Stupid Time Change

[Tin4]

Anyone else thrown off by the time change?

http://www.petition2congress.com/6284/end-daylight-savings-time/

Please help me end this.

I don't think this petition will do that, but maybe if we wrote angry letters?

 

[Hello]

It no longer makes sense to change the clocks and hasn't for eons. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though it's a high priority topic and understandably so. I like the fall back part, not a fan of the spring forward. I do like having a seemingly extra hour today.

 

[b-boy]

This will screw me up for weeks...

At least it's backwards and not forwards.

 

[Zuljin]

Someone here on HBT recently suggested we adjust 30 minutes one way, and stay there. I'm all for it.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Minimally thrown off. Generally ambivalent about it.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

I was all jacked up this morning. I put the baby to sleep after her feeding and went to sleep. I woke up to her crying about a dirty diaper after what felt like a good power nap. Checked my phone for the time and it was about 5 mins before i had thought i had put her down?!
I was all confused until i saw the wall clock was an hour faster. Between the time change and getting no sleep with our newborn i have no concept of time...

 

[autobaun70]

I would prefer we stick with daylight saving time version year round. It is horribly depressing when you work a semi normal schedule and it is dark when you go to work, and when you get home.


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[Beernik]

An hour change is nothing. Move 8 time zones. That will mess up your week.

My opinion: The clock changes have more to do with consumerism than energy savings. People don't wake or sleep with the sun anymore and people usually have lights on regardless of how sunny it is outside because a lot of houses and apartments don't have enough natural lighting.

But people are more likely to engage in social activities, shop, play sports, etc. in the day time than they are in the dark. So you get people up an hour earlier in the morning and they will have an hour extra for those things at night.

BTW, we are back on normal time now.

 

[vNmd]

My favorite day of the year. I work Sat swing shift & Sun morning shift. I was supposed to get an extra hour of sleep today, except my stupid alarm clock that automatically sets itself to some atomic clock failed and it didn't set itself back. I tried getting back to sleep but couldn't.

 

[k1ngl1ves]

Football Sunday! I went to the store this morning and got some items to make beef sandwiches, and of course some beer (Cross of Gold - Revolution Brew... delicious btw!), and I had to wait 20 minutes before I could buy the beer!!!

Oh! The horror! First World Problems at it's worst!!!

 

[Komocabo]

I like daylight savings... I hate having to wake up in the dark at 6:45... makes it harder to get going. As for the evening, dark nights make me want to each chili, or chowder.... another win!

 

[Zekk]

Oh! The horror! First World Problems at it's worst!!!

Seriously.. If it is so terrible just move to a state/county that doesn't follow daylight savings

 

[Barley_Bob]

I guess I like it. I'm a morning person, so it's nice to have some sunshine when I get up in the winter. Similarly, I don't really want to have to get up at 4:30am to rise with the sun in the summer.

 

[sandyeggoxj]

Wait hang on... The time changed? You guys live in weird States that change the time arbitrarily? Huh. That must suck!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I don't have to worry about it. my wife handles all the clock changing before I even get up. during the work week when I get up at 2:30 in the morning, I'm in a daze anyway. 1:30, 3:30 it's all the same.

 

[Kee]

Wait hang on... The time changed? You guys live in weird States that change the time arbitrarily? Huh. That must suck!

Living in a state that doesn't observe DST makes it even more complicated (or it did for me in Arizona). TV schedules change, flight times change, friends in others states call an hour too early or an hour too late.

 

[Quadrupled]

I've lived in states which followed the time change (Illinois) and ignored it (Indiana). Let me tell you, the time change can be irritating twice a year, but in the winter when it's 8 AM and the sun has not yet risen or on a week night in the summer when you've got work early in the morning and it's bright outside past 9 PM, it sucks really really hard. I'm all for keeping the time change.

 

[Quadrupled]

Living in a state that doesn't observe DST makes it even more complicated (or it did for me in Arizona). TV schedules change, flight times change, friends in others states call an hour too early or an hour too late.

Agreed

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Living in a state that doesn't observe DST makes it even more complicated (or it did for me in Arizona). TV schedules change, flight times change, friends in others states call an hour too early or an hour too late.

one of my sisters was in England. her husband was stationed there. she would call at inappropriate hours because she wouldn't respect the time difference. she didn't care that it was 1:45 am where I was or that I had a long day ahead of me in the the freezing void steel yard.

people overseas! it is not the same time in the states as it is for you! don't call if you can't figure that out!

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

An hour change is nothing. Move 8 time zones. That will mess up your week.

Exactly. A one hour change screws someone up? What a delicate flower they must be.

 

[Yooper]

Anyone else thrown off by the time change?

http://www.petition2congress.com/6284/end-daylight-savings-time/

Please help me end this.

I don't think this petition will do that, but maybe if we wrote angry letters?

I am with you Austin!

At the hospital last night, the doctor had a 25 hour shift (instead of 24) and the nurses had a 13+ hour shift, instead of 12. The hospital paid all the staff overtime, as per contract rules.

I'm all screwed up, as my grandson (15 months) stayed with us for the entire weekend. While he was a joy to be around, he didn't understand that time change thing. It screwed up his nap time, waking time, bedtime, etc. Sure, it's "only" an hour- but the costs for business open and having to pay overtime and the weird effect it has on our bodies is a bother.

Why do we do it? What difference does it make if we turn our lights on in the morning or at night? And as someone else said, most people are indoors anyway (sadly, in my opinion) most of the time- with the lights on.

I'm going to run for president of the world, and this is going to be my platform. Who's with me?!?!?!

 

[Yooper]

I'm going to run for president of the world, and this is going to be my platform. Who's with me?!?!?!

Oh, yes, and BEER! Beer for all. That's the second part of my platform. No time changes, even if YOU move, you will still be on the same time zone forever, and beer. Beer for everyone.

And bacon. No time changes, beer for everyone, and bacon. That's all we need.

I know I won't get the Jewish vote, but I think I"m onto something.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I know I won't get the Jewish vote, but I think I"m onto something.

I think you already have it.

That is, jewish you'd win that election.

 

[CJ1]

I'm for ending time zones altogether. It would sure make travel easier.

People adapt quicker than they like to admit. If you live in an area where the business day starts at 1700 and runs to 0100, so what? The only real change is simplifying the nomenclature.

 

[Tin4]

This will screw me up for weeks...

At least it's backwards and not forwards.

It screws me up for only 5-7 days, but the time it takes to get through it means most everyone isn't going to want to hang out with me till I'm used to it.

Minimally thrown off. Generally ambivalent about it.

I hate it. I'm going to feel like crap for a week.

I guess I like it. I'm a morning person, so it's nice to have some sunshine when I get up in the winter. Similarly, I don't really want to have to get up at 4:30am to rise with the sun in the summer.

I love mornings, but I hate being up earlier than I have to be. 5:30 turns into 4:30 and that's to damn early to be awake.

5:30? Productive, seize the day. 4:30. No thank you. I'm going to complain all day.

Exactly. A one hour change screws someone up? What a delicate flower they must be.

I'm extremely delicate. Thank you for noting that.

 

[b-boy]

Exactly. A one hour change screws someone up? What a delicate flower they must be.

My circadian clock is finely tuned. You don't mess with a man's circadian clock.

 

[Tin4]

That's my complaint. My "stomach" woke me up this morning.

 

[Homercidal]

As if the old time change wasn't bad enough, someone a few years ago reset the dates so we have EVEN MORE DST!!

Regardless of whether DST does anyone any good, having all of us IT people have to reconfigure the equipment to handle different change dates was a PITA.

Well, those of us who still have equipment that doesn't update with NTP.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I'm for ending time zones altogether. It would sure make travel easier.

People adapt quicker than they like to admit. If you live in an area where the business day starts at 1700 and runs to 0100, so what? The only real change is simplifying the nomenclature.

Harder to do that than you think.

It's hard enough to schedule a 3-way conference call between California, Taipei, and London in such a way that you get everyone at least while they're awake. If you know that everyone basically lives with the same sleep schedule, it's at least possible. If you'd have to try to remember that 0900 is morning in London (since assuredly we'll let GMT be the standard, right?), while 0100 is morning in California, and 1700 is morning in Taipei, you'll go insane.

It's a lot easier if you can simply assume 0900 is morning everywhere, and base your times off that.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

If the change to and from Daylight Savings Time was a holiday, "Get your hoe ready!" would be the perfect holiday greeting.
Maybe we could make it a bank & work holiday too. The fourth big "amateur drinkers night" of the year right behind St. Patrick's Day, New Years Eve, and the day before Thanksgiving.
Take your hoe to the bar, I say.