― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
with my youth frittering away in this depressing fashion, i say praise be to them what tamper with time! Without them, I wouldn't have been able to stay up till HALF ELEVEN last night. yeah!
― nickie (nickie), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yah, that's a major improvement. I get really depressed when I wake up and it's still dark outside--I just want to stay in bed and eat cookies all day.
― J (Jay), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 October 2002 14:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― at swim, two boys, Sunday, 27 October 2002 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Sunday, 27 October 2002 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 27 October 2002 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 27 October 2002 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Sunday, 27 October 2002 16:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
(*this may be a slight exaggeration.)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 27 October 2002 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 27 October 2002 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
I quite like the early darkness.
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 27 October 2002 16:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
The inevitable downside -- and since I really can't stand short days and long winter nights, megaSIGH over it. It's one big reason I'm where I am, honestly.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 27 October 2002 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donna (donna), Sunday, 27 October 2002 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rebecca (reb), Sunday, 27 October 2002 19:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 27 October 2002 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Sunday, 27 October 2002 19:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 27 October 2002 23:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jeska, Monday, 28 October 2002 03:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 28 October 2002 03:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 18:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
really confused about what time it is
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The hour goes forward in the autumn and back in the spring - it's easy to remember with the rhyme "Fall Forward, Spring Back".
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
u evil
― StanM, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
fucking DLS means I have to cycle home in the pitch black.
― Jarlrmai, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i know how it works but is it 7:16 or 8:16. my phone + computer seem to have gone forward and ilx went back.
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
no this says it's next week! http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=179
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
ok my phone and computer didn't do anything because it's not daylight savings time yet. ilx did it a week early?
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
We went from BST to GMT last night, here in Britishland.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:25 (fourteen years ago) link
oh. i see what the problem was. my ilx prefs time zone was "Cuba"
― harbl, Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Sunday, 25 October 2009 12:55 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 October 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
DST adds an hour to everyone's halloween partying
― cutty, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
living through another cuba
― velko, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
rip Fidel
― lihaperäpukamat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
oh hello it's time saving time in longdong
― warmsherry, Sunday, 25 October 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP one hour
― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hate it so much
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Balls to this
― First and Last and Safeways (jjjusten), Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
ftge imo
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lol shit THAT'S what just happened to that hour.
Computer clock reset itself.
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link
more like gaylight savings
― itchy rainbolt (clotpoll), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link
there's been a thread on why it's not Daylight SavingS, right?
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 14 March 2010 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link
daylight saving$
― shite new answers (cutty), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
feeling bad for the housekeepers at hotels worldwide who on this morning in addition to their typical turn-down procedures must also manually adjust every single alarm clock
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate this it's like the day is half gone already!!!!!!!!!
― harbl, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
every farmer needs to be punched in the face rite now
― david foster ballaz (m bison), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
While I love the later sunsets and all, waking up this morning at 5:30 for work was a bit of a drag...
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
xp except the ones in arizona and hawaii you mean
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
at least they only have to go one hour forward instead of 11/23
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
it is bullshit
― akm, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
My extreme laziness has finally paid off and not changing any of the clocks in my apt the last time this happened means that I didn't have to do shit this time around.
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, The Wikipedia features so many interesting and potentially untrue facts about this fascist lie of a proletariat yoke
A 2008 study found that although male suicide rates rise in the weeks after the spring transition, the relationship weakened greatly after adjusting for season.[75] A 2008 Swedish study found that heart attacks were significantly more common the first three weekdays after the spring transition, and significantly less common the first weekday after the autumn transition.[76] The government of Kazakhstan cited health complications due to clock shifts as a reason for abolishing DST in 2005.[77]
In the mid-1980s, Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to U.S. DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes;[3] in 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied for the 2007 extension to U.S. DST.[72]
Daylight saving has caused controversy since it began.[1] Winston Churchill argued that it enlarges "the opportunities for the pursuit of health and happiness among the millions of people who live in this country".[86] Robertson Davies, however, detected "the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves",[87] and wags have dubbed it "Daylight Slaving Time".[88]
oh you melodramatic wags
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
The Wag Party
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
It's like the Whig Party but all your political points are in the form of horrible puns.
I told a friend to meet me for brunch today at 11 am, and of course, he calls 45 minutes ago to tell me he didn't reprogram his alarm clock. Ugh.
― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 March 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
arsebiscuits dark mornings again
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
messin' with the clock
― not_goodwin, Monday, 15 March 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Now we all have one more hour in our Daylight Savings Account. Maybe when we die, we'll get to spend them!
― Aimless, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
The one thing I hate.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Arsebiscuits truly are the worst things about daylight savings, can't wait to avoid them when I move to Arizona.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Is that what the have as their license plat motto?
"Live free from Arsebiscuits"
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
dark mornings > > > > dark evenings
― Mr. Que, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
In principle yes, but my first DST morning and the pleasure I derived from it was grounded in the fact that my flight home last night was late, too late for the last bus and the taxi queue was long and cabs few. Ended up with less than five hours sleep last night and the alarm woke me up to dark grey misery.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like a taxi problem, not a DST problem
― Mr. Que, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
More of a pittsburgh problem. In general DST means awake to see the sunrise for the next month or so and my living room has east facing windows which makes me happy.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I took advantage of DST a coupla years ago to sleep in and show up for work an hour late & real faux-apologetic, knowing that my supervisor would be amused at my boneheadedness (and that I'd work late to make up for it)! It worked jsut like I planned, but it's not something I'd dare repeat.
― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i didn't even notice until seeing this thread just now. who cares
― am0n, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://comedians.comedycentral.com/paul-f--tompkins/videos/paul-f--tompkins---daylight-saving-time
― am0n, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
f this
― iatee, Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:48 (thirteen years ago) link
oh is this tonight?
fuck this
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this seems appropriate. also GRRR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
― VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh weird, DST isnt ending here for another month almost.
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Which now i think on it seems odd because I'm sure it *used* to end on the march long weekend - which is today - so I dunno.
― one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I honestly have no idea what people's qualms are about losing one hour of sleep. It's light out later!
― EDB, Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I get up at 6 AM, now my body is going to think I am getting up at 5 AM for about the next week. It was really unpleasant last year, first time I was on this new schedule. Since there is no reason for this time change that I can fathom, I tend to resent it.
Also, it may be light later, but it WAS light on my way to work and now it will be dark for another month.
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
dst is the best tho, id much rather have light in the evening
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
starts too early, too cold
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this does suck
― Nguyễn Phúc Bích (Eisbaer), Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
ONE OR THE OTHER.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that would be fine with me!
― sleeve, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah there should be dst all the time imo, something abt energy usage or kids walking to school in the dark or some shit is why we have the split iirc
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ENBB, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Urgh. I thought I'd split the difference by going to bed half an hour earlier than usual (or half an hour later by summer time), got my 8 hours, don't remember any trouble sleeping... so why do I feel like a zombie with a fuck-off headache today? Would not have booked a driving lesson for 10:30am if I'd remembered at time of booking that clocks would change last night.
(PS I love having nice long, light evenings so summer time is fine by me really but the change is a jolt)
(sorry for stealing a USian daylight savings time thread for my Britisher Summer Time chatter)
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 27 March 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
just another sunday, boring as ever
― Romford Spring (DG), Sunday, 27 March 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
Forgot about this and woke up this morning thinking "it's 9:30" then realising "bugger, it's 10:30". Rest of the day seems to have fallen apart into the standard timewasting YouTube watching and videogames playing.
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Sunday, 27 March 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
SAME TIME ZONE.
http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/3132/screenshot20120310at917.png
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/3132/screenshot20120310at917.png
JUST WHEN I HAD REACHED A POINT ON MY MORNING COMMUTE WHERE THE SUN WASN'T IN MY FACE ANYMORE, SOMEONE HIT THE RESET BUTTON AND I HAVE TO START THE LEVEL ALL OVER AGAIN.
― pplains, Saturday, 10 March 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
(The fact that those two cities are in the same time zone doesn't really have anything to do with DST. BUT FUCK AN EIGHT A.M. SUNRISE!)
― pplains, Saturday, 10 March 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
i swear we've been through (i think) 3 changovers now i and i swear to fucking god it's always been at a time where we've had a couple of weeks that are just going AWESOME in terms of lil' anabelle taking great 2 hour naps and being on this totally set schedule and sleeping great etc etc
then OH HAY LET'S ARBITRARILY MOVE THE CLOCK AROUND 1 HOUR TO FUCK EVERYTHING UP FOR NO REASON
― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 March 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know why the hour change forward fucks me up so much but god, every year it's like I am death on two legs for a week. And I don't even get fucked up by jetlag that much flying between Aus and US, so I don't know why DST is such a thing for me.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
ARGH
oh boy tomorrow I get up at 5 AM body time!
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Monday, 12 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
I tell you all a little secret that I unfortunately learned this year.
Get really sick on Saturday night, run a high fever all day Sunday, be forced to call into work on Monday, and voila DST doldrums are cured.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need more saltines and Sprite.
― pplains, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
that's a high price to pay
...
SOLD
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 March 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
half of our clocks set themselves somehow and the others don't. I looked hard at one clock that was set to 11 am Eastern Time and pretty much passed out again.
― pplains, Monday, 12 March 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
internet link http://time.is/
― caek, Monday, 12 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
It's one hour, stop complaining people! I honestly never heard anyone really bitch about this more than in a passing comment until reading ILX yesterday. I completely fail to see how extra post work daylight doesn't totally negate losing one hour of sleep. It was light until almost seven - so awesome!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
man it was 75 degrees and sunny out when i left work at 6. i ain't hating on that.
the gets dark earlier shit though can still get fucked.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't it great?!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
i almost wept. i wouldnt have been the only person weeping at my bus stop either. butvi wouls have been the only weeping person without a cardboard sign with sharpied bible verses on it.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
because sleep is awesome, that's why
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago) link
New research shows that springing ahead for daylight saving time may do more to our bodies than a triple shot of espresso can fix.
When we set our clocks forward for daylight savings, some researchers say the disruption in circadian rhythms and minor sleep deprivation is enough to trigger some people to have a heart attack.
my sleep schedule is always fucked up anyway, so it doesn't really matter to me. i am v. much against the principle of losing hours of sleep, tho
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
let me have my IA this week, ENBB sleep is my friend, I'm in mourning.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
evahbody just man up
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
nobabytown for me
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
smug east coast liberals tap-dancing upon mookie's grave, good work everyone, you got to wear sunglasses at a bus stop.
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
spare a thought for mookie
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
Guys spring equinox is in 9 friggin' days, you'll get your morning daylight back soon enough. What's important is that a) it's nice enough for me to start biking to work again, in March, in Cleveland; and b) I won't be biking home in pitch darkness.
― the Hilary Clinton of Ghostface Killahs (Phil D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
Colbert suggested last night that it's all a plot by Obama to steal time from him and redistribute it among poor people.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://overcompensating.com/comics/20120312.png
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
did this change last night in the uk? i can't tell if all my devices do it automatically or not.
my heart is warmed by the prospect of longer evenings though.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 March 2012 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
no next weekend
― caek, Sunday, 18 March 2012 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
i.e. last sunday of march
ah right, i thought that but someone tweeted about it which had me wondering.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Sunday, 18 March 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
#unfollow imo
― caek, Sunday, 18 March 2012 09:21 (twelve years ago) link
Just remember: Spring back, fall forward.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 18 March 2012 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
Just remember: Spring up, fall down.
― ledge, Sunday, 18 March 2012 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
Daylight savings really confused the heck out of me this time. I was on a road trip with my family from Texas to LA with stops along the way in Arizona and Las Vegas. We were trying to hit these locations at particular times, but with DST, time zone changes, and the fact that Arizona does not observe DST, we kept getting extremely confused about what time it was at any given point and what time it would be at our destinations. I'm looking forward to staying in one time zone now that I'm on my way home.
― Moodles, Sunday, 18 March 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Just flew back & Europe & I gotta admit it's nice to have one fewer hour to adjust to.
still think switching for dst is dumb though
― Euler, Sunday, 18 March 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago) link
1st half of March seems a bit too early to be starting this thing.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
No kidding.
Just now got it to where we all get up with daylight outside. Won't happen for another month or so after the time change.
Also, this is going just going to put the sun lower in the sky on my commute, meaning I'll more time to be blinded by it as I travel east.
ONE OR THE OTHER, I DON'T CARE. JUST NOT BOTH, AND CERTAINLY NOT NINE MONTHS OF ONE AND THREE MONTHS OF THE OTHER.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
Also, this is going just going to put
I get emotional about this, as you can see.
― pplains, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
fascist lie of a proletariat yoke
― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
xp -- I have noticed you get het up on the subject about twice a year.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just so glad I don't live in Indiana. They're on Daylight with the rest of us now and yet, from what I've read, everything's still fucked up over there.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
you people who would take an hour of sleep over an hour of sun are anathema to me
― a basset hound (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
I was on this train last year of bemoaning daylight savings
but now I'm kinda looking forward to it? I dunno what to say. i guess I'm a traitor
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
circle back to me the day it starts, I may have changed my position having lost an hour of precious sleep
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
When I think about how in July, sunrise starts at 5:30 am which would usually be 4:30 am, I'm willing to sacrifice one day in the spring to get a decent rest for six hours during the summer.
And when I say "sacrifice one day in the spring," I mean one day in late April, not freakin' March.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, it's this weekend?? wtf ugh, it's just finally lightish at 7 am. such bullshit. It's still winter!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlcCN9704Hg
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
I can't wait!!
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
boom
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:01 (eleven years ago) link
wait so it's four now? why am I still up. Ugh.
― go to party leather (ENBB), Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:01 (eleven years ago) link
oh wait no my computer did it automatically, nevermind
― go to party leather (ENBB), Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:02 (eleven years ago) link
ok. now my turtles are confused.
― boy_slayer, Sunday, 10 March 2013 07:31 (eleven years ago) link
Had me going for a moment there. I thought both my phone and my computer would try to update and wasn't sure if they had.Over here it's the last weekend in March , not this weekend.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 10 March 2013 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
I love this day!!! One of my favorites of the year. It should be a holiday.
― Jeff, Sunday, 10 March 2013 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
DST is pretty painless in the hospital
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 March 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
My husband changed some, but not all, of the clocks. When I got up, I changed them too. O_o
― Let's talk more my bunny! (doo dah), Sunday, 10 March 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
I hope yer hospital stay was by appointment and fully expected, morbs.
― Aimless, Sunday, 10 March 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe the nurses were friendlier since their shift last night was an hour less?
― pplains, Sunday, 10 March 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
the missing hour screws up your medication schedule
― Aimless, Sunday, 10 March 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://api.ning.com/files/6V81SuvLHxj3eieqCt2ofDJtqz0WpHY5iKE91lQiw69xyj4B5BNteHk35XAna3-MBvALsGc2gGhVKC8NGtq9XhJJ8DAqt6Hp/DontForgettoMoveYourCocksForwardthisSunday.....jpg?width=399&height=600
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 March 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Erring town
― Aimless, Sunday, 10 March 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
i'm in AZ where there's no DST but work from home for an office that's in Chicago...so now I have to wake up an hour earlier than before every goddamn day.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 10 March 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
this is a good reason to hate civilization
― j., Sunday, 10 March 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
wish it were dark now
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 March 2013 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
nooo
― brownie, Sunday, 10 March 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Woke up at 6:50 this morning and it looked like 4:50 outside. Tomorrow morning is going to suck.
Beeps is already pulling the "I don't take a bath until after sundown" tactic....
― pplains, Sunday, 10 March 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/eliminate-bi-annual-time-change-caused-daylight-savings-time/ShChxpKh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 March 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
what is wrong with you
― tokyo rosemary, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
first one i've signed, take that kony.
― pplains, Monday, 11 March 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
Kids will be impossible to put to bed tonight. The four-year-old is still sleeping right now.
― pplains, Sunday, 9 March 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
But I get SUNSHINE on my after work runs. Sorry about your kids.
― Jeff, Sunday, 9 March 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Ha @ 11 Months Pass... Had I only waited five more hours...
― pplains, Sunday, 9 March 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
farmer's market was a shit show this morning - half the stands were only just setting up, everyone late
couldn't sleep at all
so much bullshit, i dont want extra daytime yet it's only march ffs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Yes!!!! Can't they move it to April or May? Wasn't it in April or May?
― *tera, Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
I think it used to be early April. DST got extended in 2007 so there'd be four extra weeks of it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
>:(
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
I know, right? Also,
Wyoming Senator Michael Enzi and Michigan Representative Fred Upton advocated the extension from October into November especially to allow children to go trick-or-treating in more daylight.[11]
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
DST is an important milestone for us with extreme seasonal depression. It's something to look forward to, it gives us hope.
― Jeff, Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
go back to the yay daylight savings thread, flunkie
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 March 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
sorry bout yr depression tho
sunset at 7pm >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sunset at 6pm
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 9 March 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
oops
fucking insane, but apparently coincides with return of human temperatures to NYC
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 March 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can we make this a holiday yet?
― Jeff, Friday, 6 March 2015 12:05 (nine years ago) link
Fortuna, N.D.:
March 6, 2015Sunrise: 7:29amSunset: 6:45pmDay length: 11h 16m
March 9, 2015Sunrise: 8:22amSunset: 7:49pmDay length: 11h 27m
― pplains, Friday, 6 March 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
June 22, 2015Sunrise: 5:51amSunset: 10:03pmDay length: 16h 11m
^^ This is why I still favor the Electoral College. Give the flyover yards some equal footing while you Mid-Atlantic Northeasterners monkey with everybody's time.
― pplains, Friday, 6 March 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
That's beautiful.
― Jeff, Friday, 6 March 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ckpibNg.jpg
"Fortuna, North Dakota, minutes before its Midnight Fourth of July Extravaganza."
― pplains, Friday, 6 March 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
Hahaha, yesss. YESSSSSS
http://i.imgur.com/UQS0IcK.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
"Welcome to Arkansas, home of Sen. Tom Cotton. Please turn your clock backward."
sun all in my eyes again in the mornings
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
That's where you save the light.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
Since Sunday I've felt a marked change for the better. I had an immediate improvement in my outlook and I've been doing things I want/need to do each evening and day instead of barely hanging on. A lot of important and fun shit has gone undone since December.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:09 (nine years ago) link
I would be all for making DST the year-round standard. Standard time is needlessly difficult, especially for those of us on the very eastern edge of a time zone. Sunset at 4:15 is bad and if it's cloudy, it can get fully dark by 3:30. That's really hard for me.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
Only 7 more days until the sun sets at 7:00 PM.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:42 (nine years ago) link
ugh I hate the waking up difficulty. I was popping out of bed no problem at 6:30, and now it is such a fucking chore even if I give myself until 7:30!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:47 (nine years ago) link
That said, I bought some pansies and today I'm gonna put those bitches in a pot, so gardening season begins today!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
the number of car accidents climbs 17 percent during the first week after the clocks spring forward
DST is killing people!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link
I guess it there still being sunlight when I get home from work is fun, but that's more than offset by the fact that I have to wake up while it's still dark, which is a horrible way to start a day
― silverfish, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
If they waited another month, as they used to do, the dark mornings would be as pronounced.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:36 (nine years ago) link
Wow, I feel all that SAD just evaporating! Thanks, 7-11!
http://i.imgur.com/5SRjvij.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
I love going to work in the dark! So cozy. Wish they'd get rid of DST though. Especially the 2005 extended version. It's like a shitty time remix. I suspect folks in the extreme northern latitudes might hate winter DST hours though?
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
Poor Canada. Were they even consulted on that remix?
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link
Rep. Meeks' proposal up there is a rarity for me as (1.) Something I endorse from a GOP lawmaker, (2.) Something I support even though I know it's a terrible, terrible idea, and (3.) Why in the world would we do such a thing, let's do this, I mean it.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
I love going to work in the dark! So cozy.
Me too and I wish I could feel that way about evening darkness.
DST restores me so getting up in the morning is much easier, even if it's dark. That's not the norm, I know.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
See, I don't mind leaving work in the dark. MY DAY IS DONE.
Going to work in the dark makes me feel like I'm rushing to the airport for an early flight or I'm being forced to go duck hunting again.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
Going to work in the dark is fine with me. I can just sleepwalk through it, it's an extension of my sleeping.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Interesting to see the different takes on this. My wife is in the "I can't get up in the dark" camp (never mind that she's been doing it all winter) and I live for being able to come home from work, sit on my front step and have a beer in the sun.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
She didn't wake up in daylight one day and darkness in the next all winter though. It was gradual, which was easier to get used to.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
And again, wait another goddamm month. I'm glad everyone can sit on their stoops in 45-degree weather and drink a beer, but c'mon.
I'm with Jeff. Easier to get ready for work while pretending you are still asleep if it is still dark outside.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
my mom:
"Politicians are the only people who think that if you cut the bottom off of a blanket and sew it to the top, you get a bigger blanket"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
I live for being able to come home from work, sit on my front step and have a beer in the sun.
otmfm
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
i love the extra daylight in the evening but the converse of that is that shittiness in the fall of having to set the clocks back again, it might be easier just to have it at standard time year-round in terms of handling the transition
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
basically i just wonder sometimes why i live in northern latitudes, if i just moved somewhere sunny and further south i could have a beer in the sun any evening of the year
― marcos, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link
Be an adult and drink a beer on your porch before heading into work.
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
basically i just wonder sometimes why i live in northern latitudes
otmfm back atcha
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
better solution: mandate 30-hour work weeks!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
That's what makes it hard for me - it feels like the day is over and it's time to get back to the nest. I guess it might be easier to handle if the weather didn't feel like it was trying to kill me.
I have a SAD lamp but I don't know that it does much for me.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
got out of work and it was still light and i was sort of in a good mood? maybe it's working
― mookieproof, Thursday, 12 March 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
Every evening this week has been active and felt like blessings. Like a reprieve.
TBPF, DST coincides with the weather going from 0/teens w/ blistering wind to 40s (57° today!!). Decent weather would make me the early dark feel more benign.
I've been waking up (without an alarm) at 6:30 every day this week instead of 7:30-8. I credit the remission of the long winter depression.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Thursday, 12 March 2015 12:22 (nine years ago) link
I support DST. I like both changes. Last night I took a long walk home and got pizza, then opened all of the living room windows and listened to music had a couple of beers and watched the block. When we switch back I'll dig that too. Sleeping in and the darkness of approaching winter.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
ban cars
― chinavision!, Thursday, 12 March 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link
It has rained and rained and rained this week. Haven't seen blue sky since last week. Plus, I was sick.
What I'm saying is, that extra hour of daylight in the evening is going to be like a prison break.
― pplains, Sunday, 13 March 2016 04:47 (eight years ago) link
we don't need extra daylight in hawaii, so my tuesday-morning conference call to seattle's moving from 8 AM to 7 AM ugh
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 13 March 2016 04:55 (eight years ago) link
Aaaargh!!! My favorite event of every year!!!
― Je55e, Sunday, 13 March 2016 04:56 (eight years ago) link
:):):)
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 13 March 2016 06:31 (eight years ago) link
I dislike it, because it is the advent of a punishing six months of summer
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 13 March 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
^^^
also i have to re-do the sun being in my eyes in the morning
― mookieproof, Sunday, 13 March 2016 07:27 (eight years ago) link
Oh it's going to suck. Going to be chasing shit until August and then I'll finally fall into a routine.
― *tera, Sunday, 13 March 2016 07:38 (eight years ago) link
Toddler nightmare
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Sunday, 13 March 2016 07:39 (eight years ago) link
Love you dst
― Jeff, Sunday, 13 March 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
It's not for another two weeks in Europe. So that means the deluge of complaints and queries that accompanies LA getting into the office is just going to hit me at 4pm instead of 5pm.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 13 March 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Springbreak is an hour shorter.
It's extra confusing this year because I'm traveling between Austin, Indianapolis, and Chicago. Keeping track of the various time zones is a nightmare.
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Sunday, 13 March 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwbyCL0VEAEMCyn.jpg
everyone be careful out there
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 November 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
The phones at work have been an hour early all week. We use the cutting edge technology of 2004, apparently.
― pplains, Saturday, 5 November 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
wishing for summer time in the winter sun
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 5 November 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
main dangers of dusk and evenings in nyc are stepping in dog shit
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 November 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.daylightsavingstime.info/ - It's like an IRE thread come to life.
― pplains, Saturday, 5 November 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
at least those of us in the Northeast will be able to see the foot of snow for an extra hour on Tuesday.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 March 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
Who do I talk to about never going back to standard time after the DST change this year?
DST is superior in every way.Standard is dumb and it sucks.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 11 March 2017 13:44 (seven years ago) link
Truer words have never been said.
― Jeff, Saturday, 11 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
also i get to get up in the dark to go to my doctor appointments again
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 March 2017 14:01 (seven years ago) link
I'll say this: With the way this year has already been going, DST likely won't feel so disruptive this time around.
― pplains, Saturday, 11 March 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link
the only thing good about DST is that it prevents the sky getting light at 4am in june
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Who do I talk to about never going back to standard time after the DST change this year? DST is superior in every way.Standard is dumb and it sucks.
OTM
― Je55e, Saturday, 11 March 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
i swear it's like, hella early this year
― j., Saturday, 11 March 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
when i was a kid it was the last sunday in april
so yeah it's hella early now
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 March 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
it's bullshit & i hate it
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 March 2017 21:53 (seven years ago) link
UK clocks dont change til end of the month
― Odysseus, Saturday, 11 March 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
Johnny Fever OTM
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:00 (seven years ago) link
The thing I'm proudest of Dubya for doing as president is lengthening the period of time the US is under DST each year.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
It was the worst thing he ever did.
― pplains, Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
"Even worse than –"
"YES."
― pplains, Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:12 (seven years ago) link
it's gonna snow tomorrow
a week or two ago it was 60
i don't even know when i am now
― j., Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
it's 2017
― mark s, Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link
oh god
― j., Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
Worst weekend of the year
― Moodles, Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
I love it so much.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 11 March 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link
If jobs were 7-3 rather than 9-5, would many care for DST?
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 11 March 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
granted: not many are 9-5 anymore.
― Sanpaku, Saturday, 11 March 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
what i want is darkness savings
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 March 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
mookie otm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:35 (seven years ago) link
all daylight savings means to me is that soon it will never not be 100 degrees for like, 6 months or some shit and i hate it
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:36 (seven years ago) link
i can never understand? which time is "standard" and why
― assawoman bay (harbl), Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:52 (seven years ago) link
i can't figure out which one is normal. all i want to do is sleep all the time so i just treat each transition as i am entering a new period of hell.
― assawoman bay (harbl), Sunday, 12 March 2017 01:54 (seven years ago) link
Standard now somehow exists for less than 50% of the year in most places, so I don't even know what's standard about it anymore.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 March 2017 02:17 (seven years ago) link
time classic
― j., Sunday, 12 March 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
Time zones approximate 15° orange slices of the globe. Under normal, non-DLS time, if you're at 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60° (etc) longitude, at the center of each abstract time zone, the sun is most directly overhead at local noon.
DLS shifts an hour from morning to the evening, and was lobbied for by ice cream vendors and the like who benefited from more hours of post-labor sunlit leisure.
― Sanpaku, Sunday, 12 March 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9ypjlS0.jpg
Beginning tomorrow, this sign in Indiana will be wrong again for the next eight months.
― pplains, Sunday, 12 March 2017 03:32 (seven years ago) link
all i want to do is sleep all the time
ilu
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 March 2017 03:35 (seven years ago) link
harbl mookie and I move to establish the independent nation of Sleepistan where daylight savings is BANNED
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 March 2017 03:44 (seven years ago) link
there has been some talk of colonizing the faroes
the summer light would be okay there
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 March 2017 04:06 (seven years ago) link
the law should be that civil twilight should never start before 5:30 pm (in Chicago at least) and if Trump could make that happen, then he has my vote in 2020
I hate 4:15 sunset (and on full darkness at 3:00 pm on cloudy days)
― Je55e, Sunday, 12 March 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
i've got some uncivil twilight for u
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 March 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
when do you like your daylight?
― Je55e, Sunday, 12 March 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
between 10 and 4 will do, thanks
back in the day i used to play pickup basketball after work, for which daylight is useful, but now let us plunge this planet in eternal darkness imo
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 March 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
I hear you. I've been averse to the concept of craving daylight. I used to think it was a sign of being a simp.
― Je55e, Sunday, 12 March 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
Tempe?
― pplains, Sunday, 12 March 2017 05:06 (seven years ago) link
all daylight savings means to me is that soon it will never not be 100 degrees for like, 6 months or some shit and i hate it― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, March 11, 2017 6:36 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, March 11, 2017 6:36 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm the opposite: the pain of the loss of an hour is offset by the coming of 4 blessed months when it won't be below 0°C in the daytime, for the most part.
― hardcore dilettante, Sunday, 12 March 2017 05:42 (seven years ago) link
Just us normals who refuse to do anything else. (it's in the Bible)
begone, sleepies
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 March 2017 06:36 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4_27obWQAAHaNt?format=jpg&name=large
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 March 2017 06:57 (seven years ago) link
man fuck this daylight savings CRIME
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 12 March 2017 14:25 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17191482_393706237662106_4799152403318643281_n.jpg?oh=0ef1c97460578c6fdde72499f5e2085e&oe=595E3262
― nickn, Sunday, 12 March 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
vegemite
dst is banned in arizona
but...it's arizona...
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Sunday, 12 March 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
What does the resumption of standard time mean to me? The bar opens an hour earlier.
― calstars, Sunday, 12 March 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
hello darkness my old friend
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 November 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
Otm
― Bazooka Jobim (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 November 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
Damn everything. Wake me up in 127 days.
― Jeff, Sunday, 5 November 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
i like getting up in the non-dark
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 November 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
^^^And for us, it used to not be so much of a problem back when we fell back in mid-October. But for the last week, I've been waking up the kids while the streetlights outside are still turned on.
Between that, 80º weather and World Series that don't finish until November, I've been feeling pretty discombobulated already. Lord knows how I'll feel tomorrow.
― pplains, Sunday, 5 November 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
But also keep in mind that tonight will be magical for one reason.
The Central Time Zone will fall back at 2 a.m. In other words, the clock will go from 0159 to 0100.
Since the Mountain Time Zone won't fall back until 2 a.m., it will also be 0100 in those areas. So the contiguous states will really only have three time zones for 59 minutes.
Which also means that the time in portions of Oregon (a state on the West Coast) and portions of Florida (a state on the East Coast) will be the same.
― pplains, Sunday, 5 November 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
Seeing how DST is now seven months of the year, I think it should be called Standard Time. We could rename current Standard Time to something like Darkness Redistribution Time.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 5 November 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
it’s the mooost wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeeeear
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 November 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
Totally selfish, I know, but I don't care what time the sun comes up because I work from home, but I hate it getting pitch black outside at 5pm because that only leaves the weekend for me to do shit in my yard. Fuck s standard time.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 5 November 2017 04:48 (six years ago) link
I appreciate more light in the morning, being an early riser, but then it goes away quickly anyway. Annoying.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 November 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
forgot to set the alarm clock in the bedroom back, now have an unplanned extra hour to kill before we go out & about this morning lol oops
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 November 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
the rudest evening
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
;_;hate u daylight savings
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
1 savings
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 10 March 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
disgusting savages
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 10 March 2018 23:20 (six years ago) link
Twitter was complaining about how this is happening during the SEC Basketball Tournament, and I was all oh you see now why this is happening too early?
― pplains, Saturday, 10 March 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
For the first time in years I don't have to go to work in the morning on the first day of the time change.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 11 March 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
^^^ same
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 March 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
Best day of the year.
― Je55e, Sunday, 11 March 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link
*this* is what you check in for? bleah
― mookieproof, Sunday, 11 March 2018 05:47 (six years ago) link
Just letting you know.
― Je55e, Sunday, 11 March 2018 06:07 (six years ago) link
I stayed up just to celebrate Magically seeing 1:59 turn to 3:00 was kind of amazingLike i felt i was really in the 21st c or on drugs, can’t really tell, but with much subtler side effects that my mind grew paranoid of the longer i dwelled on the fast forwarding of time
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 11 March 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link
If you suffer at all from seasonal affective disorder today is reason to celebrate.
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 11 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
the internet, 11th march, 2018: where british people read american posts about changing the clocks and american people read british posts about mother's day and everyone thinks "oh shit, was that today? i forgot"
(uk clocks change 25th march and mother's day outside the uk & ireland is the 13th may, relax everyone)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 11 March 2018 16:15 (six years ago) link
Yeah, this is the three weeks where we wonder if our family in Australia is either 15 or 17 hours apart... or how about 16?
― pplains, Sunday, 11 March 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
Still dont understand why ppl hate DST. Whats not to love about sunlight til 9pm in summer? Blessed days. I love it.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:21 (six years ago) link
some goth you are
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
yeah it's the shit. even losing an hour this weekend, which I usually dread, was welcome since the 24 straight hours I needed to be at the hospital ended up only being 23. sorry haters d:]
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
just for that i hope you get a 25-hour shift in november
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
it's too bright
― j., Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
Whats not to love about sunlight til 9pm in summer?
It's the best!!!
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
DS is due to end here in a couple weeks and I will be sad, for that is the beginning of shitty, dark, shitful winter grim.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 05:52 (six years ago) link
Here's what I don't like:
• Switching from one to the other.
• Switching in March while it's still winter.
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 14:41 (six years ago) link
seriously having to get up while it's still dark is the most depressing thing and totally ruins my mood for the entire day and an extra hour of light in the evening is not nearly enough to compensate for the torture I have to endure each morning trying to wake up early enough to get my kids ready for school/daycare on time.
I mean, it'll be ok in a month or so but still
― silverfish, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
Yesterday morning I was standing on the platform waiting for my morning train and noticing several unfamiliar faces and thought, these poor bastards forgot to change their clocks. And then I looked at my phone (AKA my alarm clock) which had failed to automatically change the time like it was supposed to have done. Who's the poor bastard now, I was forced to ask myself. Who's the poor bastard now.
― Ape Wipes (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
― silverfish, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 10:37 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean, maybe they should move the big change to April? What would that hurt?
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
it used to be in april (and the same date as in europe) until this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005#Change_to_daylight_saving_time
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
(I know that.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
this has been the easiest adjustment of my life tbh
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
(Didn't you read this post of mine that I made 13 years ago?)
That's neither here nor there. I'm just mad that the line in "Celebrated Summer" about how sometime in April they add another hour isn't going to be relevant anymore.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, August 8, 2005 3:11 PM
― pplains, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:18 (six years ago) link
no but i'm going to read it now!!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
I THOUGHT THIS SHIT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TWO WEEKS FROM NOW, NOT IN TWO DAYS!
― pplains, Saturday, 9 March 2019 05:13 (five years ago) link
it is a nightmare
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 March 2019 05:18 (five years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/XtjHZkms6nuEM/giphy.gif
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2019 05:24 (five years ago) link
fucking hate this bullshit
motherfuck
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:09 (five years ago) link
What the fuck?
― ☮ (peace, man), Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
too soon
― brownie, Saturday, 9 March 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
can we just spring ahead 30 minutes and then end this whole charade
― brownie, Saturday, 9 March 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
the greatest day of the year, finally some respite from the suffocating darkness of winter
y'all are crazy
― heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 9 March 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
real question: do you guys sleep so consistently from nigh to night that a single hour is that big a deal?
I get an hour less sleep on any random weeknight
― heinrich boll weevil (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 9 March 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
“I’m mad because there is light now in the evening” whaaaat ppl
― alomar lines, Saturday, 9 March 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
Shortest weekend of the year, kill me now
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 9 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
really can't imagine getting worked up over this
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 March 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
i bet you love summer toohippies
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
tbh, getting our early-rising pets re-situated is more of a hassle than our own schedules
― 27 Discounts ILXors Get Only If They Know (WmC), Saturday, 9 March 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
brad the government is stealing time from me
also now the sun’s gonna be all in my eyes in the morning again
also we have to deal with all the people writing EST when they mean EDT
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
last i heard california passed a plebiscite to make it always daylight savings time and because oregon has to copy everything from california we're trying to do it too
can we just pass a law to make time irrelevant, because that's what i really want
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
you all just copying hawaii.
― Yerac, Saturday, 9 March 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
But Hawaii is always standard time, right?
Some legislator tried to abolish DST again here. Keep in mind that we're at least 400 miles away from the nearest time zone boundary.
― pplains, Saturday, 9 March 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
this basically means having to get up while it's still dark for the next couple of weeks. The worst time the year.
― silverfish, Sunday, 10 March 2019 01:21 (five years ago) link
grow up y'all
go to bed early
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 March 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
but it's hard to fall asleep early when it's light later!
― petey v, Sunday, 10 March 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
chile went permanent with daylight savings for a year or two a couple of years ago, but it caused problems so now they do the time changes again, but they change dates. It's really confusing.
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
I can barely keep track of when I am two hours ahead of EST (like right now) and then it goes to one hour ahead (tomorrow) and then eventually the same time. I think.
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
hey i have an idea why don’t all you sunlight loving school marms go on over to the yay march thread and let the vampires commiserate
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
Yerac, and you don't have to answer, but where are you? Greenland or Brazil?
― pplains, Sunday, 10 March 2019 02:48 (five years ago) link
man we still got like 4 feet of snow on the ground here
― j., Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:03 (five years ago) link
Chill out, it’ll be fine, just roll wid it
― calstars, Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:06 (five years ago) link
Chile. It's summer here right now.
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link
May as well be summer here.
― pplains, Sunday, 10 March 2019 03:22 (five years ago) link
The day is going by so fast and everyone is still asleep. Grrrrrr...
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 10 March 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
We get direct, super bright light in our apt from about 5pm to 8:30pm. It's not the best part of your day that you want to be sweating your ass off.
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 March 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
Oh God it’s as bad as predicted! I lost 1 hour of sleep last night — how will I ever recover?!
― Je55e, Sunday, 10 March 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
I hate the idea of brunch, but my friend and I walked in without reservations at 10:30 to a normally booming spot #daylightsavingsproblems
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 March 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
how will I ever recover?!
there are studies that show societal effects, like increases in traffic accidents and illnesses, so it's not entirely about you.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 March 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
I'm fine with Jesse speaking for me.
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 10 March 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
This could be a thing where we have red-hot needles driven into our genitals twice a year and there would still be people all like 'wah wah wah, it's just a couple of needles, what's the big deal you dumb crybabies, three cheers for the people making these arbitrary decisions which slowly erode the quality of our lives'.
Guess which side I come down on wrt this debate. Just guess.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 March 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
twice a year
oh I'm 100% against returning to standard time
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
I was shooting for “humor,” but this is a good article challenging the statistics about DST https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-daylight-saving-20190309-story.html
― Je55e, Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
I too would prefer no time changes, as long as we stuck with DST.
― Je55e, Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
^otm. DST year-round works for me.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
When the fall change to standard time comes, I complain as loudly as anyone. Or at least as loudly as most people do about springing forward. That extra hour means nothing to me compared with looking forward to sunset at 4:15 (and dusk at 2:30-3:00 PM on cloudy days). Chicago is geographically screwed when it comes to time zones.
― Je55e, Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
― mookieproof, Saturday, March 9, 2019 1:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ok fine admittedly these are all terrible things
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
the thing about daylight savings is that 2 AM on a Saturday is just early enough that it's plausible you might still be awake and/or out at that hour, which suddenly is no longer "that hour"; few worse feelings than (purely hypothetically, of course) spending two hours on a greyhound bus then another 15-20 minutes waiting for the subway, looking down at your phone, and all of a sudden it's 3 AM
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
Supposedly chile went back to using DST because of " ...However, the annual time change was reinstated in 2016 after feedback from the public about an increase in truancy during the winter months, complaints about older computers and other electronic devices not using the right time zone, and fruit growers reporting a 15% loss in productivity." - wiki
― Yerac, Sunday, 10 March 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
Feel like everyone I interact with has joined me in just getting back from a trip after spending a month in a place one time zone away
― calstars, Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
Or at least as loudly as most people do about springing forward.
You mean "wintering forward."
― pplains, Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:19 (five years ago) link
as it happens I also have a midterm tomorrow and sure could have fucking used that extra hour of study
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Sunday, 10 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
sunny and 35 F at 7pm doesn't do much for me
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 10 March 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CZtFsy6.png
https://i.imgur.com/kXss8IV.png
https://i.imgur.com/P7ksjMq.png
http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
― pplains, Monday, 11 March 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
I’d be surprised if there isn’t some freeman/flat earth/bitcoin intersection that advocates for individual timezones or at least against government imposed time.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:20 (five years ago) link
that used to exist! in the early US! it was madness! there are whole almanacs that will tell you what time it is in various stops along the rail tracks if it's noon in philadelphia. or maybe i dreamt that. it's the kind of thing that would be in a dream. but i'm pretty sure that was a real thing.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
i mean, i presume this phenomenon was not confined to the US but it is pretty weird thinking about an era when telegraphy existed AND multiple, localized, slightly out, concurrent time zones did too
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
The railways brought universal time to most places.
I did travel through the Nullarbor where a small number of communities voluntarily observer the completely unofficial Australian Central West Time which is 1hr and 45 minutes different from the rest of the state. It’s main purposes seems to be to confuse tourists.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 11 March 2019 02:10 (five years ago) link
Adelaide being half an hour off, and two of the states not doing daylight savings, made scheduling TV extremely complicated (esp during live disaster coverage)
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Monday, 11 March 2019 02:15 (five years ago) link
Srsly, the only way this map could be any better would be if Canberra observed DST all year long.
https://i.imgur.com/nfzBf37.png
― pplains, Monday, 11 March 2019 03:00 (five years ago) link
Why (those maps / that article) decided that "a reasonable sunrise time" was before 7 am is probably due to a conspiracy of so-called 'morning' people, who everyone with sense understands to be semi-human mutants and certainly not a demographic to be catered to.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 March 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
they left out this little bit as well
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1dOd4GeLHV3x1rtZgCP_o23HAQ4E&hl=en&ll=-31.73867912320262%2C127.28759749999995&z=8
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 11 March 2019 03:55 (five years ago) link
Like good luck convincing my body that it didn't drag itself out of bed at 4 goddamn AM this morning. Or for the next several mornings. My very cells screaming 'ARE YOU ACTUALLY KIDDING ME RN?!?'
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 March 2019 12:07 (five years ago) link
wake up sleeple!
― brownie, Monday, 11 March 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, March 10, 2019 10:07 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mookieproof, Sunday, March 10, 2019 10:08 PM (yesterday)
this is the highest denomination of money aimless has ever been on
― j., Monday, 11 March 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
Daylight savings is actually my preferred time of the year. Long spring afternoons and evenings are ideal for me. But one thing that articles don't seem to address is why we ever go back to standard time? What purpose does "falling back" serve?
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 11 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2019
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
The sun should never rise before 6am if we can take that time and make it set an hour laterOn the other hand I don't want to have to leave for work in the dark in December.
― Bnad, Monday, 11 March 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
I don't want to have to leave for work in the dark in December.
I'd blame the job, not the solar system.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
I leave for work in the dark every day of my life.
― ☮ (peace, man), Monday, 11 March 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
callooh! callay!
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
the last Fall Back in Oregon, we hope
https://katu.com/news/local/region-prepares-to-push-clocks-back-for-possible-final-time
― Book Doula (sleeve), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
Fuck daylight savings.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
heretics!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
its the mooooost wonderful tiiie of the yeeeear
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 November 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
time, even
cretins cheering on the exacerbating of my seasonal affective disorder
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
really fucking hate it so much
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:30 (four years ago) link
lol this has to be the most groundhog day thread on ilx
seventeen years of biannually posting the identically futile take, we're like Beckett zombies
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
haven't noticed this thread before
I'm not a morning person, I guess people here are if they hate daylight savings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
xp it's not personal
nevertheless fuck you, darkness rules
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
worst day of the year for window peepers who are also morning people
― cryborg (rip van wanko), Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:11 (four years ago) link
extrahourofsleepffs
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:14 (four years ago) link
yeah NOW but what about next march
― j., Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
Darkness is stupid, winter is stupid, sleep is stupid.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
otm
― mick signals, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
hard to care about the extra hour of light in the mornings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link
would so much rather have it in the evenings
― Dan S, Sunday, 3 November 2019 02:51 (four years ago) link
Ya know, it was getting late sooner anyway.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 November 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
If Peter hitchens is against it then I’m pro changing the clocks every week.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
I am working overnight tonight and have to work an extra hour thanks to this nonsense
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
thank you for your service but i have been owed an hour for months now, with no fucking interest
so ye complainers can get tae fuck
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
MOAR SLEEPHAIL DARKNESS
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 November 2019 04:32 (four years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=_DZsbGA1CcA
― nickn, Sunday, 3 November 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
(Hawkwind - Hurry On Sundown)
Woke up at my usual time, which apparently is now five a.m.
Guess I can work that to my advantage this week, having an extra hour in the mornings until my jet lag wears off. Work on some night moves, make some front-page news. Ah, Novembertime.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 November 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
Can someone explain to my cats that we're falling back this morning?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
Ha, had the exact same problem.
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
Accidentally fell asleep with the lights on and music playing. I fucked it up!!!!
― esempio (crüt), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:34 (four years ago) link
This is the first time in my 55+ years that I actually used my fallback to get an extra hour of sleep. Felt pretty fuckin' good.
― WmC, Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
Lol Floridians are so dumb.
Last year, our state legislature voted to end DST for Florida. Of course, that requires Congress to amend Federal law, so it was really a first step (or a PR stunt), which was made clear at the time.
Didn't stop Floridians from flooding social media last night, asking why they had to set the clocks back since we ended it.
Sadly since cell phones and laptops usually update themselves, my fantasy of millions of Floridians being on the wrong time won't come to pass.
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
And yes I get that "dumb Floridian" sometimes feels like a pleonasm
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
"Sadly since cell phones and laptops usually update themselves, my fantasy of millions of Floridians being on the wrong time won't come to pass."
It sounds like the setup for a 1990s fish-out-of-water comedy. It would end with the hero teaching the futuristic people of New York about "real music", e.g. pre-Beatles rock and roll, because the film would be written by a baby boomer who hasn't got over Elvis being drafted. He or she would catch some crooks using a vintage skateboard, or something, or a surfboard, because people in Florida surf, don't they? He or she would dress up like the characters from Miami Vice. It's high concept. Nineteen-eighties meets the modern age! Cocaine everywhere, and people are paranoid about AIDS. There could be a cameo from the COUGH Indian COUGH chap from Short Circuit that would seem perfectly normal to the film's writer, because Indian people are funny, but would be horribly uncomfortable for the audience.
Alternatively imagine a film in which Florida is perpetually an hour behind the rest of the United States. The transient nature of internet microcelebrity is such that just being an hour behind the times would cut the people of Florida off from "the narrative". They would have to send meme-gatherers into the rest of the United States in order to bring back fresh live memes. I live in the UK, which means that I'm fourteen hours behind "the narrative". My experience of Reddit and so forth is that everything happened fourteen hours ago, while I was asleep, and by the time I catch up the drama is over.
I'm thinking of that woman who was on a flight to South Africa. She tweeted something tasteless before she got on the plane - "I'm not worried about catching AIDS because I'm white" or something like that - and while she was on the plane a twitter storm erupted, and she was sacked (she worked in PR), and she only learned about it when she touched down because back in 2011 or whenever there was no internet on planes. That little drama played itself out over the course of just a few hours. Imagine a future in which being just one hour behind the times was enough to cut yourself adrift from modern society, if that isn't already the case. That's why I read Ilxor every day, so that I don't lose touch. Once you let go of the rope the current takes you and you're lost.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:22 (four years ago) link
Wow
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
I can't remember the year or the town it happened in, so I know this sounds like an urban legend, but there was a town in Florida during the 70s that suffered a power outage for one hour during the night the state sprang forward from EST to EDT.
Since it was before clocks that could set themselves, most people set their clocks ahead before bed. Then their clocks froze for an hour, allowing standard time to catch back up. When everyone awoke in the morning, there were no flashing 12:00s. Just a bunch of people who still wound up being an hour late for church.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 November 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
...And dinner time is anticipated an hour early by some fraught felines.
― Ferlinghetti Hvorostovsky (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
Baxter just went “fuck everything” and started asking for dinner at 11amAlternatively imagine a film in which Florida is perpetually an hour behind the rest of the United States. I enjoyed the premises that flow from this but I refuse to accept the implication that the other rest of the US sets their clocks back three hours. The sun setting at 5pm is brutal enough, under your system it’d be dark at lunchtime come January.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 4 November 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
― k3vin k., Saturday, November 2, 2019 9:09 PM (yesterday)
that's happened to me too!
― Dan S, Monday, 4 November 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link
i wish to report a burglary
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
Sorry could you speak in a higher register
― college bong rip guy (silby), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
I AM HAVING ONE HOUR OF MY LIFE STOLEN FROM ME
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:42 (four years ago) link
late April already? o shit
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:46 (four years ago) link
do you have a record of ownership of this hour for insurance purposes?
― j., Sunday, 8 March 2020 05:48 (four years ago) link
MOTHERFUCKERS STOLE MY HOURGIMME BACK MY DARKNESS
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2020 06:49 (four years ago) link
Ah, that time of year where millions suffering from mental illness exacerbated by seasonal affective order are finally given some respite by an extra hour of glorious sunlight
and other pweeple wose a whole hour of sweep "waaaaaaaah!"
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
woke up and it's almost 11 fick this
― ciderpress, Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
I'm betting you'll recover
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 8 March 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
i'm over it now
― ciderpress, Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
My body is a finely-tuned waking up machine, by which I mean it is common for me to wake up and wonder what time it is and see that it's one or two minutes before my alarm is set to go off, and I did that very thing today except that it was 59 minutes after my alarm would have gone off were it a weekday. So I think I have a fair claim on bitching about this daylight savings time that throws my ass off unnecessarily twice a goddamn year.
― Waifu-ed Around and Fell in Love (Old Lunch), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
HI DERE
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77D7DF4Gpo0
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
fuck off Hadrian, suicides actually go up when this shit happens so shove your snide bullshit back up your ass
ban this barbaric practice forever
― sleeve, Sunday, 8 March 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
maybe this year will be the year, here in oregon i think we literally passed a law that says "we'll go dst year-round when california does", get on that shit california
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
xp As someone who suffers from severe depression and lives in New England, this extra hour has for many years been my saving grace—on a couple of occasions literally so.
Anyway I don't know what's going on in your personal life either, so I won't presume to know what external factors account for your own (clear^) problem.
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 8 March 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
daylight depresses me
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE
― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
year-around daylight time would suit me somewhat better than never-changing standard time because under standard time it would start to get light in June/July at about 4 a.m. around here, but if it came to that I would be fine with either. I am less than thrilled with twice-yearly clock shifting.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 8 March 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
We should have daily time changes imo
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
just dispense with the entire concept of time entirely imo
― Clay, Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
make the day 25 hours imo
― mookieproof, Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
The extra hour for sexytimes and/or bathroom use
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
― brimstead, Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
go tell it to the earth's rotational spin
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
Daylight savings = good not bad because we are currently in that all too brief window when the time difference on both sides of the pond is reduced by 1h.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
But it's even more confusing since Southern Hemisphere countries will be falling back ... in a month or so ... so who the fuck knows what time is it right now
― pplains, Sunday, 8 March 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?I have to assume that was an anti-DST anthem. Good on ya, Chicago.
― Waifu-ed Around and Fell in Love (Old Lunch), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link
the people at my company are so dumb that they programmed Puerto Rico as Eastern time in the case management program because they thought that's what they were on. at least it now it won't matter for half a year
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
That's another thing: Sick of having to call myself Chicago or Houston whenever I set my time zone on something.
― pplains, Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
lol New York for me.
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
maybe this year will be the year, here in oregon i think we literally passed a law that says "we'll go dst year-round when california does", get on that shit california― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, March 8, 2020 12:19 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, March 8, 2020 12:19 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
we laid some of the groundwork in 2018, but who knows when it will actually happen.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 8 March 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Legislative_Power_to_Change_Daylight_Saving_Time_Measure_(2018)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 8 March 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
Florida passed a bill like that but it requires US Congress approval
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 March 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Iiuc a number of states including ca and fl have passed laws that will move them on to year round DST as soon as that gets federal approval. Currently federal law only allows states to be on standard time year round (eg Arizona) or switch at the same time as the nation.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
Between the rain and whatnot, this morning is roooooough so far.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
Help me, freshly brewed coffee, you are my only hope.
What I (honestly) don’t get is how people who complain actually notice losing that hour. Or gaining an hour in the fall. Do those people have strict bedtimes and and wake times on the weekends?For me, I never notice because on any given weekend night I might go to bed any time between 9PM and 2AM. And even during the week my bedtime varies by more than an hour.
― Je55e, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
Similarly, in the mornings sometimes I get up at 5:30, sometime at 7:45. I understand that would be difficult if you had kids. But still, it’s only an hour, and I can’t seem to grasp how people sense the difference.
― Je55e, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
I have kids and this is also the aspect of the complaints that most puzzles me. Like even if I consistently went to bed and got up at the same hours (I don't) there are nights where I can't sleep for hours or sleep restlessly
― Webcam Du Bois (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
it's being wrenched awake by an alarm that you know is going off an hour earlier than it should, in order to load sixteen tons and get another day older and deeper in debt.
with kids i find it's the opposite - instead of being rudely awoken at say 6am the clock now says 7am which feels more tolerable!
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
Similarly, in the mornings sometimes I get up at 5:30, sometime at 7:45.
you sound like a morning person.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
Oh god no
― Je55e, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
Just depends on what I’ve got to do that day
― Je55e, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
Waking up and it's still pitch black out, no thanks
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
my body seems to have actually synched to the clock... as of the beginning of last week. I was waking up like clockwork at 7am every day when I was on my mini-vacation
this morning sucked
― mh, Monday, 9 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
ugh, I guess this isn't the same everywhere but having to get up while it's still dark is the most depressing shit (and I really don't get up that early for someone who has kids that I have to get to school) and I find that the couple of weeks following the time change to generally be the most difficult of the whole year for me
― silverfish, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 03:43 (four years ago) link
Move the shit back to April. We'll be in line with the rest of the world's time changes, the mornings won't be as dark, and the afternoon delight crowd will still get their sweet extra hour of golden rays.
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
Something I never knew until today: under the Wilson government, the UK adhered to GMT+1 from March 1968 to October 1971. In Dec 1970 the Commons voted decisively to end the experiment and we went back to the GMT/BST split the following autumn. During the first two winters, road traffic accidents increased in the mornings, but greatly decreased in the evenings. However, this coincided with stronger drink-driving legislation (and the introduction of the road-side breathalyser), which may have had more of an impact.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
Absolutely.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, March 11, 2017 4:02 PM
― pplains, Saturday, March 11, 2017 4:11 PM
― pplains, Saturday, March 11, 2017 4:12 PM
― pplains, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
Holy shit. The Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent.If this clears the House, no more changing the clocks twice a year. https://t.co/d85L72mzf8— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) March 15, 2022
LFG
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
That fucking sucks. I can't read when walking in the early morning hours!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 20:23 (two years ago) link
Wasn't this attempted once in the '70s? Seems like it could be a be careful what you wish for situation.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
I'm sure people were reading and walking before the '70s.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
What about the year 70?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
xxp Yep, and also during WW2.
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
would kind of prefer to get rid of daylight savings time and go to year-round standard time. Permanent daylight savings time means it's dark until 8 am in December.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
It'd mean I'm always 2 hrs behind my office. Me no likey having to be up that early.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
But wait does that mean AZ would move to pacific time zone? We don't want daylight savings time here
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
"The bill would allow Arizona and Hawaii, which do not observe daylight saving time, to remain on standard time."
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
I sign off on this 1000%. My internal clock is so finely-tuned that this time changing shit throws me off for weeks/months, often almost until it's time to do it again. I felt like a drugged ape at work yesterday.
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
I'm pretty sure our cat never adjusts, and asks for his food an hour early for half the year.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
mine ask for food an hour early half the year and two hours early the other half
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link
My cat asks for food every hour regardless
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:17 (two years ago) link
I don't have kids and don't start work until 11am most days so this rules. Getting dark at 5:30 sucks.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
I'd be fine either way, but seems like sticking with "standard" time should be the default.
― DJI, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
hope this happens because BC already has a bill passed to make the change to constant daylight savings but it is dependent on Washington and Oregon doing it first
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
it being dark before 5pm for over a month always absolutely tanks my mood
for me it's more about the morning. it being dark for an hour+ after you even get to work in the winter will also depressing. I like the switch between standard and daylight savings times
― Dan S, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 00:44 (two years ago) link
The physical and mental wear and tear of adjusting one's sleeping/eating/working/personal time pattern by a full hour twice every year is a problem that can easily be solved by leaving the clocks alone all year, but the problem of too much darkness in winter cannot be solved, no matter how much we fiddle the clocks.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 00:59 (two years ago) link
Well, climate change is whittling away at winter, so there's that problem solved.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
imo this is a proxy war between morning people and night people.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:13 (two years ago) link
Kinda but morning people always win regardless.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
This has maps that show the effects of keeping or abolishing DST, which of course vary a lot depending on where you are: http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
Here at the western edge of the Eastern time zone, it would give us one fewer morning of pre-7 a.m. sunrise, in exchange for year-round post-6 p.m. sunset, which seems like a good deal to me.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
pplains linked to the exact same article three years ago. my reply was:
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
Yeah sunrise should never be before 8am, just to drive home the point that yall are freaks for getting up and at em before then.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:31 (two years ago) link
Climate change isn't changing the amount of sunlight each day...
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
I just figured that was a hand-crafted joke.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link
"actually, data in a recent paper suggest..." is typically how this setup ends.
― pickle loaf (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:42 (two years ago) link
Climate change just means you'll be sweating balls while you wait for the commuter train in the dark.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it was my dumb joke. It'll still be dark, but it won't be "winter."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 12:26 (two years ago) link
OK, I was just thinking that we've had some more-or-less snowless winters in Toronto, but it definitely didn't make it any more cheerful than usual.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 12:43 (two years ago) link
It's like five months of November, plus frostbite.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 12:49 (two years ago) link
I'm very much not a morning person, but mornings are forced upon me. Every time I have to wake up while it's still dark is hellish to me, which is why I would very much prefer year-round standard time. The actual changing of the time is awful too so maybe year-round DST is better than the current system, I don't know. Maybe this would force my son's school to not start school at such a ridiculously early hour, I don't know. It's not like I actually ever care what time it is at any point, I just don't want to have to force myself to get up while it's still dark out.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:15 (two years ago) link
Yeah, same, this is Not Good. Also--is it not RIDICULOUS to insist that it's not noon when the sun is directly overhead? All summer long I already mentally subtract an hour to figure out when the sun will be strongest w/r/t sunburn, over-exposure, etc. Seems dumb to pretend otherwise instead of just changing the times things happen at.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
i will of course bitch about losing my hour in the spring, but i think the current system is fine
at my latitude, permanent standard time would mean it would lead to 4:20am sunrises in high summer; permanent daylight time would lead to 8:20am sunrises in winter. i don't want either of those
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:37 (two years ago) link
The DST Grip Assistance Tool confirmed what I suspected... that no matter where I am in the US I do not like Standard Time and would be happier with permanent DST. I love going to work in the dark and hate going home in the dark.
Of course the tool doesn't factor in climate. Being in Texas, a few hours of sunlight in the winter after 5pm is actually useful to me because it's generally still warm enough to go outside and enjoy it. It also fails to factor in that letting people go to work and leave work whenever the fuck they want would be the best solution.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 15:40 (two years ago) link
I read about Mason & Dixon using their theodolite to view the morning star to set their coordinates. They kept a journal, of course, and one of the entries said they got their readings at 3:40 am, right before sunrise.
This was before there were even time zones, but to hell with that.
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
I grew up at the far western edge of the Eastern time zone, west of chicago but supposedly gerrymandered to keep the copper mines on east coast time. It would still be dark at 8am in winter, but summer was glorious and the sun wouldn't set until 10pm. Living at the eastern edge of the Pacific time zone sucked because it was light at 4:30am which is totally useless.
I'm ecstatic that they chose to go with Daylight Savings Time and I don't care if the sun rises at 9am in December.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
Love that exact same thing about summer but I've had too many years of getting up in the dark and going into a window-less office building in the dark and never seeing sunlight, to be okay with those winter mornings. :((( Not looking forward to it.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
A lot of the talk is how far east or how far west you are, but the north and south differences are pretty crazy too. It took me awhile to figure out what was going on in Minnesota, having come from points further south.
On June 23 this year, the sun will set on Little Rock at 8:26 pm. About 720 miles to the north in Minneapolis that same day, sunset will be at 9:03 pm.
― pplains, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
After all these last few years, this is finally going to be the thing that breaks us.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
What I like about living further south is the earliest sunset of the year is still after 5pm, so it's not fully dark until 540ish on the shortest day of the year. The tradeoff is that it's never light out til like 9pm, which, being in AZ is a good thing.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
Northerners do get nice long summer nights. And deserve them! I really noticed it on a June visit to Edinburgh a few years ago, there was visible sunlight until 10 or so.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
I grew up another ~150 miles north of Minneapolis which really adds to the effect.
At its worst true daylight only exists there from 8:35am until 5:05pm - I would go to work in my windowless basement office in the dark and it would be dark when I left. I would have gladly taken another hour at the end of the day.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
Yep agree. Honestly it's one of the reasons I moved out of IL. The freezing cold is one thing but lack of sunlight due to early sunset + frequent overcast sky was just too much.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
JUST IN: Senate approves legislation that would make everything awesome or terrible, depending where you live. https://t.co/6g9lxwP6vh https://t.co/yyWdnCGoaY pic.twitter.com/CGh2cmNRMY— Andy Woodruff (@awoodruff) March 16, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 March 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
Commuting during the winter and having early hours, morning feels like the middle of the night when it's pitch black out and you have to wake up and get to work. I'd much rather drive home in the dark after work
― Dan S, Thursday, 17 March 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
hmm yeah, early morning snow not cleared in time resulted in a few school delays recently. could be a bad scene for snowy areas
― mh, Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
My night vision seems to be deteriorating, so I'd rather not have to do any driving after dark.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 17 March 2022 04:09 (two years ago) link
Didn't even think of this!
Government offices closed until 10 am? Try 11 am, motherfuckers!
― pplains, Thursday, 17 March 2022 13:59 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVoN7PVXRe4
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
I'll be able to see my book again!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 November 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
will be glad when the time changes back again tonight
― Dan S, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:06 (one year ago) link
― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 22:29 (nine years ago)
― sleeve, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
My bedroom faces east. Daylight savings is good in the summer, but even then the sun comes blinding through my windows and I wake up at 6 AM
In late October with daylight savings I'm not happy to wake up in the dark, so I'm in favor of the switch back to standard time, even though it means it gets dark earlier in afternoon
― Dan S, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
my blessed hour is almost here
― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 November 2022 05:59 (one year ago) link
its happening again
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 6 November 2022 07:41 (one year ago) link
*checks bedside clock*me: mmm, 7:30, plenty of time to walk the dog and make coffee before D:O Radio starts*gets up, gets dressed, looks at phone*me: oh no
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Sunday, 6 November 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
This is great! Did some light shopping, washed the car, took a nap, looked at the clock and it's only 5:30!
― pplains, Sunday, 6 November 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
i.e. pitch fucking black?
― sleeve, Monday, 7 November 2022 04:55 (one year ago) link
This is great!... looked at the clock and it's only 5:30!
that's a one-off bonus on the first day or two until you've shifted your waking rhythms to the newer clock time on both ends of the day.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 7 November 2022 05:11 (one year ago) link
"Even one hour of lost sleep affects many areas of functioning – decreasing motor function, memory and mood. After the spring time change, traffic accidents are more frequent and workplace injuries are more common. In the first few weeks after the “fall back,” suicide rates sharply increase."
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/03/06/daylight-saving-time-at-what-cost/daylight-saving-time-takes-a-toll-on-health
― sleeve, Monday, 7 November 2022 05:12 (one year ago) link
this is a psychotic and murderous custom, god I hope I live long enough to see it consigned to the dustbin of history
― sleeve, Monday, 7 November 2022 05:13 (one year ago) link
Today Mom asked me to get her and dad breakfast at Wendy's after I voted, so I pulled the app up, and I guess the app programming hadn't updated the time for DST, because the lunch menu was displaying an hour early.
I went inside to the kiosks, which were correctly still on breakfast.
I wonder if a lot of frustrated employees were getting lunch orders before lunch began en masse
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 05:13 (one year ago) link
I don't have strong feelings on DST, I just hope everyone does away with it at the same time, rather than leaving the fun scenarios at work like how tomorrow, all of our San Juan employees shifts now move one hour later for six months because they handle calls for call centers based in Eastern Time, whereas Puerto Rico is on Atlantic time, and does not observe DST. So last week ET and AT were the same, now San Juan is one hour later than ET
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 05:21 (one year ago) link
Oh the fun when our Ops team forgot this in 2015, didn't adjust the schedules, and sent the entire team home for the day an hour prior to closing
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 November 2022 05:22 (one year ago) link
yeah I don't care which one we use, just stop changing FFS
it's the sheer arrogance of thinking we can actually control time that galls me
also the physical awfulness of the actual switching, twice a fucking year, hammering home the pathetic hubris of humans yet again
― sleeve, Monday, 7 November 2022 05:24 (one year ago) link
I like it. Time is arbitrary. The whole world dutifully fiddles with their microwave clocks on the same day (sort of - the UK did ours a week ago)I don't actually like it that much because I don't like it getting dark so early.
― kinder, Monday, 7 November 2022 09:26 (one year ago) link
I love it when it gets dark early. I'm more awake at night than during the day! The sun makes me want to nap (by the fishin' hole wearin' a straw hat and chewing on a stalk of some sort of grain).
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 November 2022 15:07 (one year ago) link
I hat e the difficulty of trying to change the time on clocks I got from amazon that just have symbols and buttons and you need to find the manual to translate the symbols
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 7 November 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
Ugh, after nearly a decade of ending my work day at 3pm, I'm now on a 9-5 schedule and (emerges from office into blackness) rediscovering a whole new reason to despise daylight savings.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
you can blame standard time for that, not daylight savings. standard time in winter just allows for earlier daylight in the morning
― Dan S, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link
I think adjusting time to maximize the available light makes sense. It's just that there is so much less daylight in the Winter. Winter is what sucks
― Dan S, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
at my latitude, i think changing times makes sense. i just like to complain about my stolen hour in the spring
also (in the usa) the spring forward is now like six weeks earlier than it used to be. which is just weird
also i'm exhausted by people referencing EST or PST when those are not applicable two-thirds of the year
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
ditto GMT
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
"daylight savings" is the practice of this whole scam so OL is not wrong
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:46 (one year ago) link
Negronis for everyone!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:55 (one year ago) link
it's not all bad
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/lYZHvfd.png
This sign in Indiana is wrong nine months of the year.
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
Daylight savings all the time, standard time sucks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
only if you're not a morning person
― Dan S, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
it's
"daylight
SAVING"
!!!
― kinder, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
I've slept gloriously the last two nights.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 10:24 (one year ago) link
As much as I mostly just think we should stick to either standard or daylight savings without going through the time change twice a year, my winters would depress the hell out of me if I had to wake up every morning in the darkness, so my vote is definitely towards standard time year-round.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
1. Almost everybody says they hate changing
2. We can't agree which to settle on.
3. At the same time (ahem) I am given to understand that when we DIDN'T change, everybody hated that too..
4. Hence my proposed compromise: half an hour, leave it there forever. "The time" is an arbitrary construct anyway.
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
My proposed compromise - everyone is blinded
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
wrapped up like a douche
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Campaign shouting like a teenage diplomat #onethread
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
How about we go to permanent daylight savings time but as a compromise we all start work/school one hour later during the winter.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
I’ve literally never known anyone irl complain about this, is this an American thing? It gets darker earlier? Yeah, that’s called the rotation of the earth on its axis.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
we're americans we like to complain about dumb shit
also there are likely some people who don't believe you're telling the truth about the earth rotating on its axis
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
I mean, nobody is saying we should change the axis tilt of the earth, the problem is that we arbitrarily change the time we have to get up in the morning twice per year
And to be perfectly honest, I never complained about this until I had kids
― silverfish, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
pets hate it too, fwiw
― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
xp one of those times you can sleep longer?
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
yeah with kids it's tough but after a few years, i learned to put 'em to bed later in the fall, and it def. helps. i'm pretty militant about my own sleeping--make sure I get 7 hours a night--and i went to bed an hour later for almost two weeks and had no ill effects Sunday morning, and have slept like a baby the last two days.
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
Wait does gyac mean that complaining is uniquely American or that time changing is uniquely American?
I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_time_in_Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:09 (one year ago) link
It's gotten better now that my kids are older, but with young kids you are definitely not getting an extra hour of sleep. It just becomes this extra thing you need to consider in bedtime/early morning routines for a couple of weeks.
xxp
― silverfish, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
xp I obviously mean the complaining, idk how you could understand it the other way. Honestly it’s a total crank opinion here
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
I'm in the UK and hear people complain about it all the time - the suddenly dark evenings, the weird jetlag, the fuckery it plays with kids' body clocks.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
Maybe it’s a thing if you’ve got kids, but I have never thought about it more than twice a year. I associate it with Peter Hitchens types.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
Never heard of any complaints in the UK until literally Peter Hitchens would whine about it on twitter.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
we briefly complain about it as a shared misery at work and among friends
maybe everyone's just always miserable elsewhere idk
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
Just really not that big of a deal
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
we should at least get cupcakes on daylight saving day
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
I will say that when I was in my teens/20s the fall time change was fun because it would generally fall on the weekend of my birthday (this was back when the time change was in October) and bars would stay open an hour more (because the time change was at 2am and closing time for bars here is 3am) which was fun at an age when I would regularly be out until closing time.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
the extra hour of bar time was a tradition for sure
― mh, Thursday, 10 November 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
Here's my pettiest complaint: When the time change occurred in mid-October, my region of the country fell back from seeing the sun rise at 7:15 to 6:15. Now, a few weeks later, it goes from 7:30 to 6:30.
I get up around seven, leave the house at eight, all year 'round. That 15-minute difference is the difference between waking up in October to twilight or complete darkness. The difference between being able to flip the visor down as I get on the freeway to being completely blinded by a giant ball of hydrogen in my face.
I mean, I guess I could move to Nashville, but who has the time?
― pplains, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
sorry if this is a dumb question but what’s the time change that occurred in mid-October?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Until 2006: DST from the first Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October
― pplains, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:46 (one year ago) link
In the U.S.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
Which is slightly confusing since other DST countries still observe the pre-2006 time changes.
Right now, there's a 15-hour difference between the Central Time Zone in the U.S. and Australia's Eastern Time Zone.
In the summer, it's a 17-hour difference because the U.S. jumps forward and Australia falls away.
But for a few weeks in March and a about a week or so in October... well, I don't know what the damn time difference is anywhere.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
then there is this sort of joy
80 eastern Indiana counties are officially in the Eastern Time Zone12 western Indiana counties are officially in the Central Time Zone
so regardless of dst they are always confused
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
At least they all jump and fall at the same time now.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Part of Florida is in Eastern time, part of Florida is in Central, part of Florida is in 1861
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
all of florida seems to be in the ocean lately
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
this wreaks havoc at work each year because we have colleagues in Panama and San Juan, Puerto Rico, both of whom do not observe DST. Panama is on Eastern Standard Time all year, San Juan is on Atlantic Standard Time all year.
we have a few classes that include both people from these locations, and people outside these locations. so right now San Juan is one hour ahead of Eastern Time, and Panama is the same as Eastern Time. After 3/12, San Juan will be equal to Eastern Time, and Panama will be one hour behind Eastern Time.
So this means these training classes will be the same time each week, but the people in San Juan and Panama will be coming in one hour earlier after 3/12, whereas the training time stays the same for everybody else.
just scrap this thing
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
xp I think all of Florida is in 1861 now.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
I’m looking forward to it this year. One more hour of daylight in the evening is awesome
― calstars, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
when will it end
• The National Sleep Foundation’s 2021 Sleep in America® Poll found that nearly three-quarters of Americans prefer a consistent year-round time system.
• The shift to Daylight Saving Time in the spring is associated with increases in motor vehicle crashes, cardiovascular morbidity, stroke, and hospital admissions. A more nuanced discussion is necessary about whether the clocks should shift to permanent Daylight Saving Time (as proposed) or to permanent Standard Time (as preferred by sleep and circadian scientists, safety experts, and educators). It is easy to understand the appeal of having longer, brighter evenings. Permanent DST may seem like you get more hours per day of sunlight, but in reality, the plan just shifts total bright hours from when we need them in the morning to later in the afternoon. It is both less healthy and less safe to shift our daylight hours to the evening.
• Our circadian rhythms rely on bright natural light in the morning to wake us up and to synchronize important biological processes, with dimmer light in the evening to make us sleepy and ready for bed. Morning light resets the body’s biological clock and improves sleep quality and duration, bringing with it a range of physical and mental health benefits. In contrast, evening light suppresses the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin and pushes bedtimes later, reduces sleep duration, and leaves your body out of sync with the environmental clock.
• Later sunrises and sunsets are associated with shorter duration and worse quality sleep and more irregular sleep patterns. They are also associated with higher rates of obesity, depression, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. For example, a 2017 study showed that living on the west side compared to the east side of the same time zone is associated with increases in many types of cancer, including stomach, liver, prostate and non-Hodgkin lymphoma for men, and lung, breast, esophagus, and colorectum for women, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia for both genders (see Gu et al. article link below).
• Teenagers and others with night owl tendencies and people with work start times before 8 AM will be disproportionately affected.
• Morning light also improves safety, especially for school children who wait for their school buses in the dark. In fact, the United States experimented by switching to permanent DST in 1974 and quickly reverted to a bi-annual clock change later that same year because of the unpopular dark mornings and an increase in morning vehicular crashes and injuries. A recent study also found that later sunrises and sunsets that were misaligned from the sun being overhead at noon by more than 30 minutes were associated with 21.8% more fatal car crashes. A consistent year-round time system is agreed upon by the National Sleep Foundation, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, National Safety Council and National Parent Teacher Association, and other leading sleep and science-based organizations. The conversation about clock changes is not about whether you want more or less sunshine in your day, but rather what time of day the sunshine is preferable. Science indicates that morning sunshine is best for the overall health and safety of the public, which is why these organizations agree that permanent Standard Time is a better fit for our circadian rhythms and the better choice for health and well-being.
• NSF ST Position Statement https://www.thensf.org/.../NSF-Position-on-Permanent...• National Sleep Foundation’s 2021 Sleep in America® Poll Shows Gaps Between Public Sentiment and the Effects of Clock Change https://www.thensf.org/.../2021-Sleep-in-America-Poll...• Gu et al. article on cancer rates by location within a time zone. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28450580/• https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../daylight-saving-bill.../When the US tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in 1974• https://www.washingtonian.com/.../the-us-tried-permanent.../• American Academy of Sleep Medicine Statement: https://aasm.org/aasm-opposes-permanent-daylight-saving.../• Sleep research society position statement: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36156090/• Society for Research on Biological Rhythms Position Statement and Press Kit https://srbr.org/advocacy/daylight-saving-time-presskit/ https://journals.sagepub.com/.../10.1177/0748730419854197• Sunrise time charts, educational material and videos and advocacy information at Savestandardtime.com
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Friday, 10 March 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
what, daylight time or that post?
― pplains, Friday, 10 March 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
lol
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Friday, 10 March 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 March 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
Sleeping on the east side of the house, it's been nice having the sun wake me up instead of the alarm clock.
But now, I won't have that opportunity again for another six weeks.
(I'll try to remind myself it'll be for a good cause this summer when it starts getting bright at 5:30. "Could be 4:30," I'll tell myself.)
― pplains, Friday, 10 March 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
I've loved being able to read on my morning walks; I guess it'll be even brighter now? I forget.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 March 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
darker
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Friday, 10 March 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
cool let's all just ignore the extensively documented actual harm this does, and act like it's normal (it isn't)
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
sleeve otm, fyi
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
the current system is good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
strong disagree
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
What are the health effects of getting angry about this for several weeks a year vs getting on with your life
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
But daylight savings isn't an individual choice one gets to make on their own, so I don't think "voluntarily" has anything to do with this.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
Yeah that’s why I was contrasting it with things people do voluntarily???
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
Like if I was concerned about cardiovascular disease there are things I could do to prevent that myself, rather than shaking my fist at the sky and going DAMN YOU DST
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
current system works fine for me at my latitude
but i do like complaining about the hour of sleep being stolen from me in spring and having to change the clocks with 23 button pushes in the fall
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 March 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
I personally like it when the government tells me to sleep an hour longer, yes sir 🫡🫡🫡
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
my least favorite part is when we roll clocks back in the fall and i wake up from sleep at 1 am and have to think to myself "is this proper 1 am, or is this 1 am after we rolled back".
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
Seconded.
― pplains, Friday, 10 March 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
There are some days when I work late and I don't get home until 5:30 or 6:00. And then there are the days where I pick the kids up from school and get home around 4:30.
And I swear that one hour difference fucks me up. Looking up on those late days and going, What the hell? It's already 10:30? Of course, this situation is semi-voluntary and not the fault of the federal government.
But next week is going to be a ride, I can feel it.
― pplains, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
fwiw, apparently this does need to be said, having strong feelings about DST is not a personal attack on anyone's own preferences
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
please read the posts you think you are replying to thx
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
already dreading having to wake up when it's still dark Monday morning (or Monday night really, it's not morning until the sun comes up). I'm going to be in a bad mood for a couple of weeks.
― silverfish, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:16 (one year ago) link
what was the deal with the senate bill in the us that passed last year unanimously to make dst permanent? like .. it just died afaict? i think rubio reintroduced it this year. probably has some awful riders in it or something but barring that it's gotta be the only good thing rubio has ever done.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:19 (one year ago) link
i would ABSOLUTELY LOVE to never have to think about changing the time again
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
I know this doesn’t matter to most of you who think this is a serious issue but evenings being lighter for longer is actually extremely good if you’re female - or indeed just someone who doesn’t like going out by themselves in the dark or can’t exercise till they finish work or w/e - and like going out and about by yourself and don’t have to worry about getting home earlier. It might have positive effects on anxiety, who can say?
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
The country most recently experimented with permanent daylight saving in 1974, but that ended less than a year later, after eight Florida children died in traffic accidents attributed to the change.
And how many children in Florida in the last year have died from gun – ok, this isn't the thread for that.
― pplains, Friday, 10 March 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
8 year olds shouldn't have been driving imo
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
― ꙮ (map), Friday, March 10, 2023 5:19 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this was a bit of a fluke, and there's not much chance of it passing house last I checked
― a (waterface), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
As has been noted, lots of people hate changing, but can't agree on which direction to not-change.
Previous attempts to not change were greeted with... everybody hating that too. My proposed compromise of shifting a half-hour, and leaving it there, has gotten no traction whatsoever. Eh.
People are just incorrigible grouches who will hate anything, present company very much included. Which makes me wonder whether the borad name "I Love Everything" carries more than a trace of irony.
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
definitely want more daylight toward the evening fwiw, can never keep my directionality oriented correctly when this topic comes up
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 10 March 2023 18:04 (one year ago) link
Honestly, I'd be fine with just going back to the previous dates for the time changes (around 20 years ago). Just make it so the Sun rises later than 7am for the fewest days possible in a year.
― silverfish, Friday, 10 March 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
act like it's normal (it isn't)
I can sympathize with the feeling that prompted that statement, but all clock times and time zones are contrivances imposed on natural cycles and rhythms in order for society to regulate itself more efficiently. normal is whatever people accept as the norm. you happen not to accept DST and therefore it isn't normal for you, but individuals don't decide norms. that's societal. it's natural for you to object to DST, but it is normal.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 10 March 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
Think instead of four time zones across the contiguous 48 states, there should be eight.
― pplains, Friday, 10 March 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
That's not far off from the "local time" state that existed before time zones.
Aimless makes a reasonable point that it's all pretty arbitrary
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 March 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
the sun is the same in a relative way but it's later
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 March 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
I'd rather have fucked up health effects than lose an hour of evenings in the summer
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 March 2023 19:12 (one year ago) link
Yeah, but I meant by latitude, not longitude.
― pplains, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
I meant by latitude
Let's get 'er done! But first, we must prioritize the abolition of the US penny, because we're already this close to living that dream!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 10 March 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
lol mookie
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 March 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
We have a new AZ employee, and they don't adhere to Daylight Savings there - except, she tells us, on the Navajo Nation where they do adopt it, since their land covers multiple states and they all want to be on the same clock
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 10 March 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
you guys know about India Standard Time, right? there are several areas of the world that do much wilder shenanigans with time zones than DST
― mh, Saturday, 11 March 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Gz0SBwR.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 11 March 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
when will the madness end? hopefully in my lifetime, wish there was a grave I could piss on
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/02/1210212060/daylight-saving-time-states-2023
fuck off, Marc Rubio. Permanent Standard or GTFO
anyone defending DST will immediately be FPd, just be honest and admit that you don't care about the increased death rate
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:26 (four months ago) link
admit that you don't care about the increased death rate
iirc, the increased death rate mainly applies during the week or two immediately following the change of clock time and the consequent disruption in sleep habits. which implies that the solution is choosing a permanent clock setting, which could be either STD or DST, as long as you stick with it. My own preference would be shifting the window of daylight forward through the entire year, iow permanent DST. So-called 'morning people' would probably disagree. If you think that's worth an FP, go ahead.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:40 (four months ago) link
Not arguing anything just have to say it's never bothered me and I didn't realise it had serious ill-effects. I weirdly think I kind of like it because it feels like a signifier of fall and spring at times when I welcome them? I mean I'd be fine if it stopped but it hasn't ever bothered me.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:45 (four months ago) link
When will it endHow did we get here What wrong turn did we makeIs there any fixing thisWith all my heart I wish there were a way we could turn back the clock
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:47 (four months ago) link
ENBB otm.
I like being able to see when I walk in the morning.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:55 (four months ago) link
giant bat fucker (gyac)Posted: 10 March 2023 at 17:21:47I know this doesn’t matter to most of you who think this is a serious issue but evenings being lighter for longer is actually extremely good if you’re female - or indeed just someone who doesn’t like going out by themselves in the dark or can’t exercise till they finish work or w/e - and like going out and about by yourself and don’t have to worry about getting home earlier. It might have positive effects on anxiety, who can say?
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:57 (four months ago) link
And when the opposite is true, you’re not getting up and going to work in the dark. Crying about this is a crank opinion.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 3 November 2023 19:58 (four months ago) link
I had never even considered that but it's a good point. I'm sure there is a ton of people who that really impacts. Weirdly I don't love long days - it throws me off so much. I don't like it being dark at 4 (or 3:30 here) but the sun going down around 6 is my sweet spot.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 3 November 2023 20:33 (four months ago) link
Crying about this is a crank opinion.
New board masthead.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 3 November 2023 20:34 (four months ago) link
99% of my life i am struggling to make myself go to bed at a reasonable hour, and by extension, get up on time
i am very annoyed that i am currently in one of the 1% phases where i pass out super early and wake up inexplicably long before my alarm, right as we enter the "free hour of sleep" weekend
― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Friday, 3 November 2023 20:39 (four months ago) link
For me this signals the end of the “sit outside at the bar after 5” period and sends me inside
― calstars, Friday, 3 November 2023 21:23 (four months ago) link
I don't care about the increased death rate. I want to get off work in the winter and still have an hour or so of sunlight left. DGAF about summer because I'll be inside 24/7 regardless. Bring on DST 365!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 3 November 2023 21:34 (four months ago) link
honestly I didn’t expect to open the thread and get hit with “DST body count” but let sleeve cook
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 4 November 2023 15:06 (four months ago) link
ahhh
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 November 2023 06:01 (four months ago) link
Good morning!
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 November 2023 10:37 (four months ago) link
Running a marathon this morning. I did not hate the extra hour of sleep.
― tobo73, Sunday, 5 November 2023 11:22 (four months ago) link
Gonna be a long ass Sunday for sure
― calstars, Sunday, 5 November 2023 12:31 (four months ago) link
for some reason I didn’t put two and two together with the thread being bumped and was irritated when I woke up early this morning. But it turns out I did not technically wake up earlycats still refuse to acknowledge clocks, afaict
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:12 (four months ago) link
Is anyone reporting on what this year’s death toll was?
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:15 (four months ago) link
Living in the US now while still administrating a business in the UK, which put its own clocks back last week (?), and now I don't know what is what or where I am, possibly due to having to wake up at 4am every day for the past 6 months.
Back to bed I think.
― like being cornered by a drunk gareth southgate (Matt #2), Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:20 (four months ago) link
In the UK the clocks went back a week ago FYI.
― Tim, Sunday, 5 November 2023 16:48 (four months ago) link
(Weirdly I ready your post as "next week" and thought I'd help).
My wife texted me last Monday to say "I had no idea the clocks went back yesterday!" - all her clocks had re-set automatically and she'd just snaffled the extra hour asleep: perfect.
― Tim, Sunday, 5 November 2023 16:51 (four months ago) link
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 3 November 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Don't you get enough attention at home or something?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 November 2023 17:09 (four months ago) link
Today has already lasted a year
― calstars, Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:37 (four months ago) link
Re: deaths.
Almost no one dies during the skipped hour in the spring, though. Statistically, that's the safest hour of the year!
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:39 (four months ago) link
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:43 (four months ago) link
That descending riff would have so much more bite on a 6 ITS 434
― calstars, Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:34 (four months ago) link
And if I played guitar, I'd be Jimmy PageDaylight savings time makes me rage
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:54 (four months ago) link
Lol
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:04 (four months ago) link
5pm and it dark. bad
― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:19 (four months ago) link
Arizona is ahead of the game here
― octobeard, Monday, 6 November 2023 00:21 (four months ago) link
― ivy., Sunday, November 5, 2023
the offset is having light in the winter before 7:00 in the morning, which is fine by me
daylight savings in the summer means having more light in the evening with the longer days rather than the morning. I have an east-facing bedroom and don't want to wake up to sunlight at 5 am
the switch between daylight savings and standard time seems completely logical to me
― Dan S, Monday, 6 November 2023 00:35 (four months ago) link
Arizona doesn't have daylight savings because it is scorching hot there in the summer
― Dan S, Monday, 6 November 2023 00:39 (four months ago) link
Which I don't get. Sunrise tomorrow will be roughly 7:30, by which point I'll already have been up for an hour; sunset will be roughly 5:30, and I go to sleep between 10:30 and 11. By the time December rolls around I'll be lucky to get eight hours of daylight in a 24-hour span.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 6 November 2023 00:42 (four months ago) link
With the time change, sunrise tomorrow will come at 6:40 am, at least where I live. I'm a morning person, but I don't want first sunlight to come after 7:30 am or before 5:00 am. The time change corrects for that
― Dan S, Monday, 6 November 2023 01:31 (four months ago) link
“It gets late so early now”
― calstars, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:48 (four months ago) link
Calstars Berra
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:59 (four months ago) link
It's always made me angry, since i was a lil kid, that the priority was for the drudgery of commuting to school or work to be sunlit, at the expense of having a measly hour for recreation afterwards. I still reflexively see it as a form of capitalist oppression even though i know it's a little more complex- that sharply delineated "recreation time" only exists in opposition to time devoted to capitalist production, that one of the arguments being advanced to make DST permanent is that it boosts spending. i mean unless you are one of those freaks who gets up at 6am and goes for a run standard time is awfully dreary.
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 6 November 2023 22:31 (four months ago) link
5pm and it dark. bad― ivy., Sunday, November 5, 2023
It's always made me angry, since i was a lil kid, that the priority was for the drudgery of commuting to school or work to be sunlit, at the expense of having a measly hour for recreation afterwards.― Deflatormouse, Monday, November 6, 2023
these are arguments in favor of permanent daylight savings, not ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!, the subject of this thread, which so many people seem to want to get rid of
I would be happy with permanent daylight savings. I would just have to close my shades against the sun in early morning hours in the summer.
But is the time change that onerous? Your clocks mostly reset themselves, and an hour difference doesn’t seem like that much
― Dan S, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:25 (four months ago) link
Let’s pick this discussion up in about 4 months
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:26 (four months ago) link
it's not that big of a deal
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:29 (four months ago) link
yeah I'm used to it and I guess I like the novelty that comes in the spring
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:35 (four months ago) link
Right now I feel slightly more energized. But we'll see how long that lasts.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:39 (four months ago) link
this is the kind of thing i usually just ignore but it's kinda funny in this case
these are arguments in favor of permanent daylight savings, not ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!
i realize that.
...but you are anticipating permanent standard time here, not permanent DST :)
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:42 (four months ago) link
i mean even on DST it gets light out at 5am here in june, you probably need to close your shades either way?
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:47 (four months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/permanent-standard-time-body-health-benefits/
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:59 (four months ago) link
https://underthesuninserts.com/cdn/shop/products/ChangesinLatitudeChangesinAttitudeSunsetScene.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 01:55 (four months ago) link
Your body doesn't know Daylight Time from Standard Time. It just knows when its rhythm has been kicked to the curb. What it likes is the "permanent" part, not which clock setting we go with.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 01:56 (four months ago) link
oh my body knows
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 01:57 (four months ago) link
it knows summer from winter, daytime from night, and has a good glimmer of how long 24 hours is. the rest of it is your brain talking.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 02:01 (four months ago) link
The only way to end this is the Solomonic solution: spring 30 minutes ahead and leave it there forever.
We will never reconcile the permanent DST crowd with the permanent ST crowd.
Ditto the clock-change fans and the clock-change haters.
Hence my solution: shift half an hour, and never shift again.
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 12:31 (four months ago) link
An overlooked factor in all this chatter is that no matter which setting we are using, sunrise and sunset times are nearly an hour different from one side of a time zone to the other just because it takes the sun roughly an hour to traverse a zone.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:37 (four months ago) link
well then we should make time zones horizontal
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:49 (four months ago) link
sexy
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:57 (four months ago) link
530 still feels like 930 suppp
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:30 (four months ago) link
"The only way to end this is the Solomonic solution: spring 30 minutes ahead and leave it there forever. "
There are those crazy time zones that have the 30 minute difference like in New Delhi.
― earlnash, Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:35 (four months ago) link
It also often takes way more than an hour to drive (or even fly) from one time zone to another. We're being cheated.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 13 November 2023 02:23 (four months ago) link
And I was just getting up, hit the road before it's lightTrying to catch an hour on the sun
― brimstead, Monday, 13 November 2023 03:53 (four months ago) link
yo fuck this, it's 6:30 not 5:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:33 (one week ago) link
Otoh the clock in my car is telling the correct time again
― sarahell, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:43 (one week ago) link
nice work
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:45 (one week ago) link
no point in changing the clock for just four months
back in my day we had *real* standard time
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:51 (one week ago) link
ha it's true! this is a watered down compromise, nobody is happy
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:17 (one week ago) link
Man, Day Three and I don't know how Mountain Time people get up an hour early like this.
― pplains, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:18 (one week ago) link
Yeah, I know it's time-trickery but I feel a big relief when Daylight Savings comes around... finishing work and still having some light to go for a walk
Husker Du: "Somewhere in April time they add another Owwerrr!" Did it used to be in April or is that just a songwriting/syllable convenience?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:51 (one week ago) link
wow you must be young, it was April to October until Bush Jr.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:53 (one week ago) link
Thanks Dubya.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:55 (one week ago) link
wow you must be young
thank you *blushes*
I just don't remember it or why they adjusted it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:04 (one week ago) link
i love the sun
― ivy., Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:07 (one week ago) link
Congress moved the dates when DST started and ended because estimates predicted a net energy savings nationally if the changes were adopted. Dubya's only involvement was signing the bill into law.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:10 (one week ago) link
when I win the lottery I'll just have two houses in adjacent time zones and move between them accordingly
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:28 (one week ago) link
I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:13 (one week ago) link
xxp Aimless-- I thought it was the centerpiece of his administration's "Energy Conservation Plan"
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 20:01 (one week ago) link
It could have been touted that way when introduced. It's the sort of thing presidents love to mention in their State of the Union address (speeches which I have mostly ignored since about 1994). I can't recall his ever mentioning an interest in it after that, only the stupid wrangling about how many more schoolkids per annum would be crushed by school busses compared to the status quo.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 20:15 (one week ago) link