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Daylight Savings Time

Motokid

Motokid

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In almost every state in The United States we will all set our clocks forward by one hour April 3rd. Every state that I know of except Arizona. Please fill me in if I'm wrong, or there are other states. This means it's darker later in the mornings, but lighter later in the evening. A true sign that winter is dead and spring is really here. It's almost a magical moment for those of us who dreadfully hate the dark, cold winter.

Do other countries follow this kind of time manipulation?
 
Why do you hate it? Darker longer in the mornings means you can sleep longer without the light waking you up, and lighter later in the evenings means there's more time for outdoor stuff after work.

Where's the hate in that? Just curious. To each his own. I just love it so much I can't picture hating it.
 
I think there is a large section of Indiana where they don't do it.

The farmers I know hate it. Just when their mornings are becoming civilized, they are back in the dark.
 
"The farmers I know hate it. Just when their mornings are becoming civilized, they are back in the dark."

But the amount of daylight and darkness does not change, just our perception of it, and our ability to make the most out of when the daylight is the most usable for the general public.
 
But they are always torn between conforming to the schedule of the rest of the world and sticking to standard time. In general they stick to standard time for farm business, but they are stuck dealing with the fact that everyone else (truckers, banks, television schedules, wife, kids in school, wholesale markets, grocery stores) are all shifting their schedules. A farmer would rather work at 6 a.m. in daylight than 8 pm in daylight. Though you think it should make no "real" difference it does, because they don't operate in isolation.
 
Motokid said:
Why do you hate it? Darker longer in the mornings means you can sleep longer without the light waking you up, and lighter later in the evenings means there's more time for outdoor stuff after work.

Where's the hate in that? Just curious. To each his own. I just love it so much I can't picture hating it.
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It's not as if everythings changes, just the time. When you had to get up at 7 it's still at 7 which is now 6. This takes me a while to get used to. Besides I don't have trouble with the light waking me up, nor do I really do much outdoor stuff.
For me this is just a way to mess with my mind.
 
Oh yeah, DST is the worst in the Spring! I've never had a problem with light waking me up and I really don't have dark, cold winters where I live anyhow. It's the whole having to wake up an hour earlier that gets me. When I already am waking up at 5:30-6:00 every morning, that 5:30-6:00 is going to feel like 4:30-5:00. Oy! I mean, I get used to it after a little bit, but the first couple of weeks, I feel like a zombie!
 
Here in the UK we changed to BST (British Summer Time) at 1.00 am, when we put our clocks forward one hour. That meant an hour less in bed! It also involved changing about 20 clocks, including the video etc. (that reminds me, I forget the video!) The nights will be lighter for longer though. It is worse in the autumn when we put the clocks back one hour, and it gets dark really early, which is not ideal for school children walking home etc. Personally, I wish they'd stop faffing about and just stick with one or the other.
 
i guess i never really thought about it one way or the other. i remeber loving the fall time change as it allowed you to sleep in an hour. now it doesn't matter, i'm up early and to bed early.
 
Personally, I think it is more trouble than it is worth. Just pick one, dammit!! Have you ever had an infant or young child set in a routine then had to change the whole thing by an hour - either way? A baby that once slept til six, now wakes at (what the clock says is) five!!! Try putting off a two-year-old's lunch by an hour, or making him eat an hour earlier. Getting older children up for school an hour earlier? It isn't pretty. I have to plan ahead and start making the changes in 15 minute increments for days ahead of time. I have to do this twice a year. DST makes my life more difficult for no good reason (to me). Therefore I hate it.
 
I love this. It's all perception of time.

Your clock says the same time when the alarm goes off. That does not change. If you get up at 6:00am and we set the clocks ahead by an hour you are not getting up at 5:00am, except in your head. That's also the reason why the change is instituted on a Saturday night-Sunday morning. You have Sunday to "sort of" adjust. You can take a nap, or sleep in a little later, whatever you need to do to catch the hour you think you lost, yet the day is still 24 hours long, and the amount of light and dark has not changed. Just the usable amount of light has changed. Everything else is all in your head.

Yes Cajun, I do understand the schedule of infants and that is tough, but considering it's just an hour you can just shift the scheduled feedings and whatnot in 15 or 20 minute increments over the coarse of the day and they will probably adjust much easier than you do. Kids are resilient.

By the way, my alarm goes off at 4:20am every day I have to work and I so look forward to setting that clock ahead by an hour. It's setting the clock back (gaining an hour of sleep) that I hate hate hate with a passion.
 
Northern Indiana doesn't. I went to USI in Evansville for one semester and my roommate was from way up north in Indiana and she had never even heard of Daylight Savings Time! I'm in Illinois and we have it here.
 
I think we changed yesterday. It might've been the day before too though. Or maybe even today, early in the morning.
 
We changed over yesterday - i'd rather we had one time all year round but I did like getting an extra hour in bed this morning as the dogs obviously still thought it was an hour earlier :D
 
Motokid, with all due respect, just because it's all simply in our heads still doesn't make it any easier for some of us to adjust. Some people can adjust immediately. Some of us find it harder. And then when bedtime rolls around, too, we're wide awake. I mean, don't get me wrong. I deal. I may whine a little initially to myself, but I do deal.

Cajunmama, as a soon-to-be mother, argh! lol. I never even thought of that stuff. Guess I'll have to follow your lead and do the incremental thing myself when that time comes.

Wouldn't it be great if all things simply in our heads didn't affect us one bit? I remember a 3 week period of rainfall we had last year, where the sun didn't come out once! By the end of that time, we were all just kind of bummed and blue. I mean, the sun was still there beyond the clouds. It was just in our heads that we couldn't see it and that the days felt so dreary. And yet it still affected us.

Silly human brains... :p
 
"Motokid, with all due respect, just because it's all simply in our heads still doesn't make it any easier for some of us to adjust."

Hollis, my comments were not meant to make people feel silly for their perception, just to remark that it is perception and that it's fascinating. My perception is that I hate winter and cold and dark so the change of time into spring is sort of a re-birth for me. The change of time into winter is my difficult time and that's my perception. So I'm no different interms of what I'm remarking about.

You have my due respect. Or were you giving me yours???? Not sure how that sentence works.

Any way, so your about to be a mommy? Care to give us any more info? Due date? Can we start a forum contest on sex, date, and weight or something like that? Can we somehow join in on your adventure?
 
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Hollis, my comments were not meant to make people feel silly for their perception, just to remark that it is perception and that it's fascinating.
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Just don't spend to much time thinking about it Moto, perhaps you'll miss a chance to lay down on the floor in the sun with your dog after work and soak in some peace and happiness. Trying to figure out humanity can do that to a person. :)
 
Motokid said:
Hollis, my comments were not meant to make people feel silly for their perception, just to remark that it is perception and that it's fascinating. My perception is that I hate winter and cold and dark so the change of time into spring is sort of a re-birth for me. The change of time into winter is my difficult time and that's my perception. So I'm no different interms of what I'm remarking about.

You have my due respect. Or were you giving me yours???? Not sure how that sentence works.

Any way, so your about to be a mommy? Care to give us any more info? Due date? Can we start a forum contest on sex, date, and weight or something like that? Can we somehow join in on your adventure?
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Oh I know you weren't. I was just throwing in an extra two cents there. Sorry...it's been a really bad morning sickness day today (thank goodness we were still off for Easter break today!), so I probably come off more crabby than I intend to! lol. In all reality, I've actually appreciated the way people on this forum can have differing viewpoints and not get all explosive at each other. Heh heh - not every place is like that!

Anyhow, I still have many months to go...late October is what we're estimating. I'll find out for sure when I go to the doctor in a week.

Heh heh...*points to sig* It's just me being unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered today.
 
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