FARK.com: (6703598) When surveyed, 10% of respondents admit when changing between Standard Time and Daylight Savings Time, they turn clocks the wrong way

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		When surveyed, 10% of respondents admit when changing between Standard Time and Daylight Savings Time, they turn clocks the wrong way (myfoxny.com)		103
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phlegmmo

2011-11-04 12:49:01 AM

I wonder what percentage said, "Clocks?"

smells_like_meat

2011-11-04 01:10:21 AM

springs back, falls forward.

phlegmmo

2011-11-04 01:15:57 AM

smells_like_meat: springs back, falls forward.

t0.gstatic.com

ZAZ

2011-11-04 06:52:27 AM

My wall clock is still on EST. Before the battery died last winter it was on GMT. Mental arithmetic builds character.

mcsiegs

2011-11-04 09:23:10 AM

Is the "Stupid" tag because you don't know it's "Daylight SAVING time"?

kingoomieiii

2011-11-04 09:47:39 AM

Why do we still change the damn clock at all?

Sybarite

2011-11-04 11:02:21 AM

My microwave is the only thing left in my house that doesn't automatically change itself.

ZAZ

2011-11-04 11:06:58 AM

Sybarite

After 10-15 years I finally stopped programming my microwave's clock after each power failure. Unlike the stove clock, the microwave doesn't try to display a time if it doesn't have one. I think I could turn the stove clock off too. In its default configuration it shows a wrong time after a power failure.

WiteBuddha

2011-11-04 11:12:03 AM

spring forward... fall back...

seriously people?

next week: lefty loosey, righty tighty

BurnShrike

2011-11-04 11:13:28 AM

I would be surprised at this, but I work with people that I'm amazed have the capability of dressing themselves every morning.

Stupid people are stupid.

Fabric_Man

2011-11-04 11:13:30 AM

Sybarite: My microwave is the only thing left in my house that doesn't automatically change itself.

Careful. My alarm clock does that, and this morning, it decided to get a jump on things.

bemis23

2011-11-04 11:13:34 AM

WiteBuddha: spring forward... fall back...

seriously people?

next week: lefty loosey, righty tighty

please excuse my dear aunt sally?

scottydoesntknow

2011-11-04 11:13:56 AM

Ehhh who really cares? If anything they'll just show up to work 2 hours early

Jake Havechek

2011-11-04 11:15:00 AM

Daylight Savings Time originated when George Soros and Bill Ayers time traveled back to colonial times and convinced Ben Franklin to institute it.

wambu

2011-11-04 11:15:18 AM

So people do better at this that the "Did dinosaurs and humans co-exist?" question.

Fabric_Man

2011-11-04 11:15:57 AM

Every good boy deserves fudge

UNAUTHORIZED FINGER

2011-11-04 11:16:16 AM

I live in Arizona. So I miss the first quarter of all football games.

cgraves67

2011-11-04 11:16:29 AM

Mock these people if you must, but know this: there are people out there who can't read the time unless it's digital. For real.

ihatedumbpeople

2011-11-04 11:16:52 AM

Fabric_Man: Sybarite: My microwave is the only thing left in my house that doesn't automatically change itself.

Careful. My alarm clock does that, and this morning, it decided to get a jump on things.

Yikes...if it does it automatically, it likely syncs off an atomic clock, which should be a tad more accurate...?

Witchyman

2011-11-04 11:17:03 AM

Fabric_Man: Sybarite: My microwave is the only thing left in my house that doesn't automatically change itself.

Careful. My alarm clock does that, and this morning, it decided to get a jump on things.

Mine did it last weekend.

Luckily I just started vacation and it wasn't waking me up an hour early.

literaldeluxe

2011-11-04 11:17:25 AM

Sybarite: My microwave is the only thing left in my house that doesn't automatically change itself.

Yeah, but if you're in the US, anything made more than 5 years ago will probably change on the wrong day (most electronics had the DST dates hardcoded and can't be changed).

Wellon Dowd

2011-11-04 11:18:08 AM

smells_like_meat: springs back, falls forward.

That sounds like a European attitude. A real American springs forward and, uh, tactically retreats.

fawlty

2011-11-04 11:18:19 AM

10%? that can't be true. That number is way too low.

thelordofcheese

2011-11-04 11:19:13 AM

That article is from last year.

mcwehrle

2011-11-04 11:19:18 AM

I'm not surprised.

I'd be willing to lay $5 on at least two of my engineers will show up early monday.

BurnShrike

2011-11-04 11:20:11 AM

cgraves67: Mock these people if you must, but know this: there are people out there who can't read the time unless it's digital. For real.

So? There are people who don't know how to format a floppy disk either.

Join the 21st century.

thelordofcheese

2011-11-04 11:21:50 AM

WiteBuddha: spring forward... fall back...

seriously people?

next week: lefty loosey, righty tighty

Except with bicycle bottom brackets, in which case the left side is loosened by turning it to the right. Unless it's an Italian model, in which case the right side loosens by turning it to the right.

probesport

2011-11-04 11:22:24 AM

Nobody ever told me it's the wrong way.

Berz

2011-11-04 11:22:58 AM

cgraves67: Mock these people if you must, but know this: there are people out there who can't read the time unless it's digital. For real.

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syberpud

2011-11-04 11:23:11 AM

Speaking for parents of small children everywhere (infant/toddler and small children) I say f*ck daylight savings time.

rickythepenguin

2011-11-04 11:23:27 AM

it was always funny in the navy when we'd swithc, and inevitably someone would forget and show up either early or late to watch.

(i mean, it was funny when they showe dup early but not funny when they showed up late).

and it was eitehr cool or sucky when that hour got added to or shaved off your watch. spesh when that 24 hour watch became 25. ugh.

numbone

2011-11-04 11:23:35 AM

Spring forward, fall off.

t0.gstatic.com

Thisbymaster

2011-11-04 11:24:27 AM

I just wait for my cell phone to update. I never need a alarm anymore, it is mostly used to tell me if I can still sleep in.

thelordofcheese

2011-11-04 11:24:50 AM

Jack Black 62: Daylight savings time is yet another example of how stupid the government is.

Why? Because they cut energy costs by altering operation actual times while not altering reported operating times?

Equatorial nations go on daylight savings times based on national decreee for this very reason.

/not only a geography bee regional winner, but also used to work in electrical power quality
//you're ignorant

get real

2011-11-04 11:25:16 AM

I am pretty sure it is spring back, fall forward....unless that is sex...confused...

doubled99

2011-11-04 11:26:13 AM

while we're playing with time and space, can't we just make it Christmas tomorrow?

rebelyell2006

2011-11-04 11:26:58 AM

thelordofcheese: That article is from last year.

So I wasn't the only person who saw 2010.

Spanky3woods

2011-11-04 11:29:50 AM

I have a broken clock. Twice each day it is absolutely accurate

Kanemano

2011-11-04 11:30:02 AM

Stupid? that's what you think, I get an extra 2 hours of sleep and an excuse to come in to work late.

bareknucklejones

2011-11-04 11:30:30 AM

ROY G BIV?

ZAZ

2011-11-04 11:30:52 AM

That article is from last year.

I think it's from this year but they forgot to turn their calendar ahead last December 31.

This Looks Fun

2011-11-04 11:31:22 AM

Kanemano: Stupid? that's what you think, I get an extra 2 hours of sleep and an excuse to come in to work late.

AWESOME. I seriously just had this conversation with my coworkers. They were dumbfounded that they'd never thought of it.

flaminio

2011-11-04 11:33:47 AM

bareknucklejones: ROY G BIV?

On Old Olympus' Towering Top A Fat Assed German Vends Some Hops.

pute kisses like a man

2011-11-04 11:34:12 AM

I don't know the difference. I just watch my phone.

however, back when I lived in a city where the bar's closed. The time changing time that made 2am become 1am was always my favorite day of the year. One more hour of booze.

Now I live where the bars don't close. So, I'm just mad that I have to walk home from the bus stop in the dark. The morning sun time hour is for assholes. give us one more hour of sun at night!

/ seriously, the difference is going to work when it's dark and coming home when it's dark. or going to work when it's dark and coming home with an hour of sunlight. I'm not a complete vampire, I like at least an hour of sunlight. (or at least enough sunlight to walk home from my bus stop, because I live in sketchy neighborhood)

Loaf's Tray

2011-11-04 11:37:10 AM

Is "Standard Time" a regional name for "Daylight Checking Time"?

studebaker hoch

2011-11-04 11:39:38 AM

We need to get our axis of rotation normal to the ecliptic plane again.

Living on a planet that's leaned over like this is weird.

purple kool-aid and a jigger of formaldehyde

2011-11-04 11:41:39 AM

I'm pissed at the Bush administration if for not other reason, then for changing the days it we do it. It was such hassle because of how many different versions and platforms I had to deal with.
Sun made SOOOO much money of us for pre Solaris 9 patches. It was like 10 grand a server or It might of even been per processor. Whatever it was it was beyond ridiculous.

/I think it was there little way of saying it was time to upgrade.

trappedspirit

2011-11-04 11:53:08 AM

If you turn your clock the wrong way you can't see what time it is

madgonad

2011-11-04 12:04:13 PM

flaminio: bareknucklejones: ROY G BIV?

On Old Olympus' Towering Top A Fat Assed German Vends Some Hops.

I hope I am not the only one here that isn't a doctor that can recognize those as the cranial nerves. Unfortunately I just learned them the hard way when I took comparitive as a sophmore. I did learn the following one as a freshman though -

Cold Oysters Seldom Develop Many Precious Pearls, Their Juices Congeal Too Quickly

varmitydog

2011-11-04 12:06:05 PM

I received this atomic watch for Christmas five years ago. It resets my watch backwards and forwards for daylight savings time automatically. So when I wake up, I get this watch and reset all the clocks in the house and vehicles to it.

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