we're having a conflict. we have to set the clocks back (right)? so that makes things earlier. which means that at what's supposed to be, say, 6:00 tomorrow, and getting dark, it will instead be 5:00. i know this, i swear. he says i'm wrong, and mumbles off to say he's going to watch the news.
now, the good thing is, he actually knew about the clock thing. i would have been oblivious, since i use my computer time and that would have adjusted -- i don't even know if i would have noticed the difference (say, if i'd switched the alarm to 'on' in the dark) until, like, monday morning, when i would have got up ... earlier. it is earlier isn't it?
daylight savings time really taxes my little brain.
It all depends on whether you actually change your clocks tonight or not. If you put them back before you go to bed, then, when the clock says 6am, it will at the time that was 7am the day before. Since the point is for it to be lighter out, that makes sense.
it will be the time that was 7am previously.
ok so it will be lighter earlier, and so it will actually feel later? it's in the how it feels thing that i get really confused. i mean, i know we're gaining an hour by setting the clocks back, even though that sounds like we're losing, but no, it's gaining.
this drives me just crazy thinking about it.
It's like you're getting up earlier....without having to get up earlier....I think.
I just got 1am TWICE! I'm one of those people more likely to stay up late for this than I am for midnight on New Year's Eve.
Hawai'i is one of those states that doesn't switch (Az and parts of Indiana don't either, and maybe AK), so live TV (CNN Newsnight, for example) is on an hour earlier in the day.
This is how it is...I'll wake up in the morning and go "Wow...I didn't miss 'The Sports Reporters' on ESPN"?
Then at around 5, I'll go, "Boy, sure getting dark early. It must be fall."
Then I'll fall asleep at like 10:30 in the middle of a show I'm watching and be pissed when I wake up at 6am on Monday wondering why the sun is up so early.
Oh, dammit. An hour later. The WS games have been starting at 2:00 pm HST (8:00pm EDT); today's starts at 3:00pm HST.
see how confusing this is?
Ummm... Maybe Linkmeister's last was a sixties thing (see the next post) <g>!
I was excited about getting an extra hour of sleep... but then woke up at the "old" 5:30/4:30 anyway!
xo
Um, is DST new to America because I'm sure I've never heard of you lot turning your clocks back when we do.
You're right though kd, what was 6am yesterday was 5am today...it's hard to grasp, and many would say it's no different, just a different time on the clock, but we do literally add an extra hour on. Today is in fact a 25 hour day.
no, it's been like this all my life, although (confusingly enough) i think some states don't do it. i just have little short circuits in my mind when it comes to stuff like this, which is why after all these years i still have to think it through.
Jason, excellent explanation.
KD you are right. It's 5:00 when it is actually six, or was six. *sigh* yup, confusing! ;)
We used to have DST here, but the Gov't. decreed it away. Actually I think it can be useful if applied right. should start in October, and go through Christmas. Then it'd be light enough to run at the Mona Dam every evening :-) I don't like running there in the dark.