Wednesday, March 6, 2019

#IWSG - March: where we do the time travel!

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Greetings, Blog Friends!! Happy March!

This weekend in the US we voluntarily change the time on all the clocks because it's Daylight Savings time. No, I don't know what that means either.

In the beginning of the year they call it 'Spring Ahead', like that makes it sound better, and we all time travel into the future one hour.

I like to call it.


It's a little crazy that we still do this twice a year. Half the country takes a week to recover and the other half doesn't know what time it is because they don't know how to reset the time on the microwave which is about the only clock you have to manually change these days.


The battery companies have seized upon this awesome marketing opportunity to remind people to change the batteries in your smoke/CO detectors, so we should still do that.

Bottom line is, when you wake up on Sunday it will be in the future...except when you look at your microwave.

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23 comments:

  1. How does it make me feel? Awful! One hour of sleep gone. Why can't they just stick to one time?

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  2. That's this coming weekend already? Ugh. I'd be the first to vote for them to quit messing with the clocks and let them simply tick.

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  3. Wow, do you guys get Daylight Saving Time in the middle of March? We won’t be getting it till March 31 in Europe. I like it once the time is changed, but I feel it’s really not tha tnecessary either.

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    1. It isn't. It's just the US isn't good with change. :)
      TY
      HMG

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  4. Okay, this post made me laugh out loud so hard! All of this is the truth. Completely. Changing time on the microwave is one thing, but another is in my car. I forget how to do it every stinking time. LOL

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    1. I forgot the car! That's the other one I can never change!
      Good luck!
      TY
      HMG

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  5. I'm the same as S.A.! I always forget how to change the clock on my car. Three buttons, none marked - I have to just randomly start pressing.

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    1. Yep! Every six months I have forgotten how to fix it!
      :)
      TY
      HMG

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  6. Oh my goodness - you're so right. If it were a magical little trip into the future, maybe it would be worth it but considering all we get is a lot of fuss remembering how to reprogram every digital clock in the house (and messed up sleep schedules for our pets and children!)... I say it's not worth it! :)

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  7. This is why I don't bother setting the time on the microwave. =P

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  8. I never set the time on my microwave, anyway. But it usually takes me a few weeks to change the time in my car.

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  9. That's this weekend? Good—the clock in my car will finally be right again. :)


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  10. Ugh! I hate changing time. I was just beginning to enjoy the early morning sun, and now I'll be waking in the dark again. Microwave, alarm clock, car, and Kit Kat clock downstairs ~ Thanks for the reminder. I'm short, so it's hard to change the smoke alarms. I usually wait until they chirp. Happy March and Happy IWSG Day, Heather!

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  11. I'm hoping within my lifetime--and very soon--this country gets rid of this time change nonsense. I never seem to get on schedule until it's time to change again.

    Arlee Bird
    Tossing It Out

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  12. There should be no "springing" forward, only "falling" back. I do not like have an hour sucked out of my life. But the guest room and garage door clocks will be on the right time again. A small comfort I'd gladly forego to skip the whole thing.

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  13. Ours is still to come in the UK. Losing an hour is never good but don't you think the extra hour in autumn makes up for it??

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  14. You really nailed my feelings (others, too, from the comments). It's stupid. Worse, a couple of states (like Arizona) don't change. Confusing. Why do we cling to an agrarian society (9 month schools so kids can work on the farm; longer daylight for farmers) when we're industrialized? Makes no sense to me.

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  15. All of this is true, except for one thing. You said we do it "voluntarily." Nuh-uh. We do it because the powers that be say we should. And I betcha the rich politicians who think this is a dandy idea don't even have to change their darned clocks themselves... their servants do it. :)

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  16. Well, I've already been late for an appointment because I forget to re-set my little desk clock which, for some reason, I look at more often than the time in the bottom corner of my monitor. But my biggest objection to DST is just when our kids are walking to school/bus stops in daylight, we move the clocks and send them back to walking in the dark again. That's just wrong.

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