3/9/14...Change your clocks - Change Your Batteries...

Thanks for the reminder!

Not until spring gets here, and since we had another 6 inches of snow last night in Chicago spring is a long way off. I bet we still have snow on the ground in June at this rate.

more like the fourth of July before the snow is all gone.

Thank you for the reminder.

Thanks for the reminder. Changing all the clocks and watches I have around my home has always been a chore. There's got to be around 3 dozen time pieces ineed to change and sync.

Thanks for the reminder! This is going to be interesting, my wife just gave birth to our son (5 weeks early....) losing an extra hour of sleep is not going to be fun!

Will do.

Wow! That's six days away. I will try to remember. Maybe write a note to myself.

Very helpful.

I can't believe it is time to change the clocks again. Time seems to speed by.

Thanks for reminding me. This would have slipped my mind.

Thanks for the reminder.

Just a thought, we are on DST from 3/9 to 11/2, when we go back to normal time. That's almost 8 months. So 2/3 of the year we are on DST and 1/3 on normal time.
What is normal? Is DST the new normal?

Heading off to work in the dark again.

a GREAT reminder for everyone in the USA!

My thoughts precisely...am I the only one who hates DST?? Why can't we leave 'time' alone? DST was 'invented' to help farmers harvest long before modern technological farm equipment available today . . .
just ranting.

I live in Arizona and have a Verizon phone. It wouldn't be the first time that the "network provided" time goes wrong for a couple of days. We don't go to daylight savings here but Verizon has forgotten that a few times in the past, creating havoc and shifting all future appointments by one hour. I found it safer to switch the "network provided values" off a few days until "they" get it right.

I love DST for the fact that it stays light so late in the evening. I hate DST initially because I go back to getting up for work in the pitch dark. After a while it gets back to being lighter again and then I like it a lot. Those long evenings with sunlight are great.

Is it that time already? Feels like we just turned them back. I do like DST better.

Thanks. I always use 10 year batteries in my alarms.

Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks for the reminder!

Thanks for reminding us. Maybe one day we can just leave the time as it is and not have to make the change.

One of the worst things about Daylight Saving Time is all the people who add an extra letter s onto the word Saving when they say it...

Yes, things of this sort do annoy me. I hate radio adds for "jew-le-ry" stores. The word is jewelry - not jewlerey. I also am annoyed by people who say real-a-tor. The word is realtor - not relator.

Like many others, I hate the beginning of Daylight Saving Time, aka spring forward.

But it is a good reminder that if I don't change my clocks I will be off by an hour compared to those around me.

You have that one backwards - the farmers are on your side! In the US, DST was first adopted due to war, not farming. If it really gets under your skin, there are states like Az and Hi that don't observe DST - and living in Hawaii wouldn't suck...

For this information, you should check out this following site:

www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html

Good information about DST!

Bring on the Spring!

Really? DST? I thought it was still winter!

As far as I'm concerned it's just a pain you know where. Change it one way or the other and keep it there.

[quoteoymd]Thanks. I always use 10 year batteries in my alarms.

It can't be Spring yet, it snowed this morning here in Chicago!

I really wish they'd get rid of DST. Technology is improving but apparently the law / society is not.

We know the drill, but being nudged always helps!

I am glad to finally spring ahead. Hopefully the warmer weather will follow!

... you would be changing them too soon in March (4 months vs 6 months), and not soon enough in November (8 months vs 6 months).

Would we better off adding a third change (say, 4th of July), making it a 4-month cycle?

No sleep makes me cranky!

Thanks for the reminder though.

why were we supposed to change batteries in smoke detectors, etc.? I'm probably missing something totally obvious, but can somebody explain why batteries have to be replaced when DST begins? I didn't do it, and fully expect the devices to still work.

Change them when the Time changes and your batteries will be changed twice a year and you won't have to wake up to that annoying chirping in the middle of the night.

It was quite a chore twice a year to change our large collection of wall clocks throughout our house along with my large collection of watches, but forgot to get new batteries for the smoke alarms. I'll have to remember tomorrow.

Thanks for the reminder!

Ugggg! The time change is here. Wish they would pick a timezone and leave it. DST would be my preference .

I have an auto-changing clock, but it is hard-set to the old times. So it doesn't automatically change now.

When it's lighter later !

I thought the batteries in all those devices lasted more than a year. Are there any that really need more frequent changing?

All done. Thanks

At least I think I did… Time will tell, so to speak.

Reminds me of all those things I no longer have to do here in AZ like I did in Chicago.
Mowing the lawn, shoveling snow, fighting the traffic. no clock adjustment.

If you know that's the case with yours...then only do it yearly...otherwise, changing them more often doesn't hurt... Better safe than sorry...

It got messy again, shifting all my future appointments by one hour. Something to do with mismatch(es) between the time zones of the phone itself, Google calendar, and Verizon. I had to spend the time to reset all appointments - what a pain!!!

I go through that twice a year and spend enough energy fixing the calendar to deny any advantage to DLT (which we don't use here anyway!)

I would be perfectly fine with that, too.

...done it. (Some as early as Friday night.)