Standard Time sucks

[doc03]

Turned my clocks back one hour at dark. It's been dark like 6 hours already. I can't imagine living in Alaska.

[Skittles]

1. what's wrong with the dark?

I like it

[Lemon Lyman]

17. Me Too!

There's less noise when it's colder/darker. There are no motorcycles loudly zooming down the highway. We've spent enough years in this neighborhood to see it go from an older retiree neighborhood to a mixed neighborhood. There are more young couples with kids now. I like it quiet. When it's warm and sunny outside, there are lots of people and noise. When it's cold and dark outside, people are in their homes and it's quiet.

There are so many things I like about this time of year!

[Skittles]

26. I love everything about it

I work night shift and take long walks in the middle of the night......it's a great feeling, that quiet. Nothing like it.

[Peregrine Took]

24. I love it. This is my favorite time of year.

Get home before dark, light the candles, turn on the fireplace..everything seems so safe and cozy there.

[Skittles]

25. you get it

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. The real problem is that daylight time lasts far too long.

It should start in April, and be over at the end of September.

If we're going to have one time, no yearly changes, standard time would be much better.

[leftieNanner]

3. I agree nt

[burrowowl]

4. Especially in the southwest where air conditioning runs longer

And construction Starts later so heat is greater for the workers.

[Salviati]

14. It would be terrible in the north though.

I don't want the sunrise to happen at 4am in the summer, and I really would like seeing the sun after work in the winter if we were to go to full time DST.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

23. Nor do you want the sun rising at 9am in the winter.

The one year we did year-round DST showed that problem. I believe several kids were struck by cars as they were waiting for school busses in the early morning dark.

[electric_blue68]

16. Oh, hell, no!

[Ocelot II]

5. Starting tomorrow it will start getting dark around 4:30.

But at least it will start getting light earlier in the morning, not that I care because I'm usually not awake early in the morning.

[doc03]

6. Back before I retired I would get up in the dark and it was

dark when I got off work.

[Ocelot II]

7. Same here. Up at 6:30 and it was dark. Left work at 5:30, it was dark.

Gotta love winter at 45 degrees north.

[doc03]

8. I used to work night shift in the winter so I had a little

daylight when I was off.

[Ocelot II]

12. I worked in flight simulators, no windows. Saw the sun on weekends, though,

if it wasn't snowing.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. I hate waking up when it's dark n/t

[smirkymonkey]

29. Which is exactly why I hate standard time.

I don't get up early enough to care whether it's light out in the morning, but I really hate it when it's dark by the time I am done with work. It would be nice to at least have an hour left of daylight to feel like I didn't miss out on the entire day. I know I can still go for a walk in the dark, but it's not the same.

[jcgoldie]

9. agreed

From a purely anecdotal perspective this teacher farmer has less than an hour of daylight to take care of animal husbandry after my day job and it sucks.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. I agree.

So dawn starts earlier, which means I'm frequently blinded while driving to work. Then it's dark by the time the workday is over.

[royable]

11. One thing that Arizona has going for it is no time change

unless you’re on the AZ portion of the Navajo Nation. The rest of the state is on Mountain Standard Time year-round. It’s a small blessing not having to alter your schedule and change all your clocks.

[Binkie The Clown]

13. I change my clocks but I don't change my schedule.

Instead of eating breakfast as 7, I will now eat at 6. Same time, different clock reading. In other words, I pretty much ignore the fact that the clocks have changed. Same thing in the spring. I used to eat breakfast at 6, but after setting the clocks ahead for spring, I ate breakfast at 7.

I go to bed at the same time (even though the clock says it's a different time) and I wake up at the same time (even though my clocks are all an hour slow by my biological clock. Who cares?)

[keithbvadu2]

15. I like more daylight after supper rather than before breakfast.

[wnylib]

22. Same here. The early darkness

is depressing. After the winter soldsice, I eagerly take note of every extended minute of daylight again.

[ShazzieB]

30. Amen to this!

I hate when it gets dark so early. Like somebody else said, I never get up early enough to get any benefit to dawn coming earlier.

[wnylib]

31. I was told years ago that switching

back from Daylight time to Standard time benefits kids so that it's not dark for them in the morning on their way to school. I can understand that even though I don't like the early darkness in the late afternoon. At any rate, whatever we do with our clocks, the days will get shorter around the winter solstice, just as they get longer around the summer solstice.

I prefer the longer days AND the warmer weather in summer, but Nature refuses to take my preferences into account. Go figure.

[UTUSN]

18. Hah!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

19. What is this "Standard Time" of which you speak?

We in Arizona don't know what you're talking about.

[hlthe2b]

21. I always do a very long walk with the pup pre-dawn so, no real change except more layers...

But, it is hard to stave off sleepiness (and carb craving) late afternoon when it is dark so damned early.

Still, it is only a matter of degree. Shortened days are just fact and getting outside at lunch or sometime early afternoon is sooo important.

[intrepidity]

27. Apparently, there are studies showing detrimental health effects of DST

I was surprised to learn that the the order of preference, based on negative health effects was:

1) Standard time
2) Both
3) Daylight Saving time

I'd have thought sticking with one time year-round would be better, regardless of whether DST or ST, but no.

Has to do with circadian rhythms and such.

FTR, we just left DST and are now in ST.

[rurallib]

28. the amount of darkness has nothing to do with the time

your complaint is with the solar system