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HEY AMERICANS

IT'S CLOCK SETTIN' TIME!

Remember to set back any analog clocks and sync up any digital ones tonight, unless you really feel like getting up and performing that mystical task at two in the morning when we officially set the clocks back an hour. I have three clocks that actually need setting: the oven clock (very important, as it's the one I consult in the mornings to determine whether I have time for an egg), the bedroom clock, which was a wedding gift to my parents and is the clock I learned to tell time on, and the cheap one in the living room that I never look at because I keep forgetting its existence. This is a lot of time for a guy who basically stops looking at clocks after 4:30pm on weekdays and never consults them on weekends.

As a child I found this whole process baffling, that the human race could just decide to change time twice a year. I also believed that days really lasted longer in the summer, not the daylight itself as we all mean but that hours took a longer time to pass in summer. Clearly I was made for time travel.

Unrelatedly, I had a theory as a very young child that a long silence was an acceptable substitute for "no", which led to interesting misunderstandings with my parents. Come to think of it, most of the misunderstandings I had with my parents came back to an incorrect interpretation of reality on my part.

Frankly, my interpretation of reality is much more interesting. In my reality there are dragons. Beat that.

Comments

[minkrose]

This is why I use my phone as a wake-up alarm, and then I deal with the clocks then. I was going to do it earlier but I'm too tired now!

I wish there were some way to say that there are dragons in my reality as well without sounding flippant or like I'm riffing off of you but... ah well.

Yay for dragons in reality.

[morgulq.livejournal.com]

I, too, thought that Changing Time was awesome. Well, the Summer Change, not the Winter One.

*coughs* Long silences totally mean no! I...do still have problems with that one.

And while Dragons may not be so abundant in my reality, I do have plenty of Dinosaurs.

[morgulq.livejournal.com]

Oh god, and now that I'm thinking about it I'm realising just how Often I use extended silence as a no. *facepalms*

[butterbuns.livejournal.com]

Thank god for cell phones and computers that change time automatically!

And long silences totally do mean no. Yep.

Yay for dragons!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Thank god for cell phones and computers that change time automatically!

And cable boxes! They remember even when you don't.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Argh. Hated the time change because it always messes up my sleep schedule. I don't know why, but major insomnia trigger.

Ah, I was taught silence is assent at an early age, if I didn't speak up I'd find myself assigned an annoying chore.

Reality is always more interesting when you decide it can be.

[duckgirlie.livejournal.com]

Our clocks went back a whole ago, but I would never have any idea if my laptop didn't adjust itself automatically. We don't have any clocks (actually, that's a lie. We have many clocks, but none of them tell the time), and for some reason I can't wear watches, so that cuts the time-fixing effort down to nearly nothing.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I am celebrating the time change tomorrow by buying (if I can find one) a proper wind-up alarm clock for my desk at work so I don't miss any more meetings and don't have to fight with batteries. Even if I have to go to Ikea and buy the one you can't open up without a can opener, because no one else seems to sell wind-up alarm clocks anymore.

Hooray for timekeeping!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I think they are a bit of a specialty. I've never considered "installing batteries" to be fighting, but perhaps batteries have it in for you!

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

Hey, time is changing for us Canadians, too! Well, as long as you don't live in Saskatchewan. They've boycotted the whole daylight savings thing.

I love my quirky country. :D

[seascribe.livejournal.com]

Good for Saskatchewan! I would go live there just for that, I HATE the time changes. They screw with me, and I am resentful.

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Please note that iPhones have, in NZ, Australia, and Europe, been fucking up when it comes to daylight saving due to a bug. I would advise using a different alarm just for the day to be safe.

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder, dear Sam. Extra hour of sleep, yays!

My husband and I each have our own alarm clocks. Part of the reason we bought these particular clocks years ago was due to a feature that automatically would up date for the time changes. So they now change twice a year on the wrong days. Better living through government!

We'll go around and change the cars' clocks, alarm clocks and analog clocks sometime tomorrow. Fortunately the laptops, cell phones and cable boxes will adjust themselves!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

OH THANK GOD.

I missed that hour all summer! There it is!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL! Hold onto it tightly now!

[ceo-badwolfcorp.livejournal.com]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I immediately thought of you and R when a friend showed me this:
http://thedailywh.at/post/1499288262/well-this-is-something-you-dont-see-every-day-of

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

LOL at "And why is someone 'recording' wheel of fortune with their phone or camera?"
"have you never seen the internet before?"

[doomandnachos.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Indiana, which has only observed DST for the last few years. I still find the whole thing baffling.

(It's made even worse by my husband's bedside clock, which automatically changes for DST - but follows the old October & April change dates rather than the newer November & March ones. It's wrong on four mornings!)

[shadowturquoise.livejournal.com]

Oh crap! My least favorite weekend of the year. Why can't I live somewhere that rejects regular time and has DST all year round? (Does such a place exist?) Living on the extreme Eastern edge of a time zone really really sucks! It will be dark by 3:30 tomorrow afternoon. Goodbye Sun! I'll see you in March!

[bare-bear.livejournal.com]

You could move to Saskatchewan! Although they boycott DST entirely...

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

Yay for living in Arizona! We're at the center of the clock-dial, so to speak; we don't do the forward/back thing at all. Of course, we pay for it with 116F degree heat some days, but so it goes.

(BTW, got my copy of Charitable Getting yesterday afternoon; MAN, that arrived quick! **beams**)

Dragons... my reality as a child included talking to trees, bushes, and the grass; I remember apologizing to the grass when my dad was about to cut it. The grass didn't seem to mind all that much, but it made me feel bad. Some of the pines in my backyard had tempers,too-- real bastards, actually, and so was one of the blueberry bushes.

Has this changed a lot as I grew older? ...not so much, really. ^_^

[stardust9121.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, thanks for the post about this - otherwise I'd have accidentally woken my family up at 6 a.m. when I call later.

[rockangel7011.livejournal.com]

I've engaged in rants in recent years about how I hate the whole human construct of time. Particularly around the clock changes.

Then again, I am probably the most punctual person I know, so... *shrug*

[midgetgems.livejournal.com]

I've decided not to teach Sam how to tell the time. Honestly, it will make no difference to his life at all, but would make a huge difference to mine. The downfall of having such a good reader is I can't lie about food anymore! Lying about bedtime is one of my few pleasures in life. If he can tell the time, he'd know that it wasn't *quite* 6 and he had another ten minutes...

The whole light nights in summer/ dark mornings in winter is causing some rows. 'Mummy! It ISN'T MORNING! It is DARK. It's the middle of the night. GO AWAY.'

GMT

[ooktavia.livejournal.com]

I hate losing the hour in the summer, but love gaining it back in the winter. The only thing that really bugs me is make-news discussion *every year* about whether the UK should stay on summer time the whole year round, which might be better for those Down South but would annoy those Oop North. also it would mean that we'd never be on GMT. I like GMT. Greenwich Mean Time, it's cool.

[jonaht.livejournal.com]

Can't beat dragons! They rule in my universe over the fairies and the rest. Just be careful: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste great with a dash of tobasco!!!

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

At my college, we actually do perform a mystical ceremony at two in the morning (the Time Ceremony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merton_College,_Oxford#The_modern_academic_community), an hour of walking backwards around a quad drinking port and spinning). It's ... interesting.

[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

Alas, my alarm clock is designed to automatically change for DST...on the dates when it USED to happen, before Congress changed it a few years ago. ._.

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

I'm in the UK. We're wondering what took you so long. Our clocks went back in October.

[natf.livejournal.com]

*nods* ;-p

[flamingsword.livejournal.com]

I don't want to beat you. Can I join you?

When I was younger, I thought the world had secret rules that everyone knew but me and that if you won the game they let you be an astronaut and then you could leave and go to, I dunno, Mars or something. I wasn't so much wrong as 30 years premature.