Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00a on Sunday, March 9th, 2024. Clocks Spring Ahead One Hour on Sunday!
It's a great time to remember to put new batteries in your smoke detectors. Then put the old batteries in a sack and carry them around for self-defense in case of bear attack.
It's a great time to remember to put new batteries in your smoke detectors. Then put the old batteries in a sack and carry them around for self-defense in case of bear attack.
^artist depiction^ 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 consumer grade time-travelling technology is readily available. 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.
Remember when they made Daylight Saving last longer? Certain industries LOVED it! Some experts insist that changing our clocks each Fall and Spring only happens because it helps retailers.
- The time change helps the golf industry make more cash.
- 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.
Remember when they made Daylight Saving last longer? Certain industries LOVED it! Some experts insist that changing our clocks each Fall and Spring only happens because it helps retailers.
- The time change helps the golf industry make more cash.
- The petroleum companies do great business during extended Daylight Saving because it people drive their cars more in the evening.
- It has been great for the barbecue industry too.
- Did You Know... that the big candy companies lobbied for a longer Daylight Saving Time? They wanted as many kids as possible going out to Trick-or-Treat. I can't stay mad at you, big candy.
- Has anyone asked the the team in charge of Big Ben how they feel?
In
conclusion, Time Change is complicated. Even the Fall 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)
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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 that 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
Every year something like this gets trending...
