Alternative Tuning on an Acoustic...

So you play in front of people but only had a tuner for standard?

A. I am doing this backwards.

B. There is hope for me too.

I play in any dipshit tuning I find on YouTube.

DADGAD, EBDGAD Crosby, open G (all Stones I think), Rain song tuning?

You have more ability than me. Hell I am only confusing myself and muddying the waters with all those tunings.

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Which ones do y'all use and do you stay in it all the time?

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I wish. Nearly every song I know is in a different tuning. I spend more time tuning than I do playing sometimes.

Here are some of them:
DADGAD - as long as you stick to frets 2, 4, 5, 7 & 9, everything you play sounds Celtic. I play The South Wind in this tuning. Also Kashmir is in DADGAD. The nice thing about this is that it's only a half-step on the G string from open D.

EADGCF - this is standard tuning except the top two strings are up a half step. This means that all the strings are a perfect 4th from each other. It avoids that awkward 4 fret gap between the G & B. The only song I know in this tuning is The Bricklayer's Beautiful Daughter by William Ackerman.

Open D (or E) - This is a popular tuning for blues. Duane Allman and Derek Trucks both play(ed) almost exclusively in open E. Couple of examples are Little Martha and Echoing Gilewitz.

CACGCE - You could call this C6 I guess but it's not the same as the steel guitar version of C6 (CEGACE). Bron-yr-Aur is in this tuning.

C#AC#G#AE - This is by far the weirdest one I know of. I suppose it's Open Amaj7? I usually drop it by a half-step so that I don't have to tune the G string up. Probably the only song you'll ever find in this tuning is The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit. I don't know how Will Ackerman survived before clip-on tuners.

I keep one of mine in Open G6: DGDGBE

It's absolutely the tuning I play in the most.

Drop D, standard, DADAD or 1/2 step down.

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EADGCF - this is standard tuning except the top two strings are up a half step. This means that all the strings are a perfect 4th from each other.

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This is the tuning that Stanley Jordan uses for the 2-hand tapping method - apparently, the chord shapes (different from the ones we know, of course) are the same all over the fretboard, so it's "easier" if you do it that way from the start.