Sorry for those who LIKE the time change.....

[davismanLV]

And so now it's not even six and it's been dark for hours. I hate it. I do. Sorry Kurt.. it's awful.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Being someone who leaves the house at 5:45am every morning, I will definitely enjoy having more daylight in the morning. And having the blinding fall sunrise right in my face every morning makes for a harrowing long drive to work. I've been doing it so long. I know when and where all the bad spots are, but people just slam their breaks when the sun is in their eyes. Tomorrow I won't have to worry about it.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I work east coast hours so I might be the only one who is stoked!

 

[davismanLV]

How many days before I stop saying (internally) that it's "really one hour later", you know? Like right now, I'm going oh 7:45.... so that's really 8:45 and I can go to sleep soon, right?? So maybe an hour of TV and then I'm for sure going to sleep. If I make it that long!!

 

[Roland]

I'm at a point where my life isn't driven by a clock. The time between sunrise and sunset is the same no matter what the clock says. It makes absolutely no difference to me.

 

[adorshki]

I set my clocks ahead on Friday night. Spend all day Saturday getting used to it. It's 10:20PM PDST (Post Dirty Stress Test) but 11:20 by my body clock so I'm good. Get to sleep a little earlier.

Shhhhh......!

 

[Wilmywood]

I work east coast hours so I might be the only one who is stoked!

I agree. I hate it being dark still at 730am in October.

Right now it's 6:20am here and just starting to get light out - would have been 7:20am Friday.

Give me light!

 

[chazmo]

The only really good point regarding keeping the DST time change is tantamount to keeping the English weights and measures vs. going metric... It's always been this way, for folks who are alive today, and thus all the signage in the US is based on it. Speaking as president of a club, I'm in favor of it because of the signage. Speaking as an individual, I've always thought it's dopey and would love to see it dropped, but it's not going to change in my lifetime, so I live with the feelings of Tom's cartoon.

 

[Uke]

 

[Just_Guild]

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

It was soooooo nice to get up with the Sun shining this morning! I don't care how early it gets dark 'cause once I'm home from work I'm in the house for the night!

(The cats are only cranky for a day or two so no real problem there!)

 

[HeyMikey]

I hate the change. Staying light later into the evening meant that after work I could still get outside for a brief bit and take care of some chores. Now I can only do that one the weekends. During the week I go into hibernation mode and hole up indoors until the clocks change back. It’s very depressing.

 

[Guildedagain]

Much ado about very little.

Yesterday morning seemed an hour longer than it usually is.

In a few days, it will fade as you adjust.

 

[GGJaguar]

Staying light later into the evening meant that after work I could still get outside for a brief bit and take care of some chores. Now I can only do that one the weekends.

Yes, this. Exactly.

 

[Bill Ashton]

And so now it's not even six and it's been dark for hours. I hate it. I do. Sorry Kurt.. it's awful.

Good thing you are not in Finland...midight in summer is about like 8 o'clock (meaning its that light out!), maybe earlier here, winter its sundown after about 2!

My summer experience in Roveniemi and winter experience in Kuopio

 

[Bill Ashton]

EXACTLY what our cat is telling us...from a guy that sleeps about 18-20 hours a day, getting up only when he perceives its "snack time!"

 

[Wilmywood]

The only really good point regarding keeping the DST time change is tantamount to keeping the English weights and measures vs. going metric... It's always been this way, for folks who are alive today, and thus all the signage in the US is based on it. Speaking as president of a club, I'm in favor of it because of the signage. Speaking as an individual, I've always thought it's dopey and would love to see it dropped, but it's not going to change in my lifetime, so I live with the feelings of Tom's cartoon.

It was tried before, and people hated it. Standard time was done away with in December, 1973. The nation went on daylight saving time full time. In January, the sunrise in DC was 8:27am. By August, there was enough of a public uprising to go back, and a bill was introduced in Congress to reinstate the time change.

The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It - Washingtonian

The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of the US went to year-round daylight saving time beginning on January 6. "It was jet black"...

www.washingtonian.com

 

[chazmo]

Like I said, it's all about what people are used to.

 

[Opsimath]

Makes little difference here. Up in the morning taking care of animals, and then out in the evening taking care of animals until about dark:30 regardless of what the clock says. Then time to fix supper. Feeding the humans is the worst part.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Yes, this. Exactly.

Thought you were retired?