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Sunday the Clocks go back an hour. Why do we still do this?
- Thread starter BarryAllen
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I'm also for getting rid of the practice, but I'd only want to do it if DST became the standard time. Super early darkness and is what makes winter so miserable (far more than the cold and snow).
I love in the peak of summer when it's 9pm and still in twilight. If the sun set at 5 instead of 4 in the winter time, I would genuinely be notably happier. I believe that.
I love in the peak of summer when it's 9pm and still in twilight. If the sun set at 5 instead of 4 in the winter time, I would genuinely be notably happier. I believe that.
Some fucking sense, thank god.
Everyone in this thread who is relishing extra darkness is the reason we can't have nice things.
4PM SUNSETS ARE INHUMANE.
Hated it especially when I worked night shift. Screws you over bigtime.
I hope this ends someday soon. This should be an election issue.
I hope this ends someday soon. This should be an election issue.
Agree to disagree.
I already quoted this in my previous more flippant post, but it wanted to treat it with a little more seriousness for a second.
I've realized that every long episode of major depression I've suffered started in late fall, after daylight savings time ends. I have so many active memories of how (since childhood) the encroach of extremely early darkness makes me feel suffocated and hopeless.
It's never the cause of my depression but it certainly contributes to it.
(In more ways than a sun lamp could help.)
Wait!!? It's really only 12:19ish. Kissed the wife goodnight and said I'd be jamming to music for the next 3 hours. Does that really mean only 2?
But surely you shouldn't be asking 'why do the clocks go back an hour' - it's 'why do they go forward an hour in the spring'. Standard time is the ....standard..time. It's daylight savings (British summer time in the UK) which is the 'wrong' one. And tbh in the spring/summer there is enough light during normal hours that you could easily leave it on standard time. In autumn/winter there isn't enough light to avoid a dark morning or evening so just leave it alone.
Worked the overnight last night and my morning relief is late. I'm fully expecting the "forgot to set my clock" excuse even though this isn't the right change...
It freaks you out when your smart devices automatically change and you don't even think about it, then you see a random clock somewhere in your house or car that didn't automatically change and you instantly think you're late for something.
I wish it was the other way around. In summer, I would like it to be dark at 5PM. Why? Because I live in New Orleans and it's 90 degrees in the summer in daylight. It's horrible. Now in the late Fall/Winter when it's comfortable temperature, I would like the daylight to be longer.
So both of the time switches are equally terrible for me.
So both of the time switches are equally terrible for me.