ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

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?

yeah with kids it's tough but after a few years, i learned to put 'em to bed later in the fall, and it def. helps. i'm pretty militant about my own sleeping--make sure I get 7 hours a night--and i went to bed an hour later for almost two weeks and had no ill effects Sunday morning, and have slept like a baby the last two days.

Wait does gyac mean that complaining is uniquely American or that time changing is uniquely American?

I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_time_in_Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country

It's gotten better now that my kids are older, but with young kids you are definitely not getting an extra hour of sleep. It just becomes this extra thing you need to consider in bedtime/early morning routines for a couple of weeks.

xxp

xp I obviously mean the complaining, idk how you could understand it the other way. Honestly it’s a total crank opinion here

I'm in the UK and hear people complain about it all the time - the suddenly dark evenings, the weird jetlag, the fuckery it plays with kids' body clocks.

Maybe it’s a thing if you’ve got kids, but I have never thought about it more than twice a year. I associate it with Peter Hitchens types.

Never heard of any complaints in the UK until literally Peter Hitchens would whine about it on twitter.

we briefly complain about it as a shared misery at work and among friends

maybe everyone's just always miserable elsewhere idk

Just really not that big of a deal

we should at least get cupcakes on daylight saving day

I will say that when I was in my teens/20s the fall time change was fun because it would generally fall on the weekend of my birthday (this was back when the time change was in October) and bars would stay open an hour more (because the time change was at 2am and closing time for bars here is 3am) which was fun at an age when I would regularly be out until closing time.

the extra hour of bar time was a tradition for sure

Here's my pettiest complaint: When the time change occurred in mid-October, my region of the country fell back from seeing the sun rise at 7:15 to 6:15. Now, a few weeks later, it goes from 7:30 to 6:30.

I get up around seven, leave the house at eight, all year 'round. That 15-minute difference is the difference between waking up in October to twilight or complete darkness. The difference between being able to flip the visor down as I get on the freeway to being completely blinded by a giant ball of hydrogen in my face.

I mean, I guess I could move to Nashville, but who has the time?

sorry if this is a dumb question but what’s the time change that occurred in mid-October?

Until 2006: DST from the first Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October

In the U.S.

Which is slightly confusing since other DST countries still observe the pre-2006 time changes.

Right now, there's a 15-hour difference between the Central Time Zone in the U.S. and Australia's Eastern Time Zone.

In the summer, it's a 17-hour difference because the U.S. jumps forward and Australia falls away.

But for a few weeks in March and a about a week or so in October... well, I don't know what the damn time difference is anywhere.

then there is this sort of joy

80 eastern Indiana counties are officially in the Eastern Time Zone
12 western Indiana counties are officially in the Central Time Zone

so regardless of dst they are always confused

At least they all jump and fall at the same time now.

Part of Florida is in Eastern time, part of Florida is in Central, part of Florida is in 1861

all of florida seems to be in the ocean lately