Who hates Daylight Savings Time?
Growing up in AZ I never experienced this stupid phenomenon of switching your clocks in the fall and spring. I only had to remember when my cartoons were on was what the difference in the times translated to in AZ time.
Now that I am in NY, I find that losing an hour of sleep kills my sleep schedule for a few weeks.
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sgoman5674
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@oheifearnain: Simple and straight to the point. I like it!
this guy! I dislike the daylight savings time a great deal. Not entirely deal.woot.com related, but I'm in for a ranting post.
@sgoman5674: They'd need to invent a new word for how strongly I loathe daylight savings time. Accidents go up, heart attacks go up, more sick days get used...
Hate hate hate HATE!
If people want to get up an hour earlier so that they can have more daylight at the end of the day, let them. I just find it flat moronic, since it doesn't actually save energy (its original purported reasoning), and makes already hostile people like me flat postal. Yep. Berserker rage crazy.
Okay, I'm over it for a while, and I'll have adjusted to it by the end of the week or so. I tell time by the sun. It's about a week of me looking up, thinking I'm supposed to be somewhere, and realizing when I look down at my watch that I'm off by an hour.
HATE Daylight Savings Time.
[Edit] In addition, it just broke the stock market. Dammit.
I like it. ducking because I despise getting home in the dark. As it is I get up so early anyway that the sun isn't up yet anyway so I don't notice.
[edit] yes I am the rebel.
@hobbit and @sgoman5674: Ah, yes, you crazy east coast city folks. It's all YOUR fault. Hah! Revenge!!!
raises hand
Oh Oh, ME ME ME I hate tons!
While I'm thinking about it, I also hate Twitter. And morning. And Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Friendster...
@shrdlu: "Ah, yes, you crazy east cost city folks. It's all YOUR fault."
HEY! Don't lump me in with the blame. Hate is too mild a word for what I feel about DST.
I, too, have always told time by the sun (which totally amazes my hubby), and Daylight ScrewedUp Time totally messes with my internal clock. Takes me about three weeks to get my groove thing back.
@shrdlu: I was NOT always a Crazy East Coast City Person, for 30 years (well okay 10 of those I worked really) I was a Crazy West Coast City Person and I still despised getting home in the dark.
@hobbit, @shrdlu, and @debbiedunlap: I hate going home while it is still light out. Harder for me to sleep on the bus.
It's the flopping back and forth that kills me.
But I do like having daylight after work to play outside with the kids... does that mean I actually hate standard time?
@heymo: No, just winter time.
Me - with a caveat.
I actually wish they'd do away with STANDARD time and just stick with "Daylight Savings Time" year-round. (I put it in quotes because under my proposal it would become the standard.)
I want more light in the afternoons. Screw "morning people". They scare me anyway.
And those of us who can tell time by the sun would still be able to do so easily if it didn't change back-and-forth.
I can hear some people screaming, "Oh noes, the sun wouldn't be directly overhead at noon for the few months a year it current is!!" Meh. I don't really care.
I have to agree with the Rebel. I love dst. I think its GREAT having light when I get off of work...... so, :~P on you dst haters. hahahahaha
@1957pearl: Welcome to deals! I see this is your first interaction here. Have fun!
I found this in wikipedia (its sourced to somewhere where you have to have facts):
Public safety
A 2009 U.S. study found that on Mondays after the switch to DST, workers sleep an average of 40 minutes less, and are injured at work more often and more severely.[64]
# ^ Christopher M. Barnes; David T. Wagner. Changing to daylight saving time cuts into sleep and increases workplace injuries [PDF]. Journal of Applied Psychology. 2009;94(5):1305–1317. doi:10.1037/a0015320. PMID 19702372.
Crazy, its not only not saving us energy, but it is also killing our workers...and probably taking our jobs!
@fosterscool: THEY'RE TAKING OUR JORRRRBS!
Good grief! I hate poverty, hunger, loneliness, depression, war, crime, sickness, and death. There is no left over hate for something as simple as swapping around time. If you are retired, do you even really care what the clock says? If you are working, it is just one more adjustment in a long list of things you have to tolerate.
Now let's all find our pink cloud and concentrate on the things we love. (Do not call me Pollyanna!)
My pansies are blooming! My cousin is out of the hospital. The mailman just brought me a package. My cat is purring. My neighbor brought me some extra brownies that she "just happened" to have (I fixed her computer last week.) Happiness is...
I am going to have vote with the non hate group. I do loathe the transition but like the time change for the same reasons already cited.
Gives @sand4me a hard glare
Are you a morning person?
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I used to have a roommate who would sometimes wake me up by singing. He wasn't a particularly good singer, it was more about annoying me into wakefulness (which was appreciated because I used to oversleep frequently back then). A song that stands out in my head is Wham!'s "Wake me up before you go go," which was already quite old at that time. He didn't always sing that song, but in radio-terms I'd say it was in regular rotation.
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@heymo: I just hate the flipping back and forth. Pick a time and stick with it forever and ever and ever and ever .....
@anotherhiggins: (chuckle, not intimidated) No, I am not willingly a morning person, although the daylight wakes me up if I don't have the curtains closed. I am more frequently up until midnight, so wakeup time is about 7 or a bit before.
I do not sing until after the 2nd cup of coffee, feeding 3 cats, grabbing the paper, etc.
And if I turn on my computer and find more work, it usually makes me happy. (freelancer)
No work = bad, grumpy; new work = good, grumpy sometimes.
Cold weather = grumpy always.
@debbiedunlap: I have to say I do dislike the switching back and forth. When I was teaching, I worked with severe to profoundly disabled children and the switch was a struggle with them, not switching would have made life easier.
On the Upside, the Quake in Chile moved the Polar Axis and we lost a few seconds, so now with the DST we have gained most of that back.
You guys are so grumpy. I could care less that the clock changes an hour, so I lose an hour of sleep and am groggy for a while, it really does not bother me.
The only thing I like about DST is that I can get a longer nap on Shabbos (Saturday) afternoon.
Oh, I hate Daylight Savings Time. I hate switching, adjusting, bah! The only good things are that I can take a week of vacation when it ends and get an extra hour away from work and that people are reminded to change the batteries in their smoke detectors, though any semiannual occurrence would work just as well for that.
@sand4me: Retired doesn't mean dead, you know. I may not be working, but I still have appointments to keep, and things that occur at specific times. My clock really doesn't start ticking until about 10AM (so physically, less than thirty minutes ago), and it takes me several days to adjust my mornings to match the clock.
@catbertthegreat: Some of the crabbiness from me, this morning, may have been because I was entertaining myself, but it really does make me miserable for a few days.
@anotherhiggins: Do you notice that you glaring at me got 5!! additional votes?!? That means 5 more people are glaring at me - I could get a complex. Go postal. Pout for awhile. Laugh harder.
@shrdlu - I do not believe that you allow many external influences to change the rhythm of your days. Royalty does have obligations, of course.
@sand4me: There is simply nothing ruder than showing up late to a prearranged appointment (for example, I had one this morning at 9:20AM). In addition, there are things that happen at specific hours (the woot witching hour, for one), and I prefer to be there.
The world around me changes, and I am drawn along, perforce, whether I will or no.
@shrdlu: I can't stand being late either. My fiancee is late a lot, so is my mom.
You guys have GOT to be less entertaining. I'm getting very little work done as I flip back and forth to see what nonsense has transpired here.
@sgoman5674: It used to be that one branch of the family was notorious for showing up half an hour late to family reunions. One year they announced it would start at a specific time, and then as people trickled in, admitted that they'd planned for it. Next year? You know the answer already. Everyone was an hour late.
It would be easy for me to be late to things, and I used to be late all the time. When I moved into positions where people would have to wait until I showed up to get things started, I quit doing so. It would have been contemptible on my part. On my planet, (mod edit: profanity) flows uphill, not down.
@hobbit: I knew you were kidding. Me too.
@debbiedunlap: The only way to lessen the entertainment is to take hedge clippers to the Ethernet cable connected to your computer, or a hammer to your router.
@shrdlu: we take that same approach with my brother-in-law and family, perpetually 30 minutes late to everything. we'll tell them to meet about 45 minutes early. but when they show up 30 minutes late, we still act annoyed, but tell them we have gotten good at getting the waiter (or whoever) to work with us. we then wait the extra 15 minutes with them, and all is well! Now I just have to hope they aren't wooters also..
@debbiedunlap: nonsense! yeah, you're probably right, i get fits of work done in between surfing wikipedia and here!
@shrdlu: So when a Jewish couple get married there is a period of seven days afterward called Sheva Brachos (7 blessings). The bride and groom are expected to show up late for them. One of my friends told his brother (who just got married) to show up at 5 pm. The thing was scheduled to start at 7pm. When the brother showed up at six to find no one there yet, he was really mad to find out that he was tricked.
@catbertthegreat: That might lessen the entertainment, but it would also eliminate my ability to work. Although ... That might not be such a bad thing, after all.
@shrdlu: I hate being late. It practically gives me the hives.
@shrdlu: Yes, I have to agree that punctuality is to be desired. I spent most of the weekend down at the hospital or over at a relative's house, trying not to think about the things I wasn't getting done. There ARE events that control us, whether we are willing or not.
@debbiedunlap: There is no help for us. I just keep Deals up as a tab on the page because I know I will be right back looking to see what y'all are doing/saying and who found something new or cool. Wish someone would find me a new pillow that would make my neck feel better in the mornings!
@sand4me: you should post that as a challenge you know. Wanting a pillow that makes your neck feel better.
@hobbit: Done! Have at it. I have searched for a long time - well, 6 years.
Hate it. Already went to work late, but was still the first guy there.
mEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! ITS RIDICULOUS!!!
tbh i like the hour ahead move. i just wished we didn't fall back as i hate it getting dark at 330pm in the afternoon.
set it forward an hour and leave it! we'll all be much happier and since we aren't an agricultural society anymore, the farmers aren't going to complain either.
I left DST when I was 12 to bask in the gloriousness that was no change in time for several years (aka HI and college in AZ).
I will never get used to this whole time changing thing. I can do time zones -- even if I live relatively near a silly border now (aka the Upper Peninsula of Michigan -- 1st why is it not a part of WI, and 2nd why is it not on Central time). There are plenty of states that divide themselves up amongst time zones that make more sense.
I'll have to go with those who like DST, because of the extra hour of daylight. No, I am not a morning person. :D
I waste nearly a whole hour just going around the house (and cars) and changing all the clocks twice a year. If they're going to mandate the time changing twice a year, the least they could do is mandate that all clocks sold in the US also change automatically and can update themselves every few years when the politicians change when the transition occurs again. It wouldn't surprise me at all if some enterprising young politician proposed adding ANOTHER hour change in June/August to get MORE daylight savings! Idiots!
P.S. Go Arizona! I don't live there, but I wish my state would do the same and get off Daylight Savings!
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