Daylight savings time ends

[underpants]

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1. Given?

[underpants]

11. D'oh

[Sneederbunk]

2. Will party like it is 1999 tonight.

[VOX]

5. Always wondered, do watering holes get an extra hour of business on this night?

If the clock flips back an hour at 2:00AM, then could the bars stay open another hour, until the "second" 2:00AM?

[Iggo]

7. We called the police station one year to ask them for a ruling on that.

They said they could not arrest us if we bought or sold beer before the "second" 2am.

(They also warned us that the fact that we were calling them at a quarter to two to see if we had an extra hour to get beer was not a point in our favor on whether or not we should be out buying any more beer that night.)

EDIT: A little more to the story. We were at a bar that was about to close, and we had just failed at trying to convince the bartender to stay open another hour. So we were calling the cops, from a bar, at a quarter to two in the AM, to see if we could head over to the liquor store to buy beer. They said basically, "Yeah, but don't."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Don't we lose an hour in the fall?

[Igel]

4. Spring forward.

Fall back.

[nolabels]

13. Fall around

Spring under

[Iggo]

6. You set your clock back an hour, you do the same hour over again.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. I confuse very easily.

[Iggo]

9. Me, too. That's the best explanation I've gotten, and so I've stuck with that.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. And I actually like DST.

I just think it should start a month later and end a month earlier than it does.

Alas, no one puts me in charge of these things.

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. "Groundhog Hour"

But unlike "Groundhog Day", you only get ONE chance to do it right this time.

I usually spend the evening watching the computer's clock roll over from 1:59 to 1:00. I'm easily entertained.

[SwissTony]

12. Never seen the point of Daylight Saving

It's a pain in the bum. The majority of countries don't observe it.

John Oliver's crew...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Which major countries don't observe DST (usually under a different name)

[SwissTony]

15. Have a look at 2:17 in the Oliver piece.

Australia can't even agree with itself. South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania observe it, the rest don't.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. When I worked (pre-retirement), I worked with people in England, ...

Germany, and Brazil. All had DST-style shifts in summer. They had the nerve to switch on different days than the USA, making things tough to coordinate. And Brazil seemed to enjoy WINTER daylight time, most of it being south of the equator, or some-such lame excuse.

I like it. But, I would be happy with year-round "daylight" time, get rid of standard time.

[cwydro]

16. I hate it.

Always have.

[smirkymonkey]

17. That was brilliant!