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So daylight savings is bullshit that should be scrapped globally right?
- Thread starter T002 Tyrant
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Daylight savings in the summer fucking sucks if you have small children. My kid's bedtime is 8:00 and in May and June it's still light until almost 9:00 here. So when I'm all, "It's bedtime!" my five year old was all, "What are you talking about? The sun is still out!"
In the US, this would be difficult as the federal government would have to approve it for permanent DST. Its easier to opt out of DST year round than make it permanent here.
You would have to convince UK to pick Daylight Saving Time. Good luck with that. Both sides prefer their time as example of this thread.
I wish California would adopt Arizona and Hawaii's stance and ignore Daylight Saving Time. We don't really need more sun here either.
what the hell?
we should stay permanently on day light savings time. More light in the afternoon, evening means more outdoor activities, less depressing too.
Yep. I live in AZ, the other state with no DST. Its great.
It all depends on where you live. I don't live far north enough for the sun to ever be up at 4 AM. Wouldn't it still be light outside past 8 PM anyway if you're north enough? Or at least still light out.
Its also too hot outside in the summer do to outside activities, so people wait for the sun to go down anyway. I think most people that live more south can relate that summer weather kinda sucks unless you're in a pool. Also the sunrise and sunset time differences between winter and summer aren't even that big.
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Quoting because this is the reason summer time/dst is superior. I'm not fucking up at 4am, but I bet I'm fully woke and still active around 8pm. Like a majority of the planet.
Every year we get a thread to complain about it for a day and suddenly forget it until next year.
Let's just nuke the Sun and then that way we don't have to worry about saving ourselves from the daylight.
Scrap the change but go to daylight savings time permanently to keep some daylight in the afternoon during midwinter.
I would want daylight savings time and scrap the winter time. It's not cool having it be dark outside right at 5PM.
I prefer DST. Getting home after 6p in the summer and I still have plenty of time for outdoor activities in the light, whether it be a family walk, bike, playing sports, a little yard work, etc. Sure some of those things can be down after dusk, but that's when the most bugs come out.
I like longer days during the Summer. It's nice to be done with work and still be able to chill outside on a nice day afterwards. On the other hand, shit is depressing when as soon as I finish work, it's dark as hell outside lol. I always feel like my whole day got wasted
The only way I'd accept the removal of DST is if DST was permanent year-round.
Winter at my latitude sucks - you literally drive home during the sunset, and arrive when it's dark.
That is tremendously soulcrushingly depressing.
And having the sun up til 8:30PM-9:30PM during Summer is kickass.
Winter at my latitude sucks - you literally drive home during the sunset, and arrive when it's dark.
That is tremendously soulcrushingly depressing.
And having the sun up til 8:30PM-9:30PM during Summer is kickass.
Tell me you don' t have young children without telling me you don't have young children.
I'm not going to start biking early in the morning when I can post actually waking up and post that thing people are enforced to do with work. Evening hours are more precious than waking up and getting your shit together and getting to work.
Stupid archaic system. I start working at 7AM and while I can understand wanting to transition to an earlier start time, I really hate it when I finally have some sunlight outside when I wake up only to have to start waking up in pitch darkness the next day. Let me progressively get up earlier using flexible work schedules instead.
DST, i.e., "summer time" should just become the new standard. I prefer the extra daylight in the evening hours anyway, and would especially like it in the winter because I hate when it's dark out by 6 PM. During standard/winter time, it was always getting close to nighttime by time I got home from school when I was a kid, and as an adult it's dark out or close to it if I have to work first shift (usu. 9-5 or 10-6). Winter is already gray, cold, lifeless, and depressing enough without it being dark out before I've even eaten dinner, so having that one extra hour of daylight in the late afternoon would be nice, and I love it in the summer when it's still light out at 9 PM. I've never been a morning person anyway and don't have to get up at 6AM or some other super-early hour, so I'm almost never up before the Sun is up.
Next time we spring forward, we should just stay there and not fall back again. Twenty states, including Georgia and South Carolina (I live in the Augusta area, which straddles the state line), have passed or have pending legislation that would move us to permanent DST, but cannot yet go into effect because it would need approval from the federal government.
Next time we spring forward, we should just stay there and not fall back again. Twenty states, including Georgia and South Carolina (I live in the Augusta area, which straddles the state line), have passed or have pending legislation that would move us to permanent DST, but cannot yet go into effect because it would need approval from the federal government.
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I used to hate summer time, then I started hanging around with all my Japanese friends online and realised summer time meant I got more time in the evenings to spend with them as they don't do DST so my time difference goes from 9 to 8 hours. I'd be happy to keep summertime now.
Because people think they are the opposite thing. Polls done that ask the right questions, like whether you'd rather have light early in the morning, or later into the evening, get the correct results.
Long evenings in the summer are the best, the only thing that makes winter slightly less depressing is knowing those glorious times are coming, so I'll keep them thanks.
Spring forward one more time and don't go back. I'd rather have more light in the evening than the morning.
Yep same. Working an 8-5, it'd be nice to actually get a nice exercise in after work and not have to worry about it getting pitch dark.
I still have not heard 1 positive of standard time, yet several for DST in this thread. Wonder why?
I mentioned several. Not only is changing the clocks twice a year annoying, the lack of sunlight in winter is mostly just a problem for those of you way up in the arctic circle, not really a problem for those of us in the south. Also in summer its too hot in a lot of places to really do outside activities while the sun is still up.
We are one world. We should have one timezone.
But seriously, I'm for permanent DST. I used to be for ending DST, but I've come around to just keeping it all year.
Though in the end I'm fine with either choice because the time change still gets scrapped.
But seriously, I'm for permanent DST. I used to be for ending DST, but I've come around to just keeping it all year.
Though in the end I'm fine with either choice because the time change still gets scrapped.
