ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

with my youth frittering away in this depressing fashion, i say praise be to them what tamper with time! Without them, I wouldn't have been able to stay up till HALF ELEVEN last night. yeah!

Yah, that's a major improvement. I get really depressed when I wake up and it's still dark outside--I just want to stay in bed and eat cookies all day.

(*this may be a slight exaggeration.)

I quite like the early darkness.

The inevitable downside -- and since I really can't stand short days and long winter nights, megaSIGH over it. It's one big reason I'm where I am, honestly.

really confused about what time it is

The hour goes forward in the autumn and back in the spring - it's easy to remember with the rhyme "Fall Forward, Spring Back".

u evil

fucking DLS means I have to cycle home in the pitch black.

i know how it works but is it 7:16 or 8:16. my phone + computer seem to have gone forward and ilx went back.

no this says it's next week! http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=179

ok my phone and computer didn't do anything because it's not daylight savings time yet. ilx did it a week early?

We went from BST to GMT last night, here in Britishland.

oh. i see what the problem was. my ilx prefs time zone was "Cuba"

haha

lmao

DST adds an hour to everyone's halloween partying

living through another cuba

rip Fidel

oh hello it's time saving time in longdong

like the obvious solution is start school later so kids can head over there when it's light

Yes but then parents would have to go to work later.

so everybody wins!

we should all just take winter off

All for it.

In the US we're perfectly capable of running over schoolchildren whether it's light outside or not, reflective clothes regardless

The US is further south so it shouldn't be an issue I would have thought.

So this winter, Vancouver will be an hour ahead of Seattle.

Ok.

Isn't there part of Arizona that doesn't change the clock?

yes, and Indiana too

better things are possible!

yeah i used to be madder about dst before i discovered i could skip out for a run during a workday and no one cares. having a bullshit job and being old enough to not give a fuck / do what i want and dare someone to call me out on it is my jam these days.

when i was younger "fall back" was the good one because i could sleep in. now i'm much more about "spring forward" and that extra hour of evening light.

i kinda like the twice-a-year time yank now - it gives me something to blame being tired and cranky on.

I have zero problems with the current DST system and I think the it's almost become a meme to be a huge baby about it on the Internet.

Yeah I have poked around northern Indiana and you can ping back and forth a few times a day.

humans have successfully adapted to living above the Arctic Circle, where the year careens between perpetual daylight for weeks at a time in summer and equally perpetual darkness in winter. I just know we can do this clock change thing, too. just pretend you changed time zones or something.

not gonna get into this but the ill effects of a sudden time change have been extensively documented

Indiana has two time zones, but all of it observes daylight savings time. Wasn't always the case!

Arizona simply doesn't observe it — except for the Navajo Nation who does.

Hawaii is the only state that completely doesn't observe DST.

xp - yes, but are these ill effects worse than working graveyard shift? or jet lag? or any of dozens of other modern practices we regularly subject ourselves to? what is a proper point of comparison for how damaging this is?

i wonder how damaging the time change is compared to arguing about the time change.

quite a few ilxors seem to be fretting their way to stents every time this thread is bumped

The US is further south so it shouldn't be an issue I would have thought.

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https://datainnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-Sunrise-Data-Viz.png

we'll see if that embed works. tl;dr is that sunrise/sunset does not follow longitude, it follows the line of sight to the sun. so the daylight hours vary depending on where you are in the time zone. presumably this isn't as noticed in the UK because that kind of lines up

during the darkest part of the winter, I drive to work in the dark 8am-ish and drive home in the dark around 5pm. luckily that's not a very long period

also I meant latitude rather than longitude now that I think about it

we should just make the time zones horizontal!

Getting home early from work would be easy

I read that living a nocturnal lifestyle is supposed to take years off one’s life, but sometimes I think I would be at least 50% more productive if the sky were dark or cloudy most of the time. Think I might be part orc? I keep thinking about getting blackout curtains for my home office.

a perpetually cloudy planet could take a bit of the edge off climate change

medieval people had two sleeps... go to bed in the evening, then get up a like two in the morning doing god only knows what, then go back to bed until sunrise

Millions of people got lengthy shuteye when the rats arrived

You’ve Been Lied to About Rats and the Black Death

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-history/youve-been-lied-about-rats-and-black-death

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medieval people had two sleeps... go to bed in the evening, then get up a like two in the morning doing god only knows what, then go back to bed until sunrise

jackin’ it

medieval people had two sleeps... go to bed in the evening, then get up a like two in the morning doing god only knows what, then go back to bed until sunrise

This went on much longer than the middle ages. The Industrial Revolution put an end to it.

> presumably this isn't as noticed in the UK because that kind of lines up

i think it's just that the uk is narrower

LONDON 0°00'W
^06:39 v17:45 11h06m

CARDIFF 3°11'W but same latitude, roughly
^06.51 v17:58 11h07m

EDINBURGH 330 miles north of london
^06:56 v17:53 10h57m

that last is more pronounced when we are further from the equinox:

LON  max 16h38 min 7h50
CARD max 16h38 min 7h50 
EDIN max 17h30 min 7h

Latitude might not be the whole story but it should be pointed out that Glasgow and therefore Edinburgh are further north than every major city in Canada.

The UK invented double daylight time!

Latitude might not be the whole story but it should be pointed out that Glasgow and therefore Edinburgh are further north than every major city in Canada.

Thought I had you, but Edmonton is three degrees further south than Edingow. Damn!

Thank the Lord for the gulf stream is all I can say.

Keep imagining Tech N9ne yelling this thread title as a chorus

https://www.hcn.org/articles/welcome-to-daylight-nonsense-time

I didn't know time zones were a Canadian invention, thanks a lot us

People in the Yukon should be allowed to function on whatever time they want, that's a brutal winter

In response to that article - I think latitude has everything to do with it.

People in far northern climates experience extreme effects from time change in a way we in the US don't. For them daylight savings is about how early the sun rises, and with daylight savings in the Winter it could be as late as 10:00 am or later. That is not good. They should go back to standard time

For us in the US, daylight savings shifts light from the morning to the evening in a graceful way in the Summer when there is a lot of sun. Shifting to later daybreak in favor of later sunset makes sense. In Fall and Winter it doesn't.

I don't want to wake up and have it be dark until 8:00 am in the Winter (which would be the case under daylight savings time), and also don't want to be blinded by sunlight coming into my bedroom at 5:30 am in the Summer (which would be the case under standard time)

The change to daylight savings annually in the Spring and then back to standard time in the Fall is a good thing

Hm probably the first argument for DST that has made sense to me.

Just make it 5 o clock all day

That’s the case in Margaritaville, obviously

Hey, it's gotta be five o'clock everywhere, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UpEKX39ZY

rude

omg that's fantastic