<p>Our DS is complaining vociferously that he and his friends will losing an hour of their spring break tomorrow, LOL. Friends told us that they thought a wedding they were attending was called off, because when the arrived (too early) there was no one there yet and the place was quiet. Anyone have any good stories about the effects of Daylight savings and forgetting to change the clock?</p>
<p>Each year, our Sunday School principal sets up an activity for the half dozen or so little children whose parents drop them off curbside an hour early, then roar off in cars for the nearest Starbucks. Maybe that’s on purpose, I just don’t know.</p>
<p>Don’t we have to arrive at our destination an hour earlier tomorrow morning? So if we don’t set our clocks back, we will be late for church, not early, right?</p>
<p>This is the first daylight savings transition since I’ve been retired. Spring is very difficult for me, but the fall is a breeze. So I was thinking that I will finally have the luxury of not having to deal with the sudden change in my routine of getting up an hour earlier. That was until I looked at my schedule for next week, and I’m going out to breakfast with a friend on Monday morning. Early breakfast. (We always sleep in on Sundays, so Mondays are the first we are effected by the time change.)</p>
<p>Oops, set our clocks forward.</p>
<p>If you set your clocks back you will be TWO hours late! LOL</p>
<p>LOL, NJ.
I always have to repeat the jingle “spring forward/fall back” to remember which way to change the clocks. </p>
<p>We have relatives in a state that doesn’t follow DST. I can NEVER remember when we are 2 hrs different and when we are 3.</p>
<p>I listen to the radio in the car and they remind you incessantly the week before so it’s hard not to remember.</p>
<p>Also, I usually check email and time on the iPad or a computer and those things always auto-fix the time. So no problems in the modern age.</p>
<p>I pride myself (wrongly!!) on being organized. So the memory of the time change I forgot stings.</p>
<p>Kids were 4 & 6? maybe 5 & 7 … but no I think 4 & 6 because I was still working full time (when DS was 5 I shifted to part time) … </p>
<p>We had fancy dining reservations for Easter Sunday, meeting friends in the city. Not only were we LATE even if we were on the right clock time, we were a whole HOUR late by the DST change I’d missed. Fortunately, the restaurant had many of us, but the maitre D was a bit wild eyed. Our friends got to laugh at me (because they are the ones always late and I am obsessively on time).</p>
<p>Years ago, before kids, but married, I went to church on a daylight savings Sunday morning. I was surprised to hear singing when I walked in as I thought I was early and that there was no usher to greet me. I entered quietly, stood in the back row, and picked up a hymnal. As I looked up front to see the hymn number, I realized my mistake - they were signing the LAST hymn and I had missed the whole service!</p>
<p>It’s usually the one day a year when we can find great parking and seating for church.</p>
<p>I bought a solar-powered clock last year that will also sync with national time broadcasts. The clock is pretty cool - I have it in the office and it gets charged by the light in the office, whether artificial or through the windows. The clock goes off when it is dark.</p>
<p>There is a setting where you can automatically get time sync but it wouldn’t work in my office - practically no radio signals can get through the glass. We don’t have a lot of clocks that we have to manually sync anymore.</p>
<p>H’s clock has an automatic DST feature. For some reason, it thought DST switched this past Wed. morning (too many leap years?). He got up and started getting ready, then realized it was too dark and checked another clock…back to bed :)</p>
<p>Indiana had it great for 40+ years–we didn’t switch. For practical purposes this meant we were eastern in the winter and central in the summer, and <em>never</em> needed to mess with clocks, nor had our systems messed up for a week twice a year.</p>
<p>Then, our illustrious, heavy-handed governor decided we HAD to be on Eastern DST. He rammed it through, because we had to be like everyone else and it was costing us billions in commerce. Yeah, right–DST has helped our economy oh so much…</p>
<p>No one in the country still knows what time it is in Indiana (OMG–you’re on the same time as Maine?) and it stays light until well after 10 p.m. in the summer. SIGH. /end of rant/</p>
<p>One time when my daughter was in high school, our power went out during the night, disrupting all the electric clocks. I got up and woke her up when my battery-powered backup alarm clock went off, but I had forgotten to adjust the alarm clock for the time switch a couple of weeks earlier.</p>
<p>We realized the problem a few minutes before she would have left for the bus. We had an hour to kill and had to do it quietly because her father was still asleep. We ended up playing Scrabble for an hour at the crack of dawn.</p>
<p>A number of years ago we bought a clock that sets itself by the satellites. It was factory programed to spring ahead and fall back according to the old routines (first Sunday in April, last Sunday in October). Now every year it faithfully changes on the wrong Sundays. That has messed us up several times, especially that first year when we didn’t realize it would happen and had no idea what was going on! Once you have done the change in March you aren’t thinking about it at the beginning of April.</p>
<p>Fall back, spring forward!</p>
<p>mom2ckids, I can’t even remember “Fall back, spring forward” I get it confused with Fall forward, spring back. I actually have to walk myself through this sequence: OK, daylight savings time means it gets dark later. It gets dark now at 7pm, so tomorrow it will be 8 oclock when it gets dark, therefore we must move clocks FORWARD. I’m too dumb to remember it.</p>
<p>Imagine the difficulties to adapt in a zone that changed the DST rules as whimsically as humanly possible:</p>
<p>[Northern</a> Mexican Border’s New Daylight Saving Plan](<a href=“http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html]Northern”>Northern Mexican Border's New Daylight Saving Plan)</p>
<p>For now, the border towns are in sync … until the politicians revisit the issue. The worst part is that the electronics that were supposed to change automatically made it even more confusing. Just think how hard it must be for Spring Breakers traveling from California to Baja California with a stayover in Mexico City or Guadalajara! :)</p>
<p>I used to moonlight where I got paid by the hour. During the fall changeover, I’d always put down, and get paid for, 13hrs for my 7p-7a shift. During the spring changeover, I’d put down 12hrs for the same shift (:)) and get paid for that too.</p>
<p>Coincidentally, I’m moonlighting tonight (tuition payments). Will have to charge for 12 hrs for the night shift.</p>
<p>I did love growing up in Indiana before this fiasco of switching to DST, and then for choosing Eastern over Central 
What was wonderful, growing up on the Illinois border was that when we were teenagers, we could routinely get away with being late two months a year by at least an hour. We would say that we couldn’t figure out the time whnever we were in Illinois. Our parents would tolerate it at least 4 times before we got grounded.
I now live in Indiana again, but I am one of the few counties on Central time, so people in my own state can’t figure out what time it is for me.</p>
<p>Wait, what? It’s daylight savings tomorrow?! Adding one more positive to checking CC, even though I’m a student invading the parents’ forum: It keeps me in the right time zone. </p>
<p>There was one spring when we were heading to NYC on a family trip and no one remembered that it was daylight savings. Needless to say, we were pretty confused on why all the train came slightly off the schedule :eek:</p>