How are YOU Handling DAYLIGHT SAVINGS

[dbkick]

some timers adjust themselves for daylight savings time, which is the stupidest shit and should be banned, daylight savings time that is. personally I'm waiting to flip till the time flips which will be tomorrow.

 

[carl poot]

I like my lights to be on for flowering between 8pm and 8am. That way, I can check them before I go to work in the morning, and they're ready to check at night when the kids go to bed. For this convenience factor in my life, I'll give them an extra hour of daylight tonight.

flowering plants wont mind the 13/11 for one day?

 

[oatsuzn]

i do it so the plants go to sleep when i go to work and wake up when i get home

I like my lights to be on for flowering between 8pm and 8am. That way, I can check them before I go to work in the morning, and they're ready to check at night when the kids go to bed. For this convenience factor in my life, I'll give them an extra hour of daylight tonight.

exactly. I want my lights to go off when I'm leaving the house for work, so I just had to change my timer to match the real clock. My plants will end up get 13 hours of light and 11 uninterrupted dark in this 24 hour period...no biggie.

 

[skefaman]

exactly. I want my lights to go off when I'm leaving the house for work, so I just had to change my timer to match the real clock. My plants will end up get 13 hours of light and 11 uninterrupted dark in this 24 hour period...no biggie.

probably not much of a prob but why not give extra dark rather extra daytime ?

edit: real question there

 

[brettsog]

an extra hour of photosynthesis wont hurt i dont think. its only once. if it was repeated then it might

 

[giggles26]

I like to leave my timers the same. That's one less thing for me to worry about my girls having to go through. My time off/on hasn't changed just the time of the day isn't right.

Now some people may need to change their timers that are trying to get a specific time on/off due to work and other factors I understand but otherwise just leave your timers where they are they aren't hurting anyone.

I'll just ride out the time change until these girls are done flowering and then fix my timer but once they get to this point only thing I want to have to worry about is water/feed and keeping them happy.

 

[Endur0xX]

I dont do anything but it sucks now I have to get up before 5 am if I want to see them in the morning!!!!

 

[somebody1701]

some timers adjust themselves for daylight savings time, which is the stupidest shit and should be banned, daylight savings time that is. personally I'm waiting to flip till the time flips which will be tomorrow.

Daylight savings time is the stupidest shit and should be banned. Actually, I want to stay on DST all the time. Who the hell wants it to get dark earlier?????

 

[LeafGnosis]

Nope, not changing my timers either... I am up at the time when they first come on, either 1 hour later/earlier.

 

[Ringsixty]

I don't handle it. What for?

 

[errb]

i simply change my timers for the hour because of peak hydro usage... 7pm to 7am then back to 8pm to 8am.. no big deal take me like 30 seconds to complete and the girls have never noticed the difference.

E.

 

[PJ Diaz]

flowering plants wont mind the 13/11 for one day?

Nope. However it's really 13/12 for a day only. The dark time isn't affected.

probably not much of a prob but why not give extra dark rather extra daytime ?

edit: real question there

Photosynthetic plants respond to dark hours, not light hours. So it would stand to reason that they're less affected by changing only the length of the light time, and keep the amount of dark time consistent.

 

[unknown1231]

Not sure what the question here is?

The way I see it the only thing that is changing is the time displayed on the clock. Any timers you have setup did not change, therefore the time the lights turn on/off is exactly the same as it was prior to daylight savings.

 

[Metasynth]

I handled it by sleeping in an extra hour.

 

[imchucky666]

Hey RIU,, I thought I would throw this question out there, to see how everyone handles their Daylight Savings time change. I am not on my first grow, but apparently have not been in the middle of flowering During a Daylight Savings change for any of my Previous, and am wondering HOW, if AT ALL, does anybody handle the Time Change?

Does anyone actually change their Timers by an hour? And could this cause a Problem in Flowering?

Lets hear your thoughts on the Matter!

Sounds like extra work to me.....
Just saying, the plants don't have a clock persay, they know how much and how long, but not when.

 

[PJ Diaz]

Sounds like extra work to me.....
Just saying, the plants don't have a clock persay, they know how much and how long, but not when.

Plants don't have a clock, but they don't take care of themselves either -- we do! I'm not worried about changing the time for the sake of my plants, it's for the sake of the grower. I don't wanna have to get up an extra hour early for the next 6 months just so I can check on the plants before work.

 

[mrweedman321]

The changes would not effect indoor growing ...

 

[carl poot]

Nope. However it's really 13/12 for a day only. The dark time isn't affected.



Photosynthetic plants respond to dark hours, not light hours. So it would stand to reason that they're less affected by changing only the length of the light time, and keep the amount of dark time consistent.

ah, you are correct dear Sir.

 

[LeafGnosis]

Nope. However it's really 13/12 for a day only. The dark time isn't affected.



Photosynthetic plants respond to dark hours, not light hours. So it would stand to reason that they're less affected by changing only the length of the light time, and keep the amount of dark time consistent.

For all of the reasons you have presented here, I have done the same and only added the hour of light and kept the dark 12. Though I am about 5 or 6 weeks out now.

 

[JoDirt]

Another reason why you would change the timer. I grow in my room, and I can't sleep with lights on.