Daylight Savings Time?

[Judi]

How does everyone handle this? do you start easing into a time change in 15 minute increments?

Guess this would be a good time to live in Arizona!!

Judi

[CarolW]

Re: Daylight Savings Time?

Judi - I used to go through a great, complex system. I'd change by 15-minute increments, over a period of at least 12 days before the date of the time-change.

This made a huge mess on my computer CalendarScope program (for PCs - running Windows - not for Macs or Apples). I'd sweat it, each half-year.

But my dogs barely noticed the change that way! If Kumbi were still alive, I MIGHT do that again. Maybe not, though!

With the diabetes, you have a window of about an hour in either direction, so you could do as many here (I believe) do, and just go by the clock. That would, for autumn, make an hour's delay in food and insulin.

Wow; wonder if that's a bit much for the dog - not so bad in spring, but to wait an extra hour for breakfast the morning of the change, in autumn, might be hard on a dog's psyche.

My un-diabetic dog, Camellia, is on a diabetic-type of schedule; I feed her essentially 12 hours apart, twice a day.

But where with Kumbi, I was consistent to the MINUTE! - with Camellia, I've relaxed that a lot.

So, this time, I'm planning to go by the clock, but be ready to feed her early if she's miserable waiting for breakfast!

The one thing I'm not sure of is how Cushings meds work over time-changes. My instinct is to think it's probably like the insulin - you'd have an hour's leeway.

If you go by the clock, then, you have only ONE feeding/insulin/Cushing's med that's off-schedule for the dog. By evening, you're back to a 12-hour schedule!

How very handy!

No guarantees, though, about canine responses to dusk, daylight, and dark! - nor about their perceptions of time. I'm very sensitive to circadian-rhythm kind of stuff. Now I can't remember what I did last spring (though I could check in Camellia's journals, which are nearly as thorough as Kumbi's were). Likely, I winged it! and plan to do the same next Saturday!
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:06:39 (PDT)

[pgcor]

Re: Daylight Savings Time?

Personally, I did the same thing Carol did - changed time every 15 minutes or so until the time evened out...Since my dog is regulated and there's a window of about an hour or two with shots - I usually do 1/2 hour earlier or later when the clocks change and then go back to the normal 12 hours the next day. It has not seemed to do any harm to Pip.

[CarolW]

Re: Daylight Savings Time?

Actually, I didn't change by 15 minutes every day - I changed by 15 minutes every three days! I'd end up being already changed over to the new time a day or two before the clocks changed officially. My dogs, then barely even noticed the time change.

It's a bit late to change so slowly now, as we have just under a week before the clocks betray us; haha! That's for many places in North America - not all places! A very handy link for time changes is here:

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/

Hope that's some use to you - and anybody else here!
Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:18:04 (PDT)

[diggydog]

Re: Daylight Savings Time?

Our clocks changed here yesterday so I have just been through all this. I moved Alfie's food & insulin by 15mins in the 3days leading up to it the when I done him this morning he was "on time"

Its worth noting that some mobile phones turn to daylight savings time automatically. I had no idea mine done this so ended up an hour late for work today

Allison & Alfie

[eileen]

Re: Daylight Savings Time?

I've always kept things such as the time change quite simple, I simply go by the time that is on the clock as there will only be that one injection that is off by an hour with the rest falling into place.

[Judi]

Re: Daylight Savings Time?

Its worth noting that some mobile phones turn to daylight savings time automatically. I had no idea mine done this so ended up an hour late for work today

Allison & Alfie

oh no Allison! I have Sprint and my phone was wrong this morning as it had switched; that is what made me think of this.

I'm leaning towards Eileen's method, especially if I still haven't managed to get Miss Jenny tested

eta: but most of you do the 15 minute thing. so hmm decisions decisons. thanks for replying!

[SandyL]

Re: Daylight Savings Time?

I've always kept things such as the time change quite simple, I simply go by the time that is on the clock as there will only be that one injection that is off by an hour with the rest falling into place.

I did the same thing last year. Really didn't worry about it to tell you the truth . I figure I test her at fastings so if her number is too low that morning, I'll just decrease her dose a little then give the regular amount at dinner. Worked well with no problems

Sandy