A reminder for all American aspies

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Tonight is daylight savings. It snuck up on me, I'm still not sure whether to set my clock back or forward.

I hate daylight savings, though. It throws me off my rhythm, and I bet that I'm not the only aspie who feels that way.

Anyway, just in case you didn't know. I've been caught off guard by it before.

(I apologize if daylight saving is worldwide. I thought some countries don't do it though.)

I heard a rumor that benjamin franklin suggested it. ALSO, it has been slow to catch on Indiana, USA(at least several areas in indiana) didn't have daylight savings until only a couple years ago.

According to wikipedia, half of africa, and several other areas, have NEVER had DST, and it and another part, together equal to almost half the world, don't currently have it.

America was the only one I knew for sure, so that's why I posted it this this way. Thanks for the info, though.

Thank you, GoatOnFire. I would have forgotten. My dog wakes me up at the same time every morning, so now I'll get to see if he goes by the sunlight or waits a certain amount of time after my boyfriend leaves for work.

that would piss me off if i had to do that every year. i wouldnt even do it, i'd just use whatever time i had

seriously, thanks for the reminder. I would have been late to work tomorrow if I hadn't seen this.

"Spring ahead." "Fall back."

The clock gets turned back one hour.

Benjamin Franklin was the first to suggest daylight savings time ((unless my school lied to me)) 2ukenkerl, but it wasn't put into effect until a long time after that. ^^

I'm a little glad for it, it's hard to think of it as six or seven at night when it's dark out, or 5 am when there is light.

No daylight saving time here in my part of Arizona.

But it does suck because it affects TV times on the cable stations here. I have to remember to change my setting for recording South Park, since it'll be on at 11pm instead of 10pm now. At least it doesn't affect the local network stations.

It's actually twice a year. Fortunately this is the easier one, an extra hour of sleep tonight.

I think in Europe it was last week or something.

So move the clock an hour back to that means I can stay up for another hour. It be 12:10 AM right now.

here's how i remember: SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK

Yeah. In the UK clocks go an hour back on the last Saturday/Sunday night in October, and an hour forwards on the last Saturday/Sunday night in March. It's a right royal PITA and I'm still feeling discombobulated

Someone taught that saying to me, as I was always forgeting which was when. Still use the line as device to remind myself.

The twice a year time change always flummoxes me, the way one's instinctive "default settings" are confused-similar to when it's the new year & one's writing the date (with mind on autopilot). Also, by the time one gets used to (internalizes) the "new normal" as second nature, circumstances change again.

We've always done it in Denmark. I think it's annoying. Instead of everyone turning their clocks back and forth, those who absolutely had to get up with the sun could, you know, just get up earlier?

It bothers me that everyone else have such an obsession with sunlight. Would the world go under if everyone stayed up after dark? We're human beings, we don't need a fiery circle in the sky to order us about.