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It usually depends on where I am at in flower… but I typically keep timers running on the same schedule until that flowering run is finished. Once completed I change grow room clocks and timers.
Same as above 
I’m pretty early on flower so I’ll probably adjust the timers, as long as they’re still getting 12hrs of darkness it should be a huge issue
That’s what was up with my oven clock this morning!
Convenient I decided to flip my lights just last night. I need to go look at my timers to make sense of all this.
On a more personal note, I really despise clock changes. It messes me up for days.
Why would you spring the light timer forward?..I don’t do anything…I keep it the way it is, I see no reason, these are in flower mode…the plants inside/outside don’t know its daylight savings time change…
Yeah me too. And my dog.
I’m hoping the minor shift won’t cause any nanners. Growing what are supposed to be sexually stable genetics, so, again, hopeful.
We’ve got a routine built around a clock schedule. Changing that by an hour is problematic. I’m going to try to keep it consistent and trust the plants to deal with it gracefully.
I’m optimistic as I usually start in my flowering space about 1/2 hour before the “real lights” come on and often take care of things for about 1/2 hour after the “real lights” go out.
Today I won’t start early.
It harder for some people to deal with it, you can’t let it stress you out folks…they say a lot of people have heart attacks & stokes during time changes…I’ve never let it stress me out…
From goggle:
Prior research has shown a transient increase in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) after DST in the spring as well as a decrease in MI after returning to standard time in the fall in other countries. 1 Smaller studies have shown similar effects of DST in the USA.
I use electronic vs mechanical timers. If I don’t do anything, they’ll still change with the time shift. Again, I’d need to take action there to prevent that.
As to why change? We keep a clock based schedule at home to preserve time for essentials.
A shift of the gardening set of chores by one hour is extremely disruptive to that schedule,
I’ve always had the old school timers…and of course I know about changing the clocks in the whole house…thought you were just talking about grows & grow rooms…to me gardening is not suppose to stress you out…I can afford to wait an hr. later or an hr. sooner to to tend to my grows…
I really don’t think it will really affect the plants that much IMO, as long as its still in 12/12 mode or 18/6 mode…
The only time the time change affected me was last year goose hunting…you’re able to start shooting half hr. before sunrise…I completely forgot about the time change and by the time my alarm went off the sun was already out…
My plants work hard enough to make me happy. I don’t want them to stress with adjusting to a man-made time change, so I don’t tell them. They have no idea what DST is!
I tried explaining it to my ladies but they just sat there and flipped there leafs at me so my vote …
Pay no mind to the switch of time !
Does suck my lights r going out at 6pm though haha
Voted but I wanted to add that I also fail to realize it’s going forward and only realize when I stumble into the kitchen more tired than usual to see the microwave and stove say an hour earlier than my phone.
I change the stove the instant I wake up otherwise I get very confused. I can see it from the couch.
LOL - Enjoying the thread, even though it dawns on me now, this might not be the right topic for a survey. 
I’m clearly an outlier here, and understand why.
In the last year or so have become enamored with electronic timers and the features. The downish side is that they change themselves when the clock shifts.
I used to use mechanical timers, and I would just let them continue on without any adjustment, keeping the plant light-cycle consistent.
I understand that is “best-practice” but am not sure how much weight to put there vs. other considerations.
As to why not adjust the electronic timers then to keep the plant cycles consistent, we keep a schedule around work/life and DST effs with it a bit. If I start later, it shifts more than plant-work.
Shifting the plant on/off times to match the family schedule is just something we have to negotiate.
Again, with “sexualy stable” genetics, a shift of 60-minutes with the actual dark/light cycles remaining otherwise consistent, is the risk of throwing hermies really that high?
Congrats, you have company. 
It’s more convenient for my schedule to switch the clocks in the flower room. It shouldn’t cause any trouble for the plants doing a hard shift like that, because they still got 12 hours of darkness last night; they’re usually on 11/13, so losing an hour is no big deal.
Here’s my question. In an artificial environment controlled by us, why worry? Consistency is there. Just ONE day has a slightly shorter night (if you adjust timers). Otherwise your lighting schedule is unchanged. Can’t imagine the plant going “Damnit, its 7am? feels like 6am!” You’re still getting 12/12. Plants aren’t aware of the concept of time and clocks, just durations.
The fall change for DST I could see stressing a little as they get an extra hour of light for a day, but again, such small pebbles in the pond, barely creating a ripple…
I choose to leave it be for a few hours and whine about it first.
