- None (all my clocks set themselves)
- 1 - 2 clocks
- 3 -5 clocks
- 6 - 9 clocks
- 10 or more clocks
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With Daylight Savings Time ending tonight, I thought this would be a fun poll.
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The correct answer should be none:
We should change to Standard Time tonight and then never change again…unless someone can make a compelling argument for something like .beat time. 
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I have 6 clocks I manually have to set. This clock is about 35 years old. I keep it because during a power outage, I can easily figure out how long the power was out.
Yes, it is now set to Standard time.
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One more reason to move to Hawaii!
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I do have some dumb clocks that require manual adjustment. One of them I made in shop class in Junior High.
I absolutely do not care 1 bit what we settle on as long as it just stops. Standard or DST, doesn’t matter to me. Do a nationwide vote or have every state do their own vote between the 2. Do electoral college for all I care. Honestly, it doesn’t really matter. Just ban changing the time. Create an entirely new clock or time keeping system for all I care. The metric time system is popular in scientific contexts already, so why not that? 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. Or the decimal time system of 9 periods of 100 minutes each. Benefit of choosing a new timekeeping system is then both sides don’t necessarily feel like they won or lost Because it’s an entirely new time system that doesn’t necessarily exactly match up to the one their brain is stuck on. I can fully support any option besides the existing circus nonsense of changing the time twice per year. I especially hate the change in Springtime.
For those scared that once way would be too dangerous for kids in the morning when it’s dark, great, home school the kids, or have schools with different start times or some schools that change their start time throughout the year. Or pick a private school or an online school, or have the school bus stop at each kid’s house during the dark part of the year.
Choose an employer that let’s you change your schedule 1 hour forward or backward during different times of the year.
There are countless solutions. The main thing everyone agrees on is that changing times sucks.
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States having different DST settings would be a disaster. I remember having problems just to synchronize meetings between teams in NY, MD, CA, and Hawaii during time changes.
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That one’s much more dangerous, which is why we should be on Standard Time all the time.
This—if done with later start times—would likely benefit teenagers, anyway, because of their particular sleep needs.
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Agreed, but it’s less of a disaster than current policy of changing times. Besides inter-timezone meetings are always messy anyway. This is why a lot of companies started requiring doing everything in UTC time.
I’m totally okay with that option too. Just make everybody use UTC. You can adjust your business start time to be the daylight hours for your geolocation or the schools to start when it’s daylight. That’s a great solution IMO. Just outlaw timezones entirely. That works for me too.
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I have two older alarm/radio clocks, the stove, answering machine, car, water heater timer, garage door opener, and, sometimes, my atomic clocks. Can’t really replace most of them.
I find it ironic that my “atomic” wall clocks implement time change correctly, but my Windows 11 does not. I have to synch every time.
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I’ve got ONE Windows laptop in my house, only because I have to. It never shows the correct time without manually syncing. My Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi’s and my Apple devices are all fine.
I agree ,this changing is for when there were so many farmers, they used the extra light to harvest and winterize the farm, it really doesn’t give them much more time ,financially it makes no sense. But it good ole things DIE HARD .LOL HARD HEHEHEHE. I hope I die HARD. HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL
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I would prefer not to have to change clock twice per year. I find myself driving more now in the dark and encountering people wearing dark clothes in poorly lit areas. I am on high alert and on edge, but never hit anyone in 50 years of driving.