Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 13, 2022

If you want time to be left alone, move to either Hawaii or Arizona.

They should have Daylight Savings Time for the whole year, to escape clock-changing!

There should be NO Daylight Savings at all. There’s no useful purpose for it anymore.

So always a flashing 12:00?

Change the clocks by 1/2 hour and leave it there or don’t change the time at all :-)

If we don’t stop changing the clocks (“Spring a head, fall on your face”), I ask you, who will tell the cows when they need to be milked? Who will wake up the chickens so they won’t be late? And just who will let the sun know when it has to rise!?! Will no one think of the sun!?! It’s your sol responsibility.

If I could save daylight I would use it in January.

I hear Alaska is great at saving daylight!? They have several months of nothing but NIGHT!! LOL I mean really….why use up all that Solar energy???

I can really relate to today’s strip. Just yesterday, I took delivery of a new car. The index of the owners manual contains neither of the words clock or time. It has two separate screens, with two separate menues with multiple sub-menues, operated by separate buttons.

Most agree.

That plugger should move to Arizona where we dont have daylight savings!and the mild warm winters are a bonus!

The clock in a Plugger’s favorite vehicle still has a external stem to set the time.

What good is having power over the people if you can’t exercise it sometimes?

Disconnect the clock in your truck sir. But since you’ve got one of those new fangled vehicles with a digi-tile clock, probably part of your fancy schmansy radio with FM and all, you’re probably out of luck. If you’ve got a twelve year old grand child, it’ll cost ya an ice cream treat. At the least.

I have 2 vehicles; one with standard time and one with DST.

It’s only a very brief time that my VCR correctly reads 00:00. :)

Another example of government screwing up. Leave it one way or another. Surprised they haven’t done billion dollar study on this. Or formed a new agency.

Let his grandchild change the clock.

Forcing 300 million people to change our clocks twice a year is just plain ridiculous. DST may have served a useful purpose when it was first implemented so kids could get out of school with an extra hour of daylight to help out on the farm but that purpose has long since gone by the wayside. It’s an anachronism.

Finally I don’t have to subtract an hour when I look at my clock – at least until next November. :(

If it is still done … why not have the times change on a Friday night so thet you hve 2 days to get used to the change.

40 years and counting, move along on down the road.

Pluggers still have VCRs?

Even my 68 year old mother uses a DVR!

I detest daylight savings. This year I compromised and move ahead 1/2 hour.

When husband was working full time I mostly did not change myself over to DLS – I would just sleep and wake up off an hour unless we had to be somewhere at a specific time (not often).

Husband and I are 18th century reenactors. In discussions with people “time” sometimes arises. They get very upset when I explain that by nature there are days, months and years, but minutes, seconds and weeks do not exist in nature. They were invented by man.

Watches/clocks do not commonly have seconds in the 18th century (I same commonly because I have not seen all of them and it is possible that some might have same). As our period selves we do not need them.

“We” know that when we wake we will dress, have our breakfast and start our chores for the day. Among mine, as wife, will be to make sure that our dinner is cooked and ready for “two of the clock” (“English” people eat at same, for some reasons “Germans” seem to eat theirs at “three of the clock”) for the family to have the main meal of the day. Then later in the day at around “6 of the clock” or perhaps a bit later depending on the season of the year – we will have our supper (which is leftovers from dinner) and then go to bed later in the evening. The next morning I will again awake and dressed early when the sun comes up and we have our breakfast (the two syllables pronounced separately as in brake quickly) which will be the leftovers from supper the night before. And our day will start again. There is no need for us to know when it any number of seconds after any hour/minute of the day.

And since there are not yet any trains – our clocks/watches are set to the sun with shift of degree to the east or west being a slightly different time. Time zones do not exist as they do not exist in nature and are merely a construct to allow train companies to be able to design time tables starting in the 1800s.