They didn't actually steal an hour from you. Imagine a sausage and cut one end off and then stick it back on at the other end of the sausage, it's still exactly the same. But I know what you mean. 😉 I am getting up 10 mins earlier every few days now, so I went get that one hour jetlag for a week!
That doesn't make any sense.
We live on a planet.
The planet has cycles.
If you don't like it, find a way so we don't orbit since that is your biggest complaint.
Are you saying if you wore a blindfold, you would know what time of day it is? I would only know when I get hungry, which could give me a rough idea only.
Getting up every morning in the dark to go to work in the dark, leaving work and getting home in the dark, feeling shut in/cut off, depression, suicide... I don't know who you're talking to but today, first day sprung forward, it was sunny & EVERYBODY was outside having fun.
i meant when they change the clocks. once you get used to it it's whatever but there's literally no reason to add or subtract an entire hour to/from people's lives twice a year, idk who likes that
"DST" is the time between March and November (about 34 weeks) that we keep clocks 'ahead' to keep daylight later in the day. "Standard time" is the other part of the year. You hate having to switch back and forth. The switching is what everyone hates and given a choice most want to keep DST hours.
Arizona hated it so much we never changed, then the Federal Govt said ALL states had to follow it. We did until we could get it changed back to states choice, then we quit.
It's useless to the states closest to the equator.
It serves no purpose & it's frustrating to hear otherwise intelligent people swear they are getting an extra hour a day of daylight....and listening to the same people whine about the dark when we switch back.
Plus, reverse seasonal SADD is real. It gets light enough soon enough for people like me.
which is why efforts to end it usually try to make it so we don’t switch BACK. but either way, that’s a non-issue. the numbers can represent anything we want them to.
No one thinks it's extra light. It's just at the end of the day. For those who leave work at dinner time, it makes a difference to get time to enjoy it.
Oh but they do. Because you don't think it doesn't mean people don't.
But I'm delighted you enjoy that extra hour and hope you also enjoy all the extra hours of light we get in a few weeks, anyway.
No one does. You'll get the same exact number of minutes of daylight/sunlight tomorrow as you'd have had without DST. Not one minute more. You'll just have it at your evening commute instead of your morning commute!
It depends on when you are most active. For a lot of people, mornings are just for breakfast and getting ready for work, while afternoons/evenings are for doing stuff. So functionally, those people get an extra hour of sunlight. I do understand that’s not everyone though.
Serves a great purpose for schools that don't have lights and need the extra daylight for sporting events to take place. Also for youth leagues like soccer and baseball, they can run at 5:30 or 6 and still have plenty of daylight for a game with parents having the ability to watch.
I suppose like/dislike is a product of where you live; in my area of FL, from Nov-March, it gets dark before 5:00 pm. So, despite the beautiful beaches, there is no time to enjoy them weekdays for ~4 months or 1/3 of the year!
I hate daylight savings. We don’t “gain an hour of daylight” as everyone says. We bump it from morning to night. Saturday morning I got up at 6 in daylight this morning I got up at in darkness. It’s stupid. #TeamEasternStandardTime
No one actually believes we alter the tilt of the earth and add daylight hours. The name implies this, but if anyone is stupid enough to think this, maybe it should be called "daylight shifting time"
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Guess what: no hour lost!
We live on a planet.
The planet has cycles.
If you don't like it, find a way so we don't orbit since that is your biggest complaint.
It's useless to the states closest to the equator.
Plus, reverse seasonal SADD is real. It gets light enough soon enough for people like me.
But I'm delighted you enjoy that extra hour and hope you also enjoy all the extra hours of light we get in a few weeks, anyway.
(I for one just want the sun to f*** off in summer when it's been over 40℃, and you don't want more time in the afternoon).
That's what I did as a kid in winter during the school year on the eastern side of our time zone.
Why should work rob me of an extra hour free with the bright giant hot ball of gas.