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