MagpieTear

Do you reset your aquarium timers when we change the clocks for DST? I personally hate switching the clocks around, I think it's a vast Government conspiracy funded by the 9v battery lobby, but I do change the aquarium timer to along with the clocks, vcr, microwave, and 900 other things...

Kayin1470

I don't have an aquarium clock/timer thing

Allie

We have one for the big tank..thanks for reminding me. I am very anal about having all my clocks the same time.

MissMTS

We don't have any timers on our tanks. Don't even get me started on daylight savings time! I use my cell phone alarm every morning to wake up for work. Since cell phones automatically adjust the time for you I never have to worry about it so I don't even keep track of when it is. Last night I realized that I left my cell phone charger in the hotel that I stayed at over the weekend so I used a regular alarm clock to set the alarm. I woke up an hour late for work! How ironic is it that the one night that I don't use my cell phone alarm dst happens

MagpieTear

Well, the main reason I have a timer (Coralife programmable power strip thingy) is with the hours I work, I want the lights to come on and go off at the same time for my plants. I leave for work between 4:30 and 5 AM, get home around 10-11 hours later. If I turned the lights on before I left and then when I go to bed around 9 PM, that's a little too much light for my tastes. So the timer is set for 9 AM to 8:30 PM. Lots of light for the plants, but not so much that algae becomes an issue or an un-natural state exists for the plants. And with the programmable strip, it switches the lunars on automatically when the PC lights go off. The timer makes it almost idiot proof. which is good, coz sometimes I'm the idiot...

COBettaCouple

No aquarium timers and our clocks auto-adjust for the stupid dst.

Peterpiper

Only good thing about DLS is the sleep in once a year.. Turn our tank timmers back/forwards 5 min a day till its right

Oil_Fan

I adjusted the timer on my main tank but not my quarantine tank. I just wish they would get rid of DST.

pamd

One of the many things I love about living in Arizona is that the state (other than the Navajo Nation) does not recognize DST! Yay! We don't have to change our clocks. Who needs another extra hour of daylight time at night during Arizona's hot, hot summer? (One of the things I don't love.) It's the only state in the continental U.S. that doesn't recognize it. Indiana used to be the only other exception, and I'm not sure but I think the whole state is on DST now.

There was a political movement here about 10 years ago to "catch up" with the rest of the nation and recognize DST. The public outcry was strong and against it!

Of course, AZ not recognizing DST is kind of confusing to others, especially those on the East Coast. "What time is it there? Is it now two hours difference or three?" Answer: "It's now three hours, Mom, since you're on DST and I'm not. It was two hours before you were on DST that started March 9."

I always disliked the whole DST thing when I lived in other states. And now they've expanded the DST season by about six weeks!

tan.b

nope! dont have timers. i just switch them on when i get up and turn them off when i go to bed, so it varies by an hour or 2 either side anyway. the sunshine that comes through the window prob has an effect just as much as the lights? they are in a south facing room, so the room is very bright when its sunny.

CatladyDane

My tanks don't currently have timers, although I'm open to adding them if my schedule gets really crazy (in which case they would match all the other clocks). Right now they're on the same time that I am. As for DST, in my opinion (beware - it's a strong one) changing the clocks twice a year is totally stupid. Dr Wayne Dyer & Deepak Chopra both say so nicely, but I bluntly say that too many people are addicted to routine. Just because you may now get up at 5 a.m. doesn't mean that you can't get up at 4 or 6 (or any other time for that matter). You don't need to reset the clock so that it will always say 5 when you get up. A business can have different hours at different times of year. Must you work 8 to 5 year round? If you have different summer hours can't you work 7 to 4 without changing the clock so it still says 8 to 5? The earth doesn't stop in its rotation and park for an hour annually, then speed up to catch up that hour at the opposite time of year. Even the cats need to be reset when we change the clocks. They pester us to be fed based on nature's cues, which do not suddenly reset themselves either.

The only thing I like about DST is that at this time of year I get to enjoy a part of the day when I get home. I hate being deprived of daylight because of being closed in a windowless office.

Three cheers for Arizona! Smart people.