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?
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 11 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2019
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
The sun should never rise before 6am if we can take that time and make it set an hour laterOn the other hand I don't want to have to leave for work in the dark in December.
― Bnad, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
I don't want to have to leave for work in the dark in December.
I'd blame the job, not the solar system.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
I leave for work in the dark every day of my life.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
callooh! callay!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
the last Fall Back in Oregon, we hope
https://katu.com/news/local/region-prepares-to-push-clocks-back-for-possible-final-time
― Book Doula (sleeve), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
Fuck daylight savings.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
heretics!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
its the mooooost wonderful tiiie of the yeeeear
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
time, even
cretins cheering on the exacerbating of my seasonal affective disorder
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
really fucking hate it so much
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
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
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
haven't noticed this thread before
I'm not a morning person, I guess people here are if they hate daylight savings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
xp it's not personal
nevertheless fuck you, darkness rules
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
worst day of the year for window peepers who are also morning people
― cryborg (rip van wanko), Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
extrahourofsleepffs
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
yeah NOW but what about next march
― j., Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
Darkness is stupid, winter is stupid, sleep is stupid.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
otm
― mick signals, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
hard to care about the extra hour of light in the mornings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
would so much rather have it in the evenings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
Ya know, it was getting late sooner anyway.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 November 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
If Peter hitchens is against it then I’m pro changing the clocks every week.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
I am working overnight tonight and have to work an extra hour thanks to this nonsense
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
MOAR SLEEPHAIL DARKNESS
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=_DZsbGA1CcA
― nickn, Sunday, 3 November 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
(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.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 November 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
Can someone explain to my cats that we're falling back this morning?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
Ha, had the exact same problem.
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
Accidentally fell asleep with the lights on and music playing. I fucked it up!!!!
― esempio (crüt), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
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.
― WmC, Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
And yes I get that "dumb Floridian" sometimes feels like a pleonasm
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
"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.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Wow
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
I can't remember the year or the town it happened in, so I know this sounds like an urban legend, but there was a town in Florida during the 70s that suffered a power outage for one hour during the night the state sprang forward from EST to EDT.
Since it was before clocks that could set themselves, most people set their clocks ahead before bed. Then their clocks froze for an hour, allowing standard time to catch back up. When everyone awoke in the morning, there were no flashing 12:00s. Just a bunch of people who still wound up being an hour late for church.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 November 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
...And dinner time is anticipated an hour early by some fraught felines.
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
Baxter just went “fuck everything” and started asking for dinner at 11amAlternatively imagine a film in which Florida is perpetually an hour behind the rest of the United States. I enjoyed the premises that flow from this but I refuse to accept the implication that the other rest of the US sets their clocks back three hours. The sun setting at 5pm is brutal enough, under your system it’d be dark at lunchtime come January.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 4 November 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
― k3vin k., Saturday, November 2, 2019 9:09 PM (yesterday)
that's happened to me too!
― Dan S, Monday, 4 November 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
i wish to report a burglary
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
Sorry could you speak in a higher register
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
I AM HAVING ONE HOUR OF MY LIFE STOLEN FROM ME
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:42 (four years ago) link
late April already? o shit
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:46 (four years ago) link
do you have a record of ownership of this hour for insurance purposes?
― j., Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:48 (four years ago) link