Around the equator, there’s no daylight saving time. It’s also dark every day year round at 6 pm. The only way to prevent early darkness is to go live in the Southern Hemisphere for winter.
Idk, i think 12h of daylight every day would be nice…we hit something like 7h of daylight where I live during winter. And we don’t even have snow or anything to make it nice, we just have a gray wet depressing mess of winters.
I reallly don’t get why do many people dislike the dark. It’s nice at night!
It’s not like y’all are doing shit outside in the daylight this time of year anyway.
Just cause you aren’t doesn’t mean the rest of us aren’t.
It’s going to be sunny and 60° F this week for me - and those temps will be late afternoon - 4pm till sunset.
Better than it being daylight at fucking 8pm
The night time is the right time
It’s weird being in the southern hemisphere. We just recently changed to summer time.
Yeah. Imagin go to work at the sunrise and go home when the sun is already set. Yuppy!!!
Nah. It’s 7.55. AM or PM, no difference. Welcome to Finland, the land of depression and suicide.
Yeah, was gonna say, 17.27 it’s been long dark in southern Scandinavia
Yeah, currently the day light time is 8 hours 28 mins where I live. And it’s getting shorter still for quite some time.
For almost two more months, and 2min less sunlight/day. Ugh.
Finland has been #1 on the happiness rankings for a long time.
All the unhappy people kill themselves.
At least the oil money trickles down to the people, unlike in murrikuhh.
Nah, that’s Norway.
Sounds perfect.
Western Australia got rid of daylight savings years ago and it’s literally gone unnoticed. Only reason I remember it’s a thing is the memes, or if I have to do something involving eastern states and they’re either 2 or 3 hours again depending on time of year.
People love to complain. Do you really want to rid them of an opportunity just like this?
Stupid fucking fall back to standard time.
But if we stayed in daylight saving time, in January the sun wouldn’t rise until like 9 am in some places.
Maybe if we just stayed in standard time all year round, the shortening days wouldn’t be so jarring to people because it would happen gradually instead of having a sudden fall back of an hour in autumn.
Or we stay in daylight saving time all year round and just accept the dark mornings.
Or the people who really don’t like shorter days in winter can just move to the equator.
I would way rather have a late sunrise than an early sunset. It’s not even close.
I however find it agonizing to get out of bed when it’s cold & dark outside.
Get a sunrise alarm clock. Coming from a northern region, it’s mandatory in the winter DST or ST.
I haven’t used an alarm clock since 1988. I let my circadian rhythms wake me up. My circadian rhythms are more important to me than sacrificing my health for the rat race. And part of my health obsession included moving to Southern California where it’s pretty much always springtime.
Some of us have to be, you know, at work, by a specific time, because people require and depend on us.
I understand. I’m no exception. But I’ve learned to naturally wake up when I need to. It’s a skill that all humans have access to, it’s a mental and meditative thing or something like that.
Same, but i would rather have the darkness influence my work over my personal time.
I commend your strength & discipline. I simply cannot get out of bed when it’s cold & dark outside.
Where I live it’s cold and dark at 7 in the winter even with standard time. All it means is the the sun starts to blind my on the way to work after the time change, which doesn’t really help. And I hate coming home in the dark so much more.
Exactly, I do stuff after work. In the morning I just go to an office that has electric lighting.
Of course there are jobs that don’t take place in an office, but having worked one of those, in my case we already just worked daylight hours, not a 9-5.
Let’s do none of this and make everyone miserable!
Stay in DST please.
If you want to wake up an hour earlier, you can just do that. We don’t need to fuck with the clocks.
DST is ridiculous. The sun should be near its zenith at noon, not at 1.
Yeah, this is my conclusion as well. It literally does not matter what the time is; we can choose to start school/work after sunrise like sane people.
Might as well fall back one more time, leaving an entire generation with an extra hour of sleep that is never taken away again.
we can choose to start school/work after sunrise like sane people.
That’s the crux of the problem though, isn’t it? We don’t do that. We let psychopaths who enjoy waking up before the sun decide when everything else starts and, big surprise, they chose early as fuck.
Please tell my job that I can come in an hour later every day.
The US House has passed a resolution to make DST permanent, so the folks who want permanent DST in the US might get your wish. But, I’m telling you, people are going to complain when their kids are having to walk to school in the pitch dark in the middle of winter.
They could follow the recommendations of the pediatrician’s group (I forgot the name) and start school at a reasonable hour so that growing kids can get enough sleep.
Yeah I have clear memories of driving to school in the dark because of the asinine concept that is zero period
Around here, kids go to school in the dark in the winter regardless if it is DST or ST.
To hell with the kids, I want to live too.
Why can’t you live on permanent standard time?
Its nice to have sun light at the end of a slave wage shift. Schools and most jobs could start later. Most studies show humans do better when there is sunlight, because its what we had for millions of years to guide us.
Schools and most jobs could start later.
Well if we’re willing to change school and work schedules, why not have the slave wage shift start even earlier so that there’s even more sunlight hours during your free time? If you started your shift at midnight, you’d be coming home right about the time the sun’s coming up. Seriously. If the goal is to have as much of the winter sunlight hours line up with people’s after work time, that’d be about the best way to do it.
Day and night don’t follow our clocks. The sun shines when the sun shines, days get shorter in the winter the further you are from the equator and we just have to live and work around that.
Because it’s dark when I go to work, and dark when I leave work.
Then pick up an earlier shift, or move to Ecuador. Why do the rest of us have to adjust our clocks to accommodate you?
My province switched to permanent DST this year, so we’re experiencing it for the first time and it’s… not that bad 🤷
I’m in Vancouver where it’s already cloudy, and some kids were already heading to school an hour early for various extracurriculars
IMO if kids going to school in the dark is really a problem, then it should be fixed by adjusting when school starts and ends rather than changing the clock for every single person. I like having more sunlight in the afternoon when I can make use of it, compared to in the morning when it’s used up by transit / getting ready for work and school.
However I wouldn’t mind it too much if we had switched to permanent standard time either. I’m just glad that we don’t have to change anymore.
In lots of places, that would mean that sunlight would be exclusive to oligarchs. The rest of us would almost never get home from work in time. I get that CEOs want early light and early darkness: we usually accept overtime when there’s no hope of catching any sunlight, unlike late light and late dark where they have to put overtime on days with bad weather.
I want summer time the whole year. Summer time is warmer.
Move closer to the equator.
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Agreed! I got up this morning at 6:30 and had already wasted some daylight, and then it was night before 5!
But just wait, in a couple weeks you can go to work AND come home, in the dark.
Move closer to the equator, quit fucking with my clocks.
It’s weird because the day before we turned the clocks back, 5:27 p.m. was not that dark. Next day, 5:27 p.m. is dark as midnight, yup this comic is accurate.
CST?
Haha, weaklings. I love the winter and setting the clock this way or that way has never bothered me.
I bet you drink coffee before bed, you charlatan!
Can you first stop putting Mary Poppins letters beside the time that mean something arcane ???
Oh yes and add to that a fucked sleep pattern for at least a week.
I really hope this nonsense ends some day. I don’t even care if it’s summer or wintertime just stop switching.
This ^^^
The EU were well on the way to agreeing to stop this nonsense, then it got delayed, Brexit happened (so whether it would still have happened in the UK is anybody’s guess), and COVID hit. I don’t think it has been mentioned since.
I was so excited for that change to rock in. Fucking Brexit. :(
it has nothing to do with brexit.
the eu somehow unilaterally decided to do it and stop the time switching - that has been agreed on. and now the only thing that is left is for 27 countries to agree on which time to keep… 😂
which will never happen and i am glad for that. i like these long summer evenings where you can do stuff and that is what would probably be canceled.
doing it otherwise and keeping the summer time for all year would mean that the daylight in winter would start at 9am, contrary to today’s 8am, which would be terrible for out biorhytms (or so do biologists specializing in this area say)
The evening stays. Daylight savings time does not change the amount of daylight
The evening stays. Daylight savings time does not change the amount of daylight
daylight savings time does not change the amount of daylight, but it does change when the evening is, that is its whole purpose.
But it’s just an arbitrary number
They always try to keep the summer time, and everyone is happy until winter, when people get so upset at waking before dawn they inevitably return to the daylight savings system
It does have to be permanent winter time, this has been studied and has clear results
My sleep has been amazing since the switch. Go to bed tired because it feels like I stayed up an extra hour, wake up an hour early because my biological clock thinks it’s time to get up and then get to chill and take my time getting ready in the morning. It’s nice. The spring one on the other hand…
could be worse, could be stuck on daylight time
Standard time is where most human circadian rhythms naturally land, so yeah.
