ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

The railways brought universal time to most places.

I did travel through the Nullarbor where a small number of communities voluntarily observer the completely unofficial Australian Central West Time which is 1hr and 45 minutes different from the rest of the state. It’s main purposes seems to be to confuse tourists.

Adelaide being half an hour off, and two of the states not doing daylight savings, made scheduling TV extremely complicated (esp during live disaster coverage)

Srsly, the only way this map could be any better would be if Canberra observed DST all year long.

https://i.imgur.com/nfzBf37.png

Why (those maps / that article) decided that "a reasonable sunrise time" was before 7 am is probably due to a conspiracy of so-called 'morning' people, who everyone with sense understands to be semi-human mutants and certainly not a demographic to be catered to.

^^^

they left out this little bit as well

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1dOd4GeLHV3x1rtZgCP_o23HAQ4E&hl=en&ll=-31.73867912320262%2C127.28759749999995&z=8

Like good luck convincing my body that it didn't drag itself out of bed at 4 goddamn AM this morning. Or for the next several mornings. My very cells screaming 'ARE YOU ACTUALLY KIDDING ME RN?!?'

wake up sleeple!

Why (those maps / that article) decided that "a reasonable sunrise time" was before 7 am is probably due to a conspiracy of so-called 'morning' people, who everyone with sense understands to be semi-human mutants and certainly not a demographic to be catered to.

― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, March 10, 2019 10:07 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

― mookieproof, Sunday, March 10, 2019 10:08 PM (yesterday)

this is the highest denomination of money aimless has ever been on

Daylight savings is actually my preferred time of the year. Long spring afternoons and evenings are ideal for me. But one thing that articles don't seem to address is why we ever go back to standard time? What purpose does "falling back" serve?

Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2019

https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606

The sun should never rise before 6am if we can take that time and make it set an hour later
On the other hand I don't want to have to leave for work in the dark in December.

I don't want to have to leave for work in the dark in December.

I'd blame the job, not the solar system.

I leave for work in the dark every day of my life.

callooh! callay!

the last Fall Back in Oregon, we hope

https://katu.com/news/local/region-prepares-to-push-clocks-back-for-possible-final-time

Fuck daylight savings.

heretics!

its the mooooost wonderful tiiie of the yeeeear

time, even

cretins cheering on the exacerbating of my seasonal affective disorder

really fucking hate it so much

lol this has to be the most groundhog day thread on ilx

seventeen years of biannually posting the identically futile take, we're like Beckett zombies

haven't noticed this thread before

I'm not a morning person, I guess people here are if they hate daylight savings

xp it's not personal

nevertheless fuck you, darkness rules

worst day of the year for window peepers who are also morning people

extra
hour
of
sleep
ffs

yeah NOW but what about next march

Darkness is stupid, winter is stupid, sleep is stupid.

otm

hard to care about the extra hour of light in the mornings

would so much rather have it in the evenings

Ya know, it was getting late sooner anyway.

If Peter hitchens is against it then I’m pro changing the clocks every week.

I am working overnight tonight and have to work an extra hour thanks to this nonsense

thank you for your service but i have been owed an hour for months now, with no fucking interest

so ye complainers can get tae fuck

MOAR SLEEP
HAIL DARKNESS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=_DZsbGA1CcA

(Hawkwind - Hurry On Sundown)

Woke up at my usual time, which apparently is now five a.m.

Guess I can work that to my advantage this week, having an extra hour in the mornings until my jet lag wears off. Work on some night moves, make some front-page news. Ah, Novembertime.

Can someone explain to my cats that we're falling back this morning?

Ha, had the exact same problem.

Accidentally fell asleep with the lights on and music playing. I fucked it up!!!!

This is the first time in my 55+ years that I actually used my fallback to get an extra hour of sleep. Felt pretty fuckin' good.

Lol Floridians are so dumb.

Last year, our state legislature voted to end DST for Florida. Of course, that requires Congress to amend Federal law, so it was really a first step (or a PR stunt), which was made clear at the time.

Didn't stop Floridians from flooding social media last night, asking why they had to set the clocks back since we ended it.

Sadly since cell phones and laptops usually update themselves, my fantasy of millions of Floridians being on the wrong time won't come to pass.

And yes I get that "dumb Floridian" sometimes feels like a pleonasm

This is the first time in my 55+ years that I actually used my fallback to get an extra hour of sleep. Felt pretty fuckin' good.

"Sadly since cell phones and laptops usually update themselves, my fantasy of millions of Floridians being on the wrong time won't come to pass."

It sounds like the setup for a 1990s fish-out-of-water comedy. It would end with the hero teaching the futuristic people of New York about "real music", e.g. pre-Beatles rock and roll, because the film would be written by a baby boomer who hasn't got over Elvis being drafted. He or she would catch some crooks using a vintage skateboard, or something, or a surfboard, because people in Florida surf, don't they? He or she would dress up like the characters from Miami Vice. It's high concept. Nineteen-eighties meets the modern age! Cocaine everywhere, and people are paranoid about AIDS. There could be a cameo from the COUGH Indian COUGH chap from Short Circuit that would seem perfectly normal to the film's writer, because Indian people are funny, but would be horribly uncomfortable for the audience.

Alternatively imagine a film in which Florida is perpetually an hour behind the rest of the United States. The transient nature of internet microcelebrity is such that just being an hour behind the times would cut the people of Florida off from "the narrative". They would have to send meme-gatherers into the rest of the United States in order to bring back fresh live memes. I live in the UK, which means that I'm fourteen hours behind "the narrative". My experience of Reddit and so forth is that everything happened fourteen hours ago, while I was asleep, and by the time I catch up the drama is over.

I'm thinking of that woman who was on a flight to South Africa. She tweeted something tasteless before she got on the plane - "I'm not worried about catching AIDS because I'm white" or something like that - and while she was on the plane a twitter storm erupted, and she was sacked (she worked in PR), and she only learned about it when she touched down because back in 2011 or whenever there was no internet on planes. That little drama played itself out over the course of just a few hours. Imagine a future in which being just one hour behind the times was enough to cut yourself adrift from modern society, if that isn't already the case. That's why I read Ilxor every day, so that I don't lose touch. Once you let go of the rope the current takes you and you're lost.

Wow