Time Change

[KristinCB]

So our province just announced that after this week, they’re done changing the clocks and are moving to permanent Daylight Saving Time.

Except of course for the small area where I live — we’re on Mountain Time instead of Pacific in one part of BC, so we’ll still be switching back and forth between standard and daylight time every year with Alberta.

If we were going to stick with one time permanently, I’d honestly prefer standard time. Permanent daylight time would mean super late sunrises in the winter, which I’m not sure I’d love.

I know Washington — and maybe Oregon and California? — have talked about keeping one time year-round too, but I don’t think anything has actually been finalized yet...

 

[Leablahblah]

ugh yeah I remember talks about that when I lived in WA. Not sure what happened since. Not sure what's happening in MD either but I think it would be hard to adjust to just one time all the time. I like the time change.

 

[Meliora]

They started the same discussion here in Europe too, and if I remember correctly they were just about to make a vote on it aaand then covid hit Haven't heard anything since then. I would love to just have one time. None of us in the family takes the changing well- we need a couple of weeks atleast to readjust.

 

[sweetdoll]

We don't have daylight saving time here anymore, and I think that's great. The summer here is very intense, and we didn't see any advantage to it...

 

[Scrap-therapy]

They started the same discussion here in Europe too, and if I remember correctly they were just about to make a vote on it aaand then covid hit Haven't heard anything since then. I would love to just have one time. None of us in the family takes the changing well- we need a couple of weeks atleast to readjust.

Totally agree with you. They don’t talk about the vote anymore… we don’t take it well either. Such a difficult adjustment.

 

[EvelynD2]

I always love the "Fall Back in Fall" time change as I tend to be a night owl. I don't do as well with the "Spring ahead in Spring". I'm sure people at church the Sunday it takes affect probably are quite scared by the sight of me that day. I probably look like someone from "The Walking Dead". P.S. I've never seen the show, just commercials for it.

 

[tjscraps]

I want to adopt daylight savings all year in Alberta! It'll be weird that BC will be 2 hours different in the winter now for us (right? Am I thinking of that right?)

 

[KristinCB]

you want daylight savings all year? sunrise would be even later than it already is in the winter though, but then i guess the pay off would be not being dark when you get out of work.

unless i'm thinking weird it will now mean that for 1/2 the year bc and alberta will have the same time.

 

[tjscraps]

you want daylight savings all year? sunrise would be even later than it already is in the winter though, but then i guess the pay off would be not being dark when you get out of work.

unless i'm thinking weird it will now mean that for 1/2 the year bc and alberta will have the same time.

I have to wrap my head around that lol.

Right now - it's 8:30 BC, 9:30 AB, 10:30 SK

Next week - 9:30 BC, 10:30 AB, 10:30 SK

November - 9:30 BC, 9:30 AB, 10:30 SK

Ok you're right - I was thinking it would be 2 hours and I was so confused lol



And yes - I drive to work in the dark 9 months of the year anyways, so I'd rather have the daylight at the end of the day. At least I'd have one direction driving not in the dark!

 

[AmieN1]

We literally voted on it here in WA- but haven't seen/heard anything since. It's like the ONE thing that everyone agrees on! lmao!

BUT with British Columbia being a different time zone than us part of the year is going to be so insane. We spend so much time up there for hockey, it'll be an adjustment for traveling & game times, etc. I'm curious where the 'line' is since we do play in Fernie & Sparwood occasionally!

 

[KristinCB]

We literally voted on it here in WA- but haven't seen/heard anything since. It's like the ONE thing that everyone agrees on! lmao!

BUT with British Columbia being a different time zone than us part of the year is going to be so insane. We spend so much time up there for hockey, it'll be an adjustment for traveling & game times, etc. I'm curious where the 'line' is since we do play in Fernie & Sparwood occasionally!

creston doesn't change time at all (even before this new change) and I think everything west of creston is pacific time. East Kootenays is all mountain time.

 

[AmieN1]

creston doesn't change time at all (even before this new change) and I think everything west of creston is pacific time.

Yes! I do remember that now. Cranbrook is always an hour ahead of us so that makes sense!

 

[craftytam]

I really hate time changes! They mess me up so bad. If it was decided to stay in one, I would prefer Standard Time, too.

 

[nesser1981]

We didn't have it when I was stationed in Japan or Arizona, and I didn't notice, but I was young, but I wish they'd just pick one and stay there, I don't even care which! LOL!

 

[Romajo]

They started the same discussion here in Europe too, and if I remember correctly they were just about to make a vote on it aaand then covid hit Haven't heard anything since then. I would love to just have one time. None of us in the family takes the changing well- we need a couple of weeks atleast to readjust.

For as far as I know they (as in the people in 'Brussels', the EU) voted to keep it as it is, so switching twice a year.
This idea of daylight saving time started in the early 1970's with the oil crises happening then (meaning that in spring/summer, you wouldn't need as much energy/gas/electricity, because the evenings have more light and in the mornings you don'need as much as you would otherwise in the evening). With the new war in the Middle East, I don't think we'll go back to standerd time soon, because I think there's a new oil crisis coming up.

 

[Romajo]

Also, if we had just one time, I would prefer standerd time. Otherwise I would have the feeling I somewhere lost one hour of my life...

 

[LeeAndra]

So, @KristinCB, here in IN (fun fact: Arizona & Hawaii are the only two states that don't change time) when I was growing up, we did not change time. They only started doing that in 2004? 2005? when I was already an adult (and already knew you!). However, I live 2 hours from Chicago & they decided that the three or four counties closest to Chicago would stay on Central Time while the rest of the state would go to Eastern time. My friends and I are planning on a girls' trip to Chicago next month and taking the train. Our stop is the only one on Eastern time & all of the other stops (and Chicago, of course) are on Central time so you have to constantly calculate what time is it in Chicago & what time it is at home. We get there in a little over an hour with the time change but it takes 3 hours with the time change to get back. It's a PITA.

 

[Meliora]

For as far as I know they (as in the people in 'Brussels', the EU) voted to keep it as it is, so switching twice a year.
This idea of daylight saving time started in the early 1970's with the oil crises happening then (meaning that in spring/summer, you wouldn't need as much energy/gas/electricity, because the evenings have more light and in the mornings you don'need as much as you would otherwise in the evening). With the new war in the Middle East, I don't think we'll go back to standerd time soon, because I think there's a new oil crisis coming up.

Wow, I didn't know that! Makes sense now. But I still won't like to change twice a year

 

[Romajo]

So, @KristinCB, here in IN (fun fact: Arizona & Hawaii are the only two states that don't change time) when I was growing up, we did not change time. They only started doing that in 2004? 2005? when I was already an adult (and already knew you!). However, I live 2 hours from Chicago & they decided that the three or four counties closest to Chicago would stay on Central Time while the rest of the state would go to Eastern time. My friends and I are planning on a girls' trip to Chicago next month and taking the train. Our stop is the only one on Eastern time & all of the other stops (and Chicago, of course) are on Central time so you have to constantly calculate what time is it in Chicago & what time it is at home. We get there in a little over an hour with the time change but it takes 3 hours with the time change to get back. It's a PITA.

Does your cellphone not show you the time you used to have at home plus the time you are currently in? My cellphone does that as soon as I cross a timezone, so convenient!
If I would fly from Amsterdam to London, the flight is around 65 minutes, meaning we would arrive only 5 minutes after leaving the airport if you would look at the time. But when travelling back home, the same flight is 2 hours! Still a strange thing, these time zone differences. But, well, imagine we all lived on the same time as in Greenwich (the nill-meridian). Wouldn't it be crazy to have sunrise at 6 pm?

 

[Scrap-therapy]

For as far as I know they (as in the people in 'Brussels', the EU) voted to keep it as it is, so switching twice a year.
This idea of daylight saving time started in the early 1970's with the oil crises happening then (meaning that in spring/summer, you wouldn't need as much energy/gas/electricity, because the evenings have more light and in the mornings you don'need as much as you would otherwise in the evening). With the new war in the Middle East, I don't think we'll go back to standerd time soon, because I think there's a new oil crisis coming up.

Totally agree with you Marieke, it's not going to change now...

 

[bestcee]

here in IN (fun fact: Arizona & Hawaii are the only two states that don't change time) when I was growing up, we did not change time.

Have you seen the push to make all of IN be on Central with a time change? I really don't want that. Although I would love no time change - 1/2 the year Central, 1/2 the year Eastern.

 

[HavaDrPepper]

So, @KristinCB, here in IN (fun fact: Arizona & Hawaii are the only two states that don't change time) when I was growing up, we did not change time. They only started doing that in 2004? 2005? when I was already an adult (and already knew you!). However, I live 2 hours from Chicago & they decided that the three or four counties closest to Chicago would stay on Central Time while the rest of the state would go to Eastern time. My friends and I are planning on a girls' trip to Chicago next month and taking the train. Our stop is the only one on Eastern time & all of the other stops (and Chicago, of course) are on Central time so you have to constantly calculate what time is it in Chicago & what time it is at home. We get there in a little over an hour with the time change but it takes 3 hours with the time change to get back. It's a PITA.

When I worked, my company had a depot in Indiana. We are in Ohio. During the summer, it was a hassle for the gal that took the orders for Indiana. There was a cut off time for orders because of the time the truck had to leave to take the goods to the depot. The Indiana people always forgot that Ohio changed times and would call in their orders after the deadline. Once Indiana started observing daylight time, it was much better for her! (Just googled, it was 2006).

I much prefer daylight time. I like the daylight longer in the evenings. I had more time to talk the dogs for walks when I got off work. After the fall time change, I would come home in the dark and since my neighborhood has no streetlights or sidewalks, no walks for the dogs. Although now that I'm retired, it doesn't really matter.

 

[porkchopsmom]

I hate it! We voted to end it here in TN in 2019 and it passed but congress never signed off on it so here we are still doing it

 

[MamaBee]

it is dumb... the switching back and forth... and the reasoning some politicians give why we can't stop is even dumber. I hate this weekend of the year.

 

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[AmieN1]

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My body clock is all out of whack. We spent Thurs-Sunday an hour ahead in Sun Valley, Idaho for a hockey tournament, only to change clocks forward an hour Sunday morning, then drive all the way back home to an hour before. This morning when my alarm went off at 6:30am- I had no clue what day it was, where I was supposed to go to work and wondering why it was so dark out...