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
Otm
― 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