Daylight Saving Time Ends Tonight

[gsilver]

This year, I really needed the "fall back"
My body has been pushing me for more sleep in the mornings for a while, and even if I went to bed early, my body wouldn't actually let me sleep until a certain time.


...But in general, time switches are kind of bunk. I dislike it being dark both to and from work, and I also dislike how stupidly late it stays light out over the summer.

...Maybe I just need to move to a lower latitude.

 

[Stiletto]

Me unfortunately I have a natural clock in me so I don't need an alarm clock to wake me up

Clocks are mechanical devices created to measure a concept that is completely made up by human beings. Time does not exist. Help your body to see logic.

 

[xX_Jack_Carver_Xx]

Take it up with the Sun, maybe it would glow longer if you people asked nice.

 

[Ducman69]

Clocks are mechanical devices created to measure a concept that is completely made up by human beings. Time does not exist. Help your body to see logic.

Fail. Time is a real physical thing, and the particular UNIT of time we invented is just a way to measure it. Your statement is like saying that mass is a concept that is completely made up by humans... Mass does not exist.

 

[Qinsp]

Gravity does not exist either.


The Earth sucks.

 

[Synful Serenity]

Really don't understand all of you liking it getting dark even earlier....If you want to pick a time and stay with it, then make Standard Time go away and keep DST......I hate having dark and dreary winters made even more dark and dreary (it's always dark and dreary in the mornings in the winter regardless, at least give the afternoons a fighting chance to be worthwhile).

If we didn't have DST in the summer, then in June and July it would start to get light out not long after 3AM.....who would want that??

 

[Stiletto]

Fail. Time is a real physical thing, and the particular UNIT of time we invented is just a way to measure it. Your statement is like saying that mass is a concept that is completely made up by humans... Mass does not exist.

How can we tell that the past isn’t a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between our immediate physical sensations and our state of mind?

 

[Babbster]

Really don't understand all of you liking it getting dark even earlier....If you want to pick a time and stay with it, then make Standard Time go away and keep DST......I hate having dark and dreary winters made even more dark and dreary (it's always dark and dreary in the mornings in the winter regardless, at least give the afternoons a fighting chance to be worthwhile).

That's fine, whatever. Most of the people I talk to don't care which time we stick with as long as we stick to one.

If we didn't have DST in the summer, then in June and July it would start to get light out not long after 3AM.....who would want that??

That's just bunk. For one thing, you're wildly exaggerating (by over an hour for most locations in the continental US, even around the summer solstice). For another, most people are just as discomfited by sunrise at 5 a.m. as they would be by sunrise at 4 a.m.

 

[sfsuphysics]

the days normally get less daylight during late Fall/Winter in the Northern Hemisphere regardless of Daylight Savings...DST just tries to compensate a bit for it

How do you figure? You realize DST is during the summer months, we didn't move into DST we left it, we're now in Standard Time, so the amount of light we get during the fall/winter at night is exactly the same. And a minor correction, we don't get any more light, it just shifts when the light is given, either morning or evening.

It boggles my mind to think why we would need/want more sunlight at night during a time when we already have the most sunlight at night in the year. If anything we should be in standard time in the summer and change to DST in the fall/winter. Although the downside is you lose an hour of light in the morning, which means a lot of people going to work in the dark.

 

[polonyc2]

How do you figure? You realize DST is during the summer months, we didn't move into DST we left it, we're now in Standard Time, so the amount of light we get during the fall/winter at night is exactly the same. And a minor correction, we don't get any more light, it just shifts when the light is given, either morning or evening.

It boggles my mind to think why we would need/want more sunlight at night during a time when we already have the most sunlight at night in the year. If anything we should be in standard time in the summer and change to DST in the fall/winter. Although the downside is you lose an hour of light in the morning, which means a lot of people going to work in the dark.

the number of hours of sunlight normally decreases during the winter regardless of DST...the point of DST is for energy conservation...natural light makes people not turn on lights in their home...so shifting it in the evening is where it is felt most

 

[Cherub]

While I'd be in favor of getting rid of DLS, I actually have enjoyed it for the last few years, as my schedule shifted earlier. In effect after DSL ends, I am getting up an hour LATER in relation to the sun. As a result, instead of getting up and leaving the house while it is pitch black, I now wake at dawn and leave in daylight, which I greatly prefer.

 

[sfsuphysics]

the number of hours of sunlight normally decreases during the winter regardless of DST...the point of DST is for energy conservation...natural light makes people not turn on lights in their home...so shifting it in the evening is where it is felt most

Yes I realize that, in fact right after the summer solstice (June 21) we start getting less daylight hours until the winter solstice then that starts climbing back up.

Your statement seemed to imply DST helped us cope with less hours which if anything it would do the opposite since we're used to more hours of daylight in the evening, then in one Sunday morning bam, 1 less hour of daylight in the evening, one more in the morning.

the days normally get less daylight during late Fall/Winter in the Northern Hemisphere regardless of Daylight Savings...DST just tries to compensate a bit for it