ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

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.

oh my body knows

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.

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.

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.

well then we should make time zones horizontal

sexy

530 still feels like 930 suppp

"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.

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.

It also often takes way more than an hour to drive (or even fly) from one time zone to another. We're being cheated.

And I was just getting up, hit the road before it's light
Trying to catch an hour on the sun

yo fuck this, it's 6:30 not 5:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo

Otoh the clock in my car is telling the correct time again

nice work

no point in changing the clock for just four months

back in my day we had *real* standard time

ha it's true! this is a watered down compromise, nobody is happy

Man, Day Three and I don't know how Mountain Time people get up an hour early like this.

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?

wow you must be young, it was April to October until Bush Jr.

Thanks Dubya.

wow you must be young

thank you *blushes*

I just don't remember it or why they adjusted it

i love the sun

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.

when I win the lottery I'll just have two houses in adjacent time zones and move between them accordingly

I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.

xxp Aimless-- I thought it was the centerpiece of his administration's "Energy Conservation Plan"

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.