Don't forget the NCAA tourney.
Can't you see one of our favorite things is killing us!?
**** daylight savings
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Don't forget the NCAA tourney.
Can't you see one of our favorite things is killing us!?
I know. But it's literally 1 hour. I just personally don't understand how it so adversely affects some people.
It's more just annoying than anything.
I think it all goes to the same Ethiopian kids that got my leftovers growing up...
I'd need to read more on it but I wonder if it's a pressure thing like how weather patterns can affect arthritis etc.
I notice moods tend to change during weather shifts too which is interesting.
Without DST the sunrise in the summer would be as early as 4:30 AM so f that. I'd rather enjoy the extra sun until 9 PM in the summer.
Yeah it sucks that it is dark more in the winter but DST or ST there's naturally going to be more darkness in the winter.
Yeah it sucks that it is dark more in the winter but DST or ST there's naturally going to be more darkness in the winter.
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Yeah, I wish we remained on daylight savings time year-round, but the switch itself isn’t too bad. And actually I think the fall adjustment is easier because you’re gaining an hour
Back when I did stuff like stay up past 10 PM and drank regularly this weekend was a big celebration for bar flies.
Try writing software to deal with that crap.
Every year we ***** about having the change the clocks, and every year nothing gets done about it.
It's hard getting up when its dark out, for me personally. I think a lot of folks are like this. Just easier to get up when it's light out. I do it, every day, at 5:15am, but it's way easier on me if there is some light outside first.
One thing I'd like to say about all this. When the derecho hit, we had no power for 12 days. It was late summer, so it started getting light around 5:30am and dark around 8:30pm. With no lights/TV/electricity we basically just called it a day and crashed around 9pm. Woke up with the dawn around 5am.
We both felt absolutely fantastic, even at that hour. Some of that I am sure is getting good quantity of sleep, but I think being more aligned to the sun was really beneficial too. I mean, we have kind of evolved this way.
Maybe we need to realign how we use time in our society. Base it off of sunup/sundown rather than absolute time. Not sure how that would work. Maybe you say sunup is hour 0, and "work starts at 2" meaning 2 hours after sunup. You can certainly have watches/phones that would adjust to the changes. Or you could use the standard time system, don't change the clocks around, but change work/school times thru the year. April thru October, work starts at 7am. November to March, it starts at 8am. Something like that.
Same here, but I've always been a light sleeper, so the sun coming up normally wakes me. That said, winding activities down at 8 or 9 rather than 10/11 did make a difference, especially with little artificial light. It was easy to feel tired and go to bed at an earlier hour.
Sarah McLachlan should write a song about saving daylight.
I'm up at 4:30-5am every day as well so except for maybe a month in summer it's pitch black when I wake up anyway. When they change up here next week sunrise will be around 6:45. Not sure who that helps.
Leave the clocks the way they are now all year round. Don’t make it where it gets dark at 8pm in July. I dgaf if I have to drive to work in the morning in the dark.
