A bunch of my mom's friends and acquaintances have been gleefully telling her this is the last time they'll have to change their clocks. My mom knows better and has been informing them that no, that didn't pass Congress; but wtf? Has Fox news been lying about that too, or something?
No, but when it initially passed there was a huge amount of reporting on it that strongly implied it was a standalone bill with bipartisan support that would easily pass. It was actually a provision on a larger, contentious bill that is not expected to pass, but this wasn't in the initial reporting or ever followed up on. So I get why people have the wrong idea.
I don't care which schedule we are on, but we should pick one and never swap.
I was getting my son ready for an activity this morning, and having a particularly hard time. I look at the clock on the wall to verify the time, and see they are an hour behind.
I didn't know today was the time change day until that moment. No wonder it was so miserable
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
This extra hour of daylight at the end of my work day is gonna improve my mood and productivity so much!!! Plus I can BBQ in the light of day for dinner! So happy to be back in a proper time. Let's stay like this forever.
We should be on Standard Time all the time. That's why it's called Standard Time.
I didn't even know this was coming up, and I was kept awake by my wife and her friend getting home drunk from a concert at like 11:30, then making me take them to Whataburger at midnight, and then having a dance party in our kitchen afterwards. I didn't fall asleep until 3am, so no wonder I feel like shit
I like waking up to darkness and having the sun shine until late in the evening. Get on DST and stick with it!
I hate losing an hour of my precious weekend but I really do prefer daylight time. Soon I’ll be taking evening walks and sitting out in my garden and smelling bbq after work. Ahhhh summer…
This extra hour of daylight at the end of my work day is gonna improve my mood and productivity so much!!! Plus I can BBQ in the light of day for dinner! So happy to be back in a proper time. Let's stay like this forever.
As an incorrigible night owl: Fuck That. For over half the year, my body's sleep needs are even further out of sync with society's expectations (especially employers. fuck 9 to 5 with a rusty spoon).
Roughly speaking, 19 minutes of lost sleep a day translates to 115 hours of lost sleep per year. Given what’s known about the importance of sleep for good physical and mental health, it’s no surprise that Giuntella and Mazzonna found a greater incidence of health problems in areas where the sun sets later.
People on the late side of sunset across U.S. time zones were 11 percent more likely, on average, to be overweight and 21 percent more likely to be obese. Diabetes was more prevalent, and the risk of heart attack increased by 19 percent. Breast cancer rates were slightly elevated, too — about 5 percent higher than average.
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We should be on Standard Time all the time. That's why it's called Standard Time.
Daylight Savings Time screwed me over last night. I work security as a supervisor and since one of our guards was out last night, I was doing the inside scans. (We need to scan a tag in certain locations to verify we've been there.) It doesn't take long. But, I had a new trainee who is going to work night shift and I was trying to get her onboarding packet done and get her to her position so she could get a little bit of a feel for. We literally did not get done until 2am. I thought, okay, I have an hour to get these three scans on this tour done,(because that particular set of scans ended at 0300 hrs,) but nope, the clocks jumped ahead and it counted the scans as missed, so now I have to explain that to management because corporate will be on him about it.
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HacksawJ. Duggan Esq.Wrestler at LawRegistered Userregular
I don't care which schedule we are on, but we should pick one and never swap.
I was working when time sprang forward, last night. I joked that we should get a free hour of pay for losing an hour of our lives on the clock. We were already on double time, what's a little more?
The company will not be paying us this phantom hour, but this will fuel me when I go into bargaining with them later this year.
I don't care which schedule we are on, but we should pick one and never swap.
Burn every employer to the ground who has people working overnight and act like it's out of their hands that an hour of your life evaporated on the time clock where your labor occurred but their compensation evaporated with the changeover.
I couldn't handle that. I'd be in jail if that happened to me.
I was working when time sprang forward, last night. I joked that we should get a free hour of pay for losing an hour of our lives on the clock. We were already on double time, what's a little more?
The company will not be paying us this phantom hour, but this will fuel me when I go into bargaining with them later this year.
"It says right here I worked from 8 to 5, that's nine hours."
I don't care which schedule we are on, but we should pick one and never swap.
Like the rollback in fall screws some people, congress needs to just pick one I despise each time shift so, so much.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I don't care which schedule we are on, but we should pick one and never swap.
I don't think we're doing any favors to daylight saving it year after year. We should just let daylight fall on its fuckin' face for once and learn to save itself.
We should be on Standard Time all the time. That's why it's called Standard Time.
It still kind of blows my mind that all the evidence says that switching clocks twice a year literally kills people and some people are still like “yeah but sun feels nice on my face so”
I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised given the cavalier attitudes towards murder weapon ownership but this is not even a “take away your freedoms” thing, it’s literally just asking people to stop fucking with the clocks at all
I don't care which schedule we are on, but we should pick one and never swap.
I live in a city where an estimated two people die a year in car vs pedestrian accidents, but the city would rather allocate all of the streetlights it can to roads nobody walks on rather than put them where they matter, and the Dark Sky initiative supposedly "ties their hands" to redistributing them.
So, lifelong politicians not caring about DST killing people doesn't surprise me at all.
And before anyone says, "But dark sky initiatives don't limit streetlights, they just limit what kind you can use." I know that. The city doesn't seem to give a shit.
Supposedly states are only forbidden from making DST permanent but there's nothing stopping them from making standard time permanent.
One requires making it through the Clusterfuck of Congress and the other is a majority vote in an individual state. I know which is the winning option there.
I don't care which schedule we are on, but we should pick one and never swap.
Arizona has never had daylight savings, apparently. I dunno if it's because we became a state after the rest of the country adopted it (like, I don't think Hawaii has it either?) or what the exact reason is, but I very much like it most of the time. It's only inconvenient when I have to figure out what time it is in other time zones, because it's different half the year.
Arizona has never had daylight savings, apparently. I dunno if it's because we became a state after the rest of the country adopted it (like, I don't think Hawaii has it either?) or what the exact reason is, but I very much like it most of the time. It's only inconvenient when I have to figure out what time it is in other time zones, because it's different half the year.
We did for like 50 years then used a loophole or something to get out of doing it back in the 60s.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I don't care which schedule we are on, but we should pick one and never swap.
Cannot believe that I'm being forced, against my will, by the federal government, to pretend that I didn't have to go to work at seven in the goddamn morning.
This is literally what 1984 was about. Me and my stove and my car are all going to become sovereign citizens, we know what fuckin' time it is.
I think I fundamentally don't give a shit about the daylight savings debate (I do like longer evenings I guess). And I regularly fuck up my body clock much worse by traveling long distances at high velocity. But I realized last year that I don't have a single clock in my house that isn't internet synced, and so it's now possible for External Actors to decide for me what time it is, and moreover there's a good chance i wont even notice
And this DOES bug me, so some time this summer I'm going to get an analog clock to hang, purely so I can neglect to change it.
Last year the only reason I realised the clocks had moved forward was because I was almost late for Dungeons and Dragons the following Monday, as I was preparing supper and my oven hadn't updated
I think I fundamentally don't give a shit about the daylight savings debate (I do like longer evenings I guess). And I regularly fuck up my body clock much worse by traveling long distances at high velocity. But I realized last year that I don't have a single clock in my house that isn't internet synced, and so it's now possible for External Actors to decide for me what time it is, and moreover there's a good chance i wont even notice
And this DOES bug me, so some time this summer I'm going to get an analog clock to hang, purely so I can neglect to change it.
My mom has a clock on the piano that she has permanently set to average local sidereal time, so it's always either 15 minutes ahead or 45 minutes behind 'official' time.
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*Deep sigh*
Unfortunately 7 (!) years later this is still true. One of these things has gotta move, and well one of them can't.
Oh right, we have all the information right at our fingertips these days.
I didn't know today was the time change day until that moment. No wonder it was so miserable
Who could have imagined
Are you satisfied you fucking monsters?
We're not actually fucking with time, we're just fucking with our methods of recording the passage of time.
Also, I'll go ahead and just post this gif aimed at myself.
As an incorrigible night owl: Fuck That. For over half the year, my body's sleep needs are even further out of sync with society's expectations (especially employers. fuck 9 to 5 with a rusty spoon).
Also, WaPo:
The company will not be paying us this phantom hour, but this will fuel me when I go into bargaining with them later this year.
I couldn't handle that. I'd be in jail if that happened to me.
"It says right here I worked from 8 to 5, that's nine hours."
I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised given the cavalier attitudes towards murder weapon ownership but this is not even a “take away your freedoms” thing, it’s literally just asking people to stop fucking with the clocks at all
So, lifelong politicians not caring about DST killing people doesn't surprise me at all.
And before anyone says, "But dark sky initiatives don't limit streetlights, they just limit what kind you can use." I know that. The city doesn't seem to give a shit.
Last I remember it went to the House and then proceeded to disappear up some asshole committee never to be seen again
Which is good, because the thing that accidentally passed the Senate would have made DST permanent
A lot of sleep medicine professionals got very alarmed, as I recall.
edit: Permanent DST has been tried before. People hated it.
Supposedly states are only forbidden from making DST permanent but there's nothing stopping them from making standard time permanent.
One requires making it through the Clusterfuck of Congress and the other is a majority vote in an individual state. I know which is the winning option there.
We did for like 50 years then used a loophole or something to get out of doing it back in the 60s.
This is literally what 1984 was about. Me and my stove and my car are all going to become sovereign citizens, we know what fuckin' time it is.
And this DOES bug me, so some time this summer I'm going to get an analog clock to hang, purely so I can neglect to change it.
My mom has a clock on the piano that she has permanently set to average local sidereal time, so it's always either 15 minutes ahead or 45 minutes behind 'official' time.
I kind of love it.