AND I TOTALLY HATE CHANGING THE CLOCKS FOR GOLL DAMN SAVINGS TIME.......

[a kennedy]

My husband, all he does is swear every 6 months for the damn “Spring ahead Fall behind” clock changing ritual. I swear that will be our breaking point of this damn pandemic. And I’m NOT LAUGHING. and I know it’s just stupid.

[CentralMass]

1. Me too.

[icwlmuscyia]

2. wish it was six months - "standard" time is only 4 months long

amazing how a few bribes to congress and they have no problem fucking up our lives.

[Butterflylady]

3. Me too, swearing the whole time I'm changing.

I always have trouble getting the wall clock back on the wall cause it always falls.

[thinkingagain]

4. Me too

I hate time change☹️

[pansypoo53219]

5. shit.i got doing the old work time clock. until we gave upon it.

john oliver needs to rerunhis history lesson.KAISER WILHELM! KAISER. not farmers. KILL IT!

[iemitsu]

6. Last night I changed all but one of our 23 clocks that don't change themselves.

The one I hate changing most chimes every fifteen minutes and to go back one must really go forward.
Takes forever.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. 23 clocks?

I can't even begin to imagine.

[iemitsu]

12. I know, crazy huh?

[3catwoman3]

28. Why do you have so many?

Really big house?

[iemitsu]

29. Medium sized house.

I don't need them all but I also don't throw things away that work.
A bad habit that I would like to change.
Especially since the young people in my family are not collectors.

[3catwoman3]

33. I can relate.

In May, we sold my 98 yr old mom’s house following moving her from NY to Illinois after she took ill during her annual Christmas visit. No more living all alone 700 miles from me, I told her.

I could have opened a booth at an outdoor market with all the sheets, pillows and towels she had. There were also a set of 6 glass lids for cookware, but not pots or pans to go with them. When I asked her about this, she said, “But they were such nice lids.”

I have enough clothes to open a boutique. Working on winnowing down. It’s not easy.

[iemitsu]

34. Yeah, my MIL moved in with us 17 years before she passed.

All of her stuff came into our house.
At the time we weren't very happy about squishing all that stuff into the house but now it is what remains of her so it has become harder to part with.
I would like to give as much away before we die as possible as I know it won't be valued by anyone after the fact.
We have enough for a store too.

[csziggy]

21. For my grandfather clock that can't go back, I jsut didn't wind it today

Tomorrow it will run down and I will wait until it over an hour behind, then pull the weights back up, reset it, and restart it. MUCH easier than setting it forward 11 hours.

When (and if) I get my Ithaca Calendar Clock Farmer's No 10 fixed, I will NOT change the time on it once it is set. It keeps track of leap years and from what I read setting that is an arcane and occult process. Same for the Atmos clock, not messing with that sucker once it is running and adjusted.

If you're into clocks, look up the Arrow Master Motion Plastic Clock aka The Plastic Five Man Clock (http://www.gordonbradt.com/plastic-clock.htm). An oddity and I just happen to have inherited one and unpacked it this week. My sister thought it was a toy, being all plastic, but it is in great condition and seems to run OK, just too noisy for my tastes (whirrs and hums). Not sure I want to keep it, and they seem to sell now as collector's items.

What kinds of clocks do you have?

[iemitsu]

23. I have too many obviously but I also have too much of many things.

A bit of a hoarder.
Nothing that interesting just a lot of clocks. Some old some newish. Many came from my MIL. She brought one back from Japan each trip she made to visit her family.

[csziggy]

25. My Dad got into clocks in his teens

When he found the Ithaca Calendar Clock in the trash of the main office of the company town where his father worked (granddad was mine manager in Agricola, Florida - which no longer exists). He fixed the case, fiddled with the workings and got it to work again. Right now it is not working, but it is a hundred and forty years old (made in Oct. 1879, #195 in that run). There is a local, semi-retired clock man that I hope can get it running again.

Dad's Welsh grandfather got into cutting with a jigsaw in his retirement. He made puzzles but also cut a filagree pattern for a clock. It has stags jumping out of the top of it. Mom never let Dad wind it after the first time since the thin plywood resounds and it is a very noisy thing, but it looks cool. My nephew inherited that one.

There were at least ten other clocks in Dad's house, including the grandfather clock he made from a kit. He enjoyed making it so much, he let each of his four daughters pick a style and he made one for each of us. That's the one I let run down. This morning I checked and it had stopped at 8:42. It was 8:45 so I wound it and set it right then.

To me the Atmos clock is one of the coolest. It runs by the difference in atmospheric pressure so never needs to be wound. That's the one that needs to be regulated but until I have it checked, I'm not messing with it. I remember it being in Grandmother's house and from the serial number, it was made in the late 1940s

There is a clock repair guy that is an authorized repair man for Atmos and once I decide where the clock will go, I'll have him come and check it. He also works on the Ithaca clocks, and I have a miniature grandfather clock that 'd love to see if he can get running. I don't even have a key for that one so can't check to see if it runs. In fact, he will have at least a full day of work here, cleaning and checking all the clocks - and more if he needs to take any back to his workshop.

I had not been into clocks before, but I guess I am now!

[iemitsu]

27. What a wonderful clock story. Thanks for sharing.

The family clocks are special. My mother carried a clock in her lap from Germany. She bought it in the town where her ancestors have run a bakery since 1652. It is a family treasure.
My MIL got a time zone clock in Japan so she could easily tell what time it was there so she could call. It is difficult to reset but I managed to get it done by looking online. The directions on the clock are in Japanese.
I have my dad's watch that was self winding. Why aren't all watches made that way (I know the answer)?
If the clocks were the only collection I had I could keep up on dusting.

[csziggy]

30. Yes, I mostly care about the stories

I love the one about your mother's from Germany and your MIL's from Japan! The internet has really helped with how to work some of the older clocks.

I'm with yoy, if the clocks were it, it'd be easier to care for the stuff I got from my parents. I've spent the last several days unpacking and trying to find places for the various items- vases, bowls, baskets, and knick-knacks - we've inherited from my parents and my MIL. I'm trying to get the delicate stuff in the glass cases so they don't need much dusting, but there are far too many things.

None of our nieces or nephews will want most of this, so I guess we'll get back into selling crap on Ebay or somewhere.

[iemitsu]

31. My wife and I have decided to give the stuff away

to the younger family members while we are alive.
Then they have to take it.
If we wait until we die all of it will end up at the Goodwill. There is just too much of it.
I like the stuff but it is an albatross.

[csziggy]

32. My sister gave tons of stuff (almost literally) to local thrift stores

But there were a lot of things that had sentimental value or that I just liked.

I will offer things to family members as I can, but I suspect a lot will go to thrift stores. One thing that I hope will help is that I will make a notebook for each room and put pictures of each item and describe the items' histories as much as I know them. That way stuff like the 1840s secretary will have a provenance so it won't just get dumped as an old piece of furniture.

[Laffy Kat]

24. That's wild. I have a friend who used to live in Penrose, CO.

That is also where Estes Rockets manufactures their model rockets. It's such a small town for so much manufacturing.

[csziggy]

26. I hadn't even noticed where it was made!

Gordon Bradt was famous for his kinetic sculptures. The clocks were just another piece of art for him. Since he worked in metal, I suspect licensing a plastic version was sort of a way of thumbing his nose at society.

[dem4decades]

7. I pride myself for synchronizing the clocks. I don't mind changing them, i hate looking and seeing

Different things though. And who only has to do it twice a year? Between wind storms, snow storms and shitt luck power outages i seem to be doing it all the time.

[csziggy]

22. We have two of the clocks that set themselves automatically - "atomic clocks"

The one over the cooktop in the kitchen and my husband's alarm clock. Any other clock is attempted to keep the same time, but some can be off. The one in my bathroom keeps losing time, something odd for a modern electric clock.

The various mechanical clocks are being regulated to keep correct time as we get our house set up, as we learn how to do it.

[42bambi]

8. SO DOES MY HUBBY! So I do it. Simple. Done. Poor baby...he really does hate it too.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. It takes me more than a week for my Circadian Clock (internal schedule) to change

after we roll back an hour and roll forward an hour.

While it was strange in 1973-74 when Nixon didn't have the clocks change, it was manageable. I walked to school in the dark and watched the sun rise in math class (8:05).

I find it depressing to have the sun out (not even dusk) at 6:00 p.m. yesterday and it's dark at 5:00 today.

I'll adjust but not willingly.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Do you never travel and cross a time zone?

Or several?

I keep on being astonished at people who say it takes a week or more to adjust.

The stupidity of year round DST was that kids kept on being hit by cars while waiting for school buses in the dark morning. And people were actually using much more energy because of it.

We really should be on DST no more than six months, maybe even somewhat less. Confine it to what is, for all practical purposes, summer, meaning May through September.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. I haven't traveled outside my time zone for decades.

Like I said, I managed that one year we didn't turn back the clocks.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

15. Oh.

I cannot begin to imagine never travelling outside my time zone. Well, I haven't since March, but normally I make several such trips each year.

While someone like you might still have trouble adjusting, I do think we simply go on DST far too early, and get off it far too late.

[Yonnie3]

11. I saw on FB that the government shouldn't be messing with God's time

This is an example of Poe's Law since I have no idea if they were serious.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. I had not heard of Poe's Law before.

So I looked it up. Interesting.

[Yonnie3]

17. Sorry, I should have given a reference

I like the broader version rather than the original Poe quote. My clumsy paraphrase below:

There exists no extreme viewpoint that can be distinguished from satire (or sarcasm) without additional information.

There is so much going on now days that fits this.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. Well, it was easy to find.

Sometimes I manage to remain totally unaware of things that others know all about.

[Olafjoy]

18. No clock changing here in AZ except for some parts of the Navajo Nation

I like it but the cable shows come on at different times now.

[relayerbob]

19. Meh. I like the extra hour of sleep

MUCH bigger things on earth to be concerned with

[NurseJackie]

35. I just wish we could pick ONE and never change again. I don't care which one... just PICK ONE!

⌚⏰🕑🕰⏳

[Skittles]

36. LOL

I spent 13 hours booting multiple partitions to change time

they have to each sit in resent one hour to prevent overwriting data

all you did was change clocks? LUCKY YOU!