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elbanditoroso's avatar

In the US, tonight is the night you set your clocks back by one hour (except Hawaii). Do you change your clocks tonight before bed?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33146points) November 4th, 2017

Or tomorrow morning upon awakening?

Or did you never change them last March (so they’ll be correct again tomorrow)?

Or do you stay up until 2:00am in order to do it right on schedule?

(Me: Before bed tonight)

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RedDeerGuy1's avatar

I stay up till 2am

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

My “atomic” clocks set themselves over night. The wall clock is really noisy, the hands to ratchet around like time is running at 20X normal speed.

I have a couple of watches that I’ll update tonight or tomorrow.

kritiper's avatar

Sometimes early Saturday evening, sometimes Sunday morning.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Arizona also does not change their clocks.

:)

RocketGuy's avatar

I do it in the morning.

elbanditoroso's avatar

@Hawaii_Jake – I have to admit I never understood how Arizona escaped that.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

I think the federal law is written in such a way that it allows states to choose. To make it even a bit more confusing, it I’m not mistaken, I think the Hopi reservation inside Arizona actually does change their clocks.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

I found this

It’s the Navajos who change their clocks. Their nation straddles several states, so they want to stay together.

zenvelo's avatar

I am not at home tonight, so I will reset the few clocks tomorrow. Usually I do it right before bedtime the night before.

Massachusetts is debating switching to the Atlantic time zone and never doing day
Light savings again. They are so Far East that sunset will be at 4:30 in Worcester and Boston tomorrow.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Will reset the oven and microwave now. Edit done. Will change the clock radio at 2am while listening to coast to coast am then going back to sleep. Phone is automatically changing.

johnpowell's avatar

I never set the time on my microwave.

Everything else updates the time on its own.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

I fucking despise daylight “savings” time. Such a savage, barbaric and utterly moronic practice.

SergeantQueen's avatar

I think everything I use to tell the time changes on it’s own without my assitance

filmfann's avatar

I have insomnia, so I usually get out of bed and change the clocks at 3:00 or so.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Done now going to sleep.

JLeslie's avatar

Some clocks before I go to bed and some the next day. A click beside my bed I would change before going to sleep. My car clock it might take me a day or two. I don’t wear my watch every day, so that would be the old time until I wear it.

HI, AZ, and up until ten years ago parts of Indiana didn’t do daylight savings. Also, our territories don’t like PR, Guam, etc.

stanleybmanly's avatar

I will stop the 7 mechanical clocks first thing in the morning. The battery driven clocks, and the stove, microwave, and clocks in the vehicles will be set as I come across them.

elbanditoroso's avatar

Damn, I forgot one last night – the one on the microwave oven. Got that one this morning.

And then when I go out to the car, I’m going to have to remember how to adjust that one.

LuckyGuy's avatar

I have to set the clocks on my thermostats, cars, and old clock radios in the bedrooms. I’ll get to it later today, (Sunday).

LuckyGuy's avatar

I also had to change the clocks in both digital cameras and the water controller for the fish pond.
And the microwave, DRV and VCR! (Yep. I still have one.)

si3tech's avatar

@elbanditoroso I change them before going to bed.

SergeantQueen's avatar

If you stay up till 2am you can watch your phones change automatically.
Pretty cool to see them go from “1:59” to “1:00”

zenvelo's avatar

Back a long time ago when I was working graveyard at a hotel, I phoned POPCORN at 1:59 a.m., and listened to the time change:

At the tone, the time will be one, fifty nine, and forty seconds
At the tone, the time will be one, fifty nine, and fifty seconds
At the tone, the time will be one o’clock.

LuckyGuy's avatar

@zenvelo Funny. I did a similarly nerdy thing but for a different event. I set the clock on my VHS video camera and aimed it at my ham radio as it listened to WWV counting the time on a day when they were going to add one second. It took me about 15 minutes to get the two synched up as close to perfect as I could. I started recording about 2 minutes before the second was to be added and just watched. Sure enough, after all the clicks, buzzes and announcements the VCR clock and the announcements differed by a second.
99.99…% of the world’s population got to enjoy an extra second of sleep while I blew at least half an hour trying to document it.
It was worth it.

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