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Great, we could sleep one hour more, but suddenly, it's getting dark at 18.

Great we have one hour more of sun on the morning, but instead of being pitch black when starting to commute to work it's just still dark and by the end of November it'll be pitch black anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

It doesn't matter what season it is outside my basement, I still will refuse to go outside willingly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

definitely hate DST, but mostly because of the annual death toll it entails, and the fact that it makes no fucking sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I love winter. Cold, dark, and snowy are my jam. To be fair this may be an ingrained coping mechanism from growing up in Alaska.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

I was born and raised in a country with four distinct seasons. I loved all the seasons. However, I have always been a winter person. One of my bucket list items is to live in a place where the sun sets for months and there is only one long winter night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I detest the cold. I’m skinny enough that I have to wear long underwear basically constantly as it gets colder. The one potential upside to the environmental hellscape we’re creating for ourselves is that I may be able to stop doing that. Otherwise, winter is just annoying as hell, it’s such a stupid ass season.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hate is a strong word, but yes I prefer the longer days of summer, and like doing summer things, and yes going to work in the dark sucks, but coming home from work in the dark is even worse, so dispiriting.

It's not even cold here, and summer too hot for most but summer is still my favorite, winter least favorite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

It's like: would you prefer going to work/school in the dark and coming gome during the day or would you like to spend all the daylight at work/school

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Winter has his charms as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like sun as much as the next person but I feel getting more daylight by changing the clocks is like going on a diet by changing the definition of a pound. Standard Time all year for me please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It is the standard.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Absolutely love winter. It's my favorite time of the year. I like being inside when it's cold and dark out. I like not sweating. Feels good man.

Absolutely detest switching back and forth between standard and DST. What a load of crap. Just pick one and be done with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Its the fucking worst.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I go back and forth. I like getting cozy and warm, but when it's cold my skin feels uncomfortable, like it's crawling or shrinking on me, like I put it on wrong. And my hands feel gross and cold and I rue having to touch myself with them in the bathroom.

But when I get warm enough it's nice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

18?

Damn southerners.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

I hate the concept of Daylight Savings Time. It's such a "Baby formula: Now with even more lead!" solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

The table is a little bit too far South, it's kind of difficult to walk around the table because the wall is too close. So we'll lift the roof off with a crane, suspend the table from a sophisticated set of guy wires, tear down the house around it, and then painstakingly reinstall the house 16 inches to the South so that there's room between the wall and the table.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I wish we could hibernate, honestly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm split on this. Most people here that love the time shift also love winter. I don't love winter but I do love it getting dark sooner.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The best day of the year is the first day of daylight saving time (end of March). There is no day I look forward to more every year, not my birthday, not Christmas, not Easter, not a day I go on vacation: the first day of daylight saving time beats all of these.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I also love-it so much, Suddently, there is day light late, you see people outside, no matter whether it's about kids playing outside after school, or adult having an evening walk, but suddently looks like life is back

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I kinda like it. I guess it helps that in my part of the world it's absolutely blazing hot in summer. I love that, but with the intense onslaught of sun over that period, by the time winter rolls back around it's kind of a welcome change. I also just look way better in winter clothes so it's nice to feel better about my appearance for that portion of the year. I also find that it's way easier to warm yourself up when it's cold than to cool down when it's hot. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big wuss so all summer I'll whine and moan about it being soo hot and then immediately complain about being freezing in winter, but on balance I think I find the discomfort of my region's winter a bit easier to deal with than its summer. I also like not being completely covered in a layer of sweat as well. I don't especially care a whole lot about when the daylight hours appear, I'm as happy being out and about at night as I am in the day and appreciate either for different reasons so if more of my waking hours are taking place in darker periods of the day then I'm just appreciating those for what they are just as I also appreciate all the bright and sunny hours. I would say that as someone who has trouble sleeping when it's too bright I definitely prefer it when the sun comes up later and doesn't wake me up. It probably helps that I'm hardly an outdoors-man so it's not like much if any of the things I'd actually do across a year are really curtailed by the mandates of the season, though I guess I do miss the beach. Besides, like a lot of people, I work indoors so a good chunk of any given day is taken up by a minimum 8 hours of work usually starting at 09 so when the weather is absolutely beautiful and sunny and clear I'll see it for about 20 minutes out the car window before going in to a building with the blinds drawn and the air-conditioning on until I emerge at what is then evening hours.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I like the hours being dialed back. Whenever they're dialed forward, it feels like time moves even faster than when it did beforehand. I didn't like that feeling. Feels like everything is just being rushed and rushed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

No, I hate DST. Getting up an hour earlier sucks. I also prefer the darker season in general because I feel like I sleep better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

When I moved north, I realized there are only two seasons here: looking forward to summer, and dreading winter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I’m an uber driver. I get to be outside in the daylight all day. Work whatever hours I want. It’s nice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I work 3rd shift, the darkness doesn't bother me. I hate it when it's daylight when I go to work and daylight when I come home.

When DST flips, I get an extra hour of work and my sleep schedule goes to shit for a week.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Embrace it. Buy yourself a pair of skis and suddenly it'll never snow enough

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I like winter but the daylight savings nonsense sucks, I don't want it to get dark even earlier, it's all backwards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But you know that DST is summer time? In winter, we have β€žnormalβ€œ time, as in the sun is at it's highest at 12 o'clock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Huh, I completely forgot about that, we should keep it for the entire year then.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I'm aware of all the dissatisfaction with DST, but hear me out... What if we just weren't going hard enough? I propose Runners Savings Time. We set the clock forward like, 4-5 hrs. It'll be dark during working hours, but then you'll have some time to go for a run or do whatever during the daylight.

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