I HATE and LOATHE WITH A PASSION this twice-yearly pissing about with the clocks. Isn't it about time we stopped it and just stuck with the one time-zone?
It's not that - it's the fact that my body tomorrow morning is going to be screaming WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GETTING UP AT 5AM?!!!!
It's been getting lighter here anyway. An extra hour of light at either end of the day doesn't make any difference to me, really. I just want to stop having to piss about with it every six months.
I grew up in Arizona, and didn't move to a place that observed Daylight Savings until i was nearly 18. Eleven years later and it still totally messes with my body and sleep schedule. Not only that, but a couple of years ago Congress decided to make it last a few more weeks...so now the time is wrong over half the year in the U.S. It was a stupid idea to begin with, even stupider now that we're in a technological age, not an agrarian one. Getting up an hour earlier than usual does not save energy and it doesn't make the day last longer...it's all a big mind frak.
even stupider now that we're in a technological age, not an agrarian one
*nods*
Every year in the autumn when the clocks go back, we get the argument about the increase in the number of road accidents - especially involving kids going to school in the dark - and then some bloody crofter from the Outer Hebrides moaning that it wouldn't get light until 10am if we didn't change them back or something. I'm sorry if that makes me sound intolerant - but I think that fewer dead kids kinda trumps a crofter having to get up in the dark.
(Yes - I freely admit to having no knowledge of farming whatsoever! I'm an ignorant townie.)
There are a lot of kids who get hit in the dark around here...and the school system has already changed to start at 9 instead of 8am.
If you're a farmer, you probably get up with the sun no matter what the clock says...cuz that's what the animals do, and they get noisy waiting to be fed. xD
That first clip always slays me, mostly because I live in an area that, up until about four or so years ago, was absolutely affected by exactly that. (Just over the Indiana border.) So I know what they're talking about rather intimately. :-)
That said....the change has never bothered me. Not the straight-up change when you're only talking about your own clocks and body-time, and not the change where you have to stop and do some math to figure out if this is the season when the next town over is actually on the same time as you, or whether they're on the hour-different time (and you have to remember which way that hour goes). It sounds horribly complicated and annoying, and to be fair, it made many folks around here crazy-go-nuts.
But I never minded it. I don't know why, except that I *love* having more light in the afternoon and evening. Being on the extra-far-western-edge of the time zone, in June/July the sun doesn't finish going down until nearly 10pm. July 4th fireworks have to wait until 10:15 or 10:30 pm to be truly dark enough to see them properly. It just feels like a wealth of time, to me, and I love it.
The thing is - I'm fine on the Sunday, but on the Monday I feel like shit because I've lost an hour, That's my problem. And I remember when the kids were little it's a nightmare because they don't understand why they have to go to bed an hour earlier!
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But whichever set of times we choose, there is always going to be a bunch of people who want to have daylight savings for part of the year.
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xoxo
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It's been getting lighter here anyway. An extra hour of light at either end of the day doesn't make any difference to me, really. I just want to stop having to piss about with it every six months.
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Those videos are hilarious. xD
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*nods*
Every year in the autumn when the clocks go back, we get the argument about the increase in the number of road accidents - especially involving kids going to school in the dark - and then some bloody crofter from the Outer Hebrides moaning that it wouldn't get light until 10am if we didn't change them back or something. I'm sorry if that makes me sound intolerant - but I think that fewer dead kids kinda trumps a crofter having to get up in the dark.
(Yes - I freely admit to having no knowledge of farming whatsoever! I'm an ignorant townie.)
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If you're a farmer, you probably get up with the sun no matter what the clock says...cuz that's what the animals do, and they get noisy waiting to be fed. xD
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That said....the change has never bothered me. Not the straight-up change when you're only talking about your own clocks and body-time, and not the change where you have to stop and do some math to figure out if this is the season when the next town over is actually on the same time as you, or whether they're on the hour-different time (and you have to remember which way that hour goes). It sounds horribly complicated and annoying, and to be fair, it made many folks around here crazy-go-nuts.
But I never minded it. I don't know why, except that I *love* having more light in the afternoon and evening. Being on the extra-far-western-edge of the time zone, in June/July the sun doesn't finish going down until nearly 10pm. July 4th fireworks have to wait until 10:15 or 10:30 pm to be truly dark enough to see them properly. It just feels like a wealth of time, to me, and I love it.
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Come to think of it, they still argue...