Sunday afternoon at First and Ellsworth: The clock was still on daylight saving time.
That’s the trouble with all that time switching we are obliged to do twice a year. Some of us don’t always get around to it, not right away.
Google Time (at right) says it’s just before 1, which is not what it says on the tower.
Here, for example, is the tower clock at Albany Station. Like the old French’s Jewelers clock at First and Ellsworth, the station clock was an hour ahead of time on Sunday afternoon. Presumably nobody was working on the weekend in order to reset commercial or city clocks.
It’s no big deal, obviously, just an example of how we’re making life a little more complicated than it has to be.
The time change was no trouble for Linn County, though. On the courthouse in Albany, when I checked, the clock was exactly right, ten past 1.
Wait, you say, didn’t the legislature try to do something about this? Yes, it did something, but nothing decisive.
In 2019, the legislature passed and the governor signed a bill that took effect on Jan. 1, 2o2o. It said that Oregon would stay on daylight saving time all year round, but only if California and Washington did the same.
According to the bill, we’ll stay on daylight time instead of returning to standard time the first November after our northern and southern neighbors have done the same thing.
Neither California nor Washington have made the change, even though California voters once voted for it. So we were stuck, on Saturday night or this morning, with falling back an hour once again.
The Oregon law has a sunset clause. If nothing happens by 2029, the law ceases to be in effect.
There’s some sense in the legislature wanting the West Coast states to remain in the same time zone. But this also means that unless both those states make the change first, we’ll be stuck with falling back and springing forward for many falls and springs to come. (hh)
Please Oregon legislators, let us forge ahead and set the standard for California and Washington. Be the innovators! No more clock changes!
How well I remember how annoying it was at clock-changing time when my children were babies. And haven’t we all read that the time changes contribute to heart attacks!
I well remember when the wife and I were in our home, I had some 52 clocks to adjust to the “time changes”… I would start a day or two ahead of schedule the leap forward or back, so the schedule for the poor wife was.. “just what time is it”? And then there was always the one or two that I would for get to change..like the one in the car which added to this confusion! Now that our life style has been changed, I’m down to having change only 16….it’s kind of fun…I do love my ticking clocks…An OLD clock man, Mort
You should be aware that Oregon, as well as any other state, can opt to stay on STANDARD TIME without approval of any other state or the Federal Government.
I know the voters of Oregon approved staying on Daylight Time so they could have that “extra hour of sunlight”. Come on there is only so many hours of sunlight in a day and changing the clock doesn’t give us another hour.
Be honest about it, do you actually accomplish much during that extra hour?
Lets push to leave the clock on Standard Time instead of messinng with the clock again this fall.
I worked grave yard shift when I went to OSU and the sun came up between 3:30 and 4 AM in the summer and sunset was about 7:30 or 8 so you do lose 1000 of hours of usable sunlight while you sleep.
Please give Sid a break. I don’t blame him for not making a special trip to his workplace on a Sunday just to change the clock.
Maybe next year Hasso can volunteer to do it for him; if he’s still alive……,
Who? Hasso or Sid? If you are referring to the latter, maybe once he fixes his eyesore of a penthouse he can catch a break. That black plastic is a terrible look!