I may be in the vast minority, but I like the time change…To me it signals the beginning of winter in November, the beginning of spring in March..I live in a rural area, retired now from grain farming…I always have had a different routine in the winter vs spring and summer.

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I know the feeling of being in the vast minority. I’m the only member of SIGforum whose alkaline batteries never leak.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

I know the feeling of being in the vast minority. I’m the only member of SIGforum whose alkaline batteries never leak.

You're buying the wrong brand.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
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I know the feeling of being in the vast minority. I’m the only member of SIGforum whose alkaline batteries never leak.

You must take the batteries out when you aren’t using the device. I have come across countless interesting test devices ruined by being left in storage with alkaline batteries in place.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I prefer standard time as well but most European countries also have DST.

Really? I did not know that, I thought DST was just an American thing.

European countries on DST

There is only a few in Europe who don’t have DST. And most of the countries in the world are sane enough not to have DST.

And the kicker is that the dates for DST between Europe and the U.S. don’t coincide. I had to set up calls between the U.S. and several countries in Europe at the same time with tight windows (German law required offices to be shut down by a certain hour for example and there were also time differences across Europe).

Imagine having to program a medical device designed to record readings against local time and change automatically with DST. In the 90s, they changed DST timing for Europe and the company I was working at had to scramble to get the fix in place.

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Originally posted by acpick:
I may be in the vast minority, but I like the time change…To me it signals the beginning of winter in November, the beginning of spring in March..I live in a rural area, retired now from grain farming…I always have had a different routine in the winter vs spring and summer.

I always found the change too abrupt. I have to do the same thing now but at a different time just because someone decided 7 AM happens one hour earlier or later today compared to yesterday?

I like the gradual change as when darkness starts happening and daylight begins which is what I now enjoy in sane Arizona.

Stupid Northern Hemisphere tilting farther away from the Sun making the days shorter.

I grew up in AZ, then moved to Texas, then Washington and now I’m back in AZ.

I do prefer that the clocks don’t change. I wake up around the same time everyday, no matter what the clocks or sun does. 5:00-5:30, I’m up. I go to bed around 9:30-10:30. This doesn’t have anything to do with the clock, it’s when my body says its time for sleep/wake.

I do miss the summers in Washington, where it’s light out until nearly 10 pm. Combine the latitude with DST and the sun stays up late.

That’s said, I really like not having to mess with the clocks twice a year.

Well, I got to walk the dog in the dark last night after I got home from work, and I've woken up an hour before my alarm both yesterday and today...aided by the dog this morning on my day off who decided that it was time to go outside at 4:00am and then crawled into bed with us after I let him back in. Stupid time change.

I love DST! It gives me one more hour of insomnia...

Yeah! The sun is in my eyes when I drive the kids to school, again.

Dooggie internal clocks hate DST.