ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

I THOUGHT THIS SHIT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TWO WEEKS FROM NOW, NOT IN TWO DAYS!

it is a nightmare

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fucking hate this bullshit

motherfuck

What the fuck?

too soon

can we just spring ahead 30 minutes and then end this whole charade

the greatest day of the year, finally some respite from the suffocating darkness of winter

y'all are crazy

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

“I’m mad because there is light now in the evening” whaaaat ppl

Shortest weekend of the year, kill me now

really can't imagine getting worked up over this

i bet you love summer too

hippies

tbh, getting our early-rising pets re-situated is more of a hassle than our own schedules

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

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

you all just copying hawaii.

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.

this basically means having to get up while it's still dark for the next couple of weeks. The worst time the year.

grow up y'all

go to bed early

but it's hard to fall asleep early when it's light later!

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.

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.

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

Yerac, and you don't have to answer, but where are you? Greenland or Brazil?

man we still got like 4 feet of snow on the ground here

Chill out, it’ll be fine, just roll wid it

Chile. It's summer here right now.

May as well be summer here.

The day is going by so fast and everyone is still asleep. Grrrrrr...

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.

Oh God it’s as bad as predicted! I lost 1 hour of sleep last night — how will I ever recover?!

I hate the idea of brunch, but my friend and I walked in without reservations at 10:30 to a normally booming spot #daylightsavingsproblems

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.

I'm fine with Jesse speaking for me.

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.

twice a year

oh I'm 100% against returning to standard time

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

I too would prefer no time changes, as long as we stuck with DST.

^otm. DST year-round works for me.

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.

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, March 9, 2019 1:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok fine admittedly these are all terrible things

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

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

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

Or at least as loudly as most people do about springing forward.

You mean "wintering forward."

as it happens I also have a midterm tomorrow and sure could have fucking used that extra hour of study

sunny and 35 F at 7pm doesn't do much for me

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http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/