I hate daylight savings time, and losing/gaining an hour of sleep 2x per year.

[C Moon]

That's all I want to say.
I wrote my senator and congressperson a few years ago, too.
...and so does my poor dog who doesn't understand why her walks/feeding times have changed.
waaaaaa! I hate it!
...back to your regular scheduled programming.

[Turbineguy]

1. I used to travel from California

to New York and back. Through the Suez Canal. 98 days round trip, 42 time changes.

But yes, getting rid of daylight savings time would be a good thing.

[C Moon]

2. :)

42????? Ouch!

[pangaia]

33. I would prefer to make daylight savings the standard time.. just me..

[pnwmom]

41. Me, too. I liked it when it was. n/t

[C Moon]

60. I agree with that.

[Suich]

3. I really like it...sorry you don't

I can't see to drive at night so DST is a real blessing for me.

[Warpy]

4. I want everything to move one zone to the east

Standard time is horrible, it's like going into a long dark tunnel every year. I am always thrilled when April rolls around.

[Cha]

5. K&R for those who hate it, too, C Moon.. I use to love it in the Fall because I got to sleep an

extra hour in NY..and, no doggie.

Now I live in Hawaii and we don't have it. But, I'm noticing the time have been messed up for me on DU ever since it happened this year.

[Fumesucker]

6. It's far worse than that, DST is causing the drought..

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. O. M. G.

Stupidity like that leaves me stunned into a brain freeze.

Depressing as hell.

On further looking, this is a 2012 newspaper comment attributed to a guy in Australia, possibly as tongue in cheek.
http://geekologie.com/2012/03/ahahaha-daylight-savings-time-to-blame-f.php

[Fumesucker]

12. Yes, CSIRO is the Australian national science agency

The end of the letter makes it pretty clear it's not serious I think.

But the drought in Australia is all too serious.

[Revanchist]

19. You want to hear stupidity, then this trumps that article

and the rest of the story

[Violet_Crumble]

25. It was definitely tongue in cheek...

They're taking the piss out of the claims back when daylight savings started that curtains would fade with the extra hour of sun a day...

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Thanks President Obama.

I love my president.
Just thought I'd share.
Dog farts, I hate those.
~ littlemissmartypants 🙆

[chillfactor]

8. I LOVE Daylight Savings time.....

I hate it when we go back to standard time

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. It has happened every year of your life. It's not like something that was sprung on you.

It's part and parcel of every year of life you've lived.

Nothing really changes.

[shenmue]

11. Me too!

It's all a plot to sell more clocks!

[lobodons]

13. JFC take a qualude

Jesus, relax, and enjoy life. I could see in the spring when we lose an hour of sleep, but to bitch in the Fall when we get an extra hour..?? Seems there are other areas to heighten blood pressure.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. They don't even MAKE quualudes anymore!

You want to get mad about something, get mad about THAT!

[In_The_Wind]

14. My dog refuses to set her body clock back. She woke me at her usual predawn time.

[Fuddnik]

16. The worst part is having to get up at 2:00am to change the clocks.

Why can't they just do it in the afternoon or evening?

[Renew Deal]

20. You're kidding right?

Why can't you set the clocks when you wake up or before going to sleep?

[pangaia]

36. Well, you folled at least one person.

[IDemo]

42. But an hour later, it's 2:00AM again

I've been up all night adjusting the stinking clocks!

[louis-t]

52. Haaa!!

Hardest part for me is my one battery op clock is sensitive. Once I manually turn the hands, it takes a few days for it to run normally. It starts and stops and I have to reset a few times.

[Make7]

17. Why don't people that hate daylight savings time just move to Arizona? ( n/t )

[MindPilot]

39. Because it is still Arizona.

I mean why don't people who hate Ebola just get polio instead?

[Codeine]

50. Now THAT was fucking funny. nt

[louis-t]

53. Bwaaaaha!!

[Le Taz Hot]

18. Me too.

I'm a ridiculously early riser anyway now it's even worse. I got up this morning at what would have been 4:00 am and remembered it was DST so the clock says 3:00 am and there's no way I can go back to sleep. But watch. I'll doze off at 6:00 tonight.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. That Is Exactly What Happened to My Wife And Me

We're usually up around quarter to 4. This morning woke up like usual and the cable box said 2:44. And like you, there's no way we're going back to sleep.

And like you, we'll doze off before the football day is over.
GAC

[TheKentuckian]

21. Standard Time sucks. Daylight only or make daylight standard and still do a daylight.

[Triana]

22. There's no longer a purpose for it. It should be stopped.

We should settle on one or the other (DST or Standard) and leave it the f*ck alone forever.

[truebluegreen]

26. + a zillion

It's the change that's a pain in the ass...pick one!

[Vinca]

23. I don't mind it, but I don't see any point to it.

[MadrasT]

24. I even think time zones are stupid.

Everybody should just use GMT and deal with it.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

27. that's my jam, right there!

one clock. work when it's light... sleep when it's night. if the meeting's at 0200... its the same time EVERYWHERE.

oh, well.

sP

[pangaia]

37. That is what China does.

[Retrograde]

58. Time zones occasionally make Eat Coast callers think

before they call someone on the West Coast:

-<ring>
-<me, grumpily> Huh? Wha? Who died?
-<annoyingly chipper person on other end> Hi, how are you?
-<me> What time is it? It's too dark to see the clock.
-<annoyingly chipper person> It's just past 8 AM! The sun's been up for hours! You sound like your still asleep.
-<me> That's because it's 5 AM here, you moron.

I used to think one time zone for the US would be a good idea, but since over half the population is in one, they'd still expect the rest of us to conform to their schedules and act surprised that conditions a continent away are different.

And I hate daylight savings time.

[DeadEyeDyck]

28. I always thought we should add an extra hour or the every night.

Just saying

[yourout]

30. I hate it because it screws up the SCADA datalogging systems I work on.

When the clock goes backwards it essentially overwrites 1 hour of data.

[IDemo]

44. Years ago when I worked on data loggers, they used UTC (Universal Coordinated Time)

No data over-writes at DST clock changes.

[MerryBlooms]

31. Before I lived with cats it didn't bother me,

but just like your dogs, our cats don't transition well. It takes the cats a good week before they settle into routine again.

[LiberalElite]

32. I'm with you nt

[Seeking Serenity]

34. Hold on. What is the position of

Team Blue on this issue vs. Team Red? Until I know this, I won't be able to formulate my opinion.

(For context for this piece of snark, read here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025747153

http://www.vox.com/2014/11/1/7136343/gamergate-and-the-politicization-of-absolutely-everything)

[MindPilot]

35. Daylight "savings" is THE DUMBEST THING EVER--there is not an extra hour of anything.

The day is twenty four hours! THAT DOES NOT FUCKING CHANGE!! Depending on the position of the Earth relative to the Sun, some of it will be dark and some of it will be light. THAT DOES NOT FUCKING CHANGE!


This had to have been a conservative idea...only someone who thinks the bible is real and global warming is not happening could believe that resetting a clock actually changes time.

[pnwmom]

40. The idea is that people have more daylight after 5, when they get home from work.

And many of us appreciate it.

[MindPilot]

43. Today the clock will say 1656 when the sun sets.

What are you going to do with those extra four minutes?

If you need daylight after work, then the problem is with your work hours, not the clock settings.

To paraphrase O'Reilly The days get longer; the days get shorter...you can't change that.

[pnwmom]

45. For much of the summer we had light till nearly 9, and we had fun in that daylight time.

You do realize that there is a gradual reduction in daylight over the course of the summer, don't you?

It is much easier to have everyone's clock settings changed than to get everyone's employers to change their work hours. I'll fight any loss of DST.

[MindPilot]

46. I would much prefer the longer days, and the longer part be at the end of the workday

But you get to point where the daylight doesn't span a full workday. No amount of fiddling with the clock is going to change that.

We should pick one, and leave it alone..

[pnwmom]

59. That is true. There is only so much daylight. I preferred all year DST, but I'd rather

have the change than no DST at all.

[Retrograde]

55. Even though the change is now after Halloween

supposedly to let the little dears go out while it's still light, they still wait until after dark to make their rounds.

[pnwmom]

38. I wish we had daylight savings all year, like we did for a while.

And I'd hate to give it up during the summers. It's wonderful here then.

[Retrograde]

56. It wasn't that wonderful in Michigan

which really should be in the Central time zone, but apparently at one time Detroit thought it was a big East Coast city I was in college that year: it would still be dark (and cold) when I got back from my 8 AM classes.

[99Forever]

47. I could easily do without it.

But it hardly merits a lot of drama. The household will be over it in a day or two.

[iandhr]

48. When you are in the middle of GOTV

You appreciate the extra hour of sleep

[SheilaT]

49. I'm amazed how every year people here will complain bitterly

about changing the clocks, how awful it is, how totally disrupted their life is, as if this hasn't been going on for a very long time now.

If I'm remembering correctly, DST was observed in a patchwork way across the country for a long time, and it wasn't until 1967 that we got a uniform DST. I was living in Arizona that year, and there really was no benefit to a much longer afternoon and evening when it's too hot to go outside anyway.

I do have one clock that is absolutely refusing to let me change it, which is quite annoying. I finally settled for changing the alarm set time, so it will still go off when Amy Goodman's show starts.

[Brainstormy]

51. Stayed up really late last night binge-watching Netflix

Woke to the happy surprise that it wasn't nearly as late as the clock said. I think we should have it once a month. Randomly.

[JEFF9K]

54. The hour we "save" is spent re-setting our watches.

[tblue37]

57. I was grateful for that extra hour of sleep this morning. And I keep my watch and my

clocks on DST during fall semester, just to fool my body and thus squeeze in an extra hour of grading each night.

Of course, it is outrageous that I should consider this helpful, but it is. As long as I don't let my body realize it is not as late as CST says it is, I can get more work done.

I am old enough to remember when I didn't have to work so long and hard to get everything done, but TPTB have us on very short leash these days. We have more and more work to do, but our days don't have any more hours than they ever did.

In my 20s and 30s I was able to spend hours, even whole days on weekends, just hanging out with friends or riding bikes, playing Frisbee, reading for fun. But now I have to keep putting my friends off until I get a few days' break, and sometimes even then, because I have so much work to catch up on. Winter break (3 weeks) and summer break (2 1/2 months) are the only time I really can sop to breathe now.