ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

Yep agree. Honestly it's one of the reasons I moved out of IL. The freezing cold is one thing but lack of sunlight due to early sunset + frequent overcast sky was just too much.

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Commuting during the winter and having early hours, morning feels like the middle of the night when it's pitch black out and you have to wake up and get to work. I'd much rather drive home in the dark after work

hmm yeah, early morning snow not cleared in time resulted in a few school delays recently. could be a bad scene for snowy areas

My night vision seems to be deteriorating, so I'd rather not have to do any driving after dark.

hmm yeah, early morning snow not cleared in time resulted in a few school delays recently. could be a bad scene for snowy areas

Didn't even think of this!

Government offices closed until 10 am? Try 11 am, motherfuckers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVoN7PVXRe4

I'll be able to see my book again!

will be glad when the time changes back again tonight

fascist lie of a proletariat yoke

― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 22:29 (nine years ago)

My bedroom faces east. Daylight savings is good in the summer, but even then the sun comes blinding through my windows and I wake up at 6 AM

In late October with daylight savings I'm not happy to wake up in the dark, so I'm in favor of the switch back to standard time, even though it means it gets dark earlier in afternoon

my blessed hour is almost here

its happening again

*checks bedside clock*
me: mmm, 7:30, plenty of time to walk the dog and make coffee before D:O Radio starts
*gets up, gets dressed, looks at phone*
me: oh no

This is great! Did some light shopping, washed the car, took a nap, looked at the clock and it's only 5:30!

i.e. pitch fucking black?

This is great!... looked at the clock and it's only 5:30!

that's a one-off bonus on the first day or two until you've shifted your waking rhythms to the newer clock time on both ends of the day.

"Even one hour of lost sleep affects many areas of functioning – decreasing motor function, memory and mood. After the spring time change, traffic accidents are more frequent and workplace injuries are more common. In the first few weeks after the “fall back,” suicide rates sharply increase."

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/03/06/daylight-saving-time-at-what-cost/daylight-saving-time-takes-a-toll-on-health

this is a psychotic and murderous custom, god I hope I live long enough to see it consigned to the dustbin of history

Today Mom asked me to get her and dad breakfast at Wendy's after I voted, so I pulled the app up, and I guess the app programming hadn't updated the time for DST, because the lunch menu was displaying an hour early.

I went inside to the kiosks, which were correctly still on breakfast.

I wonder if a lot of frustrated employees were getting lunch orders before lunch began en masse

I don't have strong feelings on DST, I just hope everyone does away with it at the same time, rather than leaving the fun scenarios at work like how tomorrow, all of our San Juan employees shifts now move one hour later for six months because they handle calls for call centers based in Eastern Time, whereas Puerto Rico is on Atlantic time, and does not observe DST. So last week ET and AT were the same, now San Juan is one hour later than ET

Oh the fun when our Ops team forgot this in 2015, didn't adjust the schedules, and sent the entire team home for the day an hour prior to closing

yeah I don't care which one we use, just stop changing FFS

it's the sheer arrogance of thinking we can actually control time that galls me

also the physical awfulness of the actual switching, twice a fucking year, hammering home the pathetic hubris of humans yet again

I like it. Time is arbitrary. The whole world dutifully fiddles with their microwave clocks on the same day (sort of - the UK did ours a week ago)
I don't actually like it that much because I don't like it getting dark so early.

I love it when it gets dark early. I'm more awake at night than during the day! The sun makes me want to nap (by the fishin' hole wearin' a straw hat and chewing on a stalk of some sort of grain).

I hat e the difficulty of trying to change the time on clocks I got from amazon that just have symbols and buttons and you need to find the manual to translate the symbols

Ugh, after nearly a decade of ending my work day at 3pm, I'm now on a 9-5 schedule and (emerges from office into blackness) rediscovering a whole new reason to despise daylight savings.

you can blame standard time for that, not daylight savings. standard time in winter just allows for earlier daylight in the morning

I think adjusting time to maximize the available light makes sense. It's just that there is so much less daylight in the Winter. Winter is what sucks

at my latitude, i think changing times makes sense. i just like to complain about my stolen hour in the spring

also (in the usa) the spring forward is now like six weeks earlier than it used to be. which is just weird

also i'm exhausted by people referencing EST or PST when those are not applicable two-thirds of the year

ditto GMT

"daylight savings" is the practice of this whole scam so OL is not wrong

Negronis for everyone!

it's not all bad

also i'm exhausted by people referencing EST or PST when those are not applicable two-thirds of the year

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

This sign in Indiana is wrong nine months of the year.

Daylight savings all the time, standard time sucks

only if you're not a morning person

it's

"daylight

SAVING"

!!!

I've slept gloriously the last two nights.

As much as I mostly just think we should stick to either standard or daylight savings without going through the time change twice a year, my winters would depress the hell out of me if I had to wake up every morning in the darkness, so my vote is definitely towards standard time year-round.

1. Almost everybody says they hate changing

2. We can't agree which to settle on.

3. At the same time (ahem) I am given to understand that when we DIDN'T change, everybody hated that too..

4. Hence my proposed compromise: half an hour, leave it there forever. "The time" is an arbitrary construct anyway.

My proposed compromise - everyone is blinded

wrapped up like a douche

Campaign shouting like a teenage diplomat #onethread

How about we go to permanent daylight savings time but as a compromise we all start work/school one hour later during the winter.

I’ve literally never known anyone irl complain about this, is this an American thing? It gets darker earlier? Yeah, that’s called the rotation of the earth on its axis.

we're americans we like to complain about dumb shit

also there are likely some people who don't believe you're telling the truth about the earth rotating on its axis

I mean, nobody is saying we should change the axis tilt of the earth, the problem is that we arbitrarily change the time we have to get up in the morning twice per year

And to be perfectly honest, I never complained about this until I had kids

pets hate it too, fwiw

xp one of those times you can sleep longer?