The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for November 04, 2023

Hey, we’ll get a whole day in about 4 months.

It’s the biannual hassle of setting clocks.

It’s all a scam.

Wish we didn’t have to do this anymore, Congress.

It takes me all of that saved up hour just to set all of my clocks back one hour, as I have many.

Great. Five months of people with no sense complaining about how dark it is all the time.

Lived in Arizona for 27 years Never changed the clocks. Now in FL, I miss AZ only for no clock changes

I hope everyone in the USA (except AZ and HI) enjoy the long weekend.

What? This weekend is an hour longer.

You can blame William Willett wanting to play more golf

With all the LED lighting we have now, what are we really saving? Pick a time and stay there. For that matter we can do away with time zones too. When the meeting is at 2:00, it’s at 2:00. Not 2:00 your time or mine?

I’m not sure how but I am fairly certain that this is a communist plot. If WW3 starts in the next 6 months, y’all will be saying “That old dude was right”. :) If y’all don’t see me for awhile I’ll be setting clocks throughout the house and cars and at the neighbors too. Is this the time where I can unplug the 1930’s clock in the shop for an hour or do I have to get the ladder out? The new neighbor has a sundial in the garden, this should be the highlight of my weekend.

Yup. Starting Monday go to work in the dark and come home in the dark.

Whatever happened to changing the law to leave the time at Daylight Saving Time? The section I lived in Indiana were fixed on standard time.

I’ve been on permanent D.S.T. for the past few years. I prefer having that extra hour of daylight at the end of the day so I never set my clocks back. It makes it easier to sleep in in the morning when it’s still dark.

If there’s nowhere in particular that you have be, it’s no big deal

sadly, my family takes that sleep away from me by staying up later with popcorn and yucky booze. :p

I loathe the time switch, no matter which way it goes, it messes up my sleep.

The Government’s attempt to control the sun. Here in AZ it comes up and sets reliably every day.

on the upside, the time on my car’s clock will finally be right.

The kid’s got a point. And whatever the original reasons or concerns were for putting the world on it and causing all the problems associated with changing clock times and ruining sleep patterns worldwide twice a year, those reasons do not exist now. However, it clearly demonstrates that when governments are so incapable of changing/correcting what is obviously an antiquated “LAW”, how can they be really trusted in solving any problem……

Balderdash!

We gave you the hour in March. Now we get it back in November without any interest! Somebody owes us!!!

And the biannual spewing of nonsense from our Premier, telling us that this is – YES! – the very last time that we will have to do it…

I used to spend more than the saved hour just trying to figure out how to adjust all of my devices to or from daylight savings time. At least many of our devices automatically change time so we don’t have to spend a day and a half figuring out how to adjust them.

I agree – more than one hour sounds right. But better yet – leave the durn clock alone. Easy peasy.

In the US, both sides in Congress agreed that we should get rid of the changing of the clocks. Except one side wants to keep standard time and one side wants to keep daylight savings time and here we are, changing the clocks again.

All right. 11 hours of sleep instead of the usual 10. Retirement rocks.

I will stay up an extra hour tonight after convincing myself all afternoon and evening that it’s really an hour earlier. Tomorrow I will wake up as usual, no issue with changing. I am retired, I really don’t care what the clock says. That said, I hate the whole concept of pretending to change time. We can’t change time. We made it up in the first place. I just want them to pick one and leave it there! Let businesses and schools change their starting and ending times twice a year. I have to get on a ladder to change one of my clocks, and with my vertigo – it’s risky every time. Why affect everyone for a few that feel it’s good for their particular situation?

Rant over. I guess we should be happy we don’t have to change our clocks by about a minute every day to adjust for someone.

As a wise Ojibwe once said “Only a white man would think that cutting an inch off the top of a blanket, and sewing it to the bottom, would make the blanket longer. So too, does he think the same with time.”

I’m with what’s his name.

By the way, we are permanently in the limbo of daylight savings time, by order of Congress. You can picket both parties for this one. Total darkness at 7 a.m. The brown bears of Katmai Peninsula continue reckoning the true time according the sun and the seasons. Life on our little island have been so reckoning ever since Earth and we (all life) began. Nothing else is natural.

Wilberforce is aiming to be the next Jay Leno…

I don’t mind the time changes. I get worn out from all the whining about it from people.