Comments on: Making the Count (or, What’s So Standard About Standard Time?)

By: Time to Sleep (Because the TV Says So)

Time to Sleep (Because the TV Says So) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:53:20 +0000

[...] regulate his sleep patterns (and, consequently, mine). The advent of Daylight Saving Time and the change back to Standard Time usually create some minor disturbances for him: Charlie runs by his internal clock and, even though [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:14:20 +0000

I didn’t know all that about Arizona—I think that would be too much for our household (not in terms of the clocks).

By: amy

amy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 04:21:10 +0000

On little cat feet?

By: KimJ

KimJ — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:27:40 +0000

I live in Arizona and lived in Indiana for three years when they didn’t observe Daylight Savings. The only problem about not observing is that everyone else does and it makes phone calling and tv schedules confusing. People also never include what time zone they’re discussing or give the incorrect one. They say “standard” when they mean “daylight” and vice versa. In the summer, people refer to AZ in Pacific time but we’re not, it’s Mountain Standard. Then there is the Navajo rez that observes daylight savings and the state of Sonora that is in Central and observes daylight savings.
One of the complications of daylight savings is how hard people take it when it changes back. People blame all sorts of things, illness, tardiness, confusion, depression on the time change. For us here in Arizona, it just creeps up on us. Then it creeps back.