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There are other changes as well.
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We did all of that last weekend when the clocks went back here - I'm assuming they're also going back in the States as well, rather than falling forward?
I like Fall back but hate spring forward. I am looking forward to driving to work when it's light out. Most of my clocks change themselves...the others will be done sometime on Sunday.
It is Fall Back. I'll set the clocks throughout the evening tonight, whenever I go into a room where they need changing. I don't like the early evening darkness. If I could choose, I'd just stay on Daylight Saving Time all year, even though it is dark in the morning on the way to work.
I like the time change, especially in the fall when we gain an extra hour. I'll also like it better cause it won't be dark in the morning while I drive to the kid's house during the week to babysit our granddaughters. I hate driving in the dark anymore cause I just don't see as well anymore. The only clocks I need to change are the stove and microwave which I'll change tomorrow morning when we get up.
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I don't mind changing the clocks back an hour in the fall. I like that extra hour of sleep! I've already started changing the clocks. At least the ones upstairs in the bedrooms. I'll change the ones downstairs before I go to bed.
We follow DST now. I grew up without it and don't like it. I'd prefer if the entire world would stop being silly and go back to what ever the time is and stop trying to buy time. WE don't get an extra hour of anything at any time. It's still the same amount of light and dark, it's just called something different now (8 instead of 9).
Sorry - sore spot.
I really dislike it when I work, as working on Fall back means that we put in 13.5 hours and not 12.5 like usual. That extra hour really makes a huge difference. When it's Spring, I get "dinged" for distributing medications late when they aren't. Example: Patient's meds are due at 2am. I have an hour lee-way before medications are considered late. So, at 1:59am, I go in to give the patient her/his meds. The clock changes before I can ring up the medications on the computer in the room. The clock now says 3:01, not the 2:01 it would be any other night. That means that the medication is an hour late, even when it wasn't.
I don't like it, I don't mind waking up to darkness but I dislike when it gets dark so early. My phone changes by itself and we don't really rush to change anything else.
It never bothered me before except I hate the fact it gets dark so damn early but now that I have a 21 month old I HATE THE TIME CHANGE. The simple change of 1 hour completely throws his schedule off for weeks. To me it isn't worth it. As for when I change the clocks...literally at 2 am "c I am a night owl and I am almost always awake when the time change occurs.
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I'll also like it better cause it won't be dark in the morning while I drive to the kid's house during the week to babysit our granddaughters. I hate driving in the dark anymore cause I just don't see as well anymore. The only clocks I need to change are the stove and microwave which I'll change tomorrow morning when we get up.
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