BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2

Subject: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Nov 20 - 04:16 PM

Titled Part 2, because
an old closed thread with that title already exists.
Here we are,
Halloween was yesterday,
the presidential national election is day after tomorrow,
and we turned the clocks back one hour today.

Pissing down rain outside, as the French would say,
like a pissing cow. ("une vache qui pisse")

And I have lost the key to my room,
right here in my room,
where I have done everything but strip the bed
to hunt for the misplaced key.

Dis-regulated? Me?

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Senoufou
Date: 01 Nov 20 - 04:34 PM

Oh keberoxu, I'm so sorry you lost your key! I'd be very upset if that happened to me, as I hate losing things.
Sometimes nothing seems normal or going along as it should.
Difficult times eh?

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Nov 20 - 04:48 PM

Kansas phrase."Like a cow pissing on a flat rock"

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Nov 20 - 04:53 PM

Our week of rain finally cleared and I spent the afternoon putting up a chunk of fence. Of course the dogs don't know anything about this Daylight Savings Time business, they still want to be fed at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Nov 20 - 05:01 PM

It's a horse pissing on a flat rock this end, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Nov 20 - 07:51 PM

So I stripped the linens off the bed, and there was the key --
inside the wooden bed frame, which is too big for the mattress here.
I knew the key wasn't on the floor, because
I had crawled all over the floor to make certain.
The key got tangled up in the blankets or something.

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day,
even if it is still raining.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: leeneia
Date: 02 Nov 20 - 12:05 AM

What bad luck! It's almost as if it burrowed into a place of hiding. Good thing Halloween is over.

I'm glad you found it.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: The Sandman
Date: 02 Nov 20 - 01:41 AM

in ireland, its a fine soft day. grand for growing

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 02 Nov 20 - 03:48 AM

Every time I sing I have trouble finding the key...........

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Nov 20 - 07:18 AM

The cats are still on DST.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Nov 20 - 04:54 PM

Better than on DMT eh

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 04:27 AM

We say "It's raining cats and dogs" here, and at the moment it blooming is.
This autumn has seen the heaviest rainfall ever here in Norfolk.
The river Wensum down by the watermill in our village is nearly bursting its banks. The farmer's fields on either side are underwater, and my neighbour's daughter's sheep are looking sodden and gloomy.
Today it's lashing down again. Very depressing.
I draw the curtains now at 4pm. My sister told me it's now dark at 3pm up in Tayside.
I seem to still be on BST, and can't adjust my routine. Funny how one's body clock keeps ticking away to 'original time'!

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 05:22 AM

The hold doors of a plane carrying Japanese car parts burst open in mid-air. It was raining Datsun cogs...

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 05:27 AM

Pwaaaahaaaaahaaagh! Very good Steve!

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Jos
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 06:07 AM

I get up when I wake in the morning. I go to bed when I'm sleepy. I eat when I'm hungry. As I don't need to go to work and rarely need to catch trains or buses (and bus and train timetables around here are usually the same from one hour to the next, anyway), I don't need to worry about BST or GMT.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Senoufou
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 07:28 AM

I'm the same Jos, but as my husband is still working, I try to adapt so I can be on the same timetable as him. It takes a few weeks, but eventually I'm on course!

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Nov 20 - 08:14 AM

It turns out my normal lifstyle has been intense training for pandemic rules and DST.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Joe_F
Date: 04 Nov 20 - 05:53 PM

https://come-to-think.dreamwidth.org/10388.html

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Nov 20 - 09:22 PM

It's still unsettling to see the day going dark to evening so much earlier than before.
But if there's a temporary compensation,
it's that my area has unseasonably warm dry pleasant weather just now,
so one can actually do things like eat outside in the fresh air. It will be sweet while it lasts.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 06:52 PM

Refresh
We just "fell back"
in the state of Massachusetts.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 08:00 PM

I set my clocks.. the 3 non-digital ones in about 3-4 minutes. Slept late.. all adjusted.

I believe DST is a fine idea for Spring & Summer...not for Dec-Feb

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 06:58 AM

Sunrise is 6:41. Yesterday was 80 but today it has dropped by 30.
I found a wooly worm which is an omen for what kind of winter we will have, I just don't know which.
A full lunar 'blood moon' eclipse ended at 6 AM this morning which is probably another omen.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: gillymor
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 09:43 AM

Grandpa Jones and I are like minded on all this dadgummed clock changing- Daylight Savings Time

btw, Bill D we used to say "Pope piss on a flat rock?" or "Pope shit in the woods?" as variations on "Pope's ass white?".

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 10:06 AM

I have clock radios all over the house and still have a couple to set soon. I haven't gone into every room yet.

I've been working on a yard project and by the time I get outside after doing other things for my contract job and around the house I don't have the whole day. On Sunday I was taken aback at how early it felt like I had to stop because it was getting dark.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Charmion
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 10:17 AM

I have already adapted to winter hours.

It took me five minutes on Sunday morning to change the battery in the hall clock and reset it, and to reset the clocks on the stove and the stereo. I also moved the comfy chair over to the window to take full advantage of what light we get in December and January. That's pretty well all it takes chez moi.

Driving to choir practice now takes place in full dark, so I leave the porch light on. Easy peasy.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 04:42 PM

gillymor.. I have a picture of the pope sitting on a porcelain throne in the woods. Photoshop is clever.
I also have real pic of a bear shitting in the woods...

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Nov 22 - 05:54 PM

In approximately 1980 we bought a wall clock from a bloke across the road, paying him five pounds for it. We understood that it was part of a job lot that had, er, fallen off the back of a lorry. It has a lovely pine surround, a cheery white circular face with Roman numerals and some splendid brass trimmings. It has neither gained nor lost a second in over forty years and we reckon that it's had a new AA battery (just the one) about four times in all that time. It looks as new as the day we bought it. I do have to adjust it for the clock change twice a year. Tsk.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Nov 22 - 05:05 PM

Steve, I owe you one! And if you actually came up with that one, I will owe you a beer some day!

I've been in favor of making Daylight Savings Time permanent in the U.S. Apparently Congress voted for it, but I don't think enough of them understood it, and I don't think they will stick with the vote.

I've been interested in the proposal to eliminate all time zones and just have the world on, say, Greenwich all the time. Adapting to it would be interesting, and might take the world's mind away from a war or two.

There's probably something I don't see in there would screw it all up.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 07:47 PM

It's that time of year again!
I just finished turning the alarm clock back.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 07:53 PM

Just turn the alarm off and you won't feel a thing.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 09:12 AM

7 clocks to change by hand. That inculudes my car.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 09:32 AM

Yes, my car as well, Mrrzy.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 05:08 PM

When do you Brits fall back? I got an extra hour going to Ireland in the fall, fell back twice, the year mom went to Europe in the spring annd got to spring forward twice...

If we'd kept it up long enough?

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 01:00 PM

The car is always the last one to get changed, I haven't done it yet.

There is a small clock in my sewing studio that needs a change, but also in that room is a small Sharper Image clock that was given my daughter 25 years ago that keeps good time, changes when it needs, and has never had a battery change. It is a mystery to me what keeps it going.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 02:37 PM

”When do you Brits fall back?”

The last weekend in October, so this year we turned the clocks back in the early hours of Sunday, 29/10/23.

BTW, it’s ‘Autumn’ in the UK, nobody here ever refers to ‘Fall’.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 09:12 AM

7 clocks to change by hand. That inculudes my car.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 05:08 PM

When do you Brits fall back? I got an extra hour going to Ireland in the fall, fell back twice, the year mom went to Europe in the spring annd got to spring forward twice...

If we'd kept it up long enough?

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 01:00 PM

The car is always the last one to get changed, I haven't done it yet.

There is a small clock in my sewing studio that needs a change, but also in that room is a small Sharper Image clock that was given my daughter 25 years ago that keeps good time, changes when it needs, and has never had a battery change. It is a mystery to me what keeps it going.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 02:37 PM

”When do you Brits fall back?”

The last weekend in October, so this year we turned the clocks back in the early hours of Sunday, 29/10/23.

BTW, it’s ‘Autumn’ in the UK, nobody here ever refers to ‘Fall’.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 07:53 PM

Just turn the alarm off and you won't feel a thing.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 07:47 PM

It's that time of year again!
I just finished turning the alarm clock back.

Subject: RE: BS: spring ahead, fall back, part 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Nov 23 - 09:32 AM

Yes, my car as well, Mrrzy.