Daylight Savings??? What a Crock!!!

You are far too kind, ma'am. (I dips me lid)

No!

(to embarrass you even more )

I am NOT too kind at all.
I mean it.

OK?

Yes, of course. We're biggest, so naturally we're right.

Kwitcherbitchin!

ps - it's good to see you, too!

This is the time of year I really dislike. So this weekend we set the clocks back and it will start getting dark before 6PM

I like the extra light in the morning though. And it's very nice to go to bed as usual and wake up as usual and have it magically be one hour earlier. (As in, sozlet goes to bed at 10 and wakes up at 8, after daylight savings time she's going to bed at 9 and waking up at 7! Yay!)

mmmm....it's my favorite time. I love when it gets dark early.

Somehow it's.....magical.

I don't have to change my clocks, but I have to remember that I'm now basically in the Mountain Time Zone, not the Pacific Time Zone, in relation to everyone else in the country.

But I like not having to change my clocks!

Am I the first one posting about daylight savings time? Cool!

Just a reminder that it's this coming Sunday so don't forget to "spring" ahead 1 hour. If you vote Republican please set your clocks back 100 years.

My dad and I shared a good rant about it tonight.

My FB memories had a great rant about it from a few years ago. I sure hate it.

They've been saving time that long enough that it ought to be yesterday morning.

I have to speak up for the nightblind people like me... gives me more time outside, once I get used to the change, a day or two. I've read, but not lately so no data, that a fair amount of older folk have some night vision loss. I remember the rigamarole of tests when I was studied, studied like a fly, at Jules Stein Eye Institute. Took me 45 minutes to adapt. Probably still 45 minutes, as my eyes haven't changed that much re the RP.

I get it that it affects people's jobs.
Mine too; I couldn't take possible jobs in downtown Los Angeles, re getting home after work. Just as well, as I'd have made a terrible city planner, too damn opinionated.

Does anyone actually benefit from this? Maybe when it was originally conceived it had some practical purpose but I don't know what it was. Whatever it was it's irrelevant now and we ought to just stop. Just. Stop.

It makes a hell of difference to me, as I just described.
I don't go out at night, not for decades, without another person to keep me from bashing into walls, even with street lights in town. I like an extra hour of light a great deal.

I didn't drive around twilight for years either, in case I got caught in traffic, which of course affected job/life.

I wrote about my last trip to Italy fairly recently, about this. I was something like 3 weeks by myself, and liked it. I worked it re timing, but that takes biggo attention, some planning ahead.

I understand that people who want more light at night may not win over time, and that people like me are exceptional. But others are also helped by light at night, re apprehension of danger getting off the bus, and so on.

I would say that daylight saving is no saving.
When you live up in northern Europe it does not make much of a difference as the suns never goes down.
A bit further south the sun rises around 2 or 3 in the morning and sets around 11 pm. That does not make any difference from normal life.
I you live down in Italy, Spain etc an hour longer makes a big difference. Because then you have less time without sunshine to air out and get the cooler air in the house, you can have your dinner in a cooler air too. People do not
have aircondition.
There are more accidents the first week in the morning.
Cows have to be milked on strange hours
Babies have to be fed strange hours
People dependent on medicin get confused
The early birds who have to go to work - have to drive when it is dark.
The list is long
A few people love the daylight savings time, but mostly politicians

I love it! I get out in the daylight so much more with the change

It all depends on where you live and how your working hours are.
If you live up north you have much more sunlight than those living south and in the winter just the opposite.
The 21st of June the most northern Swedish city has midnights sun
The most south city has sunrise at 04.15 am and sunset at 21.51.
The further south you get some people have to go to work when it still is dark and come home when it bright because of daylight saving.
Now sun rises at 6.30 so at 07.00 it is bright.
In two weeks when we get daylight saving if I got up at 6 the time is really 5 oclock and it will be dark for another 90 minutes instead of 30 minutes.
This also means I have to use more electricity in the morning than I would have without daylight saving.

Right, but it's in the summer when it's light later anyway. You get the extra light in the evening but lose it in the morning. If it was the other way around, it would even out the time it got dark.

I enjoy it. I've long had to rush driving home from work when it was getting dark - dangerous for me and others. I don't drive now, but did for a lot of decades. I loved the months I didn't have to worry about it.
I understand others have to get up in the dark, but they aren't night blind. Luckily, most of my life I lived close to work or school, and was due at a reasonable hour like 9 am.

It turned out that I can't use the bus system here, much. Bus stop a mile or more away. I had checked that there was a bus, but it turns out it runs twice a day, at 6 am and 6pm - both not options for quite a bit of the year, for me, that is.

I had to use the bus when I lived in Phoenix, very inconvenient. Sometimes my wait was two hours! Not much of a public transit system. Those western cities seem to be designed for the convenience of the car owner.

Absolutely, in my view anyway. In my immediate area, there are few if any parks and hundreds and hundreds of houses or townhouses, thus few places for residents to meet each other. I'll call it retrograde city planning.