Daylight Savings Time Begins Sunday @ 1AM on 3/10/13

[N2NH]

Time to spring forward an hour for the beginning of Daylight Savings Time early this Sunday morning (or Saturday evening if you prefer).

It's always interesting to see who comes to church an hour late... ;)

http://s23.postimage.org/tmxy6u7aj/clock_spring_forward_animated.gif

[VK3ZL]

Daylight saving finishes here at the end of March..I hate daylight saving..All that extra sunshine fades the curtains..The cows get confused and give an extra gallon of milk a day..I seem to work less DX with the shorter nights..All that extra sunshine dries the garden out so Jeannie uses more water..With all that extra daylight I miss out on my proper sleep..Wish they would leave us alone with all this new fangled social engineering stuff.. Bastids...

Bob..VK3ZL..

[N2NH]

There's always this bon-mot:


You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning of the last century....
This should come as no surprise to any reasonable person. As you know, Daylight Saving time started almost a month early this year. You would think that members of Congress would ave considered the warming effect that an extra hour of daylight would have on our climate. Or did they?
Perhaps this is another plot by a liberal Congress to make us believe that global warming is a real threat. Perhaps the next time there should be serious tudies before Congress passes laws with such far-reaching effects.
CONNIE M. MESKIMEN
Hot Springs



Nothing more needs to be said on that.

One more that predates that one... no snopes for that one.


I am sure that if you have been out on the trails of our wonderful mountains lately you have noticed the snow is disappearing rapidly, and there are rocks and trees poking through at levels seemingly unprecedented in the memory of those of us that pay attention to such things. It is heartbreaking to to see their majestic finery slipping away so early.

Ah, the locals say, global warming is to blame! They have seen the movie by Albert Gore and are convinced, and even our own Aspen Skiing Co. is buying it. But the true culprit is right under their noses, on the faces of their watches, foisted upon us by another sainted Democrat - one Franklin Delano Roosevelt!

Yes, my friends, I am speaking of the insidious evil known as daylight-saving time! When we switched our clocks ahead on March 10, we not only lost an hour of sleep for one night, we added an hour of sunlight to every evening until next November. Any fool can tell you that afternoon sun is the hottest sun, as that is the hottest part of the day! Think of the damage an extra hour of solar radiation does to the snow on our mountains. And this year, with a Democrat congress, daylight-saving time was moved up four weeks, adding all that extra melting time. It will be a wonder if there is even a snow bank left to play in when April rolls around.

Now is the time for all right thinking Americans to call their congressman to tell them that this madness must stop, before Aspen and its economy melts away.

David K. Gibson
Aspen

LINK (http://web.archive.org/web/20071001214713/http://aspentimes.com/article/20070323/LETTER/103230063&SearchID=73279159)

Darn-gummit Dems!

[n6hcm]

this clock changing nonsense sucks. it's 2013, people!

[K7SGJ]

I'm glad we don't do that shit in this part of the desert.

[WX7P]

Daylight saving finishes here at the end of March..I hate daylight saving..All that extra sunshine fades the curtains..The cows get confused and give an extra gallon of milk a day..I seem to work less DX with the shorter nights..All that extra sunshine dries the garden out so Jeannie uses more water..With all that extra daylight I miss out on my proper sleep..Wish they would leave us alone with all this new fangled social engineering stuff.. Bastids...

Bob..VK3ZL..

...and get off my lawn! :lol:

[X-Rated]

...and get off my lawn! :lol:

I'm not smart enough to go to Stanford, much less get onto your yard.

[PA5COR]

Sunday 31st March yuck hate it every time we have to do that ....

[n2ize]

this clock changing nonsense sucks. it's 2013, people!

Yeah but it does help me save money on lamp oil. The extra hours of daylight means that I burn my oil lamps for an hour less every night before retiring. That means I burn less lamp oil which means the less often I have to hitch up the team and ride 20 miles into town to go to the General Store to buy lamp oil.

[N2RJ]

Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS time.

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[N2RJ]

this clock changing nonsense sucks. it's 2013, people!

I agree. Just move it forward an hour permanently. More daylight when I'm home is nice.

[n2ize]

Old Native American saying... Only the white man believes he can make the blanket longer by cutting 1 foot from the top and sewing it to the bottom.

[n2ize]

Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS time.

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How much do you pay for lamp oil these days ? I find the new style wicks give more light for the same amount of oil and they don't have to be trimmed as often. More light for less money.

[KG4CGC]

I like DST. It's been a part of my life since I can remember. Always a better outlook on life when the clock says 9:30PM and I can still see daylight.

[NY4Q]

I wish they'd just split that shit down the middle and call it good.

[NQ6U]

We must all resist DST. It is mothing more than a UN scheme to pollute American's precious bodily fluids by messing up our internal clocks. Obama is in on it. He wants us in a weakened state so it will be easier to take away our guns and then forcibly convert us all to Islam.

[n2ize]

Well, most of my clocks are connected to a network and thus regularly and automatically update via a stratum 2 (or sometimes a stratum 1 or 3) time server and the sodtware corrects for EST/DST. Only one analog wall clock that I have to adjust manually. Of course my old 1940's pocket watch needs manual adjustment. Also needs regular winding as well.

[n2ize]

I like DST. It's been a part of my life since I can remember. Always a better outlook on life when the clock says 9:30PM and I can still see daylight.

Where I plan to move after I retire I should be seeing the sun 24 hrs a day (or reasonably close too it) during the summer season. The trade off will be continual night and very long night during the winter months. Actually I prefer night time to day time. One thing I never liked about summer was that it always takes so long to get dark and then before you know its getting light again.

[WX7P]

We must all resist DST. It is mothing more than a UN scheme to pollute American's precious bodily fluids by messing up our internal clocks. Obama is in on it. He wants us in a weakened state so it will be easier to take away our guns and then forcibly convert us all to Islam.

Are YOU channeling Fox "News" now too, il Papa?

[N2NH]

Are YOU channeling Fox "News" now too, il Papa?

Careful, next thing you know he'll write an encyclical...

[KC2UGV]

How much do you pay for lamp oil these days ? I find the new style wicks give more light for the same amount of oil and they don't have to be trimmed as often. More light for less money.

About 1.63 at the gas stations that carry kero.

I prefer the mantles. No wick to trim, and the light is much brighter: http://www.aladdinlamps.com/Product_View.asp?StockID=A2310-209

Just get the farm grade stuff.

[KG4CGC]

Where I plan to move after I retire I should be seeing the sun 24 hrs a day (or reasonably close too it) during the summer season. The trade off will be continual night and very long night during the winter months. Actually I prefer night time to day time. One thing I never liked about summer was that it always takes so long to get dark and then before you know its getting light again.

You could live on the ISS.

[KG4CGC]

About 1.63 at the gas stations that carry kero.

I prefer the mantles. No wick to trim, and the light is much brighter: http://www.aladdinlamps.com/Product_View.asp?StockID=A2310-209

Just get the farm grade stuff.
Farm grade has a higher sulfur content. Smells like cow farts.

[KC2UGV]

Farm grade has a higher sulfur content. Smells like cow farts.

Hmmm... Never noted that. I thought they just added blue dye to the fuel for dipstick checks.

[KG4CGC]

Hmmm... Never noted that. I thought they just added blue dye to the fuel for dipstick checks.

We call it ''stink tank.''

[XE1/N5AL]

Here, we start daylight savings time on Sunday, April 7. During most of the year, we are synced-up with the U.S. Central Time Zone states. But, for a period of weeks during the spring and fall, we have the same time as the U.S. Mountain Time Zone states.

[KG4CGC]

DST was invented by the Illuminati to convert us all to Wicca while we're sleeping.

[n2ize]

About 1.63 at the gas stations that carry kero.

I prefer the mantles. No wick to trim, and the light is much brighter: http://www.aladdinlamps.com/Product_View.asp?StockID=A2310-209

Just get the farm grade stuff.

Use quality lamp oil or a high grade kerosene. Burns cleaner , less smoke, and less fumes. I have an old hanging oil lamp designed to be hung via a chain over a desk or work area. It's a standard wick rather than a mantle but, it uses a large circular wick and it's bright as heck. Also heats the room in winter.

[KC2UGV]

Use quality lamp oil or a high grade kerosene. Burns cleaner , less smoke, and less fumes. I have an old hanging oil lamp designed to be hung via a chain over a desk or work area. It's a standard wick rather than a mantle but, it uses a large circular wick and it's bright as heck. Also heats the room in winter.

Yet another reason I like the Aladdin's. They are smokeless no matter how crappy the fuel is.

Then again, you could go with these: http://www.britelyt.com/lanterns.htm

Pressure lantern, but still the best fuel lamps money can buy right now.

[n2ize]

Yet another reason I like the Aladdin's. They are smokeless no matter how crappy the fuel is.

Then again, you could go with these: http://www.britelyt.com/lanterns.htm

Pressure lantern, but still the best fuel lamps money can buy right now.

Yeah, those Petromax ones look interesting. I'll consider those if I am in the market for new ones. Right now all the oil lamps I have are antiques at least a century old or more and probably saw a lot of regular use back in their day. . Most are the traditional common "hurricane lamp" variety, all glass with glass chimney designed to sit on a table or in a wall mount bracket. The fancier ones are the hanging lamp I described and a desk / study lamp (with a large cylindrical wick) what I am restoring. I also have a few very small lamps that I believe were used as "night lights" or "decor" lighting in the old days. They appear to be quite old. A couple of them even have small colored glass chimneys. Perhaps they were used as Christmas or holiday decor in the pre-electric days.

[kf0rt]

DST is simply proof that some asswipe you never heard of still has arbitrary control over some small part of your life.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. :neener:

[W7XF]

I'm glad we don't do that shit in this part of the desert.
+1 :-)

[WX7P]

+1 :-)

It's too bad you're never there, Kevin!

[W7XF]

Janet...my watch stays on MST, as well as my comic book.

[NQ6U]

Janet...my watch stays on MST, as well as my comic book.

Swift's home terminal is in Phoenix, hence Kevin fills out his driver's daily log using MST. Same deal for me when I was driving for Knight.

[K7SGJ]

Swift's home terminal is in Phoenix, hence Kevin fills out his driver's daily log using MST. Same deal for me when I was driving for Knight.

As it should be. The whole world should be on MST. Problem solved.

[NQ6U]

As it should be. The whole world should be on MST. Problem solved.

You know, San Diego should really be on MST. If you look at a map of the U.S., you'll see that we're actually due south of Boise, ID.

[K7SGJ]

You know, San Diego should really be on MST. If you look at a map of the U.S., you'll see that we're actually due south of Boise, ID.

You should just be glad we let you be part of the US. XE6BSO just doesn't have that "snap" to it

[NQ6U]

You should just be glad we let you be part of the US. XE6BSO just doesn't have that "snap" to it

No comprende, usted un pinché gabacho.

[KG4CGC]

Did someone just say, pinche' tu madre'?

[WX7P]

You boys are some nasty pendejos.

[NQ6U]

You boys are some nasty pendejos.

Nothing nasty about what I wrote. Insulting, sure, but only if you're a pinché gabacho.

[WX7P]

Nothing nasty about what I wrote. Insulting, sure, but only if you're a pinché gabacho.

:lol:

[K7SGJ]

Nothing nasty about what I wrote. Insulting, sure, but only if you're a pinché gabacho.

I thought gabachos were those beans they use in soups and salads.

[WX7P]

I thought gabachos were those beans they use in soups and salads.

What IS that creature in your avatar?

[K7SGJ]

What IS that creature in your avatar?

It's a pack rat we found and raised until we let it go. They are cute, but very destructive. That's why I let it go where I used to work. We named it Barack since it had no birth certificate.

[W7XF]

Nothing nasty about what I wrote. Insulting, sure, but only if you're a pinché gabacho.

Are you Pope Carlo I, or the Chupacabra??? :chin:

[WX7P]

It's a pack rat we found and raised until we let it go. They are cute, but very destructive. That's why I let it go where I used to work. We named it Barack since it had no birth certificate.

Heh, I thought it was a pack rat. The BOO (Bhutan). our Birman, used to find those things in Sac and play with them until death.

We'd find the gift in the morning on the living room carpet.

[K7SGJ]

Heh, I thought it was a pack rat. The BOO (Bhutan). our Birman, used to find those things in Sac and play with them until death.

We'd find the gift in the morning on the living room carpet.

The rattlesnakes usually keep the pack rat population at bay, but a few manage to escape and feast on the vehicle wiring. The bastids.

[X-Rated]

I thought it was Deylot Say Ving Thyme.

So just how much time is the daylight saving then?

[X-Rated]

Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS time.

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http://pleasantville.patch.com/articles/when-is-daylight-savings-time-2013

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/politics/lawmaker-says-times-up-for-daylight-savings

http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/03/07/4675587/spring-forward-and-make-the-most.html

Just a few news outlets who need to be notified of the correction.

[K7SGJ]

I thought it was Deylot Say Ving Thyme.

So just how much time is the daylight saving then?

I'm not sure about daylight, but over the years I've saved up close to 65 hours.

[NA4BH]

The rattlesnakes usually keep the pack rat population at bay, but a few manage to escape and feast on the vehicle wiring. The bastids.

Would that make him a "Rat Bastid"?

[K7SGJ]

Would that make him a "Rat Bastid"?

Why, yes it would. I had to let him go because he just never got the hang of bidding on Ebay, but he always did out bid Pat. :hyper:

[WX7P]

The rattlesnakes usually keep the pack rat population at bay, but a few manage to escape and feast on the vehicle wiring. The bastids.

Yep, I experienced that back in Pershing County, NV back in 1990.

I went there with brand x #2 with with my 4 year old daughter to do the Nevada QSO party. We parked in the weeks off road at Rye Patch Reservoir of the trail. I had my radio, TS-430s, a Vic-20 for rtty and a bunch of marine batteries, a honda generator and a center fed zep. Worked a shit load of stations, mostly county hunters especially from JA.

We were there for 4 days. We packed up the car and Nada. Nothing at all. This was before cellphone coverage so there was some panic. I opened the hood and found that some little rat creature had made a happy little home in engine compartment of my Buick. The little bastid had stolen one of our cloth napkins, spread it out on the air cleaner cover, and put peach pits (which he stole our of our garbage) at the four corners of the napkin. I looked into down into the engine compartment and saw two little eyes staring at me. He had chewed through the minus battery cable and made it non functional.

With lots of electrical tape and the generator, we got the car started. I have the pic somewhere of the rat in the engine compartment. It was not fun dealing with that situation in the pre-reliable cell phone era.

At least that was better than when I rolled my Nissan 4x4 on Humboldt Mt. in 1989 going to a place I shouldn't have been. Ham radio helped me then. But that's another story.

[K7SGJ]

Yep, I experienced that back in Pershing County, NV back in 1990.

I went there with brand x #2 with with my 4 year old daughter to do the Nevada QSO party. We parked in the weeks off road at Rye Patch Reservoir of the trail. I had my radio, TS-430s, a Vic-20 for rtty and a bunch of marine batteries, a honda generator and a center fed zep. Worked a shit load of stations, mostly county hunters especially from JA.

We were there for 4 days. We packed up the car and Nada. Nothing at all. This was before cellphone coverage so there was some panic. I opened the hood and found that some little rat creature had made a happy little home in engine compartment of my Buick. The little bastid had stolen one of our cloth napkins, spread it out on the air cleaner cover, and put peach pits (which he stole our of our garbage) at the four corners of the napkin. I looked into down into the engine compartment and saw two little eyes staring at me. He had chewed through the minus battery cable and made it non functional.

With lots of electrical tape and the generator, we got the car started. I have the pic somewhere of the rat in the engine compartment. It was not fun dealing with that situation in the pre-reliable cell phone era.

At least that was better than when I rolled my Nissan 4x4 on Humboldt Mt. in 1989 going to a place I shouldn't have been. Ham radio helped me then. But that's another story.

Yeah, I had one that kept eating the wires to the crank senser on a Jeep I had. It was a bitch to fix, and I always left half of the back of my hand hanging on the sheet metal all over that thing. Took several weeks, but I finally got the little fucker. And, I can relate to the vehicle thing. Rolling 4x4s must be a ham thing.

[N2NH]

Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS time.

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"Daylight Savings Time"

FOX NEWS LINK (http://www.foxreno.com/news/news/local/getting-ready-daylight-savings/nWjLS/)

MyFOX NY LINK (http://www.myfoxny.com/story/21434566/daylight-saving-time-2013) "Daylight Saving Time (sometimes called Daylight Savings Time) begins at 2 a.m."

[X-Rated]

"Daylight Savings Time"

FOX NEWS LINK (http://www.foxreno.com/news/news/local/getting-ready-daylight-savings/nWjLS/)

MyFOX NY LINK (http://www.myfoxny.com/story/21434566/daylight-saving-time-2013) "Daylight Saving Time (sometimes called Daylight Savings Time) begins at 2 a.m."

Well, if Fox News says it's "Daylight Savings Time", I would have to agree with Ryan and his Fox News association and say that it is "Daylight Saving Time" because Ryan is right about it one way or another and the other way is not correct because he is right about the subject on which way it is supposed to be since there is a clear representation of that displayed here for each and every one of us to see and to agree that he is right, just and salutary on this topic and he figured out how to really baffle us into thinking maybe he didn't know when he was actually being a genius in displaying this wealth of knowledge to us through the internet.

Thanks Ryan.

[kb2vxa]

Old American Indian saying: Only White man's government thinks cutting off the bottom of a blanket and sewing it to the top will give him a bigger blanket.

Rail fans know why this is the only working Daylight saving time, the rest can right click on the image and then on save image as to look at the file name. If I could save time in a bottle, I could save light in a box. I'd save them up in summer, let them go in winter, you see, I'm smart as a fox.

[N2NH]

Well, if Fox News says it's "Daylight Savings Time", I would have to agree with Ryan and his Fox News association and say that it is "Daylight Saving Time" because Ryan is right...

I think that's where you lost him. If he didn't have a coronary, he probably winked out of existence...

[WA4TM]

Has anyone noticed the clock in post #1 is going back one hour, not forward one?

[N2NH]

Thinking of time... some timely things to think about:


http://youtu.be/TFcgW1AVkYk

[kb2vxa]

"Has anyone noticed the clock in post #1 is going back one hour, not forward one?"

It goes forward two hours or back one and forward one depending on where the cycle actually begins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aUW4wtjF2I

"That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was all the time I needed...! That's not fair!"
The best laid plans of mice and men...and Henry Bemis...the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis...in the Twilight Zone.

[N2NH]

BUMP.

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/001/Spinning_Vi_zpsb4952a8a.gif

[NA4BH]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/001/Spinning_Vi_zpsb4952a8a.gif

After watching this for 15 minutes, I get your message. I now have the urge to set my clocks forward one hour.

[N2NH]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/001/Spinning_Vi_zpsb4952a8a.gif

I thought I was going colorblind for a second there...

[kb2vxa]

You did, her B&W face takes a second to pass. Through the "windows" the inside of the opposite surface can be seen. Then comes the odd bit, on the back of her head there is another face. She is Janus' sister. In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time.

[WØTKX]

http://cars-database.com/data_images/gallery/01/zundapp-janus/zundapp-janus-02.jpg

[KG4CGC]

http://cars-database.com/data_images/gallery/01/zundapp-janus/zundapp-janus-02.jpg
Now THAT'S a Key West car!

[X-Rated]

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[kb2vxa]

"Now THAT'S a Key West car!"

More like an Adam West car.

[KC2UGV]

Fuck Daylight Savings Time... That's all I've got to say.