Please stop changing time. STAHP. It takes serious effort for me to remain on a decent sleep schedule and everytime we switch it just fucks my shit up for a week or more. I hate it so much
I hear you. Even with “fall back”, I will go to sleep at the new time, but will wake up an hour before my alarm, effectively loosing an hour of sleep every night. I’m a mess after a week until my body adjusts again.
Stupid fucking fall back to standard time.
But if we stayed in daylight saving time, in January the sun wouldn’t rise until like 9 am in some places.
Maybe if we just stayed in standard time all year round, the shortening days wouldn’t be so jarring to people because it would happen gradually instead of having a sudden fall back of an hour in autumn.
Or we stay in daylight saving time all year round and just accept the dark mornings.
Or the people who really don’t like shorter days in winter can just move to the equator.
I would way rather have a late sunrise than an early sunset. It’s not even close.
Exactly, I do stuff after work. In the morning I just go to an office that has electric lighting.
Of course there are jobs that don’t take place in an office, but having worked one of those, in my case we already just worked daylight hours, not a 9-5.
Let’s do none of this and make everyone miserable!
In lots of places, that would mean that sunlight would be exclusive to oligarchs. The rest of us would almost never get home from work in time. I get that CEOs want early light and early darkness: we usually accept overtime when there’s no hope of catching any sunlight, unlike late light and late dark where they have to put overtime on days with bad weather.
Stay in DST please.
The US House has passed a resolution to make DST permanent, so the folks who want permanent DST in the US might get their wish. But, I’m telling you, people are going to complain when their kids are having to walk to school in the pitch dark in the middle of winter.
Around here, kids go to school in the dark in the winter regardless if it is DST or ST.
They could follow the recommendations of the pediatrician’s group (I forgot the name) and start school at a reasonable hour so that growing kids can get enough sleep.
Yeah I have clear memories of driving to school in the dark because of the asinine concept that is zero period
EDIT: I just learned California recently passed a law preventing high schools from starting before 8:30am to combat teen sleep deprivation. Good for them
My province switched to permanent DST this year, so we’re experiencing it for the first time and it’s… not that bad 🤷
I’m in Vancouver where it’s already cloudy, and some kids were already heading to school an hour early for various extracurriculars
IMO if kids going to school in the dark is really a problem, then it should be fixed by adjusting when school starts and ends rather than changing the clock for every single person. I like having more sunlight in the afternoon when I can make use of it, compared to in the morning when it’s used up by transit / getting ready for work and school.
However I wouldn’t mind it too much if we had switched to permanent standard time either. I’m just glad that we don’t have to change anymore.
To hell with the kids, I want to live too.
Why can’t you live on permanent standard time?
Because it’s dark when I go to work, and dark when I leave work.
Then pick up an earlier shift, or move to Ecuador. Why do the rest of us have to adjust our clocks to accommodate you?
Its nice to have sun light at the end of a slave wage shift. Schools and most jobs could start later. Most studies show humans do better when there is sunlight, because its what we had for millions of years to guide us.
Schools and most jobs could start later.
Well if we’re willing to change school and work schedules, why not have the slave wage shift start even earlier so that there’s even more sunlight hours during your free time? If you started your shift at midnight, you’d be coming home right about the time the sun’s coming up. Seriously. If the goal is to have as much of the winter sunlight hours line up with people’s after work time, that’d be about the best way to do it.
Day and night don’t follow our clocks. The sun shines when the sun shines, days get shorter in the winter the further you are from the equator and we just have to live and work around that.
They’re not going to pass it by January when the new Congress starts.
I want summer time the whole year. Summer time is warmer.
Agreed! I got up this morning at 6:30 and had already wasted some daylight, and then it was night before 5!
But just wait, in a couple weeks you can go to work AND come home, in the dark.
Move closer to the equator, quit fucking with my clocks.
Same when going on vacation to a place around the equator. I live in Europe so peak summer the sun doesn’t set until eleven. Then when you travel to the tropics. Sunsets “Damn it’s already that late, i haven’t had dinner yet” looks at watch “WTF it’s still six o’clock”
I’ve had it in reverse while visiting Germany.
Same. This messed with my head so much the first time it happened.
Those long summer evenings though…👌
NW Florida here, latest sunset is 7:55PM. Today it’s at 4:58PM. :( Living in Chicago I saw sunsets around 8:30 in the summer.
Western Australia got rid of daylight savings years ago and it’s literally gone unnoticed. Only reason I remember it’s a thing is the memes, or if I have to do something involving eastern states and they’re either 2 or 3 hours again depending on time of year.
Oh yes and add to that a fucked sleep pattern for at least a week.
I really hope this nonsense ends some day. I don’t even care if it’s summer or wintertime just stop switching.
The night time is the right time
Around the equator, there’s no daylight saving time. It’s also dark every day year round at 6 pm. The only way to prevent early darkness is to go live in the Southern Hemisphere for winter.
Idk, i think 12h of daylight every day would be nice…we hit something like 7h of daylight where I live during winter. And we don’t even have snow or anything to make it nice, we just have a gray wet depressing mess of winters.
Yeah. Imagin go to work at the sunrise and go home when the sun is already set. Yuppy!!!
It’s weird being in the southern hemisphere. We just recently changed to summer time.
Better than it being daylight at fucking 8pm
