Thoughts on Daylight Saving Time...

[Cedars]

Don’t forget to “Spring Forward” this weekend.

Losing an hour of sleep is so hard

Just came back from Asia. We left at 8:30 am and landed, 13 hrs later, at 6 am. ie 2 hrs before we left.

I adjusted fine. Just followed my routine for daytime and caught up on sleep by going to bed early.

 

[Vaderman]

Boo! Hiss!

I switched my clocks forward on Friday so I could ease into it all weekend.

I hate the time change.

 

[Friday Fan]

I really should be in bed!

 

[elliefant]

I was worried, seeing these comments, that I’d overlooked it! But it turns out it’s not until 29th March where I am (UK).

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I hope everyone survived the time change Alas! I was sound asleep and missed the clock jumping ahead an hour.

 

[Rikissa]

Don’t forget to “Spring Forward” this weekend.

Losing an hour of sleep is so hard

Three more weeks until "summertime" in Europe, 29 March, I think by then the snow in my corner of the world will be gone. I do like summertime, and I guess that I'll be awake (as usual) when it's time to move the clock forward.
(No, not because I have insomnia, I'm a nightowl, and worked nights for more than 20 years.)

 

[charminglane]

I hope everyone survived the time change Alas! I was sound asleep and missed the clock jumping ahead an hour.

I was up, you didn't miss a thing!
And I'm still up.

 

[GatorsNorth]

I do like the time change, but mostly because I have SAD. I like that it will be light later now.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I was up, you didn't miss a thing!
And I'm still up.

I go to bed at 10:00PM and, by 2:00AM (when we "sprung forward"), I usually get up to pee. Didn't have to pee until @4:00AM, so I missed the clock skipping an hour forward. Must have been the grande Margarita at dinner

 

[Knox]

I was up, you didn't miss a thing!
And I'm still up.

Not sure why, but if it’s insomnia - I feel you. Wired but tired, is the worst.

 

[charminglane]

It's too hot.
About 84 today.
I sleep best cold.

 

[GatorsNorth]

It's too hot.
About 84 today.
I sleep best cold.

That sounds wonderful to me. We had a brutal winter here in NJ and it’s 70 degrees here today! Spring fever!

 

[Catmommy]

Hate DLST. HATE.

 

[ilovewings]

Hate DLST. HATE.

Agree and it seems to make the day go by way too fast

 

[Charlot123]

I prefer winter time. But I'd agree to whatever, just don't move it, please.

 

[UncoolNegated]

They got rid of it in BC, where I live. This was the last year that they will do it. I work night shifts at a hotel and I see many problems associated with it. In particular, I work when the time changes so it goes from 159am to 3am. People who have flights at 6am, are often waking up at 2am or 3am. The time change messes with them a lot because it can leap over their wake-up call. Also, just last night there was a shuttle driver with a 3am pickup and the people no-showed, likely because of the time change. People are always sleepy at check out for missing an hour's sleep. Also, my shift gets shortchanged as I only get 7 hours instead of 8. I am glad that they are getting rid of it.

 

[Rikissa]

I prefer winter time. But I'd agree to whatever, just don't move it, please.

Are you a morning person?
I would prefer the 'summertime' setting year round, I live so far up north that in December the sun is only up from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., that means even as I'm usually awake by 9 a.m., but being an evening/night person I'm not fully active until after noon, and there's too few hours of light to spend time outdoors.

The positive side of living this far north is that from about 20 April, and until 20 August, it doesn't get dark enough during the nighttime to mark it astronomically as *night*

Astronomical night is the period when the sun is more than 18 degrees below the horizon, resulting in a completely dark sky, free from any remaining twilight glow.

Twilight - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[branmuffin]

I've never really been bothered by the time change other than hating that it gets dark at 4:30 in the afternoon with Standard Time. I can solve the early morning sun with DLST will black-out curtains and love that I can come out of a movie theatre at 9:30 pm and it's still light.

The only time I ever remember when it made a big difference to a large group of people was when I was working for the OPP. They had their own security guards that policed all the government buildings in Toronto. They used to have to go to work every day one half hour early for 'mustering'. They policed the building 24/7 so on the days that clocks moved ahead at 2 am some of guards got off work one hour early and when the clocks went back those guys worked an extra hour.

It was all supposed to come out in the wash, with attempts to ensure that the same people worked on those specific days to cancel the gain/loss per employee. But it never really worked out that way. It wasn't until years later that some guys were sitting around on their breaks complaining they got short changed. They filed a grievance with their union and won. The records went back for a long time, maybe 8 years, I think. So those guys got quite a payout for that extra hour while the ones who benefitted didn't have anything clawed back. It was kind of hard to believe that no one had ever done the math and never took the change over into consideration for years and years. For some reason, it never affected the police officers.