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Happy Hoosier

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30. I personally hate both.

Wed Mar 10, 2021, 12:44 PM

Mar 2021

But I hate changing clocks more. It's a needless issue.

I hate DST because where I live, DST means it's dark when I wake up a good chunk of the year, and it can stay light, quite late into the evening, which I also don't particularly like. Seriously, can barely do fireworks here on the 4th until 10 because it is too light before that.

I am a curmudgeon, and I hate DST. Kill it. Or pick it permanently and move IN into the Central Zone.

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Daylight Savings time: How is this still a thing? [View all] SoonerPride Mar 2021 OP

DST needs to be made permanent brooklynite Mar 2021 #1

Wake up when it gets light and go to sleep when it gets dark. SoonerPride Mar 2021 #2

Fine if you don't have a job. we can do it Mar 2021 #4

+1 Celerity Mar 2021 #59

So in winter, go to bed at 5pm and get up at 7am? SharonClark Mar 2021 #6

... Rorey Mar 2021 #19

Not always possible Jerry2144 Mar 2021 #9

I wish that too - that we'd just stay on DST Rorey Mar 2021 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author brooklynite Mar 2021 #46

Anchorage--Open for business 11-2 in the winter and pretty much 24 hours in the summer. Cuthbert Allgood Mar 2021 #61

lol, so i should go to sleep at 2/3pm or so in the late fall/winter? hard pass, this isn't 1821 Celerity Mar 2021 #63

Lol! Should I get up after 9 in the late fall/winter? Happy Hoosier Mar 2021 #87

come here to Sweden (which many seem to fail to realise is what I am talking about) and Celerity Mar 2021 #89

I get your point, but... Happy Hoosier Mar 2021 #90

If I am not telling you (or anyone else who lives in the US) what to choose, why then is there Celerity Mar 2021 #91

Man, do what works for you guys. Happy Hoosier Mar 2021 #92

I appreciate that, although not much partying going on here with COVID variants wreaking havoc Celerity Mar 2021 #93

Agree, but we could all just re-establish our school and working times, no? Goodheart Mar 2021 #3

Much much MUCH easier to just make DST permanent nt sir pball Mar 2021 #58

Where I live, that plan sucks. Happy Hoosier Mar 2021 #25

Especially if it's dark when kids are outside waiting for the school bus. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #37

Why is it important to you to have solar noon at 1pm, all year round? muriel_volestrangler Mar 2021 #72

Meh. Just pick one and stick with it. RandomNumbers Mar 2021 #80

My dogs are permantly on DST. I will be glad leftyladyfrommo Mar 2021 #5

Yes, I'm looking forward to "sleeping in" until 5 again Rorey Mar 2021 #23

The work day needs to somewhat track morning light Blues Heron Mar 2021 #7

Still mad about September 3-13, 1752 - the Lost Days! greenjar_01 Mar 2021 #8

This is great! smirkymonkey Mar 2021 #10

Why do you hate it? moose65 Mar 2021 #12

multiple threads now on this contrarian stance Celerity Mar 2021 #62

most who say they hate DST, mean they hate the changing back and forth RandomNumbers Mar 2021 #81

Also, bear in mind that I am talking about Sweden, not the US, and yet I have non Swedes Celerity Mar 2021 #84

Actually, what I hate are the time changes and flipping the clock ahead. smirkymonkey Mar 2021 #66

Why is it stupid? moose65 Mar 2021 #11

Watch the video and get back to me SoonerPride Mar 2021 #15

I did watch the video moose65 Mar 2021 #27

No clock changes kcr Mar 2021 #21

But.... moose65 Mar 2021 #28

Most proposals I've seen kcr Mar 2021 #35

I personally hate both. Happy Hoosier Mar 2021 #30

Oh how awful! moose65 Mar 2021 #34

Damn right. And you kids get off my lawn!!!!! Happy Hoosier Mar 2021 #52

I get that moose65 Mar 2021 #55

I don't do it by choice! That's for sure!! LOL NT Happy Hoosier Mar 2021 #68

try Sweden Celerity Mar 2021 #64

The overlay of cities map is incredible! PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #86

Time being real or not real qazplm135 Mar 2021 #45

Hmmmm.... moose65 Mar 2021 #56

time will tell qazplm135 Mar 2021 #69

DST should be made permanent, year-round. FoxNewsSucks Mar 2021 #13

"If I have to leave for work before dawn, that's not a big deal" BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #22

I remember that, I think I was somewhere around 6th grade at the time FoxNewsSucks Mar 2021 #29

How can you adjust a routine BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #38

Why does it need to be one-size-fits-all? FoxNewsSucks Mar 2021 #43

The cities do/did have staggered school schedules BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #47

Ours was younger children earlier FoxNewsSucks Mar 2021 #48

"I no longer got home in time to see the 3pm start of Dark Shadows." BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #49

I have the DVD set, FoxNewsSucks Mar 2021 #51

LOL BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #53

"and was going to school when it was PITCH DARK in the mornings and we had to carry flashlights" Polybius Mar 2021 #76

You must not be a city dweller? BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #77

I have lived in NYC all my life Polybius Mar 2021 #79

Oh no! BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #83

You don't want school kids frazzled Mar 2021 #24

There's a solution.... moose65 Mar 2021 #31

Or simply don't do DST. As you mention, time is arbitrary.... NT Happy Hoosier Mar 2021 #33

Because it allows parents to get their kids off to school Ex Lurker Mar 2021 #40

There have been efforts to do that BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #42

I agree Gregory Peccary Mar 2021 #26

No more DST BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #14

But "regular time" is made up, too moose65 Mar 2021 #32

The problem right now BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #36

I love DST arlyellowdog Mar 2021 #16

I hated DST, before I retired. Now - meh. Siwsan Mar 2021 #17

I love it Buckeyeblue Mar 2021 #18

I Think WHITT Mar 2021 #39

It seems that a lot of people really don't get it that, depending on where we live, PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #41

"DST should start no sooner than mid-April, and end no later than the end of September." BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #44

The video showed treestar Mar 2021 #85

Some of the problems central scrutinizer Mar 2021 #50

Clocks and money were invented by the devil. hunter Mar 2021 #54

I honestly don't get why this is such a big thing Bettie Mar 2021 #57

Hmmmm moose65 Mar 2021 #60

It kills and maims people and it's stupid. hunter Mar 2021 #71

DST makes perfect sense if you live in the North. maxsolomon Mar 2021 #65

California voters actually passed eliminating 2018 msfiddlestix Mar 2021 #67

I do enjoy having extra sunlight hours in the evening. n/t forgotmylogin Mar 2021 #70

Why do we do this again? LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #73

What is permanent DST? Mosby Mar 2021 #74

Why do most liberals oppose the two time changes? Polybius Mar 2021 #75

I'm curious what people's reasons are for their positions RandomNumbers Mar 2021 #82

That was hilarious treestar Mar 2021 #78

I like it all just the way it is. The time change stuff is trivial. Owl Mar 2021 #88