I think we should stop moving the damn clocks one way or another, and make 7-3 the new 9-5. More people would get daylight after work that way.
My stupid dog, who seems to rise with the sun, was getting up earlier and earlier. This is the first morning in weeks I could sleep until the alarm went off, so hurray for DST.
It is good to drive home in the daylight again. And forget about the schoolkids - no parents seem to let their precious little snowflakes walk anymore, so it doesn’t matter.
As for not having sunset changes - I used to live a few degrees from the equator, where the sun set right at 6 pm every night. The bad news is that there was no twilight. My brother threw a football to me in the daylight and it was dark by the time I caught it.
That’s a mighty strange football.
One spring, I received a trouble ticket - a mission critical job hadn’t run on Sunday. The answer, of course, was that it was scheduled to run at 2:30 am, and there wasn’t a 2:30 am that day. There were similar issues in the fall, where jobs scheduled for 1:30 am would run twice.
Note that I wasn’t in charge of scheduling - I’d learned to never schedule once a day jobs between 1-3 am.
I actually don’t give a shit about whether it’s light in the morning or the evening. It’s just all the fucking about with clocks twice a year, and the attendant disaster and inconvenience that inevitably ensue.
Night didn’t just fall there, it went in at 10 g acceleration.
Fuck people that are too stupid / lazy to deal with changing clocks twice a year. It’s not rocket science.
I want my late summer evenings of daylight after work, you’ll pry that out of my cold dead hands thanks very much.
The funny thing is, the only clock I have to change is my watch. All the other clocks I use - on my phone, on my computers, on my converter boxes - seem to do just fine on their own. And frankly, my watch is largely decorative.
I like it, but the change is such a jolt. Nowadays I just move my clock ten minutes each month.
I wouldn’t mind daylight savings time if it was shorter. It doesn’t use any less energy if you have to turn the light on to see when you wake up, and I hate getting up before sunrise. Make it such that the sun rises no later than 6:00 at the middle part of the country (where I happen to live :)) Say May1 to October 1.
Or as he is more commonly known, the late Tom Tildrum.
I don’t know. It’s not like it makes the day any longer, as if you can make a rope longer by cutting off one end and tying it on the other. My dad was a farmer and he hated it because it meant that the parts store (we had a pos Case combine) would close an hour earlier than usual according to solar time, the only clock farmers care about.
Keep it at DST FOR GOOD! What is the matter with people?
Let’s all have a great fucking day by waking up in the dark and going home in the dark for 5 months a year. OOOOH, BOY! Sounds like a fucking gulag.
That’s if you have normal hours for work. And if you work at night, even better! You’ve got more day to start with.
I vote we tidally lock the earth with the sun, and let the people who like daylight live on one side, and the vampires live on the other. Me, I’m going to live in a rotating house on the terminator…hmm, that’s a lot of work, moving and then building a rotating house. Scratch this idea.
Let’s say you have a rope, and it’s 16 units long. You hold the rope at an arbitrary point and realize you want to have more rope on one side, let’s call that the “evening” side, what’s a person to do? I can’t make more rope, it’s a conundrum. Wait, I can move my hand a little bit, and by magic, more rope appears on the side I give a crap about. Sure, there’s less rope on the other side, but who gives a shit about having a 4:30am sunrise anyway?
With the advent of the light-activated switch, in combination with modern day business hours being much more expanded than 100 years ago, there’s not much to gain from changing things either way, other than that some people just prefer it one way or the other.
Personally, I just appreciate that the daylight hours change at all. When I lived by the equator, the lack of change was a little unnerving, after a while.
All Daylight Saving Time does is make everyone get up an hour earlier which you were already free to do. It’s silly.
Some of us are not free to work from 7:00 - 3:00.
Some of us don’t want our kids going to school in the pitch blackness of night.
Some of us like to spend time outside in the evening during the summer with daylight.
It’s magnificent.
ETA: I have a feeling the closer one lives to the equator, the less important the merits of daylight saving time become.
We are not free to change our work or school hours depending on the time of sunrise.
You can still get an hour earlier and go for a walk or whatever without forcing everyone to adopt to your schedule, which is what this is really all about.