March 16, 20223 yr Meh... maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a fan. This change means that I'll be at work before sunrise for almost 6 months straight of the year (from October 1st to March 25th). I actually look forward to coming back from daylight savings because I get a few weeks where the sun is up before I leave for work, and hate when we go to daylight savings because I've had a few weeks of getting to work after the sun is up and now am back to driving in to work when it is completely dark.
March 16, 20223 yr 21 minutes ago, NothingClever said: Meh... maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a fan. This change means that I'll be at work before sunrise for almost 6 months straight of the year (from October 1st to March 25th). I actually look forward to coming back from daylight savings because I get a few weeks where the sun is up before I leave for work, and hate when we go to daylight savings because I've had a few weeks of getting to work after the sun is up and now am back to driving in to work when it is completely dark. Yup, it's gonna be dark until 8 AM around here and even later up north.
March 16, 20223 yr 18 minutes ago, NothingClever said: Meh... maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a fan. This change means that I'll be at work before sunrise for almost 6 months straight of the year (from October 1st to March 25th). I actually look forward to coming back from daylight savings because I get a few weeks where the sun is up before I leave for work, and hate when we go to daylight savings because I've had a few weeks of getting to work after the sun is up and now am back to driving in to work when it is completely dark. It's the winter months mostly, Nov-Feb. The flip side is it being dark at 4pm and that affects kids being able to play outside, after school sports & activities, workers not seeing sunlight, seasonal affect disorder, depression, sleep patterns... Plus, the Senate was unanimous...in this divisive culture. That's something.
March 16, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, NOTW said: It's the winter months mostly, Nov-Feb. The flip side is it being dark at 4pm and that affects kids being able to play outside, after school sports & activities, workers not seeing sunlight, seasonal affect disorder, depression, sleep patterns... Plus, the Senate was unanimous...in this divisive culture. That's something. Yeah, I get it, and actually suffer from seasonal affective disorder, which I feel that this will exacerbate. I work in a windowless room, so once this change is made there will be entire days in that stretch where I see absolutely no sun on days when I stay at work late, which is usually 2-3 days a week. If only they would move the start of my work back, which all kinds of studies indicate would be better for everyone involved, but our traditions keep that from happening. Maybe taking a step like this to change a major national tradition that isn't working for us anymore will help lead to other common-sense changes being made, but I'm not going to hold my breath for that to happen any time soon.
March 16, 20223 yr 34 minutes ago, NothingClever said: Meh... maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I'm not a fan. This change means that I'll be at work before sunrise for almost 6 months straight of the year (from October 1st to March 25th). I actually look forward to coming back from daylight savings because I get a few weeks where the sun is up before I leave for work, and hate when we go to daylight savings because I've had a few weeks of getting to work after the sun is up and now am back to driving in to work when it is completely dark. Actually a recent poll says most want standard time
March 16, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, NothingClever said: Yeah, I get it, and actually suffer from seasonal affective disorder, which I feel that this will exacerbate. I work in a windowless room, so once this change is made there will be entire days in that stretch where I see absolutely no sun on days when I stay at work late, which is usually 2-3 days a week. If only they would move the start of my work back, which all kinds of studies indicate would be better for everyone involved, but our traditions keep that from happening. Maybe taking a step like this to change a major national tradition that isn't working for us anymore will help lead to other common-sense changes being made, but I'm not going to hold my breath for that to happen any time soon. Your situation is going to be different from others. There are people now that go to work early in the dark & come home in the dark and don't see sunlight. It is hard on families with young children. Messes up bedtime, reduces outside time for exercise, takes awhile to adjust. People working who do have windows get sleepy and feel the workday should be over when they see it gets dark at 4pm. Pretty much everyone I know hates the time change and is glad about this.
March 16, 20223 yr If I'm understanding the proposal, we'd keep DST by no longer falling back. But no longer springing forward makes more sense to me since I would prefer standard time too. It's kinda weird to put my kids to bed when it's still bright as F outside. I'd prefer 8pm summer time sunsets and learn to deal with earlier sunrises which don't affect me anyway since I don't care what it looks like outside at the ass crack of dawn regardless.
March 16, 20223 yr But yeah I guess if you were on the eastern edge of a time zone like Chicago or NY, then those early sunsets probably blow goat scrote in the winter. On the flip side though, with this new change, any cities on the western edge of a time zone are gonna have winter mornings that are super dark, like basically sending your kids to the bus stop in conditions that are indistinguishable from the middle of the night.
March 16, 20223 yr Worse part about winter is driving to work in the dark and it being dark not long after you're home. That and cold. Big fan of daylight until 9:00pm.
March 16, 20223 yr Author https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/experts-to-public-daylight-savings-time-is-a-434m-problem-we-could-easily-fix.html There is an increase in heart attacks and fatal car and industrial accidents the week after clocks go forward.
March 16, 20223 yr 71% of Americans are against the time change twice a year and want one time all year. Of those, 40% want standard and 31% want daylight savings to be the permanent. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/03/14/politics/daylight-saving-time-analysis/index.html
March 16, 20223 yr 3 hours ago, NOTW said: It's the winter months mostly, Nov-Feb. The flip side is it being dark at 4pm and that affects kids being able to play outside, after school sports & activities, workers not seeing sunlight, seasonal affect disorder, depression, sleep patterns... Plus, the Senate was unanimous...in this divisive culture. That's something. LOL. You think this generation of kids goes outdoors.
March 16, 20223 yr 19 minutes ago, vikas83 said: LOL. You think this generation of kids goes outdoors. After school activities, scouts, sports, playgrounds, my son and his friends play for hours outside in our neighborhood every day after school. Yes, they do. More parents these days are trying to limit technology and get kids active.
March 16, 20223 yr Which ever gives me more light out in the evening is the better choice. I don’t give a sheet if it’s dark out for my drive to work.
March 16, 20223 yr It's only an hour. I've never understood why people get so bent out of shape about this. The time change barely affects me. It's usually just one day where I wake up slightly confused that it feels later/earlier than it should. Otherwise, I'm back on track within a day or two. These people that whine for a whole week about the time change either have some kind of underlying sleep dysfunction or just don't know how to regulate their sleep at all. This is my turn to wring my fists about how "soft" we've gotten as a society.
March 16, 20223 yr Just now, 4for4EaglesNest said: You can tell the posters who let their political obsessions run every facet of their lives. Let's not forget Rubio is pushing hard for this.....and then see who is against it. 🤣 The Senate voted unanimously, so I'd like to hear how you're politicizing this.
March 16, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, 4for4EaglesNest said: I chuckled at that myself. Just call it..."Not dark AF at 5pm Act". Make sunshine great again...
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