ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

with my youth frittering away in this depressing fashion, i say praise be to them what tamper with time! Without them, I wouldn't have been able to stay up till HALF ELEVEN last night. yeah!

Yah, that's a major improvement. I get really depressed when I wake up and it's still dark outside--I just want to stay in bed and eat cookies all day.

(*this may be a slight exaggeration.)

I quite like the early darkness.

The inevitable downside -- and since I really can't stand short days and long winter nights, megaSIGH over it. It's one big reason I'm where I am, honestly.

really confused about what time it is

The hour goes forward in the autumn and back in the spring - it's easy to remember with the rhyme "Fall Forward, Spring Back".

u evil

fucking DLS means I have to cycle home in the pitch black.

i know how it works but is it 7:16 or 8:16. my phone + computer seem to have gone forward and ilx went back.

no this says it's next week! http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=179

ok my phone and computer didn't do anything because it's not daylight savings time yet. ilx did it a week early?

We went from BST to GMT last night, here in Britishland.

oh. i see what the problem was. my ilx prefs time zone was "Cuba"

haha

lmao

DST adds an hour to everyone's halloween partying

living through another cuba

rip Fidel

oh hello it's time saving time in longdong

i wonder how damaging the time change is compared to arguing about the time change.

quite a few ilxors seem to be fretting their way to stents every time this thread is bumped

The US is further south so it shouldn't be an issue I would have thought.

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we'll see if that embed works. tl;dr is that sunrise/sunset does not follow longitude, it follows the line of sight to the sun. so the daylight hours vary depending on where you are in the time zone. presumably this isn't as noticed in the UK because that kind of lines up

during the darkest part of the winter, I drive to work in the dark 8am-ish and drive home in the dark around 5pm. luckily that's not a very long period

also I meant latitude rather than longitude now that I think about it

we should just make the time zones horizontal!

Getting home early from work would be easy

I read that living a nocturnal lifestyle is supposed to take years off one’s life, but sometimes I think I would be at least 50% more productive if the sky were dark or cloudy most of the time. Think I might be part orc? I keep thinking about getting blackout curtains for my home office.

a perpetually cloudy planet could take a bit of the edge off climate change

medieval people had two sleeps... go to bed in the evening, then get up a like two in the morning doing god only knows what, then go back to bed until sunrise

Millions of people got lengthy shuteye when the rats arrived

You’ve Been Lied to About Rats and the Black Death

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-history/youve-been-lied-about-rats-and-black-death

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medieval people had two sleeps... go to bed in the evening, then get up a like two in the morning doing god only knows what, then go back to bed until sunrise

jackin’ it

medieval people had two sleeps... go to bed in the evening, then get up a like two in the morning doing god only knows what, then go back to bed until sunrise

This went on much longer than the middle ages. The Industrial Revolution put an end to it.

> presumably this isn't as noticed in the UK because that kind of lines up

i think it's just that the uk is narrower

LONDON 0°00'W
^06:39 v17:45 11h06m

CARDIFF 3°11'W but same latitude, roughly
^06.51 v17:58 11h07m

EDINBURGH 330 miles north of london
^06:56 v17:53 10h57m

that last is more pronounced when we are further from the equinox:

LON  max 16h38 min 7h50
CARD max 16h38 min 7h50 
EDIN max 17h30 min 7h

Latitude might not be the whole story but it should be pointed out that Glasgow and therefore Edinburgh are further north than every major city in Canada.

The UK invented double daylight time!

Latitude might not be the whole story but it should be pointed out that Glasgow and therefore Edinburgh are further north than every major city in Canada.

Thought I had you, but Edmonton is three degrees further south than Edingow. Damn!

Thank the Lord for the gulf stream is all I can say.

Keep imagining Tech N9ne yelling this thread title as a chorus

https://www.hcn.org/articles/welcome-to-daylight-nonsense-time

I didn't know time zones were a Canadian invention, thanks a lot us

People in the Yukon should be allowed to function on whatever time they want, that's a brutal winter

In response to that article - I think latitude has everything to do with it.

People in far northern climates experience extreme effects from time change in a way we in the US don't. For them daylight savings is about how early the sun rises, and with daylight savings in the Winter it could be as late as 10:00 am or later. That is not good. They should go back to standard time

For us in the US, daylight savings shifts light from the morning to the evening in a graceful way in the Summer when there is a lot of sun. Shifting to later daybreak in favor of later sunset makes sense. In Fall and Winter it doesn't.

I don't want to wake up and have it be dark until 8:00 am in the Winter (which would be the case under daylight savings time), and also don't want to be blinded by sunlight coming into my bedroom at 5:30 am in the Summer (which would be the case under standard time)

The change to daylight savings annually in the Spring and then back to standard time in the Fall is a good thing

Hm probably the first argument for DST that has made sense to me.

Just make it 5 o clock all day

That’s the case in Margaritaville, obviously

Hey, it's gotta be five o'clock everywhere, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51UpEKX39ZY

rude

omg that's fantastic

where British Columbia leads the House of Representatives follows

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/14/congress/house-votes-for-daylight-saving-time-00997817

I just don't see it happening... an object in motion will stay in motion

apparently they don't think it'll get through the senate for some dumb fucking reason

For good reason.

I don't want to live in darkness in the winter until 8:30 am (daylight savings time) and I don't want light coming into my bedroom in the summer at 5:00 am (standard time).

Daylight Savings Time is great in the summer, Standard Time is great in the winter. I don't know why we would want to fuck with that

But we change to DST during the winter.

DST is in the summer.

Yes, DST is in the late Spring/Summer/early Fall. Winter is Standard Time.

"Spring forward - DST" means that when the sun rises super early in the Summer you are allowing for an extra hour of darkness in the morning and an extra hour of light in the evening.

"Spring Back - ST" means that when there isn't much sun you will have some decent light in the morning even if it means it's getting dark in the late afternoon

It's a very confusing topic. I guess your feeling about may depend on whether you are a morning person or a night person

I want to be able to read on my walk, therefore standard time is ideal

DST in the USA begins in early March, during the winter.

so you're from Australia? I didn't know that

I prefer standard time but

In SF the sun rises on the summer solstice June 21 at 5:48 am under daylight savings. I wake up then, which is great!
But if it were standard time on the solstice it would be 4:48 am. That is ok with me, but I'm not sure other people want to wake up that early.

My siblings and friends and I waited at the end of my driveway in Western NY throughout grade school and high school at 7:30 am every day for the bus. In the winter it was just getting light. If we had gone to permanent daylight savings at that time we would have been in darkness for a good portion of the year

I'm from the United States, where Daylight Savings Time begins in the winter.

it begins a couple weeks before the end of winter, although I suspect it’s springlike half the time at that date, pplains 🤔

this pedantry shall stand

ok as both a pedant and anti-pedant I’ve discovered astronomical spring is March 20, meteorological spring is March 1. or so the meteorology people would want me to believe

As I've pointed out other times itt, bcz different parts of the US occupy everywhere from above the Arctic Circle down to the Florida Keys and Hawaii, any uniform year around time is going to dissatisfy the preferences of some segment of the country. What you would like to see happen is very dependent on your personal habits and the latitude where you live. Opinions on this question are literally "all over the map".

I’m going to start living in my own personal time zone and everyone else can suck it. (Wait till you see me hammering on the door of the coffee shop demanding they open at my 8am)

I'm just saying we already have 232 days of DST (in the US). What's 133 more?

it depends