Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-08 (Saturday)

On 2025-03-10 18:12:27 +0000, BTR1701 said:

On Mar 9, 2025 at 6:31:21 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
 

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 3/9/2025 10:33 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

Sorry this is late today - it's a combination of the switch to Daylight
Savings Time and me deciding to run errands this morning (to beat the
crowd, thanks to DST!!).
 

 I didn't realize today was DST.  I was wondering why I slept in so late.
I miss the old days when you had to manually adjust all the clocks.
At least then you knew it was daylight savings.  Now it just sort of
happens automatically without warning.

 So many years ago, I put these newfangled atomic clocks in just about every
room of mom’s house and her House had a lot of rooms. And we waited to see
what happened to come daylight saving time. Well, they changed just like we
were on mountain time. So I had to go in and change them all an hour, which
was a real pain because they were those funky Asian things where you have
to push three buttons in sequence and hold them down for two seconds to
activate the third sequence to make something go back one.
 Then two weeks later the good folks in Pueblo Colorado figured out they
were doing it wrong and sent out the signal to correct it and I had to go
back and change every goddamn clock again.
 And then six months later do it all again.
 That lasted a couple of years and I threw the damn things away.

 We've long known that you communists in Arizona refuse to go along with the
DST program, but I just found out the schizophrenia is even worse than
previously suspected.
 There's an entire chunk of northeast Arizona that *does* do DST, but within
that chunk, there's another segment that *doesn't* do DST.
 https://ibb.co/GvtGNgjB
 You'd need a TARDIS to travel from Colorado southwest through Arizona with all
the time-traveling you'd be doing.

The only reason Big Daddy hasn't signed an executive order to make DST permanent is because he favors getting rid of DST permanently. He claims it's "50/50" in public opinion, when polls have shown him wrong.
Actually that's one of the few (very few) things I agree with him on. Either quit moving the clocks forward every spring or (better yet) just leave everything as it is.
Only a big baby gets upset because they lose an hour of sleep once a year and it "messes up their routine." Or it takes them a few minutes to adjust any non-atomic clocks.