general

I used to believe that I was able to tell the time by looking out the window and counting the number of metal spokes sticking out of the timber holding up the telephone lines. Whenever my mum asked me to read the time from the clock I would always look out the window and count the number of metal spokes and I was almost always right. weird!

Anon

This is probably the same for most people, but I did think that the clock kept going after 12. our clocks just coludn't get that big.
whene our freind left after a long day, my mom asked what time it was, i responded with 14:87 O_o

goomba boy

I used to believe that the whole world had the same season at the same time of year (e.g. Summer at December, January and February- I live in the southern hemisphere).

Anon

I used to believe that if you stare at the hands of a clock long enough, time would slow down and then, completely stop. I was right, except you wouldn't know because you were frozen in time..

Vicky

When I was little my mom picked up some KFC and I was very eager to eat it. So I was complaining that I wanted to eat right away. My mom then told me, "we'll be home in a second". I had never heard this phrase before, but I had heard of "in a minute" and knew that meant soon. So, not knowing how long a second would take, I complained and said, "not even a minute?" My mom then explained to me that a second is less than a minute.

Anon

I used to think that if you passed by something in a car, you could still see and look at it. This was because when my mom and I would be in the car, and we passed something interesting, she would ask me if I could see it, leading me to the conclusion that everyone was able to still see things that already passed by, like a roll of film. Eventually, I asked my mom to tell me how to do that, and she explained that she only remembered the object, but couldn't see it.

heh. I was so looking foreward to having that ability, too.

Marie

When my brother and I were little, my parents were always talking about "watching the ball drop" on New Year's Eve, but we were never physically able to stay up late enough to see it. Until we could, we thought the ball fell from the sky into Time's Square.

Duck and Cover

When i was about 5 or 6 I used to belive that if sb asked me what the time was how would i be able to tell them the time. I was also concerned how to find clothing which were sailored!

Ahmad

that if you had fun, time would literally pass by faster

paul

I'm grew up in Indiana. Until 2006 - Indiana did not observe daylight savings time. Our time always stayed the same.
Every year, during the summer and at Christmas, we'd visit my grandparents in South Carolina. On some visits, I had to reset my watch, on others I didn't. I always assumed that I remembered incorrectly from the previous visit.

It wasn't until I was in COLLEGE in New Orleans that I discovered the truth about DST. It was my freshman year in the dorm in October 1995. Time to fall back.
Everyone in the dorm kept saying, "Change your clocks." I was like "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??" Then they explained DST, and I didn't believe them. I actually had to ask the dorm mother! I really thought they were lying (you can't just CHANGE THE TIME like that!)
The funny thing is, they thought I was lying, too. They made me call my mother. She confirmed Indiana did not do DST.

To this day, I'm 35, I still don't know exactly when you change over (which has caused me problems - sometimes I have to work on Sundays and I have been both early and LATE as a result.) I do know the months, but that's it. No idea of the week.
And let me tell you, it's expected that you DO know. Most people wouldn't notice, but there's not much fanfare about DST at all!!! I guess they figure everyone's done it all their lives - WRONG. When I do actually change my clock on the right date, it's usually because I find out "by accident" (i.e. in casual conversation with someone.)
On a good note, I haven't been that affected by the extension of DST. You don't have to break a habit you never had. And now that the dates have changed, a lot more advertising is done.

Candice Washington

when i was a kid i used to believe that there was one week of spring (from spring break), three months of summer (from summer break), One month of winter (from christmas break) and the rest was fall.

you'llneverknow

i thought 'classic' was new and 'modern' was old

Anon

When I was about 3 or 4, my mother took a trip to the US in summer, and left me at my grandmother´s for about three and a half weeks. FOr little me, that was a long long time! And I went on to tell everybody years after that that I had lived with my grandma for one year...

joana