megapenguinx]

The North American region doesn't have it for another week if my calender serves me right....

 

[Inverse Skies]

I love Daylight savings! Except we went forward an hour here in Australia to correspond to summer. It's just fantastic, it's still light at 8pm at night! You can't beat things like that, especially when it's warm and nice outside.

 

[sanomaton]

My region does not have daylight savings.

Lucky you. I hate daylight savings so so so so so so much. HATE I say. I wish they'd just get rid of the concept pronto. It does nothing but harm.

Yes, yes we did turn the clock back by an hour today.

 

[Skeleon]

Heard it on the news yesterday evening.

 

[Georgeman]

Yes, my mother said this to me yesterday and I today was reminded by the fact that the PC clock is different than my cell phone clock.

 

[Lukeje]

This is why I changed my clocks last night; do you people not watch the news or anything?

 

[A Raging Emo]

My clock moves back when appropriate, so it was all ok!

OT: My dad told me about it the other day.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Wait, that was today? then why the fuck am i not still in bed. I blame you OP ¬¬

 

[Tattaglia]

Us righteous New Zealanders had it on the 27th of September. You guys are all squares.