NFR The time switch sucks!

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Does switching the clock twice a year suck?

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My life without a work schedule is determined by sunrise and sunset. The clock is kind of redundant. I only need it to set the alarm for the very rare occasion that I don't wake up before it goes off.
 
I notice it, especially losing an hour in the spring switch over. But it has never been that big a deal to me. And I enjoy the later sunsets in the summer. Plus, I'm not an early bird, getting up at O'dark-thirty in the summer is bad enough, and it would be that much worse on standard time. It would feel like getting up in the middle of the night.
 
I've never found it makes much difference. After all, it's dark all late fall and winter here anyways, and the whole sleep thing and loss or gain of an hour is all a bunch of crap.
Are people really that inflexible, and lack some resilience to such a small change ?

Anybody that says it screws up their sleep patterns, or makes them late for stuff needs more help than not changing a clock can provide...seriously...Jesus Weeps here...and any hope for the future of humanity goes right out the window.
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Salmo_g said:
I notice it, especially losing an hour in the spring switch over. But it has never been that big a deal to me. And I enjoy the later sunsets in the summer. Plus, I'm not an early bird, getting up at O'dark-thirty in the summer is bad enough, and it would be that much worse on standard time. It would feel like getting up in the middle of the night.
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That's how you catch Sockeye.
 
Mossback said:
I've never found it makes much difference. After all, it's dark all late fall and winter here anyways, and the whole sleep thing and loss or gain of an hour is all a bunch of crap.
Are people really that inflexible, and lack some resilience to such a small change ?

Anybody that says it screws up their sleep patterns, or makes them late for stuff needs more help than not changing a clock can provide...seriously...Jesus Weeps here...and any hope for the future of humanity goes right out the window.
😁🤣😁
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It absolutely messes with baby and toddler sleep patterns. That’s my pain point (and the loss of an hour of after-daycare daylight window for going to the park).
 
Yeah. It screws up my sleep patterns. I don’t need a clock or an alarm to get sleepy at 10pm and wake up at 6am pretty damn reliably. (Well, actually, 5am, but then I usually pee and try to sleep another hour.) This works fine for me.

I know what’s going to happen now. I’m going to wake up at 4am, and fall asleep on the couch at 8:30. Ill wake up at midnight, doom scroll for one to two hours, maybe post some usless junk here, and overall not get a good night’s sleep.
 
Well if the clock is going to stay in one place, Spring forward would be my choice...but it's not going to be a huge deal either way for me anyways.
 
I remember reading of the letter received at the National Bureau of Times and Standards from a farmer in Texas complaining about the spring change because the extra hour of sunlight a day was drying up his crops.
 
troutpocket said:
Pick one and stick with it. Arizona seems to survive without messing with time changes.
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Washington did pass a law in 2019 to stay on PDT. However, Congress has to amend federal law to allow states to observe daylight savings time year round, which it has yet to do.

I did find it interesting that if Washington had wanted to stay on PST, that would not require any action from Congress.
 
Im goin by the NORMAL TIME!!! Gardless of what they say!!!! Can't tell ME what to do!!!!! I go by THE NORMAL TIME!!!!!!! Its what time I SAY it is!!!!

I only pruscribe to The Normal Time.
 
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