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

wow you must be young, it was April to October until Bush Jr.

Thanks Dubya.

wow you must be young

thank you *blushes*

I just don't remember it or why they adjusted it

i love the sun

Congress moved the dates when DST started and ended because estimates predicted a net energy savings nationally if the changes were adopted. Dubya's only involvement was signing the bill into law.

when I win the lottery I'll just have two houses in adjacent time zones and move between them accordingly

I am hitting a huge mid-afternoon lull right now.

xxp Aimless-- I thought it was the centerpiece of his administration's "Energy Conservation Plan"

It could have been touted that way when introduced. It's the sort of thing presidents love to mention in their State of the Union address (speeches which I have mostly ignored since about 1994). I can't recall his ever mentioning an interest in it after that, only the stupid wrangling about how many more schoolkids per annum would be crushed by school busses compared to the status quo.

lfg

lol

I am ready for the change, I don't like it staying dark until 7:30 am

that will probably happen again by the solstice, but at least there's a temporary reprieve

lfg

lfg x 10

i slept through my alarm every day this week so theres clearly something wrong with DST this late in the year

here (and it probably depends on latitude and we in the uk do fall back a week before America) it's about 5 weeks until it's as dark in the morning as it was before the change and then less than 2 months before it starts to get better again.

but without dst it would be light at 03:30 in the summer.

my favorite time of year is in mid-may, when the sun is up at 5:30a, and i lie in bed thinking "now. now is the kind of time that i hope to die someday. or right now. the air is cool, and the sky is light and soon will almost erupt with insistent warm light. the birds are calling from every direction. yeah, for passing? this kind of time. it's the goddamned best possible feeling of the year."

this time of year now though, it is the very worst time of year. it is a time in which i pray not to wake up early, or possibly not at all. the role of dst or no dst is not relevant. it is just bad bad bad.

i literally want it to be dark all the time

i feel better that way

All of my stupid morning meetings with Asia and euro bros will be an hour earlier I really hate my job

i literally want it to be dark all the time

i feel better that way

People who enjoy the clocks going back are out of their boxes

Well I mean this one is fine. It’s the other one that suxors

Who loves the sun
Who loves when it makes flowers
Who cares what it does
Since you broke my heart, mookie

<3

aaaahhhhh

that's right

https://i.imgur.com/uTFF01L.jpeg

afaic people who prefer summer over winter are insane, summer fucking sucks and always has

correct

I like to judge people by their favourite seasons too. Talking of insane.

Ftr, it goes spring, autumn, summer, winter.

Autumn >>>

Summer is cool to vacation somewhere.

But living in a hot state in FL is hell.

We went to the beach for a friend's birthday during height of hurricane season last year and it was fucking hot bathwater

Hot state *like* FL

i am not judging, chinaski, it’s just hyperbole.

god i hate autumn. it's the "i don't watch television" of seasons.

― well pull down my pants and call me swamp thing (latebloomer), Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:30 PM (fifteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Daylight Saving Time or no, I'm already into the Dark Months. Sunrise will be 7:30 AM tomorrow, sunset will be 5:15. Less than 10 hours of daylight and it's only November.

afaict people who prefer winter over summer are inside <3

autumn, summer, winter, spring. I <3 dst ftr

only November? climate change hasn’t changed the number of sunlight hours per day. you choose the northern climes and you get what you paid for!

(6:50am to 5:05pm here and it sucks, too)

Np Tabes - excuse me, I was having a cranky evening. But, ftr, a summer evening in the UK can be utterly glorious.

we should poll the seasons it would be fucking epic

channel all of our election aggressions into insanely detailed descriptions of why we hate winter

polite but hyperbolic would be the tone

These past years the summers tend to extend throughout September and even October, then from November you can look forward to the end of the year and winding back the clock is part of the charm. I like the in-between season best, the transition, the expectation.

With that said, I have been waking up around 5am for weeks, going into months, and the time change is not helping right now.

I can take serious winter weather, like with actual snow; what I h8 is endless grey February dreariness that lasts for 90 weeks and then spring is only there for a day or so and then boom now it's hot.

I love autumn and hate DST. I don't like the extremes here in the UK and it staying late out until 10pm completely fucks with me and I hate it. I want it to be dark when I'm eating dinner ffs. I have to use a SAD light in the winter because it's so dark here but I will happily do that. I do wish there were more bright fall/winter days here. I miss those a ton.

I woke up so damn refreshed with the sun shining at 6:30, instead of last week when it was still dark at 7 and I was driving into the sun on the morning commute.

I love to finally read and walk again.

walked past a mom trying to explain the time change to her child; it was not unlike marty dibergi trying to explain amplifier gradation to nigel tufnel

I had the abrupt shift to driving home in the dark.

"hate", but yes, tomorrow I will have had it as well

the problem is not one or the other, it's the changing back and forth twice a year, the health costs of this are well documented