ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

go tell it to the earth's rotational spin

Daylight savings = good not bad because we are currently in that all too brief window when the time difference on both sides of the pond is reduced by 1h.

But it's even more confusing since Southern Hemisphere countries will be falling back ... in a month or so ... so who the fuck knows what time is it right now

Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

I have to assume that was an anti-DST anthem. Good on ya, Chicago.

the people at my company are so dumb that they programmed Puerto Rico as Eastern time in the case management program because they thought that's what they were on. at least it now it won't matter for half a year

That's another thing: Sick of having to call myself Chicago or Houston whenever I set my time zone on something.

lol New York for me.

maybe this year will be the year, here in oregon i think we literally passed a law that says "we'll go dst year-round when california does", get on that shit california

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, March 8, 2020 12:19 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

we laid some of the groundwork in 2018, but who knows when it will actually happen.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Legislative_Power_to_Change_Daylight_Saving_Time_Measure_(2018)

Florida passed a bill like that but it requires US Congress approval

Iiuc a number of states including ca and fl have passed laws that will move them on to year round DST as soon as that gets federal approval. Currently federal law only allows states to be on standard time year round (eg Arizona) or switch at the same time as the nation.

Between the rain and whatnot, this morning is roooooough so far.

Help me, freshly brewed coffee, you are my only hope.

What I (honestly) don’t get is how people who complain actually notice losing that hour. Or gaining an hour in the fall.

Do those people have strict bedtimes and and wake times on the weekends?

For me, I never notice because on any given weekend night I might go to bed any time between 9PM and 2AM. And even during the week my bedtime varies by more than an hour.

Similarly, in the mornings sometimes I get up at 5:30, sometime at 7:45.

I understand that would be difficult if you had kids. But still, it’s only an hour, and I can’t seem to grasp how people sense the difference.

I have kids and this is also the aspect of the complaints that most puzzles me. Like even if I consistently went to bed and got up at the same hours (I don't) there are nights where I can't sleep for hours or sleep restlessly

it's being wrenched awake by an alarm that you know is going off an hour earlier than it should, in order to load sixteen tons and get another day older and deeper in debt.

with kids i find it's the opposite - instead of being rudely awoken at say 6am the clock now says 7am which feels more tolerable!

Similarly, in the mornings sometimes I get up at 5:30, sometime at 7:45.

you sound like a morning person.

Oh god no

Just depends on what I’ve got to do that day

Waking up and it's still pitch black out, no thanks

my body seems to have actually synched to the clock... as of the beginning of last week. I was waking up like clockwork at 7am every day when I was on my mini-vacation

this morning sucked

ugh, I guess this isn't the same everywhere but having to get up while it's still dark is the most depressing shit (and I really don't get up that early for someone who has kids that I have to get to school) and I find that the couple of weeks following the time change to generally be the most difficult of the whole year for me

Move the shit back to April. We'll be in line with the rest of the world's time changes, the mornings won't be as dark, and the afternoon delight crowd will still get their sweet extra hour of golden rays.

Something I never knew until today: under the Wilson government, the UK adhered to GMT+1 from March 1968 to October 1971. In Dec 1970 the Commons voted decisively to end the experiment and we went back to the GMT/BST split the following autumn. During the first two winters, road traffic accidents increased in the mornings, but greatly decreased in the evenings. However, this coincided with stronger drink-driving legislation (and the introduction of the road-side breathalyser), which may have had more of an impact.

Move the shit back to April. We'll be in line with the rest of the world's time changes, the mornings won't be as dark, and the afternoon delight crowd will still get their sweet extra hour of golden rays.

Move the shit back to April. We'll be in line with the rest of the world's time changes, the mornings won't be as dark, and the afternoon delight crowd will still get their sweet extra hour of golden rays.

Absolutely.

The thing I'm proudest of Dubya for doing as president is lengthening the period of time the US is under DST each year.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, March 11, 2017 4:02 PM

It was the worst thing he ever did.

― pplains, Saturday, March 11, 2017 4:11 PM

"Even worse than –"

"YES."

― pplains, Saturday, March 11, 2017 4:12 PM

Holy shit. The Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent.

If this clears the House, no more changing the clocks twice a year. https://t.co/d85L72mzf8

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) March 15, 2022

LFG

That fucking sucks. I can't read when walking in the early morning hours!

Wasn't this attempted once in the '70s? Seems like it could be a be careful what you wish for situation.

I'm sure people were reading and walking before the '70s.

What about the year 70?

xxp Yep, and also during WW2.

would kind of prefer to get rid of daylight savings time and go to year-round standard time. Permanent daylight savings time means it's dark until 8 am in December.

It'd mean I'm always 2 hrs behind my office. Me no likey having to be up that early.

But wait does that mean AZ would move to pacific time zone? We don't want daylight savings time here

"The bill would allow Arizona and Hawaii, which do not observe daylight saving time, to remain on standard time."

I sign off on this 1000%. My internal clock is so finely-tuned that this time changing shit throws me off for weeks/months, often almost until it's time to do it again. I felt like a drugged ape at work yesterday.

I'm pretty sure our cat never adjusts, and asks for his food an hour early for half the year.

mine ask for food an hour early half the year and two hours early the other half

My cat asks for food every hour regardless

I don't have kids and don't start work until 11am most days so this rules. Getting dark at 5:30 sucks.

I'd be fine either way, but seems like sticking with "standard" time should be the default.

hope this happens because BC already has a bill passed to make the change to constant daylight savings but it is dependent on Washington and Oregon doing it first

it being dark before 5pm for over a month always absolutely tanks my mood

for me it's more about the morning. it being dark for an hour+ after you even get to work in the winter will also depressing. I like the switch between standard and daylight savings times

The physical and mental wear and tear of adjusting one's sleeping/eating/working/personal time pattern by a full hour twice every year is a problem that can easily be solved by leaving the clocks alone all year, but the problem of too much darkness in winter cannot be solved, no matter how much we fiddle the clocks.

Well, climate change is whittling away at winter, so there's that problem solved.

imo this is a proxy war between morning people and night people.

Kinda but morning people always win regardless.