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I got completely messed up this weekend.
Friday I traveled from Eastern to Central.
Saturday back from Central to Eastern.
Sunday the clock changed again.
 
Trip said:
I had the pleasure of working a 12 hour night shift during the time shift. Sometimes it can feel like the time stands still on night shift, but when it literally spins backwards it's not much fun at all :(
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I was working last night during the time shift as well. ugh, what a big difference that one extra hour seems to make.

Elizabeth said:
You and Peggy both, altho I don;t know if her's was 12 hours. I use to do that shift and hated the time change for that reason.
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Mine's a 9 hour shift. 10 last night and it just dragged by so slow.
 
I got lucky. Almost everything I own with time has a daylight savings detection system. So my alarm clock, cell phone, PC etc.. All changed by itself except for my manual large clock in the kitchen wall. That I had to change, as it's manual powered and scared me since the time on my watch didn't match the kitchen clock.

Guess technology is making it all the easier now :D

Reminds me of the time when I was a kid. I woke up and it was pitch black and went to school thinking it was odd. Then the doors wouldn't open, because I was there 1 hour earlier haha! I remember the pricipal asking me why I was wandering around at 6am! And then told me the clocks changed! LOL I went home and slept for 1 hr and went back!
 
Personally I think it's stupid. My body clock is screwed up enough, I don't need the dang clock to mess me up even more.
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This was instituted by the Germans in WWI to save coal, the original idea is ancient, but Ben Franklin came up with the modern version of Daylight savings time.

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

Germany led the way with starting DST (ger.: Sommerzeit) during World War I on 30 April 1916 together with its allies to alleviate hardships from wartime coal shortages and air raid blackouts, the political equation changed in other countries e.g. the United Kingdom used DST first on 21 May 1916.[95] U.S. retailing and manufacturing interests led by Pittsburgh industrialist Robert Garland soon began lobbying for DST, but were opposed by railroads. The U.S.'s 1917 entry to the war overcame objections, and DST was established in 1918.[96]
The war's end swung the pendulum back. Farmers continued to dislike DST, and many countries repealed it after the war. Britain was an exception: it retained DST nationwide but over the years adjusted transition dates for several reasons, including special rules during the 1920s and 1930s to avoid clock shifts on Easter mornings.[28] The U.S. was more typical: Congress repealed DST after 1919. President Woodrow Wilson, like Willett an avid golfer, vetoed the repeal twice but his second veto was overridden.[97] Only a few U.S. cities retained DST locally thereafter,[98] including New York so that its financial exchanges could maintain an hour of arbitrage trading with London, and Chicago and Cleveland to keep pace with New York.[99] Wilson's successor Warren G. Harding opposed DST as a "deception". Reasoning that people should instead get up and go to work earlier in the summer, he ordered District of Columbia federal employees to start work at 08:00 rather than 09:00 during summer 1922. Many businesses followed suit though many others did not; the experiment was not repeated.[100]
Since Germany's adoption in 1916 the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals of DST, with similar politics involved.[101] The history of time in the United States includes DST during both world wars, but no standardization of peacetime DST until 1966.[102][103] In the mid-1980s, Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to U.S. DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes;[3] In 1992, after a three-year trial, more than 54% of Queenslanders voted against DST, with regional and rural areas strongly opposed, while those in the metropolitan south-east were in favour.[104] In 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied for the 2007 extension to U.S. DST
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Peggy said:
Personally I think it's stupid. My body clock is screwed up enough, I don't need the dang clock to mess me up even more.
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That's one of the downsides to DST. I have a really bad feeling that my son (22 months) will be up at 5 tomorrow ready to party :eek:
 
I’ve never forgotten to change the clocks, there’s always so much publicity about it that I am not sure how anyone can forget.

I do remember covering the overnight (1am-6am) show on a radio station back in the 80s the weekend when the clocks were going back and the cheeky buggers expected me to do a 7-hour show.

Luckily after a bit of negotiation it was agreed the guy on before me would do the extra hour as it only extended that show to 5-hours.
 
I'm still recovering from this time change myself :(

I was in Italy when it changed, but I was back to Ireland the next day, and my sense of time has been messed up every since!
 
Peggy said:
Update please.... was he? :)

My son was up an hour earlier both yesterday and this morning.
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Same here. I'm hoping he'll want to nap early today and hopefully get back on track. :) The odd thing thing is he's not going to bed an hour earlier, must be that new baby math :confused:
 

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