Um, you are on DST now. You go back to standard time next week. I don’t, I’m in Arizona and don’t switch.
I look forward to daylight savings time every Spring. I love having daylight at 7:45 in the evening. I’m out in the yard puttering around and loving life.
I dread switching to standard time in Nov. It sucks dealing with darkness and cold weather at 5:15 in the evening.
Most people are trapped at their jobs all day long. Evenings are the only time we can relax and enjoy ourselves. Why ruin it in darkness?
Darkness means depression and loneliness for me.
I hate Standard Time. It gets dark around 4 pm in the Boston area on December 21st and even earlier in Maine.
Massachusetts is very seriously considering moving to Atlantic Time (permanent DST) and I am strongly in favor of it. If that happens, it is likely that the rest of New England will move to Atlantic Time and be done with it.
The winter blues are a serious public health issue.
I’ve suffered from malaise every winter for much of my adult life.
Coming home from work in the dark makes it even worse.
This. However, DST starts too early in the year, and goes too late.
My basic criterion is that it shouldn’t still be more night than day at 7am. If it were up to me, I’d hold off on DST until the last weekend in March, and switch back to standard over the weekend nearest to October 20.
A few years ago, they switched the end of DST from the last weekend of October to the first weekend of November. I guess they must’ve been thinking about making trick-or-treating safer by keeping that extra hour of evening daylight through Halloween.
But at least around here, it doesn’t work. Nobody wants to go trick-or-treating when it’s still light, so the main effect is that trick-or-treating starts later in the evening.
I could go with this change too. Even at a paltry 39° north, it’s light before 5am for a good deal of the summer. Move it to the evening!
Another tweak I’d like: rather than have the change always be Saturday night/Sunday morning, spring forward on a Friday night, and fall back on a Sunday night.
Why: in the fall, I can sleep in on Sunday anyway. Monday morning is when that extra hour of sleep would really be sweet. And in the spring, an extra day to get used to the time change before going back to work would help with the adjustment.
Realistically, I don’t expect many people would support this change. But that’s my ‘if I were king of the world and the rest of you peons had to live with it’ change.
Split the difference. Move the clocks ahead a half hour next spring and keep them there.
Go to work earlier.
A privilege of being farther east in the time zone, I guess. In my area, if they wait until it stops being light, they’ll miss most of it. (In my city, it ended at 7:00, which was pretty much right at dusk.)
Wait, what? Why would ditching daylight saving time mean that you’d get sunrise at 8:50 am in the winter? DST ends before winter, so with or without it, sunrise in the winter happens at the same time.
Whichever it is, but ditch one…
In your city, trick-or-treating ended at 7:00?
What, is there some sort of local ordinance or something?
Everywhere I’ve been, trick-or-treating ended whenever kids ran out of energy or homeowners turned off their porch lights, whichever happened first. The Firebug and I were out there well past 8 pm on 10/31, and we weren’t the last ones.
I confess I don’t get the ‘I don’t care which, but pick one’ sentiment. Is it really that much of a nuisance to change the clocks twice a year?
I hate it. Indiana just started doing it a few years ago, under Gov. Mitch Daniels (jerk). My husband says “There used to be one good thing about living in Indiana…”
No, but more of a nuisance than NOT changing them twice a year for no benefit. Especially for those of us that do a lot of business with places that don’t change them or change them at different times.
OK, to all of those who don’t care if it’s dark out when they go to work, but want as much daylight as possible after they get off, why don’t we change the standard workday from 9 AM-5 PM to 11 PM-7 AM? Then you’d have all the daylight after work. And yet, I doubt this idea will be very popular.
I hated commuting to work in the dark. Give me standard time year round and those of you who want light after work can do what I do and be at work by 6 am.
I’d be pretty happy with this plan, actually. But ideally, I’d wake up at sunrise everyday, be awake throughout the entire daylight period, and sleep when it’s dark. But working while it’s dark would be almost as good. I can put up light blocking drapes in my bedroom and I work in an office. People who work outside probably won’t be as amenable to the idea.
I voted “ditch standard time” but I really want to be like those happy countries that do DST year round, and double DST in the summer.
I’d say get rid of Daylight time, and have it always be Standard. Heck, lots of businesses always say things like “Come see us at 5:00 Pacific Standard Time!” even if it’s during Daylight time, and mean Daylight time, since if it was Standard time it would actually be an hour earlier, but who the heck would refer to a time that’s an hour off of the time everybody else is actually following? So just make it Standard all the time so they won’t annoy me so much.