Daylight Savings

[Kiara]

This discussion was so interesting! I didn't know that there were countries that didn't do Daylight Saving Time. Italy does, France does, Spain does, Germany does, Malta does, Croata does, USA does (these are the countries where I have been living), so I just took for granted that it was the rule all over the world.
By the way, I do think that it still makes sense, even though we use a lot of electronic items. It really helps to save a bit of electricity!

[Insanity]

I don't mind daylight savings, during March to Oct my guy and I have only 9 hours difference (I'm aus, he's england) but Oct to March it's 11 hours which isn't as good, it's hard staying up so late to talk to him when I have uni and other commitments.

[books]

Nicaragua, where my SO lives, doesn't have it. I explained to him the other day what it was...I thought it was cute he didn't know...
now we're 2 hours apart, instead of our previous 1 hour...I feel really spoiled in that aspect...must be super hard having a 16 hour time difference

[Karringtyn]

I woke up Sunday to my cell being automatically updated...but my laptop pushed ahead two hours..it was the craziest thing...trying to figure out what time it was...and I can honestly say I couldn't tell...my body had no idea...and usually I can tell just by how I feel.

[sheraccoon]

Aw, I know what you mean! I have the same problem as you (fellow Singaporeans, yay!). Usually, I just remember that mornings to mid afternoons (3pm or 4pm) are when he's up and about at night and before he sleeps, and just before I sleep is when he's going to be up. I also set one of my clocks to the USA time (my itouch, in this case), and it's basically a US TIME + 12 HRS + 3 / 4 HOURS.

So, basically. "SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACKWARDS".

[Yei&Jon]

We don't observe DST here in PR. Jon is in Texas so, of course, they observe it but it comes as an advantage since we're usually on a 2-hour time difference and now with DST is only 1 hour.

[leonsfangirl]

I gave up trying to count and bought another watch and set it to my SO's time, at the moment its 6 hours but that will change back to seven at the end of the month. Daylight savings time is pointless, i have no idea why we still use it.

[13000km]

Aw, I know what you mean! I have the same problem as you (fellow Singaporeans, yay!). Usually, I just remember that mornings to mid afternoons (3pm or 4pm) are when he's up and about at night and before he sleeps, and just before I sleep is when he's going to be up. I also set one of my clocks to the USA time (my itouch, in this case), and it's basically a US TIME + 12 HRS + 3 / 4 HOURS.

So, basically. "SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACKWARDS".

Yeah, at first, the calculations without daylight savings were hard enough. But, we get used to it over time. I just count SG time - 3 hours = PDT.