Clocks Fall Back One Hour on Sunday!
Daylight Saving Time will end at 2:00a on Sunday, November 3, 2024.
It's a great time to remember to put new batteries in your smoke detectors. Then put the old batteries in a tube sock and carry them around in case of bear attack. Or recycle them.
Daylight Saving Time will end at 2:00a on Sunday, November 3, 2024.
It's a great time to remember to put new batteries in your smoke detectors. Then put the old batteries in a tube sock and carry them around in case of bear attack. Or recycle them.
BTW, We're still waiting to see if Time Change will go away forever. Some Provinces have already voted to get rid of Spring Forward/ Fall Back.
Ontario wants to end the time change but can't do much until Quebec and New York State come on-board. New York seems to want to stop changing clocks but everything is still in the "to be continued" phase. Quebec is looking into it also. BTW, The British Sleep Society wants the time changing to stop also #WaitToSee
I am re-blogging some of these Time Change Factoids. I have vowed to
continue my amateur research into time until we finally crack time
travel! I have found that the more you look into time-change, the more complicated it gets.
Every year I end up
covering the same things... Time Change is terrible... Time Change is
brilliant... Time Change is both... Here come the links...
- There are stats about heart attacks, traffic accidents, energy consumption, and cranky coworkers (not you, everyone else.)
- The time change might conserve energy, or it might not (depends on what study you look at).
- SOME studies say car accidents go up after the time change because our concentration gets all messed up, but another study showed that the more daylight we get during travel times, the better the driving outcomes.
- The time change also helps the golf industry make more cash.
- Has anyone asked the the team in charge of Big Ben how they feel?
- The time change might conserve energy, or it might not (depends on what study you look at).
- SOME studies say car accidents go up after the time change because our concentration gets all messed up, but another study showed that the more daylight we get during travel times, the better the driving outcomes.
- The time change also helps the golf industry make more cash.
- Has anyone asked the the team in charge of Big Ben how they feel?
- Some experts insist that changing our clocks each Fall and Spring only happens because it helps retailers.
In conclusion, Time Change is complicated. Even when we move clocks back an hour, it might still screw us up and be bad for our health and/or safety. Yes, we get more sleep, but it's darker sooner at night and the whole thing is stressful... and who likes stress? (correct answer is no one. No one likes stress.)
⏰How to deal with messed-up sleep patterns:
😠Issue: Crankiness.
Solution: Just go with Cranky as your new normal. Maybe you used to be Happy-Go-Lucky... well, it's somebody else's turn to be nice now. Send an email to all your contacts explaining that you have chosen to become a jerk, and that people should "deal with it." and that they "need to calm down, Nancy."
Problem solved. (Fact: People love it when you tell them they need to calm down.)
😠Issue: Crankiness.
Solution: Just go with Cranky as your new normal. Maybe you used to be Happy-Go-Lucky... well, it's somebody else's turn to be nice now. Send an email to all your contacts explaining that you have chosen to become a jerk, and that people should "deal with it." and that they "need to calm down, Nancy."
Problem solved. (Fact: People love it when you tell them they need to calm down.)
😫 Issue: tiredness.
Solution: Get a pair of glasses with eyes painted on the lens. Wear them to the staff meeting and people will think you're super-alert... but really you're dreaming of kittens.
💔 Issue: increased risk of heart attack.
Solution: handcuff yourself to a cardiologist. If it happens, your doctor is RIGHT THERE!
🚗 Issue: Traffic Accidents.
Solution: buy an Electromagnetic Pulse Device on the Dark Web and crank it up to 11. This will disable all the vehicles around you, rendering them harmless. Note: does not work on horses. It would suck to go to all the trouble of disabling every car for a hundred miles, then get run over by a horse. Don't get cocky.
Here are some other (better-researched) ways to counteract your lousy stinkin' time change mood...
- Force Yourself to Smile... (it can trick your brain into being happy)
- Stand up straight (you had it right, mom)
- Force Yourself to Make Small Talk (Pro Tip: if you're terrible at small talk like me, bring a microscope to work and carry it around all day. When people are like "what's the deal with the microscope?" You can say it's for small talk. It's a terrible Dad Joke, but the commitment is pretty hilarious.)
- Put your hands up (like you're gonna be arrested?! 30 seconds of that and you're less stressed somehow)
-Do a good deed!
⏰ Some Daylight Saving history...
I thought it was a Ben Franklin idea... but it might've just been a Ben Franklin sense-of-humor joke...
a guy in New Zealand also thought about Daylight Saving in 1895... then the great great grandfather of the lead singer of Coldplay had Daylight Saving ideas too. Then Coldplay had that "Clocks" song!? There are no coincidences!!
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Anyway, time is an illusion
