Glad to know there are some fellow sufferers!

Amen!

That is my main problem with DST.  My biological clock is set to
standard time, and I'm an insomniac.  All DST means to me is that I
spend a good chunk of the year on (an even larger) sleep deficit since
I have to get up an hour earlier than I would otherwise, and I never
seem to adjust to it.

I would have thought that the physical task of setting clocks is
a passing and relatively minor inconvenience. I expect that
someone unused to DST would experience a more extended period of
adjusting one's biological clock, rather like jet lag. You
suddenly have to get to work an hour early while the clock says
that it's still the same 9 AM.

I also wonder about the amount of adjustments necessary to
certain things that have to be scheduled according to the actual
passage of time. Like medication that has to be taken at strictly
spaced intervals. And is the daily evening flight changed from 7
pm on October 31st to 6 pm the next day? The collective workload
and the psychological adjustments needed must be enormous.

Yep.

The next time they mess with the daylight savings time they need to put in a
provision that no legislator may instruct a family member or staffer to
reset his clocks, he must do it for himself.  Maybe if they have to set
their own clocks they'll figure out what a pain in the butt it is.

What we really need is a constitutional amendment stating that any
legislation that a reasonable man considers to be a pain in the a.s is null
and void.

A real corker for me is the older digital clocks that can only be set
back an hour by advancing it 23 hours.

Yes, you do have to set the microwave--it has a clock, if you don't reset it
then you're going to look at it one day forgetting that you didn't reset it
and end up missing an important appointment.

The real pisser is the idiots changing the date, so that some things now
need to be reset _four_ times, twice when official change occurs, and twice
more to unset the change that was programmed into them at the factory using
the old dates.  And no, they don't all have USB ports.

But you don;t need to change the microwave, or cooker time do you ?
Cokoing time doesn't change depending oin time of year.
VCR yes if you still have such an antique device my DVD recorder changes
itself ;-)

And India splits it in to 30 min times zones.

Great - now multiply the time it took to do it by 300,000,000 people in
the US. And don't forget the microwave, the oven, the VCR, . . .

Particularly when you don't know if they're in Arizona, California or New
Mexico (for example) all of whom have different ideas of the time. As I
understand the Chinese get around the whole damned problem by having one
time zone for the entire country.

I reset two automobile clocks, two alarm clocks, one wrist-watch, and
one wall clock yesterday.  It took about as much resources to do as
sneezing.

It's far less complicated than figuring out if the Customer Service
phones will be answered by companies in other time zones when I'm
making calls early in the morning or late afternoon.

No logic to it at all. It's claimed it saves energy, but a study in
Indiana (a 'split' state) showed that to be totally bogus. It's
psychological - that's all. And a huge waste of resources, resetting all
the damned clocks twice a year. It should certainly be abolished - would
make life simpler all the way around.

As someone living in a country where DST is not used, I have
never been able to understand the logic behind the practice or
how it's considered to be worth all the disruption and
adjustments it makes necessary. By adjustments, I mean not just
the twice-a-year resetting of clocks, but also adjusting life
(personal, business, time-critical management, etc.) to the new
timings. But I'm not blindly criticising something I don't
understand. I'm open to enlightenment.

Hello, my fellow Americans...did you remember to move all of your timepieces, back
an hour? Daylight Saving Time ended, early on Sunday morning (November 1, 2009), in
our country.

I, personally, needed to reset my wristwatch, several clocks, various electronic
devices, a number of digicams and my lone DSLR (Pentax K100D); initially, I forgot
a few of the devices (including some cameras), and did them later.