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
Arizona doesn't have daylight savings because it is scorching hot there in the summer
― Dan S, Monday, 6 November 2023 00:39 (five months ago) link
the offset is having light in the winter before 7:00 in the morning, which is fine by me
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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
“It gets late so early now”
― calstars, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:48 (five months ago) link
Calstars Berra
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:59 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
Let’s pick this discussion up in about 4 months
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:26 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
https://underthesuninserts.com/cdn/shop/products/ChangesinLatitudeChangesinAttitudeSunsetScene.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 01:55 (five 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 (five months ago) link
oh my body knows
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 01:57 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
well then we should make time zones horizontal
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:49 (five months ago) link
sexy
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 16:57 (five months ago) link
530 still feels like 930 suppp
― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2023 22:30 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 (five 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 month ago) link
Otoh the clock in my car is telling the correct time again
― sarahell, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:43 (one month ago) link
nice work
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:45 (one month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago) link
Thanks Dubya.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 17:55 (one month 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 month ago) link
i love the sun
― ivy., Tuesday, 12 March 2024 18:07 (one month 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 month 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 month ago) link
I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 19:13 (one month 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 month 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 month ago) link