Daylight Savings time - Help

United States
October 28, 2007 6:52pm CST
I can never figure this out. If you are about to change time also can you please help me. If it is 6:00 pm do you set your clock back to 5:00 or do you move it to 7:00. This confuses me every spring and fall. I have always heard "Spring ahead -Fall back" but what is back? 5 or 7 ? Thanks for any help you can give me to get this straight in my brain LOL.
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• Canada
29 Oct 07
Fall Back, Spring Ahead: it's the only way I could remember it too. So if you Fall Back then you would go back an hour, in other words if it's 6pm, you fall back to 5pm... However the general rule is that everyone changes the time at 2am... so if you were to fall back at 2am, you change your clock to 1am AND have an extra hour to sleep :) To make life easier, most change the time when they go to bed! To explain it a different way, fall has shorter days, so in order to make up for lost sun hours, we receive a free hour and have to pay it back in the spring when they days are longer. Hope all this gibberish helps! LOL
• United States
29 Oct 07
Thanks so much for your help. I am thrilled to be getting the extra hour to snooze. I must admit though I thought it was really ridiculous this summer when it was barley dusk at 9:30 in the evening. My daughter in law said it was next to impossible to get my young grand kids to go to bed at their normal 8:30 bed time when it was still light out side. I think I would prefer the extra hour of daylight in the winter instead of it being dark at 5:00pm. Again, thanks for straighting me out on this.
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• Canada
29 Oct 07
I can really sympathize there. I have a little one I care for with autism who is bound and determined that he should only sleep when the sun sleeps which makes late nights/very early mornings in the summer and I can't get him out of bed on time for school in the winter! LOL Poor kid must be so confused when I tell him he's late for school but a few weeks ago I'd tell him to get back to bed, the sun is only up early to play tricks on me! LOL
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@usmcsgtwife (4997)
• United States
29 Oct 07
I ve always heard spring ahead one hour fall back one hour, so if it is 2:00 and you spring ahead it will be 3:00 and in the fall it will be 1:00
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• United States
30 Oct 07
Ok, thanks, I think I finally have this figures out. thanks, friend
• United States
30 Oct 07
My old brain tells me to spring ahead and fall behind. I turn the clock back an hour before I go to bed on Saturday.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
1 Nov 07
In the spring......spring ahead one hour....in the fall....fall back one hour....
@terri0824 (4991)
• United States
31 Oct 07
That would mean set your clock to 5pm. I know I will have to be doing that soon, isn't that coming up this next weekend or did the extend it to a later date such as November this year? I thought I heard that sometime ago.
• United States
31 Oct 07
Thanks for all of the help everyone.
• United States
29 Oct 07
If it is fall behind you take it one back so if it is 6pm you take it back to 5pm when you move it up it would be like 7pm up to 8pm hope this helps
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• United States
29 Oct 07
So this means I really do get and extra hours sleep. Yeahhhh. We get up at 5 a.m. now when Bob is on days and that kills me. More sleep yeah! Thanks for the information
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