Daylight Saving Time

Saturday night as I went to bed, I moved the bedroom clock up an hour.  That makes it easier to adjust to Daylight Saving Time.  It's easier to think of going to bed late than to suddenly lose an hour the next day.  There is sometimes benefits to playing tricks with one's own mind, LOL!

In the morning Sunday, I just got up and dealt with the time.  Since I don't keep regular hours going to bed or getting up, it isn't hard.  In fact, I got up at a generally "regular" time,  so neither mind nor body objected.

The annoying part is all the other clocks in the morning.  I have an unusual number of them.  There are 4 in the kitchen alone; the oven, the M/W  and 2 analog wall clocks on opposite walls. 

There are 5 in the TV room.  One a radio signal one that tells time, month/day/date, year, inside temperature, outside temperature, and inside humidity.  It a fun item, but mostly it is always accurate with the radio signal update and serves as the basis for setting all the other clocks.    Aside from that one there is the cordless phone, the cable box one, the VCR one, and an analog wall clock.  I don't bother with the VCR one, I put electric tape over the display a decade ago.  I know HOW to change it, I just don't need it.  I'd do the same with the cable box, but it also shows the channel sometimes.

The Living room has only one digital clock, but it is a very useful one.  It shows the day of the week in LARGE LETTERS; something very useful if you are retired and so don't have the kind of schedule that forces you to normally keep track of that.  And it is the first room I walk into in the morning, so that's the best place for it.  Don't laugh TOO hard, but sometimes after I get up and am dressed and about the house, I notice it is "Thursday" when I thought it was "Wednesday".  Its not like it may sound;  mostly I just need to know "weekday" from "weekend" (because I never do shopping on weekends).   Too crowded...

The Bedroom has 3 clocks.  The old digital clock/radio/alarm that I only use as "clock" these days.  The radio part was always awful, the alarm annoying to set.  So I just use a kitchen timer as an alarm clock.  Whenever I go to bed, I just set the timer to 9 hours (so easy).  If I wake up before it goes off and feel rested, I get up.  If it goes off and I don't feel rested, I just set it for another hour.  As I said, my hours are very flexible.

The 2nd Bedroom "clock" is only an analog day clock.  All it does is show the day of the week.  The face is divided into days and that is ALL it tells you.  If you looked at it carefully, you could judge early morning, late morning, etc.  But if you need that level of help, you probably NEED some other kinds of help, LOL!  I only have it because I hadn't found that Living room digital one at the time.

The 3rd Bedroom clock is equally not mainly for telling time but it does have a clock on it.  It is really a digital indoor/outdoor thermometer that tells me the minimum and maximum temperatures and the click of a button.  It's for gardening information but of course they just HAD to but a time display on it.  I will say, that since it is in the Bedroom and battery powered, it the electricity fails (so the clock radio blinks at me, it is easier to tell the time than finding my eyeglasses to read my wristwatch to tell what time it is. 

The Computer room has 3 clocks in it.  Two are on the computers.  One computer is online, so it automatically updated.  The other computer is standalone (for games but also security; I keep my passwords and asset trends on a spreadsheet there.  The clock there doesn't actually matter, but it can being confusing if I want to make sure I stop playing a game by a certain planned bedtime.  And I'll be darned, THAT'S the one I forgot to change today (doing it now).  The 3rd is a digital wall clock.  Well, just because I don't always wake up the computer when I walk into the room...

The Basement has 2 analog clocks.  One is a cool/unusual.  It is a woodworking equipment company brand one.  I was buying something and one of those exhibition shows and knew they were selling the item at a discount.  But I was negotiating.  I was asking for more than the demonstrator was willing to give and noticed he had a 12" analog clock showing the company (which I liked).  So I said "Throw in the clock and you have a deal".  He looked back at the clock and said "You have to be kidding".  But I now have the bench planer and the clock (which has kept perfect time for 20 years, is easy to read [large black hands on a yellow face], and gets comments.  The other clock is a standard cheap analog type for where I can't see the large.  I actually need clocks in the basement.  Otherwise, I stay down there too late...

The Cat room has no clocks in it.  Well, there IS one, but I keep the battery out.  It ticks loudly.  Same for a pendulum wall clock in the Computer room, BTW.  I sleep lightly

That leaves 2 clocks.  One is my wristwatch.  I hate my wristwatch.  I can set it, but it takes work and experimentation.  The buttons aren't labeled, not are they intuitive.  And with buttons sticking out of it, I am constantly accidentally changing it to 24 hour time or timer or alarm.  And it has a black display over a grey background.  But other ones were more complicated or gaudy.

My previous wristwatch was a Sears Phasar with an easily readable black display on a white background.  My Dad gave it to me when I left for college in 1968.  It kept perfect time.  The replacement battery was inexpensive.  The settings buttons were recessed (which meant that you needed a paperclip on old pen to depress them, but you couldn't change things by accident. 

The last clock is in the car.  Easy to change.  Dedicated hour and minute buttons, so today it was just one push and I was done. 

The Fall changeback takes longer.  Digital clocks beed to be advanced forward 23 hours, not 1 forward.  Many analog clocks get messed up being turned backwards, so you have to manually turn a slow button on the back 23 hours. 

But I love Daylight Saving Time.  Same TV schedule, but an hour later of light.  And since I never get up at dawn, I personally DO get an extra hour of light each day.  I spent my extra hour today deciding where to transplant some specimen tree saplings to in the area I chopped out the brambles in the far back yard, snipping out old growth on perennials, and cutting out some small briars and brambles from around flowerbeds preparing for new growth.