ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

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

Iiuc a number of states including ca and fl have passed laws that will move them on to year round DST as soon as that gets federal approval. Currently federal law only allows states to be on standard time year round (eg Arizona) or switch at the same time as the nation.

Between the rain and whatnot, this morning is roooooough so far.

Help me, freshly brewed coffee, you are my only hope.

What I (honestly) don’t get is how people who complain actually notice losing that hour. Or gaining an hour in the fall.

Do those people have strict bedtimes and and wake times on the weekends?

For me, I never notice because on any given weekend night I might go to bed any time between 9PM and 2AM. And even during the week my bedtime varies by more than an hour.

Similarly, in the mornings sometimes I get up at 5:30, sometime at 7:45.

I understand that would be difficult if you had kids. But still, it’s only an hour, and I can’t seem to grasp how people sense the difference.

I have kids and this is also the aspect of the complaints that most puzzles me. Like even if I consistently went to bed and got up at the same hours (I don't) there are nights where I can't sleep for hours or sleep restlessly

it's being wrenched awake by an alarm that you know is going off an hour earlier than it should, in order to load sixteen tons and get another day older and deeper in debt.

with kids i find it's the opposite - instead of being rudely awoken at say 6am the clock now says 7am which feels more tolerable!

Similarly, in the mornings sometimes I get up at 5:30, sometime at 7:45.

you sound like a morning person.

Oh god no

Just depends on what I’ve got to do that day

Waking up and it's still pitch black out, no thanks