Turn your clocks back tonight

[epiphany65]

Just a reminder that clocks go back 1 hour at 2am -- except in Hawaii, most of Arizona, and parts of Indiana. In Canada, Saskatchewan never makes the change, and some areas in B.C. and Quebec don't either.

Also, remember that this is a good day to change the batteries in your sex toys once a year.

 

[oggbashan]

But not in the UK.

We turned ours back last weekend.

Og

 

[matriarch]

Just a reminder that clocks go back 1 hour at 2am -- except in Hawaii, most of Arizona, and parts of Indiana. In Canada, Saskatchewan never makes the change, and some areas in B.C. and Quebec don't either.

Also, remember that this is a good day to change the batteries in your sex toys once a year.

UK did their clocks last weekend.

 

[epiphany65]

UK did their clocks last weekend.

and Lisa Denton did somewhere in-between that, or at least her computer did on her behalf.

 

[starrkers]

And ours went forward about a month ago.

 

[epiphany65]

And ours went forward about a month ago.

Are you travelling close to the speed of light by any chance?

 

[sutherngent985]

I just wish they would do away with this. Make what is now Daylight savings time the normal time for the whole country. This was started I believe during WW2 to save oil for the armed forces. So why are we still doing this crap over 50 years later? Having lived in Arizona for almost 20 years, I loved not having to do the spring forward fall back stuff twice a year. Besides, wouldnt it make more sense to have more daylight during the winter as well?

 

[epiphany65]

I just wish they would do away with this. Make what is now Daylight savings time the normal time for the whole country. This was started I believe during WW2 to save oil for the armed forces. So why are we still doing this crap over 50 years later? Having lived in Arizona for almost 20 years, I loved not having to do the spring forward fall back stuff twice a year. Besides, wouldnt it make more sense to have more daylight during the winter as well?

If you think this is bad -- there's been talk to make it 2 hours instead of just 1.

 

[starrkers]

Are you travelling close to the speed of light by any chance?

Not even close, although I am an hour ahead of what the board currently thinks I am (and it was fine on Friday)

 

[sutherngent985]

If you think this is bad -- there's been talk to make it 2 hours instead of just 1.

Why cant the freakin pols just leave it the way mother nature intended? 2 hrs? WTF???????????

 

[oggbashan]

Why cant the freakin pols just leave it the way mother nature intended? 2 hrs? WTF???????????

You should hear what the Scots think of 2 hours, or even 1 hour.

If you could understand them, their language is unprintable.

Og

 

[epiphany65]

You should hear what the Scots think of 2 hours, or even 1 hour.

If you could understand them, their language is unprintable.

Og

Unprintable or incomprehensible?

 

[LLs Man]

Unprintable or incomprehensible?

Both, especially in Glasgow

 

[epiphany65]

Both, especially in Glasgow

The father of a friend of mine is Glaswegian. He needs subtitles across his chest.

 

[DesertPirate]

Why bother, it's more fun to wake up and wonder, WTF time is it anyway?

I really need to get out more.

 

[Lisa Denton]

and Lisa Denton did somewhere in-between that, or at least her computer did on her behalf.

I'm so mixed up now I don't know whether to sping forward, fall back, or bend over.

 

[fieryjen]

I'm so mixed up now I don't know whether to sping forward, fall back, or bend over.

If in doubt, do the bending over. It can lead to good things.

 

[TE999]

I'm so mixed up now I don't know whether to sping forward, fall back, or bend over.

Nahhhhh...too easy.

 

[freshface]

You want to see something really freaky? Check out English Lady's "So Nervous" thread. Her first post became the sixth post when Lit's clock changed. It's the first time I've ever seen someone besides the original poster in the first slot.

 

[Belegon]

I'm just shocked that it took until the twentieth post for someone (me) to be surprised that some literoticans have sex toys whose batteries make it through an entire year without being drained.

 

[Weird Harold]

You want to see something really freaky? Check out English Lady's "So Nervous" thread. Her first post became the sixth post when Lit's clock changed. It's the first time I've ever seen someone besides the original poster in the first slot.

Pshaw, That tain't nuthin'

A couple of years ago, one of several servers where lit actually resides lost it's real-time clock and every post that went through that server was time stamped Jan 1967! So not only did a new post go to the #1 position, it sorted that thread some 20 pages back in the index so the post effectively disappeared from the forum.

 

[matriarch]

Pshaw, That tain't nuthin'

A couple of years ago, one of several servers where lit actually resides lost it's real-time clock and every post that went through that server was time stamped Jan 1967! So not only did a new post go to the #1 position, it sorted that thread some 20 pages back in the index so the post effectively disappeared from the forum.

Ouch. That hurt my head so much this early, I can't even think. No more !!

 

[matriarch]

I never realised who started it in UK........

William Willett saves the daylight, 1907–1915

The idea of British Summer Time (BST), also known as Daylight Saving Time, was first proposed by a keen horse-rider, William Willett, who was incensed at the 'waste' of useful daylight first thing in the morning, during summer. Though the sun had been up for hours during his rides through the local woods in Chislehurst and Petts Wood, people were still asleep in bed.

In 1907 he published a pamphlet called The Waste of Daylight, outlining plans to encourage people out of bed earlier in summer by changing the time on the nation’s clocks. He spent the rest of his life fighting to get acceptance of his time-shifting scheme. He died in 1915 with the Government still refusing to back BST. But the following year, Germany introduced the system. Britain followed in May 1916, and we have been 'changing the clocks' ever since.

The first day of Summer Time, 1916

Britain first adopted William Willett's Daylight Saving Time scheme in 1916, a few weeks after Germany. For years, the British Government had refused to introduce Daylight Saving Time, but by then, Britain and Germany were fighting each other in the First World War (1914-18), and any system that could save fuel and money was worth trying. The Summer Time Act of 1916 was quickly passed by Parliament and the first day of British Summer Time, 21 May 1916, was widely reported in the press.

Clocks and watches were very different from those we use today. Many clocks could not have their hands turned backwards without breaking the mechanism. Instead, owners had to put the clock forward by 11 hours when Summer Time came to an end. The Home Office put out special posters telling people how to reset their clocks to GMT, and national newspapers also gave advice.

Changing times, 1918–1939

William Willett, the original architect of the Summer Time scheme, died in 1915. By the 1920s, however, he was becoming a posthumous hero, as more and more people backed his daylight-saving plan. Public money was raised to buy and preserve Petts Wood. This was partly to act as a living memorial to Willett, but mostly as local residents wanted to prevent building development encroaching on their green spaces. A sundial – keeping British Summer Time, not Greenwich Mean Time – was erected there in a clearing.

Willett had become an icon of daylight. A portrait was painted; a bronze bust was sculpted; a pub was named in his memory, and in 1931 a wax figure was unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s in London. But not everybody had come round to Willett's way of thinking: over the subsequent years, dissenting voices were heard.

Permanent summer, 1968–1971

In 1968, the clocks went forward as usual in March, but in the autumn, they did not return to Greenwich Mean Time. Britain had entered a three-year experiment, confusingly called British Standard Time, and stayed one hour ahead of Greenwich until 1971.

This was not the first experiment to shift the clocks in winter. In the Second World War (1939-45), Britain had adopted Double British Summer Time, with the clocks one hour ahead of Greenwich in winter and two hours ahead in summer.

When the British Standard Time experiment ended, the Home Office carried out an exhaustive review to find out whether it had been successful. The answer was both yes and no. There were ‘pros and cons’ to having the clocks forward and, on balance, the Government decided to return to the original British Summer Time.

A century of saving daylight, 1907–2007

Within a few years of its introduction, most countries reasonably north or south of the equator had adopted Daylight Saving Time. But it has been controversial since the day William Willett first proposed it back in 1907, following his rural rides through Petts Wood.

After a century of daylight saving, we still cannot agree on whether it is a good thing or not. When proposals to extend the system are occasionally made in Parliament, protest soon comes from those affected by its disadvantages. Daylight Saving Time tries to treat a complex network of symptoms with one solution. But not everybody sees it as a cure. So the debate continues.

 

[sutherngent985]

Im lucky I guess...only clocks I have to turn back are the clock in the bathroom, my watch and the clock in the car (although I have to unhook the battery at 1 PM to do that due to the set buttons not working)

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

This is one time when I'm really glad to live in AZ.