Daylight Savings Time "Fall-back" this Sunday, Nov. 3

Don't forget to set your clocks back this weekend.  (My car's clock has jumped back already.)

Officially, Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday at 2:00 a.m. (and Standard Time begins).

Weird that your car's clock has already jumped back. I wonder what that's all about.

My guess is that, when the car was made in 2006, the change was the last week in October.

Edit: According to Wikipedia,

Quote :

In 1986 Congress enacted P.L. 99-359, amending the Uniform Time Act by changing the beginning of DST to the first Sunday in April and having the end remain the last Sunday in October.[3] These start and end dates were in effect from 1987 to 2006. The time was adjusted at 2:00 a.m. (0200) local time.

By the Energy Policy Act of 2005, daylight saving time (DST) was extended in the United States beginning in 2007. As of that year, DST began on the second Sunday of March and ended on the first Sunday of November. These changes result in a DST period that is four weeks longer than in previous years.[5] In 2008 daylight saving time ended at 2:00 a.m. DST (0200) (1:00 a.m. ST) on Sunday, November 2, and in 2009 it began at 2:00 a.m. (3:00 a.m. DST) on Sunday, March 8.[6] Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi and Michigan Representative Fred Upton advocated the extension from October into November especially to allow children to go trick-or-treating in more daylight.[7]

The date and time of all clock changes is determined by the week number in March or November and always happens at 2:00 a.m. on a Sunday. Clocks "spring" forward on the second Sunday in March, and "fall" back on the first Sunday in November. The following table lists recent past and near future starting and ending dates:

Hmm. Either I never knew any of that or I knew it and successfully flushed it for new information to come in.

riceme wrote:

Hmm. Either I never knew any of that or I knew it and successfully flushed it for new information to come in.

That's exactly how I feel sometimes. My brain is like a hard drive with limited capacity... old memories are displaced by new memories.

I don't claim to be an Einstein... just persistent.

Eric wrote:

riceme wrote:

Hmm. Either I never knew any of that or I knew it and successfully flushed it for new information to come in.

That's exactly how I feel sometimes.  My brain is like a hard drive with limited capacity... old memories are displaced by new memories.

I don't claim to be an Einstein... just persistent.

There are a few people who I know well enough to be able to sometimes ask, "Did I ever know that, or is this really new information, like it seems??" lol. Likewise, I can tell them, "You DID used to know this, I remember talking about this with you years ago." We all laugh about it. Frighteningly, I seem to be the one with the best memory. Now you can be in on the joke too, E.  

I think my hard drive has limited space too. I've always had to forget things to add new ones into that empty space.
My problem is that when I do that, I never remember to defrag the thing and I've just become very spacy with age.
Anyone with knowledge of defragging an aging mind's hard drive- I'd appreciate a response.  

Otter wrote:

Anyone with knowledge of defragging an aging mind's hard drive- I'd appreciate a response.  

My mother-in-law appears to have done it with something called "alzheimer's". Doubt you would want to go there though! After 6 years in a nursing home she thinks she has only been there two weeks. Sometimes.....

nochain wrote:

My mother-in-law appears to have done it with something called "alzheimer's". Doubt you would want to go there though! After 6 years in a nursing home she thinks she has only been there two weeks. Sometimes.....

Gotta be grateful it's not the inverse.  

I imagine Electroshock "Therapy" would do some unscrambling...

Eric wrote:

I imagine Electroshock "Therapy" would do some unscrambling...

My understanding is that it scrambles a lot more than it UNscrambles. More to the point, people experience memory loss after ECT.

riceme wrote:

Eric wrote:

I imagine Electroshock "Therapy" would do some unscrambling...

My understanding is that it scrambles a lot more than it UNscrambles. More to the point, people experience memory loss after ECT.

Oh well. I think maybe ECT would be a little more defragging than even I need.
My "spaces" are fairly harmless so far.
As long as all of my cookies aren't deleted I can still find my way home at night.