lol mookie
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 March 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
We have a new AZ employee, and they don't adhere to Daylight Savings there - except, she tells us, on the Navajo Nation where they do adopt it, since their land covers multiple states and they all want to be on the same clock
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 March 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
you guys know about India Standard Time, right? there are several areas of the world that do much wilder shenanigans with time zones than DST
― mh, Saturday, 11 March 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Gz0SBwR.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 11 March 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
when will the madness end? hopefully in my lifetime, wish there was a grave I could piss on
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1210212060/daylight-saving-time-states-2023
fuck off, Marc Rubio. Permanent Standard or GTFO
anyone defending DST will immediately be FPd, just be honest and admit that you don't care about the increased death rate
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:26 (seven months ago) link
admit that you don't care about the increased death rate
iirc, the increased death rate mainly applies during the week or two immediately following the change of clock time and the consequent disruption in sleep habits. which implies that the solution is choosing a permanent clock setting, which could be either STD or DST, as long as you stick with it. My own preference would be shifting the window of daylight forward through the entire year, iow permanent DST. So-called 'morning people' would probably disagree. If you think that's worth an FP, go ahead.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:40 (seven months ago) link
Not arguing anything just have to say it's never bothered me and I didn't realise it had serious ill-effects. I weirdly think I kind of like it because it feels like a signifier of fall and spring at times when I welcome them? I mean I'd be fine if it stopped but it hasn't ever bothered me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:45 (seven months ago) link
When will it endHow did we get here What wrong turn did we makeIs there any fixing thisWith all my heart I wish there were a way we could turn back the clock
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:47 (seven months ago) link
ENBB otm.
I like being able to see when I walk in the morning.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:55 (seven months ago) link
giant bat fucker (gyac)Posted: 10 March 2023 at 17:21:47I know this doesn’t matter to most of you who think this is a serious issue but evenings being lighter for longer is actually extremely good if you’re female - or indeed just someone who doesn’t like going out by themselves in the dark or can’t exercise till they finish work or w/e - and like going out and about by yourself and don’t have to worry about getting home earlier. It might have positive effects on anxiety, who can say?
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:57 (seven months ago) link
And when the opposite is true, you’re not getting up and going to work in the dark. Crying about this is a crank opinion.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:58 (seven months ago) link
I had never even considered that but it's a good point. I'm sure there is a ton of people who that really impacts. Weirdly I don't love long days - it throws me off so much. I don't like it being dark at 4 (or 3:30 here) but the sun going down around 6 is my sweet spot.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 3 November 2023 20:33 (seven months ago) link
Crying about this is a crank opinion.
New board masthead.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 3 November 2023 20:34 (seven months ago) link
99% of my life i am struggling to make myself go to bed at a reasonable hour, and by extension, get up on time
i am very annoyed that i am currently in one of the 1% phases where i pass out super early and wake up inexplicably long before my alarm, right as we enter the "free hour of sleep" weekend
― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Friday, 3 November 2023 20:39 (seven months ago) link
For me this signals the end of the “sit outside at the bar after 5” period and sends me inside
― calstars, Friday, 3 November 2023 21:23 (seven months ago) link
I don't care about the increased death rate. I want to get off work in the winter and still have an hour or so of sunlight left. DGAF about summer because I'll be inside 24/7 regardless. Bring on DST 365!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 3 November 2023 21:34 (seven months ago) link
honestly I didn’t expect to open the thread and get hit with “DST body count” but let sleeve cook
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 4 November 2023 15:06 (seven months ago) link
ahhh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 November 2023 06:01 (seven months ago) link
Good morning!
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 November 2023 10:37 (seven months ago) link
Running a marathon this morning. I did not hate the extra hour of sleep.
― tobo73, Sunday, 5 November 2023 11:22 (seven months ago) link
Gonna be a long ass Sunday for sure
― calstars, Sunday, 5 November 2023 12:31 (seven months ago) link
for some reason I didn’t put two and two together with the thread being bumped and was irritated when I woke up early this morning. But it turns out I did not technically wake up earlycats still refuse to acknowledge clocks, afaict
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:12 (seven months ago) link
Is anyone reporting on what this year’s death toll was?
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:15 (seven months ago) link
Living in the US now while still administrating a business in the UK, which put its own clocks back last week (?), and now I don't know what is what or where I am, possibly due to having to wake up at 4am every day for the past 6 months.
Back to bed I think.
― like being cornered by a drunk gareth southgate (Matt #2), Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:20 (seven months ago) link
In the UK the clocks went back a week ago FYI.
― Tim, Sunday, 5 November 2023 16:48 (seven months ago) link
(Weirdly I ready your post as "next week" and thought I'd help).
My wife texted me last Monday to say "I had no idea the clocks went back yesterday!" - all her clocks had re-set automatically and she'd just snaffled the extra hour asleep: perfect.
― Tim, Sunday, 5 November 2023 16:51 (seven months ago) link
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 3 November 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Don't you get enough attention at home or something?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 November 2023 17:09 (seven months ago) link
Today has already lasted a year
― calstars, Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:37 (seven months ago) link
Re: deaths.
Almost no one dies during the skipped hour in the spring, though. Statistically, that's the safest hour of the year!
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:39 (seven months ago) link
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:43 (seven months ago) link
That descending riff would have so much more bite on a 6 ITS 434
― calstars, Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:34 (seven months ago) link
And if I played guitar, I'd be Jimmy PageDaylight savings time makes me rage
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:54 (seven months ago) link
Lol
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:04 (seven months ago) link
5pm and it dark. bad
― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:19 (seven months ago) link
Arizona is ahead of the game here
― octobeard, Monday, 6 November 2023 00:21 (seven months ago) link
― ivy., Sunday, November 5, 2023
the offset is having light in the winter before 7:00 in the morning, which is fine by me
daylight savings in the summer means having more light in the evening with the longer days rather than the morning. I have an east-facing bedroom and don't want to wake up to sunlight at 5 am
the switch between daylight savings and standard time seems completely logical to me
― Dan S, Monday, 6 November 2023 00:35 (seven months ago) link
Arizona doesn't have daylight savings because it is scorching hot there in the summer
― Dan S, Monday, 6 November 2023 00:39 (seven months ago) link
Which I don't get. Sunrise tomorrow will be roughly 7:30, by which point I'll already have been up for an hour; sunset will be roughly 5:30, and I go to sleep between 10:30 and 11. By the time December rolls around I'll be lucky to get eight hours of daylight in a 24-hour span.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 6 November 2023 00:42 (seven months ago) link
With the time change, sunrise tomorrow will come at 6:40 am, at least where I live. I'm a morning person, but I don't want first sunlight to come after 7:30 am or before 5:00 am. The time change corrects for that
― Dan S, Monday, 6 November 2023 01:31 (seven months ago) link
“It gets late so early now”
― calstars, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:48 (seven months ago) link
Calstars Berra
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:59 (seven months ago) link
It's always made me angry, since i was a lil kid, that the priority was for the drudgery of commuting to school or work to be sunlit, at the expense of having a measly hour for recreation afterwards. I still reflexively see it as a form of capitalist oppression even though i know it's a little more complex- that sharply delineated "recreation time" only exists in opposition to time devoted to capitalist production, that one of the arguments being advanced to make DST permanent is that it boosts spending. i mean unless you are one of those freaks who gets up at 6am and goes for a run standard time is awfully dreary.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 6 November 2023 22:31 (seven months ago) link
5pm and it dark. bad― ivy., Sunday, November 5, 2023
It's always made me angry, since i was a lil kid, that the priority was for the drudgery of commuting to school or work to be sunlit, at the expense of having a measly hour for recreation afterwards.― Deflatormouse, Monday, November 6, 2023
these are arguments in favor of permanent daylight savings, not ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!, the subject of this thread, which so many people seem to want to get rid of
I would be happy with permanent daylight savings. I would just have to close my shades against the sun in early morning hours in the summer.
But is the time change that onerous? Your clocks mostly reset themselves, and an hour difference doesn’t seem like that much
― Dan S, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:25 (seven months ago) link
Let’s pick this discussion up in about 4 months
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:26 (seven months ago) link
it's not that big of a deal
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:29 (seven months ago) link
yeah I'm used to it and I guess I like the novelty that comes in the spring
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:35 (seven months ago) link
Right now I feel slightly more energized. But we'll see how long that lasts.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:39 (seven months ago) link
this is the kind of thing i usually just ignore but it's kinda funny in this case
these are arguments in favor of permanent daylight savings, not ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!
i realize that.
...but you are anticipating permanent standard time here, not permanent DST :)
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:42 (seven months ago) link
i mean even on DST it gets light out at 5am here in june, you probably need to close your shades either way?
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:47 (seven months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/permanent-standard-time-body-health-benefits/
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:59 (seven months ago) link