I really HATE Daylight Savings time. I prefer the summer hours, but just pick one, and stick with it. This twice a year switch is stupid, and a century from now, they'll look back at it, and wonder why we did such a stupid thing, for so long.
I don’t know why we ever “fall back”. I dream of a life in which we “spring forward” and stay there forever.
I dream of a life where noon is noon and we worked fewer hours so we could just get off earlier and hav plenty of daylight before and after work kn the summer.
Like if working hours were 9 to 3 it would be even better than DST in the summer!
I love working third shift because it's my choice whether i want morning daylight to myself OR afternoon daylight.
We should stay on standard time. DST is fucking dumb
If we stay on permanent DST you get to go to work and school in the dark.
Split the two and make half way between dst and st permanent.
Getting there in the dark sounds just fine. I want sunlight during more of my personal hours.
And on standard you come home in the dark. I'm doing more after work than before.
I would love DST permanent, but I understand that it’s not great mentally for school kids to get up and go to school in the dark. I would sacrifice that for the next generation to have a better experience.
But really we should start school later.
I’ve worked both day and night shifts. My experience with day shift is 90% of the people working it aren’t awake until 9-10am anyway. Pre shift time is “work” adjacent time.
Evenings, on the other hand, are the best. Having a day that lasts into 830-10pm is glorious.
Just don't change your clocks and go by whatever time you want. Don't be a dst conformist, fight the man, light your neighbors house on fire, the possibilities are endless when you stop caring
Unfortunately I need to eat which requires showing up to a workplace, or at least logging in, at specific times.
Just rob a Walmart, if you get caught you go to jail where they feed you for free AND you don't have to block in anymore, win win
Ew no I hate daylight savings time, I'm glad it's finally normal again
I fucking hate "daylight savings"
Daylight saving (not "savings") is good though. I wish it was daylight saving time year-round.
The problem is the switch, not whichever half is the "savings" - which I refuse to learn because it is silly. Nothing is being saved. If it was like either year round, we'd get used to it and adjust work schedules.
Around the equator there is no daylight saving time. The sun's always up between 6am and 6pm the entire year. The downside of course being that the whole year it gets dark at 6pm.
I hate how early it gets dark, but I did get the third shift achievement of clocking out at 1:30 am and getting home at 1:20 am this morning, so that's kinda neat.
It takes you fifty minutes to get home?
Unpaid?
For all the people who don't understand how time works.
Noon is supposed to be at 12:00. Let's say someone lives in a place where that is literally true. If they lived on the equator then sunrise would be at 6 am and set at 6 pm. If it is the equinox anywhere on the planet would be sire at 6 am and set at 6 pm.
If they are far enough north or south that the shortest day is 10 hours or less, then the sun will rise at 7 am and set at 5 pm. This includes most of the US and Europe. The sun setting at 5 pm during the winter is normal.
The primary issue, at least in the US is that the typical workday of 9 to 5 or 8 to 5 has 5 hours in the afternoon and only 3 or 4 hours in the morning. Being afternoon heavy means getting dark at 5 seems early, especially after the stupid DST shift making it seem like evenings should have even more sunlight. We basically changed society based on banking hours and are angry that time works the way it does and instead of just shifting working hours to what we want we pretend that the sun is the highest in the sky at 1:00 pm for part of the year for no logical reason.
Shortest day is like 6 hours here.
Even high schoolers don't see daylight, let alone people with jobs.
It's horrible
I have a summer seasonal affective disorder. I know it's a bit controversial diagnosis, but I absolutely have a terrible time during summer. It's so bad I start to be increasingly anxious about summer by the end of February because I know it's slowly approaching.
I find daylight to be pleasant like everybody, but after a very short time I start to feel drained as if it was too much. I like cloudy days or when it rains. During summer, I basically don't sleep. Even when the heat is not an issue I just can't sleep.
Lately I've been smiling and laughing more and more; I feel much more at peace. It's always strange to finally feel energized and genuinely happy when most people around me feel the complete opposite.
I'm similar. Definitely way more sluggish and depressed in summer, and my sleep is very poor even if I control the temperature. I enjoy rain and darkness. I prefer night shift. Autumn is my favorite because summer is finally over and it's the longest time before summer comes again, plus it has the best holidays. I sleep best in winter and I'm more productive, energized, and happy.
But unlike SAD, it's a lot harder to fix than just getting a sun lamp. I already do sleep in as dark a room as I can get during the day, but it's never enough. Though the few times I've had access to a truly pitch black room to sleep in, it's been really helpful.
It's a weird way to be and most people really don't understand.
I feel for you. Although I never got an actual diagnosis, I am fairly sure I have traditional SAD. It doesn't make a lot of sense, because I handle cooler temps better than warm ones, but I guess it's a sunlight exposure thing.
I knew someone who claimed that light therapy helped. I don't know much about it, in your case it might be worth a short. Some people talked about melatonin, but I don't think it helps that much if at all (but that's just based my own experience).
In any cases, I hope this winter won't be too hard on you this year.
Thank you. I bought a light therapy lamp years ago. I will have to find it.
This is me, though I figured out a while ago it's better if I just ignore Daylight Savings.
My inner clock doesn't "switch". There's no change. There's just half the year where I'm up an hour earlier and forcing myself to bed earlier and it completely fucks my energy cycle.
Where I live it gets dark around 19:00 now. End of December it will be around 18:30. It still leaves me time for a bike ride or a quick hike after work.
Last year in December I was in Poland and at 17:00 it was completely dark outside. The bizarre thing was that it wasn't just getting dark, there was no one outside. Walking outside at 18:00 felt like walking in the middle of the night. I would look out the window, decide it's time to go to bed then look at the clock and see it's 19:00. Pretty depressing.
Gets dark around 16:30 in most of the usa around dec/jan. It sucks. Wake up in the dark, go to work in the dark, and get home in the dark.
Hahaha, you guys think that's early,good one
For a lot of people if it's dark when you leave work it doesn't really matter if it got dark at 16:59 or 14:00.
The cold is fine. The short days absolutely suck.
And then you go to the Arctic circle, look outside in summer, see daylight, see 12:00 on the clock and have no idea which 12 it is...
I find it much more dispiriting to come home in the dark, than to get up in the dark. So yeah I like "daylight savings time" more in practice. People arguing noon is sun at highest point aren't arguing that 6 is sunrise and 6 is sunset, we don't use sundials anymore.
I'd be good with a world time. Just decide when a day starts worldwide and let local schedules be whatever works. So maybe the sun rises at 0100 in my longitude and so work starts at 4 or whatever. There's no magic to the 12 being noon.
I used to think this too, but using a global time means the date also ticks over to the next day at odd moments during the day. So in the end it feels like timezones with extra confusion.
I’ve got to wake up an hour earlier than normal all week so I really appreciate everyone changing their clocks for me.
"I have no such weakness"
As a critter of the night, this is my favorite time of the year. <3
Really out of the short days bullshit by this point. Good luck northern hemispherers lol
Living abroad and this being so much less extreme really let sink in how much I hate this 😭
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