Daylight Savings Time

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Okay, is DST what they call the summer time or the winter time? Because I can never remember which is which and the whole "adding an hour" concept doesn't work for me.

Because I am frigging miserable in the winter. MISERABLE. So if you are saying that you hate the fact that we turn the clocks so that we are in the dark EVEN MORE during the winter than we would be if we just left them alone, then yeah, I am with you on that.

MIS. ER. A. BLE.

Frigging getting dark at six o'clock in the freaking evening you got to be shitting me mumble grouse grumble...

And ANOTHER thing, the whole fall back spring forward crap, I don't get that. What the hell time is it?????

I will not stop feeling like shit until around Easter...provided it's warm by then.

[jackfaire]

Wow okay so looks like I am in the minority here.

My sleep schedule is not in anyway thrown off. Leaving work when it is dark doesn't bother me at all. I get to work around 9 the sun is up. Even when I work overtime and arrive at work before sunrise and leave after sunset still doesn't bother me.

The only annoying thing is remembering to change my alarm clock.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I HATE the fact that it gets dark early in winter.

Summertime, it gets dark around 9pm here. Once it starts getting dark and cold around 5 or 6, I want to crawl into a hole with a bottle of rum and go to sleep until it gets better.

[blas87]

I am so with you, RK.

And since I work nights and sleep during the day....if I take too long of a nap on Friday, I'll have missed out on any daylight.

[AdminAssistant]

DST is a mild annoyance. I hate winter mostly because of the cold, snow/ice, and listening to people go, "Oh, I love winter, I love the cold, snow is amazing, and why can't these people drive on roads with a foot of snow on them?!?! School should never be cancelled because of bad weather! When you're cold, you can just bundle up, can't do anything if you get too hot!!!"

Gaaaaaahhhhhh.

I like summer. I spent the first 9 years of my life in a tin box in the South with no central air. I can deal with hot. Hot and me are friends. Cold makes me sleepy. I want to hibernate. Snow is cold and wet and it screws up the roads and excuse the fuck out of me if I drive carefully when there's an inch of ice and slush on the road. The only good thing about winter is Christmas.

I think I need to get the hell out of Plains.

Back OT: I guess it's because theatre work happens at night anyway...so I don't really notice the sun up/sun down thing. If anything, I like it when the sun rises later in the day, because it helps me sleep later on weekends.

[jackfaire]

Okay, is DST what they call the summer time or the winter time?

Neither actually DST means Daylight Saving Time

Depending on which time zone your in it would look like this.

Example done in Pacific Time Zone

PDT Pacific Daylight Time - Winter

PST Pacific Standard Time- Summer

[BroomJockey]

PDT Pacific Daylight Time - Winter

PST Pacific Standard Time- Summer

Other way around. Summer is PDT, Winter is PST.

[jackfaire]

Other way around. Summer is PDT, Winter is PST.

Woops Uhm okay too short so woops again

[Ree]

Son of a bitch dumbass keyboard.....nevermind, I give up.

Sorry you became a victim of the spelling police, blas.
I knew it was a typo, since you had typed it as "DST" in a previous post.

I hate daylight saving time. (Look, I didn't put in the 's' )
It's so bright in the morning that I keep waking up with a start because I think I've slept in. I head to work, where I am inside all day in a windowless area, and don't get to see what little daylight there is. Then, in the evening, it's so dark when I'm heading home from work.

In fact, I really hate winter. I feel like I want to do as the bears do and just go hibernate until it's all over.
There's a reason spring is my favourite season.
There is a return of sunlight after months of darkness.

[McDreidel09]

There's a reason spring is my favourite season.
There is a return of sunlight after months of darkness.

That was so poetic!

I have to agree that the only thing DST is good for is sleeping in on weekends. It was so depressing in high school because I barely saw the sun. I would go to school when the sun was barely peeking over the treetops. After school,I would go to work and come out of work at 6 and drive home in pitch black.

[jackfaire]

excuse the fuck out of me if I drive carefully when there's an inch of ice and slush on the road. .

Around here the people we are complaining about not knowing how to drive in snow are the ones who don't drive carefully when there is ice and slush on the road but rather drive like they normally would with no regard for changed conditions.

Those are the people that cause accidents and deaths.

[HYHYBT]

Interesting. Around here, on the once-a-year that we get anything icy that will actually stick to the road for a few hours, the complaints are from northerners, about both the locals who drive slowly on ice *and* the ones who didn't and are in the ditch.

Of course, this year we didn't get anything you could slip on anyway. All we ever got was March 1st, and here it is:
http://homepage.mac.com/feudfan/22201snow.jpg

I hate daylight saving time. (Look, I didn't put in the 's' )
It's so bright in the morning that I keep waking up with a start because I think I've slept in.

It's the switch to *standard* time that gives more light in the morning.

[Ree]

It's the switch to *standard* time that gives more light in the morning.

I realize that, but tell that to the sun that's shining a heck of a lot brighter into my window at 7 am than it did a few weeks ago.
(I don't know why...but that's the way it's been.)

[jackfaire]

I realize that, but tell that to the sun that's shining a heck of a lot brighter into my window at 7 am than it did a few weeks ago.
(I don't know why...but that's the way it's been.)

Which is truly freaky if you have a North facing window.

[BroomJockey]

(I don't know why...but that's the way it's been.)

Because... we switched to standard time? So what was formerly 8 o'clock is now 7 o'clock. So yes, it would be brighter in your room now. Lucky, though. It's not daylight here until around 8 *now.* In fact, sunrise this morning was 8:02. To have sun at 7... I'm a little jealous. If we kept DST the whole year, I'd be having lunch at sunrise.