ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

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

RIP one hour

hate it so much

Balls to this

ftge imo

lol shit THAT'S what just happened to that hour.

Computer clock reset itself.

more like gaylight savings

there's been a thread on why it's not Daylight SavingS, right?

daylight saving$

feeling bad for the housekeepers at hotels worldwide who on this morning in addition to their typical turn-down procedures must also manually adjust every single alarm clock

i hate this it's like the day is half gone already!!!!!!!!!

every farmer needs to be punched in the face rite now

While I love the later sunsets and all, waking up this morning at 5:30 for work was a bit of a drag...

xp except the ones in arizona and hawaii you mean

feeling bad for the housekeepers at hotels worldwide who on this morning in addition to their typical turn-down procedures must also manually adjust every single alarm clock

at least they only have to go one hour forward instead of 11/23

it is bullshit

My extreme laziness has finally paid off and not changing any of the clocks in my apt the last time this happened means that I didn't have to do shit this time around.

wow, The Wikipedia features so many interesting and potentially untrue facts about this fascist lie of a proletariat yoke

A 2008 study found that although male suicide rates rise in the weeks after the spring transition, the relationship weakened greatly after adjusting for season.[75] A 2008 Swedish study found that heart attacks were significantly more common the first three weekdays after the spring transition, and significantly less common the first weekday after the autumn transition.[76] The government of Kazakhstan cited health complications due to clock shifts as a reason for abolishing DST in 2005.[77]

In the mid-1980s, Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to U.S. DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes;[3] in 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied for the 2007 extension to U.S. DST.[72]

Daylight saving has caused controversy since it began.[1] Winston Churchill argued that it enlarges "the opportunities for the pursuit of health and happiness among the millions of people who live in this country".[86] Robertson Davies, however, detected "the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves",[87] and wags have dubbed it "Daylight Slaving Time".[88]

oh you melodramatic wags

The Wag Party

It's like the Whig Party but all your political points are in the form of horrible puns.

I told a friend to meet me for brunch today at 11 am, and of course, he calls 45 minutes ago to tell me he didn't reprogram his alarm clock. Ugh.

arsebiscuits dark mornings again

messin' with the clock

Now we all have one more hour in our Daylight Savings Account. Maybe when we die, we'll get to spend them!

arsebiscuits dark mornings again

The one thing I hate.

Arsebiscuits truly are the worst things about daylight savings, can't wait to avoid them when I move to Arizona.

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