ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

I quite like the early darkness.

The inevitable downside -- and since I really can't stand short days and long winter nights, megaSIGH over it. It's one big reason I'm where I am, honestly.

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

yeah I'm used to it and I guess I like the novelty that comes in the spring

Right now I feel slightly more energized. But we'll see how long that lasts.

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.

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 you are anticipating permanent standard time here, not permanent DST :)

i mean even on DST it gets light out at 5am here in june, you probably need to close your shades either way?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/permanent-standard-time-body-health-benefits/

https://underthesuninserts.com/cdn/shop/products/ChangesinLatitudeChangesinAttitudeSunsetScene.jpg

Your body doesn't know Daylight Time from Standard Time. It just knows when its rhythm has been kicked to the curb. What it likes is the "permanent" part, not which clock setting we go with.

oh my body knows

it knows summer from winter, daytime from night, and has a good glimmer of how long 24 hours is. the rest of it is your brain talking.

The only way to end this is the Solomonic solution: spring 30 minutes ahead and leave it there forever.

We will never reconcile the permanent DST crowd with the permanent ST crowd.

Ditto the clock-change fans and the clock-change haters.

Hence my solution: shift half an hour, and never shift again.

An overlooked factor in all this chatter is that no matter which setting we are using, sunrise and sunset times are nearly an hour different from one side of a time zone to the other just because it takes the sun roughly an hour to traverse a zone.

well then we should make time zones horizontal

sexy

530 still feels like 930 suppp

"The only way to end this is the Solomonic solution: spring 30 minutes ahead and leave it there forever. "

There are those crazy time zones that have the 30 minute difference like in New Delhi.

An overlooked factor in all this chatter is that no matter which setting we are using, sunrise and sunset times are nearly an hour different from one side of a time zone to the other just because it takes the sun roughly an hour to traverse a zone.

It also often takes way more than an hour to drive (or even fly) from one time zone to another. We're being cheated.

And I was just getting up, hit the road before it's light
Trying to catch an hour on the sun

yo fuck this, it's 6:30 not 5:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo

Otoh the clock in my car is telling the correct time again

nice work

no point in changing the clock for just four months

back in my day we had *real* standard time

ha it's true! this is a watered down compromise, nobody is happy

Man, Day Three and I don't know how Mountain Time people get up an hour early like this.

Yeah, I know it's time-trickery but I feel a big relief when Daylight Savings comes around... finishing work and still having some light to go for a walk

Husker Du: "Somewhere in April time they add another Owwerrr!" Did it used to be in April or is that just a songwriting/syllable convenience?

wow you must be young, it was April to October until Bush Jr.

Thanks Dubya.

wow you must be young

thank you *blushes*

I just don't remember it or why they adjusted it

i love the sun

Congress moved the dates when DST started and ended because estimates predicted a net energy savings nationally if the changes were adopted. Dubya's only involvement was signing the bill into law.

when I win the lottery I'll just have two houses in adjacent time zones and move between them accordingly

I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.

xxp Aimless-- I thought it was the centerpiece of his administration's "Energy Conservation Plan"

It could have been touted that way when introduced. It's the sort of thing presidents love to mention in their State of the Union address (speeches which I have mostly ignored since about 1994). I can't recall his ever mentioning an interest in it after that, only the stupid wrangling about how many more schoolkids per annum would be crushed by school busses compared to the status quo.