Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00a on Sunday, March 8th, 2026. Clocks Spring Ahead One Hour on Sunday!
It's a great time to remember to put new batteries in your smoke detectors. Then put the old batteries in a fanny pack or belt bag so you can carry them around for self-defense in case you need to throw them at attacking buzzards or birds of prey. Or... recycle them!
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BTW, We're still waiting to see if Time Change will go away forever. Some Provinces have already voted to get rid of Spring Forward/ Fall Back. The latest news in this is the Province of BC, which will stop the time change after one final time-readjustment for Spring 2026. Ontario wants to end the time change but can't do much until Quebec and New York State come on-board. New York seems to want to stop changing clocks but everything is still in the "to be continued" phase. Quebec is looking into it also. BTW, The British Sleep Society wants the time-changing to stop also #WaitToSee
Once again for 2026, I am re-blogging some of these Time Change Factoids. As an amateur Time Research Enthusiast, I am hopeful that consumer-grade time travel technology is close! As I have written about before, the more you look into this time change business, the more complicated it gets.
Every year I end up
covering the same things... Time Change is terrible... Time Change is
brilliant... Time Change is both... and it seems like all that is true.
- There are stats about heart attacks, traffic accidents, energy consumption, and cranky coworkers (not you, but everyone else. You're my favorite.)
- The time change might conserve energy, or it might not (depends on what study you look at).
- SOME studies say car accidents go up after the time change because our concentration gets all messed up, but another study showed that the more daylight we get during travel times, the better the driving outcomes are.
- Remember when they made Daylight Saving last longer? Certain industries LOVED it! Some experts insist that changing our clocks each Fall and Spring only happens because it helps retailers.
- The time change helps the golf industry make more cash.
- The time change might conserve energy, or it might not (depends on what study you look at).
- SOME studies say car accidents go up after the time change because our concentration gets all messed up, but another study showed that the more daylight we get during travel times, the better the driving outcomes are.
- Remember when they made Daylight Saving last longer? Certain industries LOVED it! Some experts insist that changing our clocks each Fall and Spring only happens because it helps retailers.
- The time change helps the golf industry make more cash.
- The petroleum companies do great business during extended Daylight Saving because people drive their cars more in the evening.
- It has been great for the barbecue industry too.
- Did You Know... that the big candy companies lobbied for a longer Daylight Saving Time? They wanted as many kids as possible going out to Trick-or-Treat. I can't stay mad at you, big candy.
- Has anyone asked the the team in charge of Big Ben how they feel?
In
conclusion, Time Change is complicated. Even the Fall when we move clocks back
an hour. It might still screw us up and be bad for our health and/or
safety. Yes, we get more sleep, but it's darker sooner at night and the
whole thing is stressful... and who likes stress? (correct answer is no
one. No one likes stress.) See How to deal with messed-up sleep patterns.
Here are some possible solutions to Time-Change-Related Probs:
😠Issue: Crankiness.
Solution: Just go with Cranky as your new normal. Maybe you used to be Happy-Go-Lucky... well, it's somebody else's turn to be nice now. Send an email to all your contacts explaining that you have chosen to become a jerk, and that people should "deal with it." and that they "need to calm down."
Problem solved. (Fact: People love it when you tell them that they need to calm down.)
Solution: Just go with Cranky as your new normal. Maybe you used to be Happy-Go-Lucky... well, it's somebody else's turn to be nice now. Send an email to all your contacts explaining that you have chosen to become a jerk, and that people should "deal with it." and that they "need to calm down."
Problem solved. (Fact: People love it when you tell them that they need to calm down.)
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😫 Issue: tiredness.
Solution: Get a pair of glasses with eyes painted on the lens. Wear them
to the staff meeting and people will think you're super-alert! Meanwhile, you might be having a lovely dream about kittens herding unicorns! So peaceful!!
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💔 Issue: increased risk of heart attack.
Solution: handcuff yourself to a cardiologist. If it happens, your doctor is RIGHT THERE!
Solution: handcuff yourself to a cardiologist. If it happens, your doctor is RIGHT THERE!
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🚗 Issue: Traffic Accidents.
Solution: buy an Electromagnetic Pulse Device on the Dark Web and crank it up to 11. This will disable all the vehicles around you, rendering them harmless. Note: does not work on horses. It would suck to go to all the trouble of disabling every car for a hundred miles, then get run over by a horse. Don't get cocky.
Solution: buy an Electromagnetic Pulse Device on the Dark Web and crank it up to 11. This will disable all the vehicles around you, rendering them harmless. Note: does not work on horses. It would suck to go to all the trouble of disabling every car for a hundred miles, then get run over by a horse. Don't get cocky.
Here are some other (better-researched) ways to counteract your lousy stinkin' time change mood...
- Force Yourself to Smile... (it can trick your brain into being happy)
- Stand up straight (you had it right, mom)
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Force Yourself to Make Small Talk (Pro Tip: if you're terrible at small
talk like me, bring a microscope to work and carry it around all day.
When people are like "what's the deal with the microscope?" You can say
it's for small talk. The commitment to the joke will be hilarious.)
- Put your hands up (like you're gonna be arrested?! 30 seconds of that and you're less stressed somehow)
-Do a good deed!
⏰ Some Daylight Saving history... many people have thought about the concept...
- Ben Franklin had the idea, but Ben Franklin might have been joking...
- another fella, this guy in New Zealand thought everybody should do Daylight Saving way back in 1895... also the great great grandfather of the lead singer of Coldplay had Daylight Saving ideas too. Then Coldplay had that "Clocks" song!? There are no coincidences!!
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