Getting rid of daylight savings and staying on permanent standard would be great. When it becomes daylight savings time during the colder months it really does suck ad it gets darker earlier. Thus, I feel there is a lot less I want to do in the evenings. I like the slightly darker mornings and brighter evenings of standard.
Choosing one or the other would be good, though I feel like permanent standard over permanent savings still is a bit better.
Regardless, time change is annoying.
I really don’t care what time the sun sets or rises. Just stop messing with my body’s internal clock.
Maybe it’s my ADHD, but I simply can not understand how to read this map.
More yellow means better for your location if you want daylight before 7 AM (left) or after 6 PM (right).
I don’t care what timezone we end up in, just stop the twice a year shifts.
Drop DST. We tried permanent DST in the '70s and everyone hated it so much we went back to switching the clocks rather than just dropping the whole mess.
I’ve lived in states that don’t/ didn’t have DST. It’s much better for your sleep cycle.
As long as it stays the same as year, I literally do not give a damn.
Pick one or the other. Or use UTC globally for all I care. Just stop changing the damn time!
How about we remove it and also set the time to go home to be 2hrs before sun down? Yey! Because that’s bullshit. The sun always comes up and down. Its the stupid scheduled that keeps us out of it.
I read a study once but cannot remember it.
It posited that lunch time should be half way through the daylight hours and the further away it was from this then the more effect it had on either mental or physical health (I don’t remember in it’s entirety.)
I’m in the minority I guess, but I like daylight savings time. I like my waking hours to be in daylight. I typically wake up with the sun and I do stuff outside.
My biggest gripe about it is that my job involves working with people in Europe, India, and other places around the globe, and it seems like they all start & stop daylight savings at different times. So for like two weeks the time difference between me & our Berlin office changes by one hour. It wouldn’t be as big a deal if every country implemented it consistently…
I couldn’t agree more. I interact with a friend in the UK every Monday morning and THAT is a PITA. I can also understand why people don’t like it. I’m all for standardization and I do wish they would do something worldwide. This is one of the reasons I don’t think the coronavirus was a hoax. The world can’t even agree on something as fundamental as what time it is, why the hell would they agree to make themselves look bad by admitting a bunch of their people died. Anyway, if eliminating daylight savings time is the worst thing Trump does, I’d be OK with that.
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Don’t care, just pick one and don’t change it every six months.
This is the correct answer.
3 upvotes from my cats.
My cat has never cared, I have a shit sleep schedule anyways 🤷♀️
At 9 o’clock, or whenever they think it’s 9 o’clock, they start staring at me. Weirdly unsettling.
This is by far the more important aspect
Humans are routine oriented creatures, introducing an arbitrary hour deficit in sleep once a year has measurable and fairly profound effects on physical and mental health. Sure, it can be planned for, but circadian rhythms are hard to mess with for a lot of people and going to bed an hour earlier isn’t always an option
Cool. But stay on dst anyhow. It’s way nicer to never have it be dark at 5pm.
Precisely!
Enjoy your 0830 am sunrises in winter then
I’m completely fine with that. I leave for work at 5 am and I prefer it staying dark before I get there.
More of us sleep through the first hour of sunlight, than the last hour.
Spring forward and leave it there. In the fall it currently gets dark at 5 pm. It’s depressing to get off work and not have any daylight to enjoy and run errands. It’s also dangerous because tired drivers are coming home in a dark rush hour.
Word. I couldn’t care less whether the sun rises while I’m on the bus to work or while I’m getting my first coffee at work. Have to wake up in the dark either way. But whether or not i get that one hour of daylight after work makes a world of a difference in my mental health.
When i worked at a ski basin, I called that “working from dark to dark,” and i hate it so fucking much.
I wish work places were more flexible with start/stop times
I work a dead end job with mediocre pay and no benefits but i will never leave because i get in when i get in and leave when i leave. Not having an insane focus on time makes this the best job I’ve ever had.
So, now the tired drivers are driving to work in the dark. I don’t see any solution making a real difference. There’s less day in the winter. Any solution at all will piss off 3/4s of the population.
Seems like the only real solution is shortened work days.
There’s usually 8 hours of sunlight during the day on the shortest day of the year, a bit more or less depending on latitude, but not by a lot. Make those 8 hours 9-5. Congrats, you’ve solved the problem, the average day will have a bit to a lot of light before and after the standard work day.
Regular time is shown to be healthier so no, don’t spring forward and leave it there.
or maybe just go back to being done with work before sunset regardless of what time that was like our ancestors did for millions of years
How is that depressing? Don’t be so servile.
Split the difference by adding 30 minutes in the spring and then leave it there permanently.
But not, like… every Spring, right?
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