Daylight Saving Time is kicking my ass...

As much as I appreciated waking up at four o'clock in the morning yesterday (no alarm) so that I could put in a full day of work out in the garage, I'm paying for it hard today.

Goodnight everybody.

Pitch black at 5PM is THE BEST.
berkeley Winter.

Screw daylight savings. My sleep schedule is more important than when we get to see the sun.

This is the correct time. I'm already dreading spring when we go back to the wrong time.

I was seriously ready for bed at 5:30pm yesterday. This sucks.

I just loved my normal 12 hr night shift gig get pushed to a 13 hr one on top of a 4(!) hr downtime to reset the server clocks. WTF!?!?!

Bunch of crotchety old men!

fiesta54 wrote: Bunch of crotchety old men!

Get off my...oh, wait...I don't have a lawn.

I'll be waking up early for the next couple of months. It does suck.

I read somewhere that heart attack rates spike during time changes. Particularly in the spring.

I'd really like to see them split the difference and leave it alone.

I get up at 2am anyway. Meh

So we all hate DST. Universally. It was developed (I believe) for farmers back in the day so they would have sunlight to work by in the mornings. But since we only have like 8 farmers left why do we still need DST??!

Can't we get together as a nation and E36 M3 can the whole thing and just pick one time?

edit: just saying pick one and stick with it. I really don't care which.

DST was implemented for the children, folks didn't want their kids out in the dark on the way to school.

It actually has a pretty high financial ding (I read somewhere).

I gets more sleep in the winter, Dark earlier I start shutting down earlier.

DST is a cruel joke if you have children. It takes at least a week for them to adjust.

The other thing that's not fun is traveling west with children. We recently went to AZ for a week of vacation, and the kids woke up at 4AM. Every morning. We'll stick to the East Coast from now on.

False. DST was implemented during WW1 as a way to conserve energy by giving you an extra hour before you turned you lights on. After the war it went away until WW2, then discontinued again until the 70's energy crisis and made yearly.

I love DST, it's standard time and the change I hate.

bentwrench wrote: DST was implemented for the children, folks didn't want their kids out in the dark on the way to school. It actually has a pretty high financial ding (I read somewhere). I gets more sleep in the winter, Dark earlier I start shutting down earlier.

how do you come up with that … with DST the kids are standing out beside the road waiting for the school bus in the dark …. it's light now by 6a with EST …(though it gets dark between 4 - 5p)

KyAllroad wrote: So we all hate DST. Universally. It was developed (I believe) for farmers back in the day so they would have sunlight to work by in the mornings. But since we only have like 8 farmers left why do we still need DST??! Can't we get dog ether as a nation and E36 M3 can the whole thing and just pick one time?

WRONG! DST is excellent. I hate getting off of work to darkness full of people who suddenly forgot to drive. Plus it limits boating/outdoor activities to purely weekends.

Brian wrote: I love DST, it's standard time and the change I hate.

Yes, this. Let it be dark on my way into work. Hell, let it be dark till 10am, just give me an hour or 2 of daylight in the evenings so I can actually accomplish something outside on a weeknight.

Well, we can all move to arizona or hawaii?

Yeah. I was working on the car last night and it got dark so I finished up what I was doing by the light of a work lamp. By the time I was done and getting cleaned up I felt like it was bedtime.

It was 7:30...

I will not be seeing daylight outside of weekends until spring. I hate winter. Anyone need an engineer in Australia for the next few months?

My stupid dog is still on DST, so she's waking me up at 5:45 instead of 6:45 to feed her and let her out. GAAAAH

Being a resident of Arizona, ya'll are crazy. Yea it sucks switching the clocks around, but you actually get to enjoy your summer evenings getting dark at 8:45. We Arizonians have sundown an hour earlier than the rest of the world during the summer.

In the winter, it flips, and we've got a whole extra 45 minutes of sunlight after work. Woop-de-doo

I propose we change the entire nation's clocks to mimic working hours and activity time after work. That means yes, darkness in the morning. Sunrise at 8am (when most of us start work) and sunlight until 9pm.

It's the farmer and their early rising that screws us all over.

All-night animal here, I work midnight... and love it, so DST doesn't matter to me at all. After work, get my second wind around 9 a.m. and work till around 2-3 p.m. then off to bed. All the light I need, best time of the day to work anyway.

PHeller wrote: It's the farmer and their early rising that screws us all over.

No, it isn't. The farmers will farm according to the sun, not some arbitrary number.