I sleep under a skylight, I am now keenly aware of just how early it is light enough to wake me up in the summer. And I remember those walking-home-through-dusk winters. But I never really thought about standard time and daylight savings time until I had a kid. Holy cow, it was like that X-Files episode “Syzygy.” My sister had long insisted that the time change made the children crazy, and I had thought she was making that up. But that shift is definitely weird for the littles.
I doubt the law will go anywhere but I have been wrong before.
Since time is a human construct anyway, or at least the measurement of it, why not just split the difference? This autumn, fall back a half hour and quit messing with it. Newfoundland did it, kinda. They're always a half hour out of whack.
I had an employee that milked it. He showed up an hour late in spring, then he'd do it again in the fall. How? I don't know, but the higher ups let him get away with it.
I don't remember the brief "permanent" DST in 1973, but I was only 12. I never did understand how daylight was being saved just by shifting our method of counting time. People would tell me that it helps the farmers, and I'd reply that farmers wouldn't care - they don't punch a time clock! So, what good is it? And now, we may be stuck with it year round, if the Senate passes it, and trump signs it (since he says he wants it, he probably will, but he might not, unless the SAVE act is passed).
I lived in Arizona for several years which doesn't observe DST. It was nice not having to change clocks or body rhythms, and my car and microwave clocks were always "correct", but weird trying to remember if we were in the Mountain time or the Pacific time half of the year. Also Navajo DOES observe DST and Hopi doesn't which can make crossing the highway in Tuba City a weird mini-time warp spring through fall.
I guess I'm one of the few people who doesn't mind the clock-changing twice a year.
Sure, it sucks to lose that hour in the spring but hey, here in England it isn't full-on dark at 5 p.m. (which is still better than the full-on dark at 3:15 in the afternoon) and that light in the evening rapidly progresses to still being relatively light out at 10 p.m.
The thing I like about gaining that hour in the fall is that I can stay up until 3 a.m. without guilt because it's now 2 a.m. again. I LOVE that extra hour. The downside, of course, is that its nighttime an hour earlier than I'd become accustomed.
See, it's the end-of-the-day light I'm more concerned about because that's when I'm actually awake. I don't give two shits about how light or dark it is in the morning because I'm effectively retired and I've gotten used to the bleakness of the UK in the winter in the 15 years I've lived here. I sort of I see the time changes as readying oneself for a new phase of the year and the only thing that bothers me about it is having to dig out the manual for my stove to change the time on it.
I sleep under a skylight, I am now keenly aware of just how early it is light enough to wake me up in the summer. And I remember those walking-home-through-dusk winters. But I never really thought about standard time and daylight savings time until I had a kid. Holy cow, it was like that X-Files episode “Syzygy.” My sister had long insisted that the time change made the children crazy, and I had thought she was making that up. But that shift is definitely weird for the littles.
I doubt the law will go anywhere but I have been wrong before.
Since time is a human construct anyway, or at least the measurement of it, why not just split the difference? This autumn, fall back a half hour and quit messing with it. Newfoundland did it, kinda. They're always a half hour out of whack.
Like everything this regime does it’s another stupid idea. Springing forward is painful for me losing that one hour. Fall back is much kinder to me.
Falling back is more in line with human biology. And we all deserve the extra hour of sleep for fucks sake.
I'm in favor of abolishing DST, but we should default to fall back instead of spring forward.
I had an employee that milked it. He showed up an hour late in spring, then he'd do it again in the fall. How? I don't know, but the higher ups let him get away with it.
I worked with a guy who said his absence that day after was because of the time change. Like all day long?
Hey, jet lag is real!
Only the equivalent of one time zone, but still!
I don't remember the brief "permanent" DST in 1973, but I was only 12. I never did understand how daylight was being saved just by shifting our method of counting time. People would tell me that it helps the farmers, and I'd reply that farmers wouldn't care - they don't punch a time clock! So, what good is it? And now, we may be stuck with it year round, if the Senate passes it, and trump signs it (since he says he wants it, he probably will, but he might not, unless the SAVE act is passed).
I too don’t remember the change in 1973 being around the same age.
I lived in Arizona for several years which doesn't observe DST. It was nice not having to change clocks or body rhythms, and my car and microwave clocks were always "correct", but weird trying to remember if we were in the Mountain time or the Pacific time half of the year. Also Navajo DOES observe DST and Hopi doesn't which can make crossing the highway in Tuba City a weird mini-time warp spring through fall.
I guess I'm one of the few people who doesn't mind the clock-changing twice a year.
Sure, it sucks to lose that hour in the spring but hey, here in England it isn't full-on dark at 5 p.m. (which is still better than the full-on dark at 3:15 in the afternoon) and that light in the evening rapidly progresses to still being relatively light out at 10 p.m.
The thing I like about gaining that hour in the fall is that I can stay up until 3 a.m. without guilt because it's now 2 a.m. again. I LOVE that extra hour. The downside, of course, is that its nighttime an hour earlier than I'd become accustomed.
See, it's the end-of-the-day light I'm more concerned about because that's when I'm actually awake. I don't give two shits about how light or dark it is in the morning because I'm effectively retired and I've gotten used to the bleakness of the UK in the winter in the 15 years I've lived here. I sort of I see the time changes as readying oneself for a new phase of the year and the only thing that bothers me about it is having to dig out the manual for my stove to change the time on it.