No one can agree on which time to use so time change will never go away. It’s really annoying. I don’t give a shit which we use, just toss of the ducking time change. It’s 1 hour, people gotta chill.
I agree with you but also I don’t care anymore lol. I just want the change gone. No one agrees on which though. Someone needs to just flip a coin and we all get used to it and adjust
Someone else mentioned children waiting for the bus get run over at a much higher rate if it’s dark early in the morning, which is a pretty valid argument
That being said, I’d much rather it get dark later in the day
Fuck at this point does it even matter? The time change is bullshit on a baseline so long as it’s done on the state level it shouldnt be too bad since eventually one of them will probably win out.
I am a champion of the idea of keeping daylight saving over standard time but I am more and more starting to think that the time change is the best compromise we are going to get with the people who insist on getting to work at 8am in the light.
I live both north and east of NYC, I want the later sunlight in summer and winter. The first hour of light is wasted on me and many others. Farmers maybe not, but around here that’s pretty much over by late October anyway.
I’ve also lived at the most extreme opposite end of the Eastern time zone in Michigan, and like the late evening sunlight even more!
I just think humans don’t work well with such a sudden change even just 1 hr. Maybe there’s a way we could add/remove a minute every day over two months or something lol
Now do daylight savings!!
They tried in Ohio. They couldnt stop running over kids waiting for the bus in the morning dark so it was reverted.
Exactly. Fuck DST.
No one can agree on which time to use so time change will never go away. It’s really annoying. I don’t give a shit which we use, just toss of the ducking time change. It’s 1 hour, people gotta chill.
I say we compromise and just shift to the half hour in between then. What a stupid disagreement
Yeah why not. Anything is better than this dumb time change
Sunset at 5pm sucks, it feels unnatural, let it be dark early in the morning idgaf I want the sun to be out when I get off work
I agree with you but also I don’t care anymore lol. I just want the change gone. No one agrees on which though. Someone needs to just flip a coin and we all get used to it and adjust
Someone else mentioned children waiting for the bus get run over at a much higher rate if it’s dark early in the morning, which is a pretty valid argument
That being said, I’d much rather it get dark later in the day
Fuck at this point does it even matter? The time change is bullshit on a baseline so long as it’s done on the state level it shouldnt be too bad since eventually one of them will probably win out.
I am a champion of the idea of keeping daylight saving over standard time but I am more and more starting to think that the time change is the best compromise we are going to get with the people who insist on getting to work at 8am in the light.
Let’s look at NY city.
June 21th longest day, sunrise is at 5:24 am (Set 8:31 pm)
December 21th longest night, sunrise is at 6:42 am (Set 4:32 pm)
If you got rid of daylight savings time then the sun would rise at 4:24 am in June and set at 7:31 pm.
(Most people in NY probably want the extra hour of light at 7:31 pm instead of 4:24 am)
If you kept permanent daylight savings then the sun would rise at 7:42 am in December and set at 5:32 pm)
(Most people in NY probably want some light before 8 because it’s going to be dark after dinner anyways)
So many people are awake before 8 am compared to 5 am
So many people enjoy the light at 7:30 pm in the summer
Switching really is the sweet spot for NY
Location is definitely important too in hating or liking DST
Ontonagon, Mi sun sets at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)
Dexter, Me sun sets at 4:10 pm tonight (6:33 am rise)
Same time zone, both northern cities.
If we didn’t get off DST Ontonagon wouldn’t see the sunrise until almost 9 am today
People in Dexter might have preferred to stay on DST getting light between 7:33 am to 5:10 pm today
The farther west you live in a time zone the less you like DST generally. Farther east, the more you like it.
Ontonagon is so west it should really be in Central Time zone.
If that was the case then the sun would set at 4:25 pm tonight (6:58 am rise) (basically Dexter ME times)
At that point they might want to stay on DST and it would make it exactly what it was today, sunset at 5:25 pm tonight (7:58 am rise)
I live both north and east of NYC, I want the later sunlight in summer and winter. The first hour of light is wasted on me and many others. Farmers maybe not, but around here that’s pretty much over by late October anyway.
I’ve also lived at the most extreme opposite end of the Eastern time zone in Michigan, and like the late evening sunlight even more!
They tried permanent DST in the '70s for a few years. People hated it so much we went back to switching the clocks.
I just think humans don’t work well with such a sudden change even just 1 hr. Maybe there’s a way we could add/remove a minute every day over two months or something lol
Programmers would be on suicide watch if we did that
As I was typing it I was trying to figure out how it would work on electronic devices and my head exploded. Let alone just your everyday clock.
Just get rid of half of it. I love “fall back.” I hate “spring ahead.”
I like it initially, but after a couple weeks I want to die. Walking out of the office into cold darkness at 4-4:30pm is soul crushing.
Fall back every year! Yes! No spring forward!