Help Me ABOLISH Daylight Savings

[zoebartlett]

I like feeling that I'm getting an extra hour of sleep in the fall but I hate daylight savings in the spring. It's hard going to bed or winding down for the night when it's still light outside.

Actually though, I hate that it gets dark so early in the winter. That's depressing.

So really either way, there's a negative side to the whole thing.

I could go along with your suggestion of a half hour change, iLander.

 

[basil]

I like it. I sort of look at it like a marker for the seasons. Cause no where I have lived has it really ever felt like spring in mid-March, but the fact that it stays light later cheers me up!

I'm surprised so many people have such sensitive sleep cycles. Really? It's just an hour. I go to bed an hour or later or earlier depending on what time I get home at night. I spent years staying up all night every 4th to 6th night and then sleeping the next day then getting back on a "regular" pattern for 3-5 nights just to do it again.

 

[ksinger]

I like it. I sort of look at it like a marker for the seasons. Cause no where I have lived has it really ever felt like spring in mid-March, but the fact that it stays light later cheers me up!

I'm surprised so many people have such sensitive sleep cycles. Really? It's just an hour. I go to bed an hour or later or earlier depending on what time I get home at night. I spent years staying up all night every 4th to 6th night and then sleeping the next day then getting back on a "regular" pattern for 3-5 nights just to do it again.

Yeah, really. Talk to anyone you know near or over 50, especially women, and they will almost all tell you the same thing - sleep is NOT what it used to be. Trust me. I used to be able to sleep like a baby through almost anything. No more. One hour can mess you up more than you think, and insomnia and/or disturbed sleep becomes an ever larger problem.

 

[mrswahs]

My fiance said last year that he would love to just set his clock back a half hour and be a half hour early to everything half of the year and a half hour late the rest

Seasonal depression runs in my family (particularly in the ladies) and the early darkness in winter does not help!

 

[dragonfly411]

I'm just glad I have more afternoon to ride.

 

[Missy]

I like it. I sort of look at it like a marker for the seasons. Cause no where I have lived has it really ever felt like spring in mid-March, but the fact that it stays light later cheers me up!

I'm surprised so many people have such sensitive sleep cycles. Really? It's just an hour. I go to bed an hour or later or earlier depending on what time I get home at night. I spent years staying up all night every 4th to 6th night and then sleeping the next day then getting back on a "regular" pattern for 3-5 nights just to do it again.

Yeah, really. Talk to anyone you know near or over 50, especially women, and they will almost all tell you the same thing - sleep is NOT what it used to be. Trust me. I used to be able to sleep like a baby through almost anything. No more. One hour can mess you up more than you think, and insomnia and/or disturbed sleep becomes an ever larger problem.

I agree with Karen-
except my sleep became more sensitive during my residency because of the really early hours and that was in my twenties. So yeah, it's a real problem for many people. You are lucky Basil.

 

[princesss]

I love DST! The more sunshine I get, the happier I am. And since I can enjoy it more after work than I can before work, DST is (as one of my friends puts it) the best holiday of the year! But then, I've been floating between time zones for so many years that I just treat it like a minor case of jet lag and I'm back to normal in a day.

 

[joflier]

I like the extra daylight, but my body just doesn't deal well with time changes. (and maybe I'm just stubborn) I didn't have to change the clock on my stove the other day.....only because I left it set to daylight savings time from last year.....

 

[packrat]

Jo, I leave my truck clock, so now it's the correct time until this next Fall.

 

[joflier]

Nice!

 

[MishB]

We have it here in Australia too, in some states (not all). I personally think it's a ridiculous idea in summer, in such a hot country.

The only respite we have here from the summer heat and the relentless, baking sun is when the sun finally, mercifully goes down. So the earlier this happens the better, IMO.

 

[iLander]

HATE THIS! My body KNOWS it got up a 5 a.m. today, it doesn't care that my brain is trying to tell it that it's 6 a.m. Bleah!

For those of you that "don't notice" I'll bet it's because you're young. I used to be young. Once. Briefly. I used to go out for chocolate cookie mix at 3 a.m. and go to work early the next day.

Then I had babies. After you've been woken up every 2 hours, like clockwork, for a full year (my son was a HORRIBLE sleeper) your body stores up resentments. It punishes you for every nanosecond of missed sleep.

My son didn't really sleep through the night until he was about 4. We used to beg the nursery school ladies not to let him nap, because he's wake up a 2 a.m. ready to rock and roll. He was a climber, too. (I think I'll start a difficult babies thread, now that I've thought of it!)

I will feel hung over for a full month because of this stupid clock change.

I think this idea is brought to you by the coffee lobby.

FINE, WE'LL KEEP DAYLIGHT SAVINGS, LET'S JUST LOSE THE CLOCK CHANGE. Half hour, then that's it. No more monkeying.

 

[TravelingGal]

HATE THIS! My body KNOWS it got up a 5 a.m. today, it doesn't care that my brain is trying to tell it that it's 6 a.m. Bleah!

For those of you that "don't notice" I'll bet it's because you're young. I used to be young. Once. Briefly. I used to go out for chocolate cookie mix at 3 a.m. and go to work early the next day.

Then I had babies. After you've been woken up every 2 hours, like clockwork, for a full year (my son was a HORRIBLE sleeper) your body stores up resentments. It punishes you for every nanosecond of missed sleep.

My son didn't really sleep through the night until he was about 4. We used to beg the nursery school ladies not to let him nap, because he's wake up a 2 a.m. ready to rock and roll. He was a climber, too. (I think I'll start a difficult babies thread, now that I've thought of it!)

I will feel hung over for a full month because of this stupid clock change.

I think this idea is brought to you by the coffee lobby.

FINE, WE'LL KEEP DAYLIGHT SAVINGS, LET'S JUST LOSE THE CLOCK CHANGE. Half hour, then that's it. No more monkeying.

Nope, some people don't notice because they're not that sensitive to time change. My mom is 70 and loves it. I'll be 40 next year, so I'm not a total spring chicken, and it's fine by me. I've had a kid too, and been woken up every 2 hours for a few months. I'm just fine with time changes. I can go to Australia, which is a pretty massive time change and be fine the next day.

Some people just handle it better than others.

 

[TravelingGal]

Also, I wonder if it has anything to do with people who travel vs don't? Just a theory. I've traveled so much that a 1-3 hour time change is a piece of cake. I would imagine if someone never travels, the one hour change could be a big deal because the body isn't used to being manipulated like that?

 

[MustangGal]

I've been in Arizona 7 years, and don't miss messing around with my clock twice a year at all. But what does suck is the relatives never knowing what time it is for us since they can't keep track, and business meetings getting messed up for the first couple weeks each time because our other offices forget about us. I day pick a time and stick with it.

 

[Fly Girl]

I agree that changing the clocks twice and year and adjusting the sleep schedules of all the people, and a lot of our pets as well, is annoying. We need to pick our battles, however, and this isn't one I'm willing to fight.

Sorry, iLander.

 

[Kaleigh]

I'm ok with it. It's Miss Callie who wants to get up once the sun comes up... Casper is deaf, and lives to sleep and snore...Callie jumps on me, saying wake up!! She even hits my head with her paw... I am finding she is waking up 2 hours earlier....

 

[bobbin]

I LOVE daylight savings. Most states in Australia have it. I grew up with it.

I love being able to leave work in summer, go home, pick up the pups, pick up DH from work and go to the beach for a long walk before it gets dark.

I moved from South Australia to Queensland last year and QLD doesn't have daylight savings. It gets dark at 7pm and there is no time to really enjoy yourself outdoors after work. On the (occasional) sunny days we have up here I would love to be able to do the big walk on the beach with DH and the pups but by the time we get there it would be well and truly dark already

I do find some of the arguments against daylight savings amusing though - has everyone heard the one where people say they don't want daylight savings because the extra daylight would fade the curtains!