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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI hate daylight savings time, and losing/gaining an hour of sleep 2x per year.
That's all I want to say.
I wrote my senator and congressperson a few years ago, too.
...and so does my poor dog who doesn't understand why her walks/feeding times have changed.
waaaaaa! I hate it!
...back to your regular scheduled programming.
Turbineguy
(37,367 posts)to New York and back. Through the Suez Canal. 98 days round trip, 42 time changes.
But yes, getting rid of daylight savings time would be a good thing.
42????? Ouch!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)pnwmom
(108,995 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)Suich
(10,642 posts)I can't see to drive at night so DST is a real blessing for me.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)Standard time is horrible, it's like going into a long dark tunnel every year. I am always thrilled when April rolls around.
Cha
(297,655 posts)extra hour in NY..and, no doggie.
Now I live in Hawaii and we don't have it. But, I'm noticing the time have been messed up for me on DU ever since it happened this year.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Stupidity like that leaves me stunned into a brain freeze.
Depressing as hell.
On further looking, this is a 2012 newspaper comment attributed to a guy in Australia, possibly as tongue in cheek.
http://geekologie.com/2012/03/ahahaha-daylight-savings-time-to-blame-f.php
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)The end of the letter makes it pretty clear it's not serious I think.
But the drought in Australia is all too serious.
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)and the rest of the story
Violet_Crumble
(35,977 posts)They're taking the piss out of the claims back when daylight savings started that curtains would fade with the extra hour of sun a day...
littlemissmartypants
(22,805 posts)I love my president.
Just thought I'd share.
Dog farts, I hate those.
~ littlemissmartypants 🙆
chillfactor
(7,584 posts)I hate it when we go back to standard time
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)It's part and parcel of every year of life you've lived.
Nothing really changes.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)It's all a plot to sell more clocks!
lobodons
(1,290 posts)Jesus, relax, and enjoy life. I could see in the spring when we lose an hour of sleep, but to bitch in the Fall when we get an extra hour..?? Seems there are other areas to heighten blood pressure.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)You want to get mad about something, get mad about THAT!
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Why can't they just do it in the afternoon or evening?
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Why can't you set the clocks when you wake up or before going to sleep?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)I've been up all night adjusting the stinking clocks!
Hardest part for me is my one battery op clock is sensitive. Once I manually turn the hands, it takes a few days for it to run normally. It starts and stops and I have to reset a few times.
Make7
(8,543 posts)MindPilot
(12,693 posts)I mean why don't people who hate Ebola just get polio instead?
Codeine
(25,586 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I'm a ridiculously early riser anyway now it's even worse. I got up this morning at what would have been 4:00 am and remembered it was DST so the clock says 3:00 am and there's no way I can go back to sleep. But watch. I'll doze off at 6:00 tonight.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)We're usually up around quarter to 4. This morning woke up like usual and the cable box said 2:44. And like you, there's no way we're going back to sleep.
And like you, we'll doze off before the football day is over.
GAC
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)Triana
(22,666 posts)We should settle on one or the other (DST or Standard) and leave it the f*ck alone forever.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)It's the change that's a pain in the ass...pick one!
Vinca
(50,304 posts)MadrasT
(7,237 posts)Everybody should just use GMT and deal with it.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)one clock. work when it's light... sleep when it's night. if the meeting's at 0200... its the same time EVERYWHERE.
oh, well.
sP
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Retrograde
(10,156 posts)before they call someone on the West Coast:
-<ring>
-<me, grumpily> Huh? Wha? Who died?
-<annoyingly chipper person on other end> Hi, how are you?
-<me> What time is it? It's too dark to see the clock.
-<annoyingly chipper person> It's just past 8 AM! The sun's been up for hours! You sound like your still asleep.
-<me> That's because it's 5 AM here, you moron.
I used to think one time zone for the US would be a good idea, but since over half the population is in one, they'd still expect the rest of us to conform to their schedules and act surprised that conditions a continent away are different.
And I hate daylight savings time.
DeadEyeDyck
(1,504 posts)Just saying
yourout
(7,533 posts)When the clock goes backwards it essentially overwrites 1 hour of data.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)No data over-writes at DST clock changes.
MerryBlooms
(11,771 posts)but just like your dogs, our cats don't transition well. It takes the cats a good week before they settle into routine again.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Seeking Serenity
(2,840 posts)Team Blue on this issue vs. Team Red? Until I know this, I won't be able to formulate my opinion.
(For context for this piece of snark, read here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025747153
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/1/7136343/gamergate-and-the-politicization-of-absolutely-everything)
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)The day is twenty four hours! THAT DOES NOT FUCKING CHANGE!! Depending on the position of the Earth relative to the Sun, some of it will be dark and some of it will be light. THAT DOES NOT FUCKING CHANGE!
This had to have been a conservative idea...only someone who thinks the bible is real and global warming is not happening could believe that resetting a clock actually changes time.
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)And many of us appreciate it.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)What are you going to do with those extra four minutes?
If you need daylight after work, then the problem is with your work hours, not the clock settings.
To paraphrase O'Reilly The days get longer; the days get shorter...you can't change that.
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)You do realize that there is a gradual reduction in daylight over the course of the summer, don't you?
It is much easier to have everyone's clock settings changed than to get everyone's employers to change their work hours. I'll fight any loss of DST.
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)But you get to point where the daylight doesn't span a full workday. No amount of fiddling with the clock is going to change that.
We should pick one, and leave it alone..
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)have the change than no DST at all.
Retrograde
(10,156 posts)supposedly to let the little dears go out while it's still light, they still wait until after dark to make their rounds.
pnwmom
(108,995 posts)And I'd hate to give it up during the summers. It's wonderful here then.
Retrograde
(10,156 posts)which really should be in the Central time zone, but apparently at one time Detroit thought it was a big East Coast city I was in college that year: it would still be dark (and cold) when I got back from my 8 AM classes.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)But it hardly merits a lot of drama. The household will be over it in a day or two.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)You appreciate the extra hour of sleep
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)about changing the clocks, how awful it is, how totally disrupted their life is, as if this hasn't been going on for a very long time now.
If I'm remembering correctly, DST was observed in a patchwork way across the country for a long time, and it wasn't until 1967 that we got a uniform DST. I was living in Arizona that year, and there really was no benefit to a much longer afternoon and evening when it's too hot to go outside anyway.
I do have one clock that is absolutely refusing to let me change it, which is quite annoying. I finally settled for changing the alarm set time, so it will still go off when Amy Goodman's show starts.
Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)Woke to the happy surprise that it wasn't nearly as late as the clock said. I think we should have it once a month. Randomly.
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)tblue37
(65,488 posts)clocks on DST during fall semester, just to fool my body and thus squeeze in an extra hour of grading each night.
Of course, it is outrageous that I should consider this helpful, but it is. As long as I don't let my body realize it is not as late as CST says it is, I can get more work done.
I am old enough to remember when I didn't have to work so long and hard to get everything done, but TPTB have us on very short leash these days. We have more and more work to do, but our days don't have any more hours than they ever did.
In my 20s and 30s I was able to spend hours, even whole days on weekends, just hanging out with friends or riding bikes, playing Frisbee, reading for fun. But now I have to keep putting my friends off until I get a few days' break, and sometimes even then, because I have so much work to catch up on. Winter break (3 weeks) and summer break (2 1/2 months) are the only time I really can sop to breathe now.