ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

(Hawkwind - Hurry On Sundown)

Woke up at my usual time, which apparently is now five a.m.

Guess I can work that to my advantage this week, having an extra hour in the mornings until my jet lag wears off. Work on some night moves, make some front-page news. Ah, Novembertime.

Can someone explain to my cats that we're falling back this morning?

Ha, had the exact same problem.

Accidentally fell asleep with the lights on and music playing. I fucked it up!!!!

This is the first time in my 55+ years that I actually used my fallback to get an extra hour of sleep. Felt pretty fuckin' good.

Lol Floridians are so dumb.

Last year, our state legislature voted to end DST for Florida. Of course, that requires Congress to amend Federal law, so it was really a first step (or a PR stunt), which was made clear at the time.

Didn't stop Floridians from flooding social media last night, asking why they had to set the clocks back since we ended it.

Sadly since cell phones and laptops usually update themselves, my fantasy of millions of Floridians being on the wrong time won't come to pass.

And yes I get that "dumb Floridian" sometimes feels like a pleonasm

This is the first time in my 55+ years that I actually used my fallback to get an extra hour of sleep. Felt pretty fuckin' good.

"Sadly since cell phones and laptops usually update themselves, my fantasy of millions of Floridians being on the wrong time won't come to pass."

It sounds like the setup for a 1990s fish-out-of-water comedy. It would end with the hero teaching the futuristic people of New York about "real music", e.g. pre-Beatles rock and roll, because the film would be written by a baby boomer who hasn't got over Elvis being drafted. He or she would catch some crooks using a vintage skateboard, or something, or a surfboard, because people in Florida surf, don't they? He or she would dress up like the characters from Miami Vice. It's high concept. Nineteen-eighties meets the modern age! Cocaine everywhere, and people are paranoid about AIDS. There could be a cameo from the COUGH Indian COUGH chap from Short Circuit that would seem perfectly normal to the film's writer, because Indian people are funny, but would be horribly uncomfortable for the audience.

Alternatively imagine a film in which Florida is perpetually an hour behind the rest of the United States. The transient nature of internet microcelebrity is such that just being an hour behind the times would cut the people of Florida off from "the narrative". They would have to send meme-gatherers into the rest of the United States in order to bring back fresh live memes. I live in the UK, which means that I'm fourteen hours behind "the narrative". My experience of Reddit and so forth is that everything happened fourteen hours ago, while I was asleep, and by the time I catch up the drama is over.

I'm thinking of that woman who was on a flight to South Africa. She tweeted something tasteless before she got on the plane - "I'm not worried about catching AIDS because I'm white" or something like that - and while she was on the plane a twitter storm erupted, and she was sacked (she worked in PR), and she only learned about it when she touched down because back in 2011 or whenever there was no internet on planes. That little drama played itself out over the course of just a few hours. Imagine a future in which being just one hour behind the times was enough to cut yourself adrift from modern society, if that isn't already the case. That's why I read Ilxor every day, so that I don't lose touch. Once you let go of the rope the current takes you and you're lost.

Wow

I can't remember the year or the town it happened in, so I know this sounds like an urban legend, but there was a town in Florida during the 70s that suffered a power outage for one hour during the night the state sprang forward from EST to EDT.

Since it was before clocks that could set themselves, most people set their clocks ahead before bed. Then their clocks froze for an hour, allowing standard time to catch back up. When everyone awoke in the morning, there were no flashing 12:00s. Just a bunch of people who still wound up being an hour late for church.

...And dinner time is anticipated an hour early by some fraught felines.

Baxter just went “fuck everything” and started asking for dinner at 11am

Alternatively imagine a film in which Florida is perpetually an hour behind the rest of the United States.

I enjoyed the premises that flow from this but I refuse to accept the implication that the other rest of the US sets their clocks back three hours. The sun setting at 5pm is brutal enough, under your system it’d be dark at lunchtime come January.

I am working overnight tonight and have to work an extra hour thanks to this nonsense

― k3vin k., Saturday, November 2, 2019 9:09 PM (yesterday)

that's happened to me too!

i wish to report a burglary

Sorry could you speak in a higher register

I AM HAVING ONE HOUR OF MY LIFE STOLEN FROM ME

late April already? o shit

do you have a record of ownership of this hour for insurance purposes?

MOTHERFUCKERS STOLE MY HOUR
GIMME BACK MY DARKNESS

Ah, that time of year where millions suffering from mental illness exacerbated by seasonal affective order are finally given some respite by an extra hour of glorious sunlight

and other pweeple wose a whole hour of sweep "waaaaaaaah!"

woke up and it's almost 11 fick this

I'm betting you'll recover

i'm over it now

My body is a finely-tuned waking up machine, by which I mean it is common for me to wake up and wonder what time it is and see that it's one or two minutes before my alarm is set to go off, and I did that very thing today except that it was 59 minutes after my alarm would have gone off were it a weekday. So I think I have a fair claim on bitching about this daylight savings time that throws my ass off unnecessarily twice a goddamn year.

HI DERE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77D7DF4Gpo0

fuck off Hadrian, suicides actually go up when this shit happens so shove your snide bullshit back up your ass

ban this barbaric practice forever

maybe this year will be the year, here in oregon i think we literally passed a law that says "we'll go dst year-round when california does", get on that shit california

xp As someone who suffers from severe depression and lives in New England, this extra hour has for many years been my saving grace—on a couple of occasions literally so.

Anyway I don't know what's going on in your personal life either, so I won't presume to know what external factors account for your own (clear^) problem.

daylight depresses me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE

daylight depresses me

otm

year-around daylight time would suit me somewhat better than never-changing standard time because under standard time it would start to get light in June/July at about 4 a.m. around here, but if it came to that I would be fine with either. I am less than thrilled with twice-yearly clock shifting.

We should have daily time changes imo

just dispense with the entire concept of time entirely imo

make the day 25 hours imo

The extra hour for sexytimes and/or bathroom use

make the day 25 hours imo

go tell it to the earth's rotational spin

Daylight savings = good not bad because we are currently in that all too brief window when the time difference on both sides of the pond is reduced by 1h.

But it's even more confusing since Southern Hemisphere countries will be falling back ... in a month or so ... so who the fuck knows what time is it right now

Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?

I have to assume that was an anti-DST anthem. Good on ya, Chicago.

the people at my company are so dumb that they programmed Puerto Rico as Eastern time in the case management program because they thought that's what they were on. at least it now it won't matter for half a year

That's another thing: Sick of having to call myself Chicago or Houston whenever I set my time zone on something.

lol New York for me.

maybe this year will be the year, here in oregon i think we literally passed a law that says "we'll go dst year-round when california does", get on that shit california

― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, March 8, 2020 12:19 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

we laid some of the groundwork in 2018, but who knows when it will actually happen.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_7,_Legislative_Power_to_Change_Daylight_Saving_Time_Measure_(2018)

Florida passed a bill like that but it requires US Congress approval