Daylight Savings Time

[davismanLV]

I don't get the hate?

Okay, I strongly dislike. Better??

 

[dreadnut]

I don't remember how they dealt with that in the whole Y2K debacle that never happened. I was on call that night, and we were just a manufacturing company. Plus it was a leap year!

 

[Brucebubs]

I love my Subaru but I hate daylight savings!

Grrr ... Try setting the clock in it!

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Okay, I strongly dislike. Better??

Yes! Too much hate in the world right now!

 

[fronobulax]

So all you people with problems adjusting your internal clock, how do you deal with crossing time zones?

With great difficulty. If I controlled the schedule it was easier to cope.

 

[davismanLV]

I love my Subaru but I hate daylight savings!

Grrr ... Try setting the clock in it!

Actually the clock in my Nissan Frontier is the easiest clock to reset. We were going somewhere and Don said, "Oh no, this clock has to be reset too!" We stopped at a light. Click, click, click.... and done. "That's IT??" Yes, that's it.....

 

[dreadnut]

OK Tom, we have something else in common, a Nissan Frontier!

 

[GGJaguar]

Since my work hours don't move, I enjoy having sunlit hours after work during the Summer. While I don't mind driving home after work in the dark, I hate getting up in the dark so I appreciate the time shift so it's lighter in the morning.

I don't get the hate?

You are adaptable. The rest of us will suffer and go extinct.

 

[wileypickett]

The only time I was ever early for work was the Monday after a time change weekend that I completely forgot about.

 

[Brucebubs]

The only time I was ever early for work was the Monday after a time change weekend that I completely forgot about.

And were you late one day about 6 months later?

 

[shihan]

This made me remember one of the saddest days of my working life. I worked nights for about 18 months years ago. I never adjusted to sleeping during the day, no matter what I did, and was really a wreck after several months of that.
When I had to turn the clock back an hour at midnight and add another hour to an already seemingly endless night....

 

[adorshki]

Agreed. It's a PITA.

walrus

Post Instantaneous Time Adjustment?

 

[adorshki]

Since my work hours don't move, I enjoy having sunlit hours after work during the Summer. While I don't mind driving home after work in the dark, I hate getting up in the dark so I appreciate the time shift so it's lighter in the morning.

I don't get the hate?

Yeah, during the last couple of years I started getting up earlier to be at the office by 7:30 and avoid the traffic. For a couple of months it's drive in the dark, but I started noticing the gradual change in sunrise time, started getting lighter earlier after the winter solstice. Kinda cool.

But yeah I hate losing the hour, I actually start moving the alarm clock back for about a week beforehand to help adjust to the change.
And I love getting it back in the spring.

 

[adorshki]

You are adaptable. The rest of us will suffer and go extinct.

Even worse, we won't go extinct. Just continue to suffer.

 

[beecee]

I don't mind the getting up earlier and agreed it is neat to watch the sun come up earlier as the winter rolls on....If by some chance I stay up till 11 or midnight or later I still wake at 3, which will be 2 as of tomorrow. That will not change as the weeks/months pass.

I can't explain it other than to say it's my body's internal clock.

The part I find rather unpleasant (OK I HATE), is trying to stay up past 8 p.m. at night going forward. That too doesn't change.

 

[fronobulax]

Thinking about it and Grot's comment about time zones, it is the getting up earlier that kills me and that is because the adjustment to actually get to sleep earlier is very difficult for me. My commute always started before dawn regardless of the time zone so the shift only effected the commute when time shifted so that I was driving into the sun.

 

[F312]

You know, the time charges never bothered me. I'm a musician, and timing and adjusting is everything, everything to me.

Ralph

 

[geoguy]

I work outdoors pretty often, and I don't like the shortest days when it is dark by about 4:30 pm.

Other than that, a one-hour time change is no big deal for me.

 

[GAD]

So all you people with problems adjusting your internal clock, how do you deal with crossing time zones?

I’ve trained myself to basically live in California time since that’s where my office is and where I would fly to most often. Unfortunately that made flying to Europe MUCH worse.

 

[dreadnut]

When I turned 20, I was on the USS Ranger and we were coming home from the Far East. We crossed the International Date Line on my birthday, Oct. 29, so I had two 20th birthdays.

20 years later, on my 40th birthday, I was flying back from a business trip to Japan, and I just missed having two 40th birthdays; we crossed the International Date Line about two hours before my birthday.