Happy Daylight Saving Time!

[Polybius]

Love it getting dark later, even if it takes a few days to get used to!

[MiHale]

1. Catch me in about an hour...nt

[samplegirl]

2. Absolutely!

It’s so dark in Ohio most days…. Really look forward to the extra hour as well!

[alphafemale]

3. Just watch out for children walking to their bus stops in the dark tomorrow morning.

Because you magically altered time

[smirkymonkey]

5. Both work and school should start later and DST should be permanent.

Shorten the workday. it's too long anyway. Productivity has increased, yet we are still working the same amount of hours. It's bullshit.

[alphafemale]

6. Why not make the sunset 3 hours later!

Magic!

No one has to get up to make your fresh doughnuts and coffee in the morning!

It's magic!

And it should all be FREE!

[Blues Heron]

9. give it a week - you wont even remember what all the fuss was about

just nice long evenings with lots of relaxing sunshine.

[alphafemale]

24. I have no good feelings to sunsets at 9PM

Not at any time.

[Blues Heron]

26. sorry to hear that

we will be back in winter in a few short months anyway, everythings in flux in this universe. This too shall pass!

[Polybius]

38. Why?

Everyone loves when it gets dark at 9:00.

[Mariana]

34. The first bell at the local high school rings at 7:20. It's ridiculous. nt.

[Joinfortmill]

4. 👍

[Owl]

7. Yes! Love it!

[krispos42]

8. No.

If we as a society want an extra hour of daylight in the evening, we as a society need to set our institutions an hour ahead and stop fucking with the clocks.

And New England needs to be on Atlantic Time, but that's because the Eastern Time Zone is unusually wide compared to others.

[Blues Heron]

10. That is what we are doing

It is all about the work schedule. We have been messing with the clocks since the railroads forced us off local time and set up the evil time zones. This is just more of the same.

[krispos42]

12. Set the school start times, and society will follow

Businesses will adapt their schedules to the schools, and we're all happy.

Leave the damn clocks alone

[Blues Heron]

13. Similar result but with a lot more chaos, same whiners would be freaking out, etc.

Why would you assume businesses would change anything? That truly is a recipe for chaos.

give it a week and no one will remember what all the drama was about.

[krispos42]

21. Less chaos!

Once and done, not twice a year for the rest of our lives.

And businesses will follow suit because both the bosses and the rank-and-file have kids in the schools.

And don't just change the schools... All government offices. Post office, welfare office, tax office, zoning and planning commission, parks and recreation, DMV, etc.

Just start the work day earlier, YEAR ROUND.

This fucks up my life personally because this means another three weeks of driving into the goddamn rising sun in the morning. After dealing with driving into the rising sun in morning and setting sun in the evening I, and thousands of drivers like me, we're just getting to the point where the sun was high enough to be blocked by our visors.

Now we have to merge onto I-95 directly into the rising sun for a few more weeks. Yay.

[Blues Heron]

23. So we all have to hustle out the door hours before dawn in December?

no thanks - been there done that. Trust me - it sucked back in 74. We have DST for a very good reason. Maybe pick a different route? Polarized sunglasses can really help with glare, but thats hardly a reason to abandon DST

[alphafemale]

30. Making DST year round would make it even ghastlier for people who actually work in the morning.

Not sure of your argument.

[Blues Heron]

32. totally agree

[Polybius]

39. Why?

Because it's still dark? Dark mornings are fun.

[alphafemale]

42. If you have the ability to stay in bed until the Price is Right comes on?

Maybe so.

[Polybius]

46. I work every now and then in the morning

Oooooo dark mornings. Scary.

[madinmaryland]

45. We would have at least three time zones in Ohio...

Cleveland, columbus, and Dayton standard times! Not like anyone really knows what time it is, but that would really fuck with everyone here!

[Meowmee]

11. I hate it

It is even worse now because they made the changes closer together. Just keep it at one time all the time and change schedules a bit if needed. It takes me months to adjust and I never get back to any normality, ever. This was supposedly done for farmers and they don’t even need it now. Keep it so it is lighter later all the time which is better for everyone and stop trying to force everyone onto an am schedule.

Have you ever heard of the second sleep?

[Blues Heron]

14. Months to adjust lol!!

Do you really want to hustle out the door hours before dawn in December? I dont think anybody wants that particular side effect of permanent DST.

[Meowmee]

16. Lol very funny, what a bore u are

[Blues Heron]

18. awww

Give it a week - you wont even remember what all the drama was about. Months to adjust though? - thats something else, not a one hour time change. Get a doctors opinion, that is not normal.

[krispos42]

22. I already do that.

I don't know what out of touch lifestyle you lead, but I work from 7a.m. to 4:30 or 5pm. I already spend half the winter driving to and from work in total darkness.

And you admit it takes a week to adjust to the clock change... Each time! But that's less chaos than a once-and-done society change?

[Blues Heron]

25. Get used to it - its here to stay despite the constant, predictable, tiresome whining

Every six months

by now you should be used it. You have to admit, it is truly a first world problem. It is painful to hear this petty whinging about a 1 hour change, when people in Ukraine are literally being slaughtered as we speak.

[krispos42]

27. It is painful to hear this petting whining about a few civilian casualties in Ukraine...

...when 45,000 Americans are losing their lives to our dysfunctional health-care system.

But get used to it... it's here to stay despite the constant, predictable, and tiresome whining every Congressional election.


See? I can be an asshole too!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

36. If it takes you months to adjust, I sincerely hope you

never travel across a time zone or three. And I gather you never ever stay up an extra hour at night, or have to get up an hour earlier on occasion.

[Polybius]

40. It takes me two or three days maximum to get used to

Not sure why it takes you months.

[Meowmee]

44. Many people have the same issues as me

Which is why there is a movement to get rid of it for good. Google is your friend.

[Polybius]

48. I know about the movement

I don't support changing something I love because 1% take months getting used to.

[Scottie Mom]

15. I 💝 DST

I love the long hours of daylight in the evening. I habitually get up early and enjoy the quiet hours of the morning when it’s dark. So peaceful then.

[MineralMan]

17. Time changes affect everyone differently, it seems.

Some people have severe effects from the changes, while others, like me, don't even notice it. I change the clocks and use them to tell me what time it is. I still slept 8 hours last night.

I feel for people for whom time changes cause distress, though. Should we keep changing the clocks? I don't know. Since it doesn't really affect me, I defer to those who are negatively affected.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. Despise it.

[ChazII]

20. No Daylight Saving time

where I live.

[jcgoldie]

28. Thank You!

An extra hour of daylight to do some grilling and the weather here in the Midwest seems to be on board... sunshine and nothing but highs in the 60s and lows in the 40s on the ten day... spring has sprung!

... Oh but "wahhhh I lost an hour of sleep... wahhh I don't think I shall ever recover... I have no idea how I ever manage to travel anywhere across timezones without completely losing my shit..." Ok enough of that headed back out to enjoy the sunshine!

[VGNonly]

29. I hate it!

It messes with my flat earth paradise and upsets the sleeping patterns of Sasquatch!

[hunter]

31. Like the majority of Californians I voted to eliminate these clock changes.

Now we're just waiting for our legislature to make it so.

Daylight savings time only makes sense for the nine-to-five crowd.

Most people these days don't work nine-to-five.

Farm workers and construction workers are on site as the sun rises. In dense urban areas the roads are repaired at night under lights. Retail and warehouse workers are up at all hours. Hospitals never close. Babies can be born at any time.

My wife is a health care professional. In her career she's had some very stressful schedules. I've worked night and graveyard shifts. My children work mostly from their homes, on the internet, mostly across U.S. time zones from Maine to Hawaii.

Here in the 21st century daylight savings time is just an irritation.

If I was Emperor of Earth schools would have a spring and fall schedule, adjusted so that children wouldn't have to wake up and walk to school in the dark. "Normal" business hours would reflect this schedule for the convenience of parents who work these normal business hours. The clocks wouldn't change.

[Polybius]

41. "Daylight savings time only makes sense for the nine-to-five crowd"

I work nights and never get up before 11AM, so that theory is out the window. So why do I love it? Because I'm a night owl. The longer it stays light outside, the better.

[hunter]

43. Why is it that work schedules can't be flexible so that EVERYONE has to change their clocks?

It makes no sense.

If an employee wants a few hours of daylight when they get home, then change their work hours to reflect that.

If another employee wants to get up at dawn every morning, then change their work hours to reflect that.

If a job requires daylight, and the afternoons are hellishly hot in the summer, then start the work day a half hour before sunrise. As I said, farm workers and many sorts of construction workers do that. I've done that, pouring concrete in the early morning, working it, and going home before two.

My ancestors were ranchers and dairy farmers. They didn't pay much attention to the clocks. They were bound by the biorhythms of their cattle, which may be similar biorhythms to my own. Whenever I'm free to follow my own biorhythms I greet each new day with morning bird chorus and go to bed sixteen to eighteen hours later.

Whenever I was working "graveyard shift" I was a slightly different person, and maybe a little dark. In one job, for three years, I was arranging logistics for transplanted organs and tissue. Sometimes I carried the coolers myself. Transplant nurses and techs are some of the most wonderful altruistic people in the world but things do tend to be a little goth when you're transporting living body parts at three o'clock in the morning.

[Polybius]

47. No

I want it to be be light until at least 8:30 in the Summer. Doesn't matter my hours. I've worked 9-5, 4-12, and 10-6AM. I still like late sunsets because on my off days, it's just a better feeling.

[we can do it]

33. Let's keep it this way!😻

[Happy Hoosier]

35. I HATE changing clocks

Such a ridiculous idea.

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

37. No change for me

One of the great things about Arizona.