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?
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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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...