ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

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

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/

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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

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.

^^^

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

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?!?'

wake up sleeple!

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), 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

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?

Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2019