Day Light Savings

Daylight savings just kills me.

It's calendar set jetlag. It's absolute misery for the kids, I'm late for meetings the entire week, and I don't even get the pleasure of resetting my automatic watches because I'm running out the door because I'm just late for everything.

It should have been abolished years ago for the historical oddity that it is.

I'm nocturnal and like more night in my day. I'm also of the opinion the world should just go off GMT or Zulu Time but then that kinda eliminates the charming niche of watches that track 2+ timezones.

I effing hate it, kids can’t get up, wife isn’t responding, and zombie mode for a week, what’s the fun in it🤷

This twice annual foolishness is of the Devil, and must be stopped!👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺

And when you know that countries don't even have the same date for this s##t... Here in France it's on march 25th. So jetlag between countries will change 3 times between last week and end of march. We can go to the moon but can't harmonize this. Well done hooman

I voted “B” since I like the longer days during the summer.

I don't have a problem with it. It's only an hour.

I change everything the afternoon before and by the time I go to bed I'm already on the "new time"

I don't care if Saturday at 3 PM it all of a sudden becomes 4 PM, or the other way in November.

It's only 60 minutes difference.

No big deal to me.

I voted "C" because there's no such thing as gaining or losing an hour. It's all a facade. Time is time, period. Stop trying to squeeze blood from a stone.

Split the difference and never change it.

I’m an LEO. Shift work and daylight savings don’t mix. I’m either waking up earlier or working longer.

I believe it was a wartime notion. It is obsolete, though I like getting an extra hour of sleep in the fall.

I wasn't complaining. Just explaining my point of view. And the "polite command" to quit squeezing was directed to the authorities-that-be, not to any WC members. 😎

I imagine people's latitude will impact their attitude toward DST. Being somewhat "Northern" in Ottawa, I prefer DST, as it makes the time after work brighter. I don't mind going to work in the dark, but I hate coming home just as /just after the suns sets.

my province does not use daylight saving here. The only advantage of it I see is that it lets the golfers get in an entire 18 holes after work.

I voted for permanent Daylight Saving Time because I prefer the extra light in the evening, but I would be OK with permanent Standard Time, too. Just pick one and stay with it.

Just stick to a lane. There are actual studies out there showing it does more harm than good. People get stressed and less productive, there are higher trends in accidents, list goes on.

Great point! Being in Seattle, the extra hour in the winter afternoon is gold.

It's been proven that waking up an hour earlier, makes you more productive throughout the day. And, adjusting the hour does help your circadian rhythm, which is dependent on sunlight or other sources of light.

It might be annoying at this end of it, but as a parent, when bedtimes get increasingly out of control towards the end of the year, there’s that faint reassurance of ‘ah well, it’s late tonight again, but tomorrow we get a head start’.

Conversely, for some people, especially in Urban areas, walking home in the dark is and feels more dangerous than when the sun sets at four. Having it then be setting at three in winter isn’t good. On the plus side, about a week from now, the reverse will be true, and it will still be daylight-ish in the early evening.

More to it that farmers, some of whom don’t like the disruption much either.

Without daylight saving the sun comes up at 4 in the morning here in summer - just bloody ridiculous. A few days of inconvenience or disturbed sleep for months? Easy choice - vote one daylight savings.

As a farmer, DST is a joke, the sun dictates the animals, and their cycles.

Changing actually causes more work adapting schedules an hour for the animals. The changeover can last a month as animals need to now adapt to the constraints of modern society. (Or farmers have to live an hour off everyone else, and that won't work well long term)

As an example: during the winter let's say a dinner with friends is planned for 6pm. The end of day for the animals is about 5pm -ish. They get fed at 4:30 or 5, and dinner plans are kept, all is well.

Changing for DST, same dinner plans. Now the end of day for the animals has jumped an hour to about 6pm -ish, and plans collide, friends don't understand, and changes have to be made, some animals cannot change eating habits that easily, so it takes a month to either transition them, or continue to try to adapt human plans around the new times that the animals need.

I want one time, I can make either regular or DST work, but the time change for farmers with livestock is a huge hassle.

I'll quit ranting now.

Circadian rhythm sure, but this does not have to be beholden to an arbitrary time of day. As @UtahExplorer points out, animals don't care about our time changes, they follow the sun with the seasons. If waking up earlier makes sense in winter, we can technically do so. The only reason we have these time changes is because society is organized around 8am-5pm business hours and I guess we can't see past that.

However, we can still hold on to these "schedule" notions and simply wake up earlier or later without adjusting our clocks is all I'm saying.

I’ve never really had a problem with it messing with my sleep until the last change to Standard time. For weeks afterwards I kept waking up an hour early.

That being said, I wouldn’t mind keeping Standard time and eliminating DST. All of the sleep expert opinions I’ve read about say ST is closer to our natural circadian rhythm and and we should stay on that.

So thankful my country doesn't have daylight savings.

E. Other

At the next change, i.e. "fall back", we set the time back 30 minutes instead of 60 and forever leave it there.

" . . . no such thing as gaining or losing an hour." Yes there is. Wear an old-school Seiko 5 with a 7s26 movement for just a couple of weeks.