I LOVE daylight saving time, because the long summer evenings are even longer. It is of course a bit of a jolt when standard time hits us, and the change should happen earlier in the year (and consistently in spring and fall). But the alleged widespread disruption of people's personal clocks strikes me as exaggerated: does nobody ever st…
I LOVE daylight saving time, because the long summer evenings are even longer. It is of course a bit of a jolt when standard time hits us, and the change should happen earlier in the year (and consistently in spring and fall). But the alleged widespread disruption of people's personal clocks strikes me as exaggerated: does nobody ever stay up an hour past their bedtime on a Saturday night?
Whether you like the idea of year-round standard time or year-round daylight time depends a lot on which side of a time zone you live on - the long dark mornings for those on the western side can be a bummer on daylight time, in the winter.
When I was working, it took me two to three weeks to adjust to the time change. Air and rail lines find it to be a twice-yearly hassle. I still say eave the time one way or the other, but leave it alone.
Some of us wake spontaneously at 4:00 am and staying awake to close the chicken coop when those girls refuse to go to bed until full dark is a hardship when dark falls at 10 pm in the northern part of the US.
I also prefer daylight saving time, mainly because I have a long commute to/from work. Driving to work as the sun comes up puts me in a hopeful mood for the day's work. Driving home with extra vigilance in the dark after a day's work is even more stressful. Around here, the argument for standard time is that parents don't want their precious little darlings waiting for the school bus in the dark. But that argument is bunk, since virtually all parents chauffeur their precious little darlings to school in the family minivan.
The time change does mess with my internal clock with wide-ranging effects. This is exacerbated by sharing my home with a dog who doesn't care about human time conventions. When it's meal time, it's meal time. When it's potty time, it's potty time.
Quite right John Gregory! ...and THAT was how universal time evolved,... in an effort to get those local communities, say on the western side of current time zones which had their own time for noon, etc, to match where the sun was (or wasn't). Cost/benefit analyses over time have suggested the standardized time zones are worth the irritation of dark evenings or dark mornings. I, however, am one who would prefer we not keep changing it around by the season, but then I am of a relatively adaptable constitution and recognize that many others are not.
Spain was on perpetual daylight savings time when I was growing up there in the 60’s. I loved it! When I came back to Massachusetts to go to college, and it started getting dark at 4:30pm, I got really depressed. Have hated standard time ever since!
I LOVE daylight saving time, because the long summer evenings are even longer. It is of course a bit of a jolt when standard time hits us, and the change should happen earlier in the year (and consistently in spring and fall). But the alleged widespread disruption of people's personal clocks strikes me as exaggerated: does nobody ever stay up an hour past their bedtime on a Saturday night?
Whether you like the idea of year-round standard time or year-round daylight time depends a lot on which side of a time zone you live on - the long dark mornings for those on the western side can be a bummer on daylight time, in the winter.
When I was working, it took me two to three weeks to adjust to the time change. Air and rail lines find it to be a twice-yearly hassle. I still say eave the time one way or the other, but leave it alone.
Some of us wake spontaneously at 4:00 am and staying awake to close the chicken coop when those girls refuse to go to bed until full dark is a hardship when dark falls at 10 pm in the northern part of the US.
I also prefer daylight saving time, mainly because I have a long commute to/from work. Driving to work as the sun comes up puts me in a hopeful mood for the day's work. Driving home with extra vigilance in the dark after a day's work is even more stressful. Around here, the argument for standard time is that parents don't want their precious little darlings waiting for the school bus in the dark. But that argument is bunk, since virtually all parents chauffeur their precious little darlings to school in the family minivan.
The time change does mess with my internal clock with wide-ranging effects. This is exacerbated by sharing my home with a dog who doesn't care about human time conventions. When it's meal time, it's meal time. When it's potty time, it's potty time.
Quite right John Gregory! ...and THAT was how universal time evolved,... in an effort to get those local communities, say on the western side of current time zones which had their own time for noon, etc, to match where the sun was (or wasn't). Cost/benefit analyses over time have suggested the standardized time zones are worth the irritation of dark evenings or dark mornings. I, however, am one who would prefer we not keep changing it around by the season, but then I am of a relatively adaptable constitution and recognize that many others are not.
Spain was on perpetual daylight savings time when I was growing up there in the 60’s. I loved it! When I came back to Massachusetts to go to college, and it started getting dark at 4:30pm, I got really depressed. Have hated standard time ever since!
Didn’t it used to be in October and in March?