Be sure to adjust your pump or other device settings if needed for the start of DST 2025.
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And change your lancet!
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And you syringeš
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Ahhhh, Daaaad! Do we have to?!
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OK, I changed my finger pokey! 
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Just never gets old ā¦
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Changing clocks in the house and vehicles and pump in a bit of a pain.But I hate DST with a passion. Iām attuned to the sun. It screws me up. The animals like their food at the regular time.
Circadian rhythms are synced to sun positions.
And Iām a morning person. I realy donāt like Sunrise being later after finally starting to rise earlier.
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@CarlosLuis I have to agree with the āpeople and animalā issues. Seems the logic of the arguments for keeping DST are questionable at best. What if find interesting (and infuriating): The odd things you find that do NOT have DST auto-adjust built in. I recently bought a Kia EV6 car (an EV). One would think with all the electronic/computer capabilities built in (including the ability to change mood lighting), they would have put in a selection to update the clock automatically, but nooooooooo! The owner has to change the clock that all of this tech depends on manually!!! What WERE they thinking?!
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While my preferred technology to work on is physical, hardware, both mechanical, electrical and electronic, and I hate coding - I couldnāt avoid it completely.
The problesm I see in writing the code to have DST and ST automatic in vehicales and pumps is that it would require the option to turn it off for Arizona and some parts of 4 Corners, at least one tribe does or doesnāt allow it. Meanwhile there is the annual debate in the Texas Lege where they hash over doing away with daylight savings or making it year round. The start/stop dates have changed at least once.
Tod do what is necessary to get it to work everywhere in the US might be just too complicated, both the coding for the various options and the user interface. I think the best thing is like my Nissan Frontier. When you bring up clock settings the option is DST ON/OFF. That is pretty simple. My 2015 Subaru Forester is a bit more tricky.
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They should just do it 30 minutes the next time, and then be done with it forever!
The time change does not have to stay on the hour. Clock time is a man-made construct. It has nothing to do with nature. Just split the difference and be finished with it. The sun keeps pretty good track of when to make the days longer and when to make the nights longer.
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But it is an analog of the sunās position with 12 in the day being when the Sun is at the *meridiem- at its highest point.
Probably the earliest clock was when we were a the equatorial savannaās of Africa where our we arose with the Sun, when our shadows gathered at our feet and retired at Sun down.
Iām not sure but I think most of the earliest religions were Sun based. Some of the stone circles in Ireland are aligned with the Solstice, as is Newgrange. Thereās a tunnel that allows the Sun at Solstice to strike a particular spot way inside.
One of my favorites is Sun Dagger in New Mexico.
Clocks and calendars may be artificial constructs, but we made them to reflect our observations of a reality in nature.
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But the sunās position relative to the clock is different every day. We are not doing a good job with our representation because we only change the clock twice per year.
Not at noon and midnight. True itās fudged a bit with time zones.
At the equator the Sun will rise and set at nearly the exact time throughout the year. Other latitudes will differ.
Solar noon - the time when the sun is at its highest point - does not always coincide with clock noon.
āSolar noonā occurs at an infinite number of different times around the globe. Solar noon even occurs at a different time for you than from someone who is standing only a few feet east or west of you.
And if you were to stand on the exact same spot on the next day, solar noon would be at a different time on the clock.
This NOAA calculator shows the time of solar noon for any day.
@Eric weāll just have to disagree on this one. My less than accurate observation of noon is good enough for me. I am a flesh and blood creature not a cesium clock. My circadian rhythms are from a long line of evolutionary history.
Now as a youngster I was impressed by Catherine a beautiful smart college graduate who had to do menial farm work because of the color of her skin.
She didnāt wear a watch and in a building with no clocks she could tell the time plus or minus 2 minutes. She never got to be old. She died from rheumatoid arthritis at a young age.
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In case it will jolt us all out of the DST funk/confusion, a nice lunar eclipse is planned for Thursday night. Personally, I enjoy lunar eclipses a lot more than the solar kind.
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This post keeps driving me batty every time someone adds a comment to it. FYI - itās daylight saving time, NOT āsavingsā!
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The incorrect use of the pronoun āmyselfā is the one that bothers me! I see it all the time. Itās reflexive. Unless the pronoun āIā was already used in the sentence, donāt use āmyselfā!
@allison, here is a horrible sentence to irritate us both!
āAllison and myself were posting on the Daylight Savings Time thread.ā
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Yesssssss! Iām now dead 
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I fixed it!!! 
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