# I don't like losing that hour's sleep when daylight saving starts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277 "2007-10-27T23:21:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/1 "2007-10-27T23:21:17Z")
I feel grumpy this morning. I got home from last night’s performance at about 11.00pm, put the clocks forward and suddenly it was midnight. And I had to be up at 6.00 this morning. I think a siesta is called for this afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/2 "2007-10-27T23:28:55Z")
Heh. Sorry I can’t sympathize. [Here](http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html) Daylight Savings ends on November 4th and we get to “fall back” so we get our hour back. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/3 "2007-10-27T23:50:09Z")
I get an extra hour tonight! But instead of catching on sleep, I’ve stayed up late posting and listening to music. I bet I’ll still get up an hour early tomorrow too and end up more tired than before! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/4 "2007-10-28T00:08:32Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] And I had to be up at 6.00 this morning. [/QUOTE] On a Sunday!?!? Bugger that for a game of soldiers. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/5 "2007-10-28T00:12:02Z")
I hate the hour forward, but I like the hour back. I have to wait another week for that, though. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/6 "2007-10-28T12:22:23Z")
Solution: Move to Arizona. We don’t observe Daylight time. We’re on Standard 365 days around. No loss of an hour in the spring. Nothing to gain back in the fall. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/7 "2007-10-28T12:33:54Z")
You have my sympathies, **Cunctator**. Our DST began at the beginning of this month. Took most of us around here about a week to get used to it. Quite enjoying the extra light when I’m on the way home now, though. ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/8 "2007-10-28T12:44:14Z")
I’m saving my daylight savings for tomorrow, monday, then I can sleep an hour extra and wriggle my toes. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/9 "2007-10-28T12:51:20Z")
[QUOTE=Kotick] I’m saving my daylight savings for tomorrow, monday, then I can sleep an hour extra and wriggle my toes. [/QUOTE] 😃 Oh, I’ll have to try to remember that for autumn 2008. Nice one! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/10 "2007-10-29T04:09:42Z")
Funny. My calendar says DST ends this weekend (Oct 28). I’m perfectly willing to believe it’s a misprint. It’s a dollar store calendar of famous golf courses. Hey, it’s a calendar. Fortunately I’m in Arizona, so it doesn’t affect me, except to make TV schedules unpredictable. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/11 "2007-10-29T04:43:13Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] Solution: Move to Arizona. We don’t observe Daylight time. We’re on Standard 365 days around. No loss of an hour in the spring. Nothing to gain back in the fall. [/QUOTE] Now that Indiana has moved to the Dark Side[sup]TM[/sup], you stand alone in your fight against Daylight Stupid Time. Lucky Bastard. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/12 "2007-10-29T04:44:06Z")
In MA, for some reason the date has been moved back a week. Everyone is mighty confused. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/13 "2007-10-29T04:56:15Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] In MA, for some reason the date has been moved back a week. Everyone is mighty confused. [/QUOTE] 😕 Now I’m confused. Do you mean that DST is now on Nov 4th this year like the rest of the country? Or is MA out of step with everyone else? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/14 "2007-10-29T05:12:44Z")
Whoa. I got freaked for a minute. Here in the U.S., we’re not changing this weekend, right? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/15 "2007-10-29T05:35:40Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] Whoa. I got freaked for a minute. Here in the U.S., we’re not changing this weekend, right? [/QUOTE] No, next weekend. And we’ll “gain” an hour, so to speak, since we’re setting ours back, not forward like our southern hemisphere friends. (Ya weirdos, with your backwards seasons! Christmas belongs in winter with snow and such, not in summer with…_not_ snow and such.) ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/16 "2007-10-29T05:54:47Z")
[QUOTE=Heffalump and Roo] 😕 Now I’m confused. Do you mean that DST is now on Nov 4th this year like the rest of the country? Or is MA out of step with everyone else? [/QUOTE] MA was out of step? I dont think so, but I wasn’t sure so I went with what I knew. Well, it’s on the 4th regardless. Somebody sent me an article on this whole flippin’ deal, but I lost it. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/17 "2007-10-29T06:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] No, next weekend. And we’ll “gain” an hour, so to speak, since we’re setting ours back, not forward like our southern hemisphere friends. (Ya weirdos, with your backwards seasons! Christmas belongs in winter with snow and such, not in summer with…_not_ snow and such.) [/QUOTE] 😛 I always find [this site on world DST](http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html) very useful. It’s even kept up with the play on changes to NZ and American DST this year. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/18 "2007-10-29T09:04:48Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] I feel grumpy this morning. I got home from last night’s performance at about 11.00pm, put the clocks forward and suddenly it was midnight. And I had to be up at 6.00 this morning. I think a siesta is called for this afternoon. [/QUOTE] Can sympathise! Up (really) 5.30 instead of 6. And how bad are those bloody flies lately? Hopefully they’ll disappear as quickly as the moths did! ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/19 "2007-10-29T09:20:32Z")
I prefer the end of Daylight Savings, as I work graveyards, and get to add an extra hour to my time card. Of course, I LOSE an hour in the spring, but that’s OK. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277/20 "2007-10-29T10:24:14Z")
DST is a pain in the ass. They should stop messing with the clock and leave everything on standard time all year. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-like-losing-that-hours-sleep-when-daylight-saving-starts/424277.md?page=2)