Fuck Daylight Savings

[Acsenray]

@standingwave

You can still get an hour earlier and go for a walk or whatever

There is no “whatever” about it. An isolated pre-work or school hour is infinitely less useful than an hour added to all the other free hours.

without forcing everyone to adopt to your schedule, which is what this is really all about.

Well, we’re not forcing everyone. It seems to me that it’s only a minority of people who dislike it. And I’m fine with that.

[Chopper9760]

I’m driving to work in the dark no matter what. DST means I get more daylight when I get home, I love it.

I hate it that we switch back in October, then I get to drive to and from work in the pitch black and I start to feel like a mole.

[Chopper9760]

What’s with the whining about getting up an hour earlier? Seriously, it’s one hour on one day of the entire year.

You get to sleep in on the other time change day, doesn’t that make up for it?

[DianaG]

Also, it’s a Sunday. That’s on purpose, you know. A very significant portion of the population doesn’t work on Sunday, and as such can sleep as long as they want.

[perfectparanoia]

@coremelt

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.

I don’t care about the physical action of changing the clock. I care about the very apparent effect it has on people. Seriously, the people at work who aren’t morning people are fucking zombies this week. Unfortunately, those morning types only make up about 25% of us.

It is similar even when we GAIN an hour in the fall.

[Lord_Feldon]

@standingwave

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.

So people who want DST should get up an hour early, but the people who don’t like it can’t get up an hour later during DST? (Or, if they want to bitch and moan like they do twice every year, they could even call it keeping the same schedule while everyone else changes theirs.)

[standingwave]

@Acsenray

Well, we’re not forcing everyone. It seems to me that it’s only a minority of people who dislike it. And I’m fine with that.

When you change the clock you are forcing everyone to adopt to your clock schedule. And I’m not convinced that even the majority cares for it anymore.

[enipla]

@even_sven

DST is awesome, and people who say differently make me white hot with rage.

Yep. Couldn’t care less if it’s light in the morning. I’m at work. It’s nice to have a little light when I get home to walk the dogs and such.

[Acsenray]

@standingwave

When you change the clock you are forcing everyone to adopt to your clock schedule.

No I’m not forcing everyone. I’m just forcing some of you who are unwilling, and, as I said, I’m fine with that. Someone has got to be forced in this scenario, whether we do the time change or not.

And I’m not convinced that even the majority cares for it anymore.

I suspect that’s just confirmation bias.

[enipla]

@Lord_Feldon

So people who want DST should get up an hour early, but the people who don’t like it can’t get up an hour later during DST? (Or, if they want to bitch and moan like they do twice every year, they could even call it keeping the same schedule while everyone else changes theirs.)

I already get up at 5am. Get to work by 6:30. Still want DST year round.

[saje]

It’s one hour’s difference. I think people talk themselves into being paralyzed by it. Or use it as an excuse to slack off for a few days.

[pulykamell]

@saje

It’s one hour’s difference. I think people talk themselves into being paralyzed by it. Or use it as an excuse to slack off for a few days.

I know. Seriously. I mean, how long does it take someone to get used to an hour’s time change? The jet lag rule of thumb is one day per hour time zone change, and I find that quite conservative. I mean, it’s Thursday and some people are described as being zombies because of a measly hour time change? I understand some people have more delicate sleep patterns, but when three-quarters of an office is described as such after the shift to DST, I can’t help but be a little dubious.

[saje]

Do these people never get absorbed in a book or a movie and go to bed later than usual? Or stay out to dinner/partying later than planned? Does that screw up their entire week too?

[Cat_Whisperer]

@perfectparanoia

I don’t care about the physical action of changing the clock. I care about the very apparent effect it has on people. Seriously, the people at work who aren’t morning people are fucking zombies this week. Unfortunately, those morning types only make up about 25% of us.

It is similar even when we GAIN an hour in the fall.

@saje

It’s one hour’s difference. I think people talk themselves into being paralyzed by it. Or use it as an excuse to slack off for a few days.

Messing with the clocks messes with our circadian rhythms - from this site:

Clock shifts disrupt sleep and reduce its efficiency.[15] Effects on seasonal adaptation of the circadian rhythm can be severe and last for weeks.

I think this happens with either shift, spring or fall. Your body likes habits and resists change.

[Chopper9760]

@saje

Do these people never get absorbed in a book or a movie and go to bed later than usual? Or stay out to dinner/partying later than planned? Does that screw up their entire week too?

No shit, my “going to bed” window stretches from 9pm to “Oh Jesus Christ, why did I stay up until 2:30am when I have to be to work by 6am!?”

Holy shitsnacks, drink some extra coffee on the one fucking day per year this happens and you’ll be okay, really.

[digs]

@Chopper9760

No shit, my “going to bed” window stretches from 9pm to “Oh Jesus Christ, why did I stay up until 2:30am when I have to be to work by 6am!?”

Holy shitsnacks, drink some extra coffee on the one fucking day per year this happens and you’ll be okay, really.

Yeah, when you see me posting at 2 am* on a work day, feel free to tell me to knock it off. … *Central (NON-DST) Time

And it’s always the Pit that keeps me up:
Okay, I’m off to bed … whoa, who posted to what thread? This I gotta see * [click] * oh, there’s a link * [click] * and that link has a link * [click] * and meanwhile, back in that other thread * [click] * …

[saoirse]

@Buck_Godot

Make it such that the sun rises no later than 6:00 .

And by eight the morning frog must disappear

[Anne_Neville]

@Chopper9760

Holy shitsnacks, drink some extra coffee on the one fucking day per year this happens and you’ll be okay, really.

Does coffee go with shitsnacks? I’d eat shitsnacks now, if it meant I could get some coffee. Damn limits on caffeine consumption during pregnancy…

[Michael63129]

@standingwave

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.

I know at least one person (on another forum) who actually believed that DST increased the length of the day(light), and was also the reason why it got hotter in the summer. Not kidding.

Anyway, I don’t have a problem with adjusting to DST, but it doesn’t make much sense to continue it; noon is supposed to be around, well, noon, not an hour after, same for midnight.

PS: Change the clocks well before going to bed, so you go at the “same time” as usual. Or even a day or two early (the change is always on a weekend).

[Ludovic]

@friedo

It is stupid.

I will not fuck this daylight savings: it is stupid.