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Post by jeremysgirl on Mar 12, 2023 21:25:08 GMT
If we stayed on daylight time year round, it would be dark until 9am in winter. If we stayed on standard tine, it would be light at 5am in summer. This is not correct at all. It’s currently winter and YESTERDAY it was not dark until 9am. 🤦🏼♀️ In Michigan where littlemama and I live, it totally would be if we stayed an hour ahead. Some mornings in December/January it doesn't get light here until almost 8:30 am.
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Post by littlemama on Mar 12, 2023 21:25:19 GMT
If we stayed on daylight time year round, it would be dark until 9am in winter. If we stayed on standard tine, it would be light at 5am in summer. This is not correct at all. It’s currently winter and YESTERDAY it was not dark until 9am. 🤦🏼♀️ YESTERDAY was not among the shortest days of the year. In December and early January, when it is currently dark until 8 am, it would be dark until 9am if we stayed on daylight time.
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Post by littlemama on Mar 12, 2023 21:26:47 GMT
I love daylight savings time! The longer hours of daylight (in the evening) improve my mood significantly and I am much more productive. I hate standard time, but with changing the time twice a year, we all get a bit of what we like. I don't have to get up super early, so it's light out when I get up. But I can understand those that have to be at work very early in the morning would enjoy the early daylight. I never knew anyone didn't like DST until I found 2 peas! Haha! Everyone I know in real life loves it. I also look forward to Daylight time as an indicator that Spring and Summer are on the way. I guess for people who live in warm weather states, maybe it doesnt matter as much, but it does here!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 12, 2023 21:30:27 GMT
If we stayed on daylight time year round, it would be dark until 9am in winter. If we stayed on standard tine, it would be light at 5am in summer. This is not correct at all. It’s currently winter and YESTERDAY it was not dark until 9am. 🤦🏼♀️ Actually if we stayed on DST year round, during the time of year when the daylight is shortest in the northern hemisphere, the sun wouldn’t rise until about 8:50 am. In January here (MN), on standard time the sun rises around 7:50 am, so yeah, I’m taking my kid to the bus stop in the dark. While it’s *technically* still winter, the first day of spring is eight days from now on March 20th.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Mar 12, 2023 21:42:13 GMT
Your position relative to the sun and where your geographical placement in your time zone makes a huge impact on the time the sun rises and sets within the seasons.
Jeremy and I got married in Las Vegas on June 22, 2014. We wanted an outdoor wedding in a gazebo at night. I had a very hard time wrapping my brain around the idea that it would be totally dark by our 9 pm wedding. Because where we live in Michigan (much farther north and at the western most edge of the eastern time zone), at that time of year, it doesn't get dark here until like 10 pm. Our fourth of July fireworks show starts at 10 pm.
I go to bed in the summer when it is still light outside.
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Post by compeateropeator on Mar 12, 2023 21:56:39 GMT
I am another that it doesn’t really bother. My biggest complaint was always having to change the clocks and now that most automatically change it makes it much easier.
I prefer daylight savings time. I much prefer to have extra daylight in the evening.
Pets are probably the ones who hate it the most. My brother’s dog are so happy we are changing back to daylight savings time…happier than anyone else that I know. 😆
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Post by pantsonfire on Mar 12, 2023 22:03:56 GMT
Another go with the flow person. Even the kids are. They have always adjusted well.
The first day always catches me off guard a but at how quickly the dsy goes but other than that, I have no fight in the game of time change
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Post by aj2hall on Mar 12, 2023 22:11:24 GMT
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Post by mimima on Mar 12, 2023 22:17:42 GMT
Standard is astronomically correct, so it seems that is what we should stay at, but I just think that we need to pick one and stop using time change as an energy policy.
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Post by SabrinaP on Mar 12, 2023 22:36:37 GMT
I am one of those peas with a VERY strong internal clock (most of the time I don't need an alarm), so it is more than just a couple of days for me to adjust. Keeping on the same time also would make it so much easier when I are either talking to my family or traveling one state over to visit them. I always forget about the time change and call at a bad time. LOL. But...in the grand scheme of things, just petty "problems" for me. Same for me. I have a very very strong internal clock. I don’t need my alarm to wake me, so time change kills me. Fall affects me more than spring because my body wakes me up at 4 AM for like a week instead of 5. In the spring I struggle more to get to sleep but somehow I usually still wake up at the time I want even though it’s technically an hour earlier.
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Post by carhoch on Mar 12, 2023 22:44:10 GMT
I love daylight savings time, we travel a lot so we change time zone multiple time a year so that’s not a problem and I love being able to stay longer outside in the evenings. One of my favorite things was when we were in Jasper National Park last July and the sunset was at 10:30 pm compared to Mobile where it’s pitch black at 8pm .
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Post by birukitty on Mar 12, 2023 22:52:02 GMT
I'm a confirmed night owl so I prefer daylight savings time. I'm not up early in the mornings anyway, so having it get light earlier makes no difference to me. I love it when it's summer and it doesn't get dark until late in the evening.
I do hate this twice yearly event of switching the clocks back and forth. It makes me feel off kilter for about a week. Last night I forgot all about it and stayed up much too late enjoying some late night TV after a 3 day migraine finally passed. Imagine my surprise when I got to bed and it was actually 4 am instead of 3 am. Oh well, good thing I had nothing planned for today and could sleep in.
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Post by katiekaty on Mar 12, 2023 22:55:37 GMT
Truthfully, I prefer Daylight Savings Time. As a day shift workers, it is nicer going home after work and havin some daylight left. On standard time, it’s go to work in the dark and come home in the dark! There are also less accidents both ways, of course that’s just a casual observation on my part, but I have less traffic to deal with due to accidents in the heavy traffic of Houston’s commuter traffic
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 12, 2023 22:56:36 GMT
I would much rather have light in the evening when I can enjoy it. In the mornings, I'm headed to work and really don't care what it is like outside. It is odd to drive to work when it is dark(ish), but I really hate driving home when it is dark and know that I won't get to enjoy any sunlight for the day.
I hope this is the last change we make.
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 12, 2023 23:00:48 GMT
Your position relative to the sun and where your geographical placement in your time zone makes a huge impact on the time the sun rises and sets within the seasons. Jeremy and I got married in Las Vegas on June 22, 2014. We wanted an outdoor wedding in a gazebo at night. I had a very hard time wrapping my brain around the idea that it would be totally dark by our 9 pm wedding. Because where we live in Michigan (much farther north and at the western most edge of the eastern time zone), at that time of year, it doesn't get dark here until like 10 pm. Our fourth of July fireworks show starts at 10 pm. I go to bed in the summer when it is still light outside. My relatives live in Minnesota and I remember watching the sun disappear closer to ten. That was a good hour to ninety minutes longer than I had in Nebraska. When you were a kid who had to come home "when the streetlights come on" it was a big deal. For me, when it is the shortest day of the year, the sun goes over the mountain at 3:02 pm. It is pitch black before dinner and so depressing. No matter what we choose, I can see people not liking it. I can also see that there will be benefits if we never have to change our clocks again.
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Post by katlady on Mar 12, 2023 23:05:33 GMT
Your position relative to the sun and where your geographical placement in your time zone makes a huge impact on the time the sun rises and sets within the seasons. Jeremy and I got married in Las Vegas on June 22, 2014. We wanted an outdoor wedding in a gazebo at night. I had a very hard time wrapping my brain around the idea that it would be totally dark by our 9 pm wedding. Because where we live in Michigan (much farther north and at the western most edge of the eastern time zone), at that time of year, it doesn't get dark here until like 10 pm. Our fourth of July fireworks show starts at 10 pm. I go to bed in the summer when it is still light outside. Yes! Where I live, on the longest day of the year, it is totally dark by 8:30. The firework shows on the 4th start at 9PM. On the shortest day of the year, it is totally dark by around 4:45-5PM. Yesterday, it didn't get totally dark until around 6PM. It is the morning sun that impacts me. It is going to be dark when I get up for work tomorrow, and that doesn't help a night owl. Of course, starting work at 8AM doesn't help a night owl either. LOL!
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Post by finsup on Mar 12, 2023 23:56:07 GMT
I didn’t even remember it today so I guess it doesn’t bother me much, but boy did I hate it when my kids were little and it threw off our whole schedule.
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Post by wallyagain on Mar 13, 2023 0:53:51 GMT
I think many things influence your preference, where you live in the time zone, how far north you live, are you a morning person, etc.
I live far enough north that even when we fall back, it’s still dark in the morning and then it’s dark before we get home from work. We hate it.
Our eastern zone is so large, that there can be over an hour difference of sun rise from one end to the other. But the clock time is the same. So how is that beneficial to circadian rhythm’s?
I don’t know the answer, but the changing needs to stop.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Mar 13, 2023 0:58:41 GMT
I didn’t even remember it today so I guess it doesn’t bother me much, but boy did I hate it when my kids were little and it threw off our whole schedule. It even affects my dogs! It takes a while before their internal clocks get reset too. It’s worse in the fall when we set them back because they still want to get up, go outside and get fed at the time they’re used to!
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Post by Lurkingpea on Mar 13, 2023 1:07:30 GMT
If people in Canada and Alaska can handle light all day and dark all day depending on season I think we should all be able to get up when it is dark. Or be ok if it is dark early. The changing is ridiculous.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Mar 13, 2023 5:23:35 GMT
Apparently we have tried permanent daylight savings times twice and it failed snd we went back to the way things were. 1974 I think was the last time. Other countries have tried it and then reverted back as well.
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Post by used2scrap on Mar 13, 2023 6:11:39 GMT
I hate it. But Alaska, and many Nordic and other countries manage so I’m not sure what the answer is. Maybe we should split the difference and do 30 min time like Afghanistan idk.
But I hate the changes personally. So I’m biased.
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Post by used2scrap on Mar 13, 2023 6:12:21 GMT
Apparently we have tried permanent daylight savings times twice and it failed snd we went back to the way things were. 1974 I think was the last time. Other countries have tried it and then reverted back as well. Have we tried standard time? (Not snarky actually asking)
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Post by used2scrap on Mar 13, 2023 6:15:53 GMT
Love it! If we stayed on daylight time year round, it would be dark until 9am in winter. If we stayed on standard tine, it would be light at 5am in summer. Id rather have that daylight in the evening when we can enjoy it. I dont understand the hate for a time change that only really feels odd for the first day or 2, but has so many benefits For some it feels odd for much more than a day or 2.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2023 14:09:27 GMT
I am one of those peas with a VERY strong internal clock (most of the time I don't need an alarm), so it is more than just a couple of days for me to adjust. Keeping on the same time also would make it so much easier when I are either talking to my family or traveling one state over to visit them. I always forget about the time change and call at a bad time. LOL. But...in the grand scheme of things, just petty "problems" for me. Same for me. I have a very very strong internal clock. I don’t need my alarm to wake me, so time change kills me. Fall affects me more than spring because my body wakes me up at 4 AM for like a week instead of 5. In the spring I struggle more to get to sleep but somehow I usually still wake up at the time I want even though it’s technically an hour earlier. Even sleeping in/going back to sleep is just a no go for me. When I am up I am up. I can't even nap - I wake up with raging headaches if I try. Getting enough sleep during normal sleeping hours is complicated. LOL
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Mar 13, 2023 14:34:22 GMT
Our local news posted this on FB. I’d be fine with this.
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Post by lbp on Mar 13, 2023 14:37:31 GMT
I hope not! I love it
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Post by nine on Mar 13, 2023 16:39:01 GMT
Yea! Daylight Savings Time! I love it when it stays light in the evening!
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Mar 13, 2023 16:45:28 GMT
My preference is for more light later in the day. I'm not one that's really bothered by the time changes, but it would suit me fine if they eliminated it.
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Post by Jamie on Mar 13, 2023 17:20:46 GMT
I hate it too. There are always peas who chime in that they don't hate it. It isn't a big deal. Etc. For a lot of people it really does effect us. Can't that be enough reason to not do it? Is there anyone who benefits from the time change? I think it is dumb. There is no real reason to do it. I don't care what time we pick. Either way half the population is going to be mad. Just pick a time and stick with it. I know I benefit. When we fall back in the nights are so long and find myself getting tired earlier and earlier, resulting in going to bed earlier. Yesterday with having it stay light out until close to 7:30, it was almost 9:30 before I was getting tired. Yes it was nice having some light the last 2 weeks or so when I would head into work at 6:30 and it was still dark this morning, but honestly, in 2 weeks or so it'll be back to being light in the morning anyway.
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