I do not like springing forward - it sucks.

[7wo7rees]

It's 7am in DFW and dark. This sucks. I hate DST

[bearsfootball516]

1. It does suck. Silver lining, you get an extra hour of sunlight in the evening!

[gtar100]

29. That's my reason for hoping that if we decide to stop torturing ourselves twice a year

that we stick with this time...so we can have the longer evenings in the spring and early summer.

[kstewart33]

47. In Denver in the summer, it's not completely dark until 9:45 pm.

Nonsense.

[FBaggins]

56. I love the seemingly simple solution

Fall back as normal... gain an hour of sleep.

Spring forward... but do it at 4pm on Friday. Nobody loses any sleep.

Yes, it would mess with some things (train schedules, etc.) - but on balance wouldn’t be the issue it is today.

[Codeine]

58. That's actually a very good idea.

The more delicate of constitution have the entire weekend to recover from the indescribable horror of losing sixty whole minutes and the rest just get an early start on whatever they’ve got planned for Friday night!

I mean sure, Friday night is just a book with the cat in my lap here, but I’ve read that some people go out and do fun stuff.

[Drahthaardogs]

2. I agree.

Do we really need daylight at 8 pm?

[Freddie]

3. Yes!

I love the long summer evenings. Worth 1 hour sleep to me.

[moose65]

13. Me too

I’d much rather have the longer days in the summer when one can enjoy it. Around here, the sun sets at about 8:45 pm at the latest. Love it!

[Different Drummer]

15. Same here.

[Bengus81]

8. Do we need sunrise at 4:45 am and trash trucks banging carts around at that time??

Jesus...I've never seen so many lately that can't stand DST even when 95% of the clocks and devices I have change automatically and back again. Civil twilight (first light) where I live would be at 4:38 am by early June. Trash trucks would be out and dumping trash at that time. And of course here they wouldn't let evillll ole' Guberment tell a BIG CORPORATION like Waste Connections they can't dump trash when it's light outside.

IMO it starts too soon and goes off too late but otherwise I'll take the extra hour in the evening instead of sunrise at a ridiculous time for several months.

[Drahthaardogs]

11. DST was for farms

Now it's just a bunch of people who like to sleep late and work from 9 to 6. There's no reason for it

[essme]

34. WWI Kaiser Wilhelm did it to save fuel, not farms. 100 years later he is still messing with us...nt

[Bengus81]

39. Uhhh no,it was also for kids like myself who played baseball........

And....didn't have all the fancy lighted fields to play on.

[raging moderate]

26. Trash trucks in my city often come at 4:38 am, whether or not it's dark.

One of my cats always wakes me up in alarm, whenever she hears them.

[kstewart33]

48. 8 pm is fine. 9:30 pm is a joke. nt

[jrthin]

4. I agree. It does more damage and little good. It was

necessary in agrarian age. Now, there is no need for it; it destabilizes the body for weeks.

[Codeine]

19. "Destabilizes the body for weeks"?

Oh come on, it’s an hour. It feels a bit weird on Monday morning, by Tuesday it has ceased to be an issue. It’s hardly destabilizing, and certainly not something that would realistically impact anyone for even a few days, let alone weeks or months.

At a certain point folks start to sound hysterical.

[jrthin]

20. You may not have an issue. But, for people with sleep issues, like myself,

the time change feels like jet lag and it DOES take me weeks to feel normal again. I am glad you do not have an issue, but I do, and it's unpleasant.

[Eko]

32. Yup, for those of us with sleep problems

it is hard.

[Blue_true]

37. Are your sleep problem medical or are they you not being comfortable?

I had sleep problem when I was younger. I got to the point where I thought I had insomnia. One day I talked to a coworker, then I tried some of the things she suggested. A lot of people can't sleep because they ate too little or too much or something that was difficult to digest close (2-3 hours before) before bed. Some people are thirsty and don't realize that. Some people drink too much water an hour or two before bed. Some people are too hot or too cold in bed. Whenever I can't sleep, I run through a checklist and do some things, I am usually asleep within an hour unless I drank too much water within a couple of hours of bed, but even then, I get up, urinate and go right back to sleep.

[Eko]

44. Medical.

[Blue_true]

50. Ok. nt

[essme]

35. Studies show accidents increase the week after but whatever. nt

[Beakybird]

5. I feel like crap. It will take me months to recover.

[MineralMan]

16. Months? Over an hour of lost sleep?

It takes me a couple of days, about the same time as it confuses our dogs about eating and going for walks time.

I can't see how it would take months. It's just an hour.

[Mariana]

59. You don't have to do it all at once, you know.

If it really takes you months to recover, why not start making the shift ahead of time, so you can do it gradually? Go to bed and get up 2 minutes earlier each day for 30 days before DST starts. Seems like it would be worth the effort, if it really takes you months to recover from a one hour shift.

[IADEMO2004]

6. Golf. Squeeze in a round before dark. Kayak,yard work baseball more sunshine after work.

Retired doesn't mean beans to me.

[JI7]

7. I hate it also. and it makes me angry because there is no good reason for it now

but we keep doing it every year.

[moose65]

9. But why is standard time any better?

On standard time if you’re north of the Mason-Dixon Line, it starts to get dark at 3:30 in the afternoon in December. I would find THAT depressing! Standard Time isn’t any more “natural” than DST. Clocks are a human invention. I guess I just don’t understand all the whining about “losing an hour.” We really didn’t lose anything! 🙄

[Codeine]

10. The twice-annual whining over a single hour begins.

It’s really not a big deal, folks. Get a grip.

[moose65]

12. Haha! So true!

There seems to be a lot more whining about “losing an hour” in the spring than about “gaining” one in the fall! Either way, it seems silly to me 😉

[Ms. Toad]

23. That's because it is losing an hour that is actually harmful.

The sleep deprivation is real, as are the consequences: increased heart attacks (which decrease with the fall back) & increase in car accidents (which also increase, but a day earlier with the fall back). So - on average, the spring forward is actually harmful. in a way that falling back is not.

There was a significant increase in accidents for the Monday immediately following the spring shift to DST (t=1.92, P=0.034). There was also a significant increase in number of accidents on the Sunday of the fall shift from DST (P<0.002).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11152980

There was no difference in the total weekly number of PCIs performed for AMI for either the fall or spring time changes in the time period analysed. After adjustment for trend and seasonal effects, the Monday following spring time changes was associated with a 24% increase in daily AMI counts (p=0.011), and the Tuesday following fall changes was conversely associated with a 21% reduction (p=0.044). No other weekdays in the weeks following DST changes demonstrated significant associations.

https://openheart.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000019

[MineralMan]

17. Thank you. I'm going to fix it today with a one-hour nap

this afternoon. I've finished up my snow removal chores and my Sunday newspaper reading. So, I'm about to have lunch and then it's nap time. All the clocks have been changed. When I wake up this afternoon, I'll be all reset until next Fall.

It's just an hour. Now, if you fly to Europe, you have a six hour time change. That takes a day or two of adjustment. But an hour? Take a nap in the Spring and go to bed late in the Fall. Easy Peasy.

[dpibel]

36. One wonders

how the people who are destroyed by the time change ever survive trans-time-zone travel.

Flying to Hawaii would, it seems, be an utter waste for them. Unless their vacation was weeks or months.

[moose65]

38. It was flying FROM Hawaii that killed me!

And I’m not a time-change hater. Coming back from Hawaii (and Alaska too) was rough! I’ve never been so tired!

[Bengus81]

40. Hope those who hate DST don't travel across 4-6 time zones..........

They'll probably vapor lock on us and never make it back home................

[Codeine]

42. They'll be destroyed for WEEKS! MONTHS EVEN!

It is to laugh.

[Oneironaut]

55. A Genie said I could collect 1 billion dollars when it strikes 2 am on March 10th, 2019.

What a jerk...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. I do not like falling backward.

I don't care for Standard Time. I wish the Florida Repub Senators all the best with their proposal to abolish Standard Time and just stay on Daylight Saving time all year. I hate agreeing with Republicans, but in this case...

[Yeehah]

18. Me three.

I vote get rid of DST.

[moose65]

25. Why?

Why is standard time any better?

[janx]

46. I think it depends on what kind of schedule you have.

Many people tend to like more light in the evening. They may well be people who don't have to get up at 5:00 or so to get to work, the way I do. I'm away from home for 12 hours three days a week and work in the home office on the other two days.

I don't like going to work in the dark. When I come home, I'm wiped, so I'm not anxious to kayak or tackle yard work at that time. Seriously, when I get home after a 9 hour workday and a lengthy commute, the last thing I'm going to do is to fire up the BBQ and frolic in the yard.

Similarly, working parents with school-age kids would probably appreciate more light in the mornings since they have to get themselves to work and their kids to school.

Keep it on standard time year-round.

[Yeehah]

60. I don't care which way, just get rid of the change.

It's stupid.

[Adrahil]

21. I'm with ya. NT

[VOX]

22. Most respectfully disagree. Yes, the clock-forward switch is tougher than clocks-back, BUT...

The longer days are welcome. It’s nice to have dinner with some remaining daylight, or take brisk walks in the early evening, and not be enveloped in darkness.

One additional positive: with your brain still oriented to Standard Time, during the next two weeks (give or take a day or two), your working days will seemingly pass with usual speed. You can exit your workplace and still have some daylight left for yourself.

[moose65]

24. Let me ask you folks a question

Those of you who are saying that the time shift affects you for weeks or months - would you support staying on DST year round? Is it the actual Daylight Saving Time that bothers you, or the change from one to the other?

[smirkymonkey]

31. I prefer keeping it on DST and having more sunlight in the evenings year round.

I had a nice long nap today so hopefully tomorrow morning won't be any harsher than a normal Monday for me.

I don't like mornings anyway, so I don't care if it's darker in the morning. I'm more active in the evenings.

[Bengus81]

43. I like DST but I think it's to long.........

Seems like back in the 60's it didn't start until that first or second Sunday in April. IMO it could start in April and go off in Oct instead of Nov. Goes off in 2019 on Nov 3rd.

[empedocles]

27. I Really can't afford the lost hour today.

[DesertRat]

28. Standard time year round here in AZ

Only difference for us is when everyone else changes time it messes up our cable TV schedules...

[Separation]

30. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!

I cannot tell you how much I hate falling back. I live about 50 miles west of the EST timezone. So when We fall back, it gets dark here at 3-3:30.

I would have to say that Trump is probably the president to take on getting rid of daylight saving time. Im sure he would only get around to doing it until he has had someone read to him the JFK files, given him access to the aliens at area 51, and finally proven once and for all that he has the biggest hands of all the Presidents.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

33. simple: shoot your clocks

Let the dog wake you; let sleepiness tell you when to go to bed.

Numbers on those damn devices mean little. Day and night are determined by the sun, not numbers.

[Codeine]

41. Cute. Some of us have jobs,

kids that need to get to school, and other responsibilities that require being in a specific place at a predetermined time.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

57. curses! foiled again.

And I would've gotten away with it, if not for those meddlin' kids!

[OhZone]

45. This was me this morning.

This was me this morning.


What time is it? Let me sleep!

[Delphinus]

49. It sucks and is no longer needed.

I live in Indiana and didn't have to deal with this for many years. Studies have shown it costs more money to have DST and it puts folks at risk.

[chillfactor]

51. I LOVE DST!!!!!

I cannot understand why so many people get their noses out-of-joint over one hour on the clock. I wish we had DST year around.

[catbyte]

52. Hawaii does just fine on Standard Time year round, and I wish we'd follow suit. I'm retired &

I still hate it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that Hawaii is closer to the equator and all that, but geez. I hate it being light at almost 10 pm. It's weird. I'm a night lover anyway, so it's just personal preference, I guess. When I worked, I was fine on Monday, but Tuesday & Wednesday were absolutely horrible.

[Basic LA]

53. The last thing I need in L.A. is MORE SUN!

Though I guess it's different in other regions. (Hawaii stays on Standard Time, as I wish we would.)

[MLAA]

54. If you hate Springing..might I suggest Southern Arizona? 🌵☀️

[Separation]

61. LMAO I called it yesterday!

Trump endorses permanent daylight saving time

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-endorses-permanent-daylight-saving-time/ar-BBUDeZ7?li=BBnb7Kz

Im about to slowly swallow some throwup that I just yakked up from finally agreeing with Herr Cheeto in Chief policy.

[BritVic]

62. We have to wait till 31st March to 'Spring Forward' in the UK

Frankly it cannot come quick enough for me. It depresses the hell out of me when we get to mid-December and have to endure darkness by 3.45 pm and barely 8 hours a day of light. Roll on the long midsummer days with light evenings till 11 pm!