Never got the “lost hour of sleep” thing. Clocks change overnight between a Saturday and a Sunday. Sunday is not a day on which I get up on any sort of set schedule. So I sleep the usual time and wake up when I wake up, and what I wind up losing is an hour of my day that I’d otherwise have had. Which is also annoying.
Anyway, the whole thing is rubbish, but it seems to be in no rush to go away.
The more I think ot it, it’s a Goldilocks thing.
If you’re too far north, it makes little difference.
If you’re too far south, it makes little difference.
If you’re in the Goldilocks zone it’s wonderful.
If you want to keep Daylight Saving time year round, it just means that you’ve chosen the wrong time to start and end your day. I understand why it would in practice be helpful (because people have certain expectations for the hours stores are open and schools start and whatever), but it’s not a good solution. If you do that, in a few years schools will start an hour later (so it’s not too dark in the morning), and then businesses will start to do so, and pretty soon you’ll have people agitating for double daylight saving time so they can get an extra hour of sunlight in the evening during the summer.
If you’d like the extra hour of daylight year round, the correct response is to get into work sooner and start the school day earlier, not monkey with the clocks.
I’m not a fan. On The Weather Channel the other day they had someone on who was trying to convince viewers that “the time change is good!” I remain unconvinced. At the very least I’d change it back to where we wouldn’t enter DST until late April at the earliest.
DST is a huge pain in my ass.
The device I support has a realtime clock in it, and there are some systems in the field that have code that was written before congress changed the DST change dates. I always get a lot of calls each time DST starts and ends.
Arghh…
Bite. Ick.
You’re agreeing with this early morning person that gets up at the ass crack of dawn.
Still want my daylight at the end of the day so I can do something with it. Some twilight in the morning before work is worthless. What am I gonna do? Change my oil? Clean the gutters?
I was sooo flipping done with my shift by 5 am this morning, I was damn glad to see the day crew roll in an hour early.
Oh yeah, I like DST the way it is.
My plan is to implement spring-back fall-back. Hell, we could do it once a month every month! Set the clock back an hour on the first Sunday of every month at 3:00AM. This plan makes EXACTLY as much sense as the insanity of the current clock re-arrangement stupidity we agree to suffer with needlessly today.
But, my plan comes with some extras! Since were going to be moving the clock back 12 hours every year bi-annually we’ll have actually skipped over a whole day. To make up for this every two years we’ll add an extra December 25th! Brilliant!
I call this new plan Christmas-Extralight Day’savins’ Time.
Vote for me and I’ll make it so. Don’t vote for Shagnasty. I heard he kicks puppies.
I prefer to adapt to the time change with the same quiet dignity as displayed by Abed in the TV show Community.
DST doesn’t bother me in the least as I live in China. The issue here is the silliness of having just one time zone for a country this big.
No DST here. We are on WAT ( West Africa Time ) which is UTC+01. Currently it is 1315H.
That makes sense. I’m in the Goldilocks Zone myself - even at the very beginning and end of DST, there’s plenty of sunlight by 7 AM, and that extra hour means that you can stay at the beach until as late as 8 in the evening. I love DST.
I’m a newcomer to DST having spent most of my life in NW Indiana where it didn’t use to apply. From what I hear, they’ve jumped on the bandwagon now, but back in the day it made me feel rather superior not to have to fiddle about with bed time changes and clock resetting and all that nonsense.
I do remember it caused a kerfluffle at work every six months. In NW Indiana where my employer was located, the time didn’t change. But we had employees from just north of the border in Michigan and just west of the border in Illinois, so we had to deal with time zone differences on top of DST changes. Administering the attendance program for the first week of the time change was always a nightmare.
My personal opinion? Keep it DST all year long. I love the long evenings with extra daylight.
My work day that I have chosen is 7am -3:30. I usually arrive at 6:30. I already adjust my schedule. Can’t really push those times any further. My Wife left home at 3:15am yesterday to do a little work before going skiing. Yep, I guess we are kinda weirdos.
I understand that we are all different. And our jobs, where we live and home life makes a big difference too. Big thing if you have kids I suppose.
For myself, daylight in the morning is really no help. Can’t do anything with it. And I’m a morning person. I struggle to sleep past 6am on the weekends. If it’s getting light out, well, I’m way behind.
I think we really should talk about something we can all agree on. Chili, beans, or no beans. 
True. But in addition:
Your experience of seasonal sunrise/sunset times depends hugely on where East / West you live in your time zone. For any given North/South, the folks at the West edge of the time zone have more early working before sunrise, and more post-work light for fun. Whereas the folks at the East edge have more early sun and more darkness driving home.
Add to that the fact the Eastern time zone is much wider than it ought to be in both directions and we get the current silliness where *within a single time zone *some folks would legitimately be better off on non-DST year round while others would be better off using DST year round.
What those folks really need, *pace *Shagnasty, is to be in the next time zone over. What they do now is like a deranged Canute: they’ve chosen to sync their clocks to NYC when NYC isn’t, despite it’s protestations to the contrary, the sole arbiter of what’s Good and Important.
Yeah, this. DST is a pain, it increases traffic accidents and deaths (according to studies I’ve heard of), it does not save energy (according to one analysis I heard of), and it means there are little pockets of timekeeping devices an hour out of whack hiding goddam everyplace.
Why monkey with the clocks? Change the start times of things if you want, but don’t monkey with the clocks!
I think it is kind of annoying. At least one good thing about it is that it is darker in my room now.
I guess people who go to church suffer. But they like suffering.
I get extra sleep myself. My dog wakes up with the sun, and she’s been waking at 6:15, half an hour before I have to. Now I can sleep until the alarm goes off, and she’s still asleep.
And I get to drive home in the daylight also.
Talk about your First World problems!