Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 10, 2023

Internet just expanded the forum. The arguments on both sides remain the same. I don’t think 9 AM sunrises are a good idea when you’re trying to get the kids to school at 8. And at the other end of the timetable, 5 AM sunrises waste daylight. I believe the arrangement we have put together is a good compromise.

Before social media we had no idea how many “issues” individuals has griefs with!

Trust me! I’m old enough to remember everyone moaning and groaning over time change long before the internet was even thought of.

I hated losing the hour in the spring and liked getting the hour back in the fall until I retired. Now I don’t care either way.

Luckily we still have two weeks before they change here. Hate it, wish we could just stay on wintertime.

Missing church because we were an hour late was always a plus as a kid.

Oh for heaven’s sake is it that time again? I swear we just “fell back” and now it’s time to “spring forward” already. I wish they’d just pick one or the other and stick with it. Better to stay on regular time through the year and skip this DST nonsense!

The “hate it” level depends upon how many timing devices in the house that aren’t “smart” enough to reset themselves.

I never did like changing the time. It has been proven that changing the time recks havoc on the human body. It also bothers my dog too. She’s an hour early when she thinks its time to eat, same with my tummy.

I hate it! Pick one and stick with it. I don’t care which, but it takes me almost three weeks to adjust to whichever when we change. I don’t want scientific reasons as to why, I’ve tried all the suggestions and none of them work. It’s been this way forever and yes, I’m old enough to remember when the internet wasn’t and people still argued about it. They’ve been trying to pass legislation to stop it forever and can’t agree on it. Typical…

Hate DST. The dark mornings make me crabby and the idiot noisy neighbors out later in the evenings makes me crabbier. Get off my lawn! (LOL)

Foolish mortals, trying to tell the Sun God when it is Noon.

Let’s meet half way. Change the clock half an hour and then leave them alone.

Is this weekend the time change? I think the only reason I remember is this comic. Thanks, Jimmy!

@Kitty Queen- Well if you think about, the internet IS relatively new. What are we talking, 25, maybe 30 years? I’ll look it up and get right back…

Sorry, this one didn’t need the internet to push it.

@Kitty Queen- Okay. Yahoo! Search said it’s 37 years old and kicked off in 1983. Interesting. When I get done reading the rest of these comics, I’m going to continue reading more about it.

I hear there’s a new movement from the same “geniuses” who think they get an “extra” hour of daylight by changing the clocks. They now want to STOP all the clocks for 3 hours every day so they get an extra 3 hours of daylight :-)

When all communication was through the post office, it didn’t matter what time zone you were in.

Late for church AGAIN!!!

Standard Time year round wouldn’t bother people at all. What bothers people is the sudden change. I think the problem started when they shortened the Standard Time period. It doesn’t help anything, it just makes the change more jarring.

I just read that one reason they shortened it is that the Candy Industry wanted it for Halloween.

The current talk in DC is to make DST permanent. My only objection is that children will be walking to the bus stop or school in the dark during the winter months.

people complain about it, but in the end they just accept it.

no, we always knew. Just no place to vent.

Yeah, more road deaths every Spring have been a topic since the 50s, at least.

i’ve always said we should really mess with rest of world and change it to half hour change

We lived in AZ for over 10 years and were used to no change. Then our daughter got married and stayed there when we moved to another state. I got tired of having to think about, is she one hour or two hours different? when I wanted to call. I finally set a clock in the house to her time so I didn’t have to remember.

If they have to lose an hour, why do it at 2am Sunday? 2pm Friday would make more sense.

Arizona doesn’t go on DST.

I’d like to hear Janis’ thoughts. I like DST as it gives kids time to play outdoor sports in summer. Government must have something more important to do than worry about DST.

Not where I live

Some knew. Quite a few.

And there are some significant problems that come from the DST change. This is a comic strip, so I’ll not elaborate beyond saying scheduling issues are a problem in many places, and the consequences are most severe in hospitals and in other places where lives or health or safety are involved.

When we were kids, as soon as our parents started talking about time changing in the fall we would get our Halloween costumes together and knew Christmas would be here in about 60 days.

It’s an unnecessary pain in the butt.

No time change here in AZ and the sun still continues to come up on time!

The USA went to year round DST from 1942 to 1945 and 1973 – 1974. People did not like it. Research shows that it was not the best thing.

Oh Lord, yes we did. I’m 70 and there have been complaints about this idiotic tradition my entire life. I was lucky enough to spend my early childhood in Windsor, Ontario, which shunned such nonsense, but have had to endure it twice a year ever since. Jimmy Johnson’s at least as old as I am, I’m surprised he’s never run across the debate before now.

I used to hate the time change because I could never get which way to change, forward or back. Ever since I learned the cute phrase, it’s been a piece of cake. “Fall Forward and Spring Back.” I love it.

I just don’t want it dark at 8 in the morning. Neither do most parents of school aged children who have to go to school in the dark.

Oh, it was always a problem during my lifetime! No one ever liked the time change. It was just in the past, we went out and actually met people and had in person conversations about it instead of typing them out.

OH, we knew decades ago what an anachronism DST is.

Just one more good reason to NOT get up for church on Sunday.

Is it already time to change the clocks?

This is just an idea; We split the difference. Everyone would spring forward 1/2 an hour this one time and leave it that way forever.

We had the water cooler and the coffee break where a knowledge was shared

Trust me, all of us who worked the midnight shift complained about it

True, but we could align the time zones so they more closely refelct sun time. The current time zones with some adjustments were done by the rail roads to create time tables.

Does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care ?……DOWN WITH CLOCKS !

Permanent Daylight Saving Time is idiotic. It would put the entire US out of hour name sync with Canada and Mexico, our largest trade partners. Another American idiosyncrasy to go with English measurement units over the Metric system that literally everyone else uses.

Oh, it was a problem before the internet. We even abolished for a while in 1974.

And yet China seems to manage with just 1 timezone.

I’m retired, I wouldn’t know there was a time change if not for clocks automatically changing.

Before social media, I wouldn’t know how to diagnose the stiff steering in my truck. Gotta take the bad with the good.

As usual, Arlo is right. It sure comes in handy to have someone to tell us what to fear today. I couldn’t keep up without help.

I have to say, that personally, I always liked it better when it got dark early. As a kid, it was the only way we could play outside after dark, but mostly, when I was working my last job, I was working 12 hour nights. I had to go into work on absolutely beautiful evenings, while the day people were getting out, and getting to enjoy the weather, the beach, etc. There was a huge disparity in the hours that we worked. But, when it got dark early, yes, I was going to work in the dark, but, the day people were going home in the dark, and I didn’t feel so badly.

I almost missed Easter one year because the time changed. I was the organist, and thought I was arriving an hour early to warm up. Meanwhile, the choir director was freaking out because the worship service was supposed to be starting, and no organist!

It should be Standard Time all year long

We did indeed know. Just more do now than then and can talk about it.

When I was a child my dad told me that the change back and forth was to help the farmers so they would have extra daylight to work in the fields. When I got a bit older I realized how that stupid that idea was – any farmer could just change the hours for working on his farm for himself and his employees as they should work to nature’s hours not man’s.

Our reenactment unit does a local St Patrick’s Day parade. (We are sponsored by the local township that we represent in period and as such have to show for some parades and as the color guard for an annual high school awards ceremony.) This event is held annually on the same day as we all spring ahead – so we are always half asleep when we go there. (Just had it again this past Sunday after not having it due to Covid – husband and I did not go.)

A couple of decades ago I had an accounting client who moved to Paris, France – a 6 hour time difference to NYS. I had another client who lived in Hawaii – a 6 hour time difference in the opposite way. My solution was to call them both at 3:00 in the afternoon – either way it was was 9:00 – not too early in the am and not too late at night. But then throw in daylight savings time…. (I also had a client in New Zealand – that was always a major calculation of what time it was where – and what day – when I had to call him.)

My 94 yo mom is in a nursing home though still has most of her mind. I called her for our Sunday evening 7 pm call. I am a night person, she is and the place keeps as an early morning person and this is when we both can get together to talk. This past Sunday when I called she was very aware it was time to “jump ahead” but somehow thought it was 8 pm not 7 pm when I called. I am guessing there are many other people in similar or worse situations who have problems due to the changes back and forth.

There is always, of course, that one clock which one missed! (This time it was the one which controls our house’s thermostat.)

My Dad often commented that it is amazing that people accept the time change as well as they do. If the Government just mandated that everyone had to start school or work an hour earlier every day, starting on a particular date, there would be protests, strikes, riots, etc. Instead we just change the time on our clocks, grumble a bit, and then go about our lives.

People just love to complain. Never happy.

Before (anti)social media people thought for themselves