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There were fewer people at Mass Sunday but nobody was saying they know someone who didn't come because of the time change. Maybe we'll find out next week.
If it had happened to me, I wouldn't be willing to admit it because in the past when I have done so, I have heard sniping barbs for months later from people who seem to shop around for reasons to make a public detraction against anyone they can find (that was at my old NovusOrdo parish, not this TLM parish). Really bizarre, but I guess some people are like that: they like to make jokes at the expense of others. They must be really insecure themselves.
So it's a mark of honesty and benevolence for Matthew to open this thread with this info in the OP.
Personally, I'd prefer to have no daylight savings. The sun comes up and the sun goes down exactly as God intended it for us, and we ought to appreciate His wisdom. If you would get up earlier from your comfy bed, then fine: remember the value of penance. We should glory in our infirmities, says St. Paul.
In the end, we are better off accepting what God has ordained for us, even if we don't understand it. This business of artificially changing the clocks by one hour twice a year adds to the MUNDANE aspect of life, and not to our appreciation of the mystery of God's creation.
I had forgotten too about the time change this week, until a friend mentioned it in passing at 6 pm Saturday. I went and called 3 friends, all of whom had forgotten as well! How wild is that? Usually calendars have this as a note on the appropriate day, but I haven't seen any calendar that has it this year, for whatever reason.
My cell phone changed over at 2 am to read 3:00 am. But a friend of mine has a cell phone that still had the old time on it even while I was talking to him at 5:00 am (it should have said 6:00). So having a cell phone connection is not bullet-proof!
I have a radio-controlled watch that has not picked up the signal from Colorado in any of the previous several years on the day of the time change, but somehow, this time, it picked it up and adjusted automatically as it is designed to do and as the settings I have set on it are supposed to make it do.
Nobody at Mass the week before mentioned the time change, and the priest did not mention it at Mass on March 9th.
One thing I just noticed is, that the time change is not really related to Ember Days in Spring and Autumn, in America. I guess that would be too simple for Catholics, and we can't have THAT happening.
Last year, Ember Saturday was Feb. 23rd, and the "spring ahead" day was March 9th, 2 weeks later.
This year, tomorrow is Ember Wednesday, and "spring ahead" day came a week before Ember Saturday (March 15th).
Last year, Sept. 21st was Ember Saturday, and "fall back" day was Nov. 3rd, or 6 weeks later.
This year, Sept. 20th is Ember Saturday, and the "fall back" day will be Nov. 2nd, again, 6 weeks later.
To add to the confusion, there are different schedules in different regions of the world. See a chart showing dates for 2013
here and for 2014
here.
I see 5 different days this spring, depending on where you're at, and they use different times of night to make the change: midnight, 1:00, 2:00 or 3:00 am. Add to that the fact that all the regions that change on the same day change at different times:
America --- March 9th --- 2:00 --> 3:00 am
Cuba --- March 9th --- 0:00 --> 1:00 am
Europe & Asia Minor --- March 30th --- 1:00 am --> 2:00 am
Morocco, West Sahara --- March 30th --- 2:00 --> 3:00 am
And so on, therefore, a worldwide forum like CathInfo would be pretty fancy if it could discuss all these various schedules, no?
Midnight is more popular in the southern hemisphere for whatever reason, as the time of day to make the new time change. Remember, that the southern hemisphere has longer days in the months from October to March (their 'summer') and shorter days from April through September (their 'winter').
Here's a quick peek at the southern hemisphere (on the page for 2014 but they're saying 2013 -- maybe a mistake)
here:
Region DST Ends
Turn 1 Hour Backward DST Begins
Turn 1 Hour Forward Time Zone/Country
Australia
Apr. 6, 2013
3:00 → 2:00 AM Local Time
Oct. 5, 2013
2:00 → 3:00 AM Local Time
Except Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Brazil
Oct. 19, 2013
0:00 AM → 11:00 PM Local Time
Feb. 16, 2013
0:00 → 1:00 AM AM Local Time
Brazil (Partially).
Chile
Oct. 12, 2013
0:00 AM → 11:00 PM Local Time
March. 9, 2013
0:00 → 1:00 AM Local Time
Easter Is. observes 1 day earlier.
Fiji
Oct. 26, 2013
3:00 → 2:00 AM Local Time
Jan. 19, 2013
2:00 → 3:00 AM Local Time
Fiji Islands.
Namibia
Sep. 7, 2013
2:00 → 1:00 AM Local Time
Apr. 6, 2013
2:00 → 3:00 AM Local Time
New Zealand
Sep. 28, 2013
3:00 → 2:00 AM Local Time
Apr. 6, 2013
2:00 → 3:00 AM Local Time
New Zealand, Samoa.
Paraguay
Oct. 5, 2013
0:00 AM → 11:00 PM Local Time
Apr. 13, 2013
0:00 → 1:00 AM Local Time
Uruguay
Oct. 5, 2013
2:00 → 3:00 AM Local Time
Mar. 9, 2013
2:00 → 1:00 AM Local Time
.