Morning views of clouds.
I’m so confused. It’s because of the time change or NOT.
Where I live, we don’t change time in the Springs or Fall. But when everybody else does across the country, it’s strange. We went from Pacific Standard Time to Mountain Standard Time overnight. This makes it confusing making phone calls to my kids who are now in a diffferent time zone than me. It also raises havoc with the TV schedule.
We don’t Spring Forward or Fall Back. I wish the rest of the country would be on our schedule.
I wrote about the confusing times HERE.
From NBC News, here is a bit of history about the time change:
Why is this happening?
The practice, established by the Standard Time Act in 1918, according to the U.S. Astronomical Applications Department, is an effort to extend the daylight hours we have in the summertime by pushing off sunset an extra hour.
Daylight saving time, a contested idea after it was first passed, was quickly repealed in 1919, becoming a local matter. It was re-enacted during the early days of World War II and was observed from 1942-1945, according to the department.
After the war, the implementation of daylight saving time varied from state to state until the Uniform Time Act passed in 1966, which standardized the dates of daylight saving time but allowed for local exemptions if states or localities did not want to participate.
According to the department, the standardized start and end dates have been changed throughout the years, but since 2007, daylight saving time has started on the second Sunday in March and ended on the first Sunday in November.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/know-daylight-saving-time-ends-sunday-rcna178497
What are your thoughts about Standard Times versus Daylight Savings Time?
I hear you! It IS confusing and I’m not a fan. 😜
My daughter called me yesterday and said she’d call me during her lunch break. That way I won’t call her while she’s at work. I do like that 😊
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I think it’s an obsolete idea that people are still clinging to. It should be done away with like your state has.
I agree! They passed getting rid of the time change in California. But it’s never been enacted.
When I was in Seattle, it used to disrupt the schedule for weeks.
I grew up near Seattle and I remember the winter months getting dark so early.
Yes it was quite disconcerting, especially for me who grew up without these things
I can imagine.
These changes have been a part of my life always. I don’t know any different so changing clocks is just what you do. I know so many people who dislike the changes and spend so much time finding ways to complain each spring and fall. I suppose I have bigger things to stress about! The practice just isn’t worth getting upset about I think.
It has always been my life too. I looked forward to it. I think the confusion for me is NOT changing times, but having the rest of the world change.
I can understand that, especially with kids in different zones but at least it’s only an hour. Imagine what it would be like if they lived in another part of the world? That seems more confusing to me always- thinking that there could be an entire day difference almost. I would probably need a clock set to that time as my constant companion 🙂
That’s so true. One hour is doable. We have friends visiting us now who moved from Australia. Also our previous guest who brought seafood is from Singapore. Both have families in their former countries. They have a set time and day for calls.
Oh my aching calendar! Haha! Every meeting I scheduled, with my international team, from my computer, goes haywire this week. Readjustments are needed all over the place. Because 10am my time is no longer 10am in CA, or noon in Missouri, etc. all those meetings are anchored to AZ time and have moved an hour on every other calendar and now conflict with other meetings my colleagues have. But moving them an hour on my calendar conflicts with other meetings I have. It’s a fiasco! Haha! But I’d still rather live in AZ where we don’t change our clocks. They don’t change then in Hawaii either, so I’ve lived a large portion of my life without daylight savings time.
Wow. What a crazy week this will be for you to manage your calendar. I like not changing times, but it’s hard to figure out where we are compared to other time zones.
I wish we’d follow your lead and abolish it for good. I find it useless and annoying.
Maybe it will be a trend?
I surprisingly am for doing away with the time change. I don’t mind falling back but losing an hour in the spring is a real killer, especially as I get older. It takes me weeks to get used to it.
I am glad we don’t change time. I agree that losing that hour in the Spring is tough!
It’s SOOO confusing. One of my close colleagues is in Tucson so we go to being in sync to being an hour off overnight. Yikes! I’m with you, Elizabeth!
On the bright side for me, both my kids called me today to chat. They didn’t want me to call them while they were working. We usually talk during their lunch hours or after work.
I think that Daylight Savings Time should be abandoned. It’s actually a health hazard, in addition to being a pain in the butt. I have no idea how to change the clock on my stove.
Ha! Funny about the clock on the stove. I have heard it can be hard on your health too.
I’ve railed against it for years to no avail. It matters much less in retirement years than work years.
That’s true. My husband works on NY time, so he’s having to work an hour longer before he can get away from his desk.
I noticed on Sunday morning many walkers out and about at 7 a.m, which was nice to see in the area. They thought or their bodies believed it was 8. I like Daylight Savings Time as my body appreciates the extra sleep.
I used to love it when my body was ready to go an hour early. I’d be walking too.
We were on our spring cross-country road trip right after the last time change. Since most of Arizona is on Daylight Savings Time (although you may not call it that since it is your year-round time), the watches of the AZ friends we were visiting matched ours. Then, we’d drive through Native American reservations in AZ and suddenly my smart watch would jump an hour ahead (they do adjust their clocks). When we drove out of that area, the time on my watch would jump back. It was very confusing!
I would rather that the whole country stay on one time system. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’d all agree which one to keep (I’d vote for Daylight Savings 🙂 ).
I’ve heard that Native Reservations are not on the same time as the rest of Arizona. Our car clock switches time every time we visit California even if we’re both on PST. Drives me crazy too. I agree. Can you imagine the disagreements to be all on the same page?
I’m a pragmatic sort so my thought about these time choice is: PICK ONE AND STICK WITH IT. Don’t care which, just do it.
No kidding! I was excited to not change time moving to AZ. But when the rest of the country changes time, it all changes for us too.
I’ve been in Arizona my entire life, so I’ve never had to leap forward or fall back. I learned my lessons when I started working with people outside AZ. The 2pm recurring meeting was suddenly at 1pm or 3pm…. I now set all my meetings to ET, just to be safe. Such a mess!
The recurring meetings would be difficult. I am questioning what time it is in different time zones right now.
I agree with you; it’s confusing each year, even though we deal with it every year. 🙂