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What exactly do you hate about the switch to and from daylight savings?

Asked by JLeslie (65419points) November 15th, 2015 from iPhone

Is it:

1. The change messes up your routine?

2. The hour loss of sleep?

3. Less light at night?

I ask because a lot of us complain about it, but last night I was talking to someone in a hotel elevator in Atlanta, and he was saying he was so tired. I told him I feel like it’s 11:00 at night (it was 7:00pm). Then he said the time change just kills him. I asked him where he just came in from. He said, “Alabama.” I said, “so you’re coming from central time?”

Here’s the thing, for him it was only 6:00 at night. We were standing in eastern time. What the hell is he talking about? He isn’t tired from the time change. He’s backwards. It would make sense if he had been traveling west, not east.

His problem is not a daylight savings scenario, but it’s still about time moving abruptly, which sparked this Q.

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cazzie's avatar

Placebo effect mostly. Here it only helps with the light in the mornings for about two weeks then it is a lost cause at 63N. Seems pointless but I guess we do it to keep the time the same on our meridian which is helpful. We live in a global world. We are round and tilted in the universe. We should never forget that.

canidmajor's avatar

The dogs demand to be fed an hour earlier in the fall, it’s annoying, and takes a couple of weeks of staggering the feeding times to get them to the correct clock schedule.
It takes me about a week to adjust.

SavoirFaire's avatar

That it’s completely pointless, and that we’re on daylight savings time for longer than we are on so-called “standard” time.

JLeslie's avatar

I prefer Daylight savings time all year, but that’s beside the point.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

Less daylight. I can’t change my schedule to compensate either so I’m stuck with ending outdoor activities an hour early. Does not sound like much but it’s the difference between staying active and having enough time to do them at all.

Pachy's avatar

Bothers my cat more than it does me. No big deal.

Apparently_Im_The_Grumpy_One's avatar

Mix up a batch of placebo and some self-fulfilling prophecy. Throw in a gallon of no real problems to worry about. Add a pinch of it-is-only-one-bloody-hour. Chill until fully chilled out. Serve.

Seek's avatar

The fact that the sun won’t go away during daylight savings time.

I’m basically solar powered. I like to be up early in the morning to get stuff done, and go to sleep at night.

Winter is the best, because after dinner it’s dark and people start winding down.

Dutchess_III's avatar

It doesn’t affect me psychologically at all. I never feel like I’ve “lost” or “gained” an hour of sleep. I don’t like the fall change because our clocks tell us it is dark so damn early.

The only time it ever really affected me was during the years that there was a 99% chance I’d be at a bar when the change it. Then I really felt like I lost an hour of party time and that was a bummer. On the other hand, going the other way I gained an hour of party time YAY!!!!

jca's avatar

I don’t like that it gets dark early now. I work until 5:30 and it’s starting to get dark around 4:30. It’s going to be darker early by December 20. As far as disrupting my schedule, it’s adjusted back within a few days. If I didn’t have to work, it would probably require no adjustment. I like in the autumn when it means I get an extra hour of sleep, but spring is tough when it means waking up an hour earlier, although the nice part is it getting dark later then.

I think of DLST as a minor inconvenience.

elbanditoroso's avatar

I don’t hate the switch per se. That’s part of life.

What I object to is that every clock in my house is different – in the kitchen it’s 12:39, in the bedroom, the clock says 12:40, my phone says 12:40, the car radio says 12:38…..

Dutchess_III's avatar

^^It’s kind of a shock when days past the change you come upon a clock with the old time.

OriginalCunningFox's avatar

I don’t hate the changing of the time itself, I mostly just don’t appreciate the reminder that colder weather and earlier darkness are on their way.

Dutchess_III's avatar

^^^ Cabin Fever season. I miss the lake, I miss the shorts, I miss camping, I miss the barefeet.

cazzie's avatar

It isn’t daylight savings that gets me. It’s the damn latitude I live at. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t have a bad attitude, damn it! I have a bad latitude!

Earthbound_Misfit's avatar

That we don’t have it. Queensland doesn’t have daylight saving.

Pandora's avatar

I got one of those automatic clocks a few years ago and it works on my nerves. Ever since they changed the day, it no longer switches over. If I do it manually, it will try to correct itself and go back to the hour it was before. In spring I must’ve tried like 3 different times and it still kept reading wrong. This fall, I’m just leaving it alone and waiting to see if it corrects itself. I’ve given it to this weekend to see if it will fix itself.

augustlan's avatar

Dark too early in the winter. I’d rather it stay at DST all the time, I guess? Time confuses me in the first place (zones, mostly) so I’d rather we just pick one and stick with it.

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