The only thing I like about it is that it's still dark in the morning when I drive the kids to school...That way, no one can see how terrible I look first thing in the morning! I feel like I'm running out of time today...that's because we lost an hour I know...but I don't like it! I need all the time that I can get! I remember when the kids were little, I hated it because it would stay so light out down here (until about 9:00...much later than NJ because ATL sits more west)...They would not want to go to sleep!...When DH was on the road, it was a killer to me. Anyway, that's my complaint for today. ~Lisa

Atlanta area here, too! I hate the spring one... I'm so tired!

What really sucked yesterday was my dd had a 6:50AM indoor soccer game. Our bodies felt like it was 5:50 am. We all came home and went back to bed!

Lisa

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I don't like the time change in the spring cause I don't like the adjusting period. You know...the whole losing an hour thing. I prefer the fall time change, when we gain an hour that day. What I do like about the spring time change is the daylight is longer in the evenings so I can let the kids go play outside after homework. I agree with you, CaddyLisa, about bringing the kids to school and it's still dark. I too, bring my DD to school and I'm not a morning person. So, I don't look my best when I bring her to school. The dark does help matters. LOL

I hate the spring ahead one, it takes my body almost a full week to recover. My body has a natural clock, and its hard to reset it. I wish all I had to do is wind it or hit a few buttons, I wish they would get rid of it.

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You would think one measly hour wouldn't make such a big difference, but it sure does! LOL I had a hard time convincing my son to go to bed last night when it was still light outside.

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I could not get my kids to bed for the life of me last night. They kept telling me it wasn't bed time because it wasn't dark yet. Trying to get them up this morning was another extreme battle. We could not be late either because the older one had some sort of testing today. That was really poor planning on someones part.

I hate this! I have jet lag and didn't get to go anywhere fun. Time for my nap.

I don't mind the time change - fall or spring - but I hate that they changed when it's done!

My stupid clock is atomic and sets itself. It's still on that old schedule. Normally times change in October and April, but it's not like that anymore.

I adjusted the clock myself last year, just because I wanted it done before I went to bed. Well when 2 am came, the time adjusted itself and it was an hour off. It took me a good week or so to get it correct again and I don't have a clue what I did to finally make it right.

So, I'm off an hour for however long it takes to change itself. I'll stick with it though, since I never have to set it when the power goes out! Georgia power has "blips" ALL time and it knocks out every clock in the house but alarm clock.

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Some of us in Indiana are new to this whole time change thing - AND I HATE IT! Before our dear governor decided all these time change things, my mom said we had not changed our clocks in probably I think 30 years. I hated that this morning when I left for work it was still dark - and it was light last week in the mornings!

Count me in. I absolutely hate it. I like to fall back. I just never seem rested on Spring Time.

My kids gave me a hard time this morning getting up for school. Usually I don't even need an alarm, they are up at 6:00- 6:30, but today I actually had to coax them out of bed.

They didn't give me a hard time at bedtime, which I sort expected, but they did ask why we were having dinner at breakfast time?! Must have seemed really early with it being so light out.!

Not liking it AT ALL!

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Luky me!!!
Here in Arizona there is NO time change!!!
I've only lived here a little over a year, but I have to say this is one of the many perks here!
However, I've already had 2 experiences with the time change. I was on the internet last night at 10:00 our time and several sites I go to said it was already Monday. Took me a little while to figure that one out.

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I don't care which one they leave it on, just change it and then leave it alone. This switching it around is crazy to me. Just leave the time alone!!

Yes, he did it the first week in office!!
I would have thought that this State would have something worse for him to work on.

I hate it!

You can't save time you only screw with the clocks!

I personally like it. I find winter, when it gets dark early, to be very depressing. Yes, the initial time change is a shock to the system, but it is worth it. I'm glad they've been extending Daylight Savings Time.

You're not alone...I love it!! They more daylight hours in the evening, the happier I am

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I love it, but I hate that the moved it to NOW.

I loved the longer days and warmer evenings coinciding. It was a sign that summer was around the corner.

In the fall, I love the extra hour of sleep!

I want to be in AZ where time doesn't change! Well, not really cuz I love it here in CO but it's so stupid (to me). I HATE IT!!!!

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You must live in the same kind of zone I work in. I live in So IL, but work in So IN. A lot of the people I work with really hate it. Now we are always 1 hour different than 6 months the same time, then switch to 6 months an hour behind. I guess I don't really mind it too much. It used to bother me, but this year not so much.

I never have any idea what the rest of the country is dealing with... In Arizona, we do not do daylight savings time except for the tiny Hopi Indian reservation in Northeastern Arizona... they do it. Why? I don't know!

Interesting...but I still don't like it!!! ~Lisa

Ninety years ago, entrepreneurs Sidney Colgate (as in Colgate-Palmolive) and A. Lincoln Filene (as in Filene's Basement) became unlikely comrades in rallying support for daylight saving time, theorizing that an extra hour of daylight would benefit their businesses. But the benefits haven't been universal. Various industries have cheered, complained, or merely been confused by the impact of that extra bit of sunlight on their bottom line.

Sporting goods: winner
Sales rely on physically fit consumers who take advantage of longer daylight hours to stay outside using their cleats, mitts, and racquets.


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Golf: winner/loser
While an extra hour of sunlight every evening lets courses schedule more happy-hour tee times, it also means that early-morning (read: retired) enthusiasts lose an hour of the only sport that can't be played under lights.

Convenience stores: winners
They can't make money with their customers hunkered down at home—but when people are hanging out and enjoying that extra hour of daylight by having a picnic or sharing a six-pack, the cash flows.

Candy: winner
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 pushed the end of daylight saving time into November, leaving that extra hour intact for Halloween. The candy industry is widely thought to have lobbied for the extension, even though the National Confectioners Association says that's not so.

Retail: winner
The extra hour of daylight extends the midday sales peak and boosts shopping in the evening. Outdoor shopping malls, unsurprisingly, fare particularly well.

Farming: winner/loser
Bound as they are to Mother Nature's clock, farmers have been known to fight D.S.T. legislation. But Jim Benham, president of the Indiana Farmers Union (and who grows corn and soybeans and raises cattle), says that the late sunrise in March hasn't bothered him.

TV networks: losers
Every year, when the hour shifts ahead, ratings decline briefly for the prime-time slot, says Preston Beckman, executive vice president of strategic program planning and research for Fox Broadcasting. Still, a Nielsen Media Research spokesperson cautions against blaming the sun: the closer to summer, the higher the likelihood of reruns.

Well I like the fact when warmer weather gets here I get an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day. It is wierd but I like it. It does mess with you though, this time isn't as bad for me as it was in the beginning.

The part I don't like is that it makes things like the fireworks on 4th of July start later, so sometimes we can't go because of needing to get up the next morning. By the time they end and you fight the traffic to get home its midnight!

ME TOO!
I wish they'd keep it this way year round!

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I don't like that it is so dark in the mornings.

I feel bad for the kids going to school in the dark. It was just getting better and they switched to DLS time.

Glad to see some fellow Hoosiers who dislike this stupid time change.