Does the ability to adjust to daylight savings time changes get harder with age?

[Cal Carpenter]

Hi Lounge

Somehow I decided the lounge would be a better place to ask this than GD. Or google.

[Suich]

1. Not with me!

Retired, on SS and Medicare.

You having trouble?

[Cal Carpenter]

3. Not too much trouble

just a slower adjustment process this time around. And I've decided I'm old enough to try to blame shit on age

[KMOD]

2. It affects many people.

Changing times of meals, sleep, etc., can throw many for a loop.

I wish they would just pick one, or the other, daylight savings, or standard time, and stick with it.

[Cal Carpenter]

4. I think you're right

And the seasons are changing too. I'm totally fucking ready for winter to be done this year but it's still one more change to throw into the mix.. I think I'll try to spend more time outside in the next few days, maybe that'll help.

[hopemountain]

26. and the flu

and several lifestyle changes and other stuff going on.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Not for me. In some ways it's easier because...

I don't have a regular schedule any more. And recording favorite TV shows through the cable company makes it irrelevant.

I have, however, always hated DST and consider it merely another unnecessary aggravation.

My abilities for other things, however, are entirely different matters. And far more troubling.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. I think it would be harder for younger people,

people who are students or have crappy menial jobs, and really need that extra sleep. I've struggled all 42 years of my life with this silly bullshit.

[Skittles]

17. how exactly does one lose sleep?

[OriginalGeek]

18. They stole my hour!

I want it back! But I won't get it til november.

Until then I consider my hour of sleep in the morning stolen.

The thing is, I have to get up at the time I have to get up which is an hour earlier than it should be. BUT my body doesn't accept at night that I have to go to bed an hour earlier. My body goes to sleep at the regular time no matter if it's called 1 am or 2 am.

I blame Bush.

[Skittles]

21. seriously, are people that delicate

try booting multiple systems non-stop for 14 hours and THEN I will understand someone whining about one freaking hour - it's ridiculous!

[OriginalGeek]

24. well, yes

I am.

[shenmue]

7. I think so

It knocks me out every time.

[Enthusiast]

15. Me too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. It hasn't bothered me.

In fact, I like it more now than I used to.

[Kali]

9. hell,

plain old regular daylight time is getting harder to deal with in my old age

[DebJ]

10. The production of the hormone melatonin decreases with age. Melatonin

helps maintain your body clock.

So, it seems likely to me.

At 7pm, I thought it was only 5 pm today.

So I'm struggling both with adjusting to the clock time change, and also the actual change of the position of the sun.

But since I'm retired, it really doesn't matter!!!!

back at ya!

[Sherman A1]

11. For me

I would say Yes.

I wish it would stay one or the other all year long.

[magical thyme]

12. I find it gets easier

My body seems to anticipate and expect it. Several weeks before the clock-change, I start nodding off to sleep earlier and waking up at 4:30 every morning. And in the fall, the opposite, I find myself staying up later and later and wanting to sleep in.

I'm grateful for the time change; it fits my biorhythm.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

13. It has a horrible affect on preschool and elementary students.

They are tired and crying and cranky. It's hard on the teachers, too.

[Sheldon Cooper]

14. Some years it hits me harder than others.

I'm in my mid-50s, and this year has been a beast. I think I'm finally adjusted after two full weeks. I don't have this problem in the fall when we turn everything back.

[rurallib]

16. YES

maybe because I have a bad attitude about DST

[Generic Brad]

19. Time zone changes don't seem to impact me

But I normally sleep very little anyway.

[Special Prosciuto]

20. No.

DST is bullshit policy set by motherfucking idiots in DC long ago. Ignore their crap and don't touch your watch.

[dolphinsandtuna]

22. No, 'cause when you're retired, you don't care what time it is

You do what you want, when you want.

[Dont call me Shirley]

23. New Mexico recently voted against a "Full time daylight savings" bill.

That would have been a boon for the tourism industry here.

Yes. It takes me about 2 weeks to adjust to DST. Not so much for the switch back to ST.

[HeiressofBickworth]

25. Makes no difference to me.

I'm retired. I go to bed when I'm tired and I get up when I'm finished sleeping.