There’s a bit in _Rilla of Ingleside_ (the Anne of GG novel set in WWI) where a character grouses about DST being the Kaiser’s idea and while she serves dinner, grudgingly, on “[Lloyd George’s?] time” she feeds the chickens on “God’s time.” She is wrong about the Germans inventing the idea but they did start using it before Prince Edward Island did. WWI brought us an awful lot of questionable advancements.
I have no dog in this fight, because since I stopped working outside of the house it’s barely affected me. I’m bad at tracking time whether it’s this hour or that. A younger me would have preferred not to have walked to and from school/workplace in the dark. I’m not a morning person so “Spring Forward” always knocked me flat for a week or two.
My personal preference was always DST. When I still had a jerb, I worked from 6:00AM until 4:30PM--always dark on my morning commute, and dark going home during the Standard Time period, hated it. At least during the summer months, I could do stuff in the evening. Now that I'm retired, I still prefer DST but I'm a reasonable guy. How 'bout we split the difference and leave it alone forever? Newfoundland and Labrador are a half hour ahead of the rest of the east coast and they seem to be doing alright.
Also "Unfortunately, I’ve seen no evidence that daylight saving time has made Americans more effective at fighting Nazis today or even noticing their existence."
It figures that trump would waffle on eliminating DST, because he claims that half want to keep it, whereas he does whatever Putin wants, no matter how unpopular. It's one issue that he mentioned that he would do, and it's the right thing to do, as opposed to all of the other shit that is the wrong thing to do.
DST, or as we call it here in AZ "That twice a year thing where we don't know what the fuck time it is everywhere else in the country for a month or two"
Unpopular opinion: I don't mind changing the clocks twice a year. The worst part was always having to dig out the instructions for how to change the clock on the stove—after awhile, I just thought, "Eh, for the next six months we're going to be off an hour on that one..."
I like the sudden later daylight in the spring (after winters in the UK, which are pretty damn gray, bleak, and DARK, when the lights go on in the morning and STAY on until we go to bed, that entra hour in the evenings is wonderful) as a portent of spring, I guess; and I like the "extra" hour in the fall. Even when I was working and had to be at the office at 8 a.m., the back-to-dark mornings never bothered me because they got lighter fast enough anyway.
BUT, if countries abandoned the whole DST thing (which has been discussed here as well), I'll be fine with it. My entire life has trained me to adapt quickly to things I can't control.
I hate having to lose my sunny mornings again for another month. It is rather silly.
I thought that DST was extended another week because parents wanted their children to be trick or treating while it was still light not because of the candy industry.
Every year the switch the daylight savings seems more harsh. I don’t mind falling back to standard; it’s usually honestly an extra hour of sleep. But losing an hour to spring ahead, oh damn.
I played a two hour coffee shop show yesterday evening, missing the hour yesterday morning was really a lot. Planned for it knowing it was coming; biology is still not particularly fungible this way.
It really is silly. And expensive. And dangerous. I avoid driving for a few days afterward, knowing the morning commute especially will be a little more dangerous.
I heard a radio DJ say "we lost an hour last night but wasn't it great having an extra hour on Sunday" sleep disorders are so much more common now and daylight savings is very harmful if you have sleep phase disorder. If you love the light get up at sunrise.
Words cannot express the depth of my contempt for Daylight STUPID Time. I want year round Standard Time. The older I get the less I tolerate Daylight STUPID Time. I’m an early riser and darkness in the morning and prolonged daylight hours throw me off kilter for weeks. Fall back and stay back.
I leave for work every morning at 6 (Pacific) so all last week was spent dreading the annual plunge back into darkness just as I could finally see by the dawn's early light.
There’s a bit in _Rilla of Ingleside_ (the Anne of GG novel set in WWI) where a character grouses about DST being the Kaiser’s idea and while she serves dinner, grudgingly, on “[Lloyd George’s?] time” she feeds the chickens on “God’s time.” She is wrong about the Germans inventing the idea but they did start using it before Prince Edward Island did. WWI brought us an awful lot of questionable advancements.
I have no dog in this fight, because since I stopped working outside of the house it’s barely affected me. I’m bad at tracking time whether it’s this hour or that. A younger me would have preferred not to have walked to and from school/workplace in the dark. I’m not a morning person so “Spring Forward” always knocked me flat for a week or two.
Seen on another site: ”tried moving my clock ahead four years but it didn’t work”. If only…..
My personal preference was always DST. When I still had a jerb, I worked from 6:00AM until 4:30PM--always dark on my morning commute, and dark going home during the Standard Time period, hated it. At least during the summer months, I could do stuff in the evening. Now that I'm retired, I still prefer DST but I'm a reasonable guy. How 'bout we split the difference and leave it alone forever? Newfoundland and Labrador are a half hour ahead of the rest of the east coast and they seem to be doing alright.
Preach it brother!
Also "Unfortunately, I’ve seen no evidence that daylight saving time has made Americans more effective at fighting Nazis today or even noticing their existence."
You're hilarious :)
Anytime is a bad time with the TrumpElon.
Thankfully I’m in Arizona where not changing is one of the things we’ve done right.
It figures that trump would waffle on eliminating DST, because he claims that half want to keep it, whereas he does whatever Putin wants, no matter how unpopular. It's one issue that he mentioned that he would do, and it's the right thing to do, as opposed to all of the other shit that is the wrong thing to do.
DST, or as we call it here in AZ "That twice a year thing where we don't know what the fuck time it is everywhere else in the country for a month or two"
AZ noped out of it in 1968.
Last Week Tonight's evergreen take on DST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw
Unpopular opinion: I don't mind changing the clocks twice a year. The worst part was always having to dig out the instructions for how to change the clock on the stove—after awhile, I just thought, "Eh, for the next six months we're going to be off an hour on that one..."
I like the sudden later daylight in the spring (after winters in the UK, which are pretty damn gray, bleak, and DARK, when the lights go on in the morning and STAY on until we go to bed, that entra hour in the evenings is wonderful) as a portent of spring, I guess; and I like the "extra" hour in the fall. Even when I was working and had to be at the office at 8 a.m., the back-to-dark mornings never bothered me because they got lighter fast enough anyway.
BUT, if countries abandoned the whole DST thing (which has been discussed here as well), I'll be fine with it. My entire life has trained me to adapt quickly to things I can't control.
I hate having to lose my sunny mornings again for another month. It is rather silly.
I thought that DST was extended another week because parents wanted their children to be trick or treating while it was still light not because of the candy industry.
It is very annoying to just lose an hour by magic. But I guess this is how it has been my whole life so meeeeeeeeeh.
Loved this.
Every year the switch the daylight savings seems more harsh. I don’t mind falling back to standard; it’s usually honestly an extra hour of sleep. But losing an hour to spring ahead, oh damn.
I played a two hour coffee shop show yesterday evening, missing the hour yesterday morning was really a lot. Planned for it knowing it was coming; biology is still not particularly fungible this way.
It really is silly. And expensive. And dangerous. I avoid driving for a few days afterward, knowing the morning commute especially will be a little more dangerous.
I heard a radio DJ say "we lost an hour last night but wasn't it great having an extra hour on Sunday" sleep disorders are so much more common now and daylight savings is very harmful if you have sleep phase disorder. If you love the light get up at sunrise.
Words cannot express the depth of my contempt for Daylight STUPID Time. I want year round Standard Time. The older I get the less I tolerate Daylight STUPID Time. I’m an early riser and darkness in the morning and prolonged daylight hours throw me off kilter for weeks. Fall back and stay back.
I leave for work every morning at 6 (Pacific) so all last week was spent dreading the annual plunge back into darkness just as I could finally see by the dawn's early light.
Starting in April was so much better.