Now on my blog: Screwing up the Time Zone ...

https://zenmischief.com/2025/03/screwing-up-the-time-zone/

Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy.

Most Europeans woke up on Sunday clocks that jumped forward by one hour.

The twice-annual time change has long been contentious and was even voted against in an EU open consultation back in 2018.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250330-europe-goes-into-daylight-saving-time-despite-controversy?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Why does everybody say the time change means we get an hour less sleep (or an hour more when going back to winter time)? That's not how sleep works. You get docked an hour of the day, even though the change is done in the night. Bodies will sleep X hours unless disturbed by the alarm clock (so people on a rigid schedule and weekend duty *will* get an hour less sleep, that's true).
#SummerTime #DaylightSavingsTimeMustDie

I've just checked and the trilithons and lintels at #Stonehenge have been successfully set to British Summer Time (UTC+1).

I really do wonder if this is a tradition we could now abandon. Such a time consuming exercise twice every year to change them

Perhaps we should abandon BST and just stick to GMT (UTC+0) and honor our four fathers and five mothers some other way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge

#BST #SummerTime #UTC+1 #Time

Saturday 30 March 1963

Detectives wearing grass skirts arrested a rock singer. The detectives, who were also carrying mouth organs, called on American rock singer and band leader Jimmy “Baby Face” Lewis. They were there for an interview, but instead charged Lewis with peddling drugs to other entertainers. A list of 100 customers, including prominent show people from Hollywood, was found.

Time changeover: Why CET is preventing the abolition.

The clocks have changed to summer time, while the abolition continues to stall.

Two researchers from the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences have made a suggestion how the knot could be untied.

The proposal may come at just the right time: Poland, which has held the EU Council presidency since January, wants to explore how to proceed with the issue.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250329-time-changeover-why-cet-is-preventing-the-abolition?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Priests of #Antinous thank the #Druids who toiled tirelessly all night to move #Stonehenge stones forward one hour! Remember them the next time you complain about how inconvenient the time change is! #DaylightSavingTime #summertime in Britain and Europe. #TimeChange #SpringForward ️️

In memory of that lost hour. We had good times together.

on your cooker:

press/release the clock button 4 times until the clock logo appears top right

(ignore the bell logo on the 3rd press - top left)

set the time with + or -

now just wait approx 3 secs and the clock will settle into its new time

#Clocks #GMT #BST #SummerTime #DaylightSavingTime

(contrary to that old chestnut, you do not need a hammer or an engineering degree to do this)

Night stolen

My #biorythm hates me.

I was constantly waking up between 4 AM and 5 AM this week. Which wreaked havoc on me, especially since there was a work-related event on Tuesday where I could only get back to the hotel at 11:30 PM.

But I thought to myself: "Hey, at least I should be able to easily acclimatize to #SummerTime when we switch over on Sunday!"

And when did I wake up this morning? 4:30 AM...

It's the end of an "era"... the EU has not managed to fix the bug in their clocks which make them display the wrong time for half of the year and I no longer have the energy to keep the normal time all year (a)round.

For anyone not aware: As a self experiment I had all my devices use UTC+1 or the really cool time zone of Brazzaville called WAT since 2019 or so to not have to deal with summer time (daylight savings for USians) but I've run into too many technical issues (mostly with proprietary systems like Microsoft's and the DB) which just piled up and I also started to always calculate the time in my head anyways, especially to allow interaction with other people (which became even harder after corona restrictions were lifted) but also when alone so the mental stress just increased which in the current global situation doesn't help anyone... I just hope that the EU soon implements their plan to get rid of this stupid changing of the clock.

The most annoying thing is that I now have basically the same amount of clocks that can't change the time on their own as devices that do so I have to manually adjust them all :S

#summertime
#zomertijd

I've recently been terribly tired already, so I'm not exactly looking forward to losing an hour tonight.

they won't grow yellow
south Florida daffodils
an oxymoron

#dailyhaikuprompt - daffodils

I don't have daffodil art...They don't grow here. Instead we have umbrellas falling from the sky...lol

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-umbrellas-whimsical-photography-sharon-cummings.html

#art #photography #photo #photographer #photographie #umbrella #umbrellas #colorful #colorfulart #selbygardens #florida #floridalife #fun #cute #spring #springtime #summer #summertime #buyintoart by #SharonCummingsArt #haiku #poetry #poem #poet #shortpoem #smallpoems #smallpoem