The Embodiment of RED 
It's time for an international census. (Boost for reach.)
Does the shift to Daylight Savings Time help you, the respondent, in any way?
yes
no
I somehow do not have a dog in this fight
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ink and yarn@thraeryn Yes :) there's enough time for bike rides after work now! The mountain bike group I ride with is re-starting their Gears 'n Beers ride this week and I can't wait to get back to it!
ETA: plus, if we didn't shift the clocks to summer time, by June it would be starting to get light at 4am... which is way too early.
Obsolete@thraeryn
Would you rather have the sun set at 8PM or 7PM so you can sit in the dark an extra hour before going to bed π€
Would you rather have the sun set at 8PM or 7PM so you can sit in the dark an extra hour before going to bed π€
vandenberglegs@thraeryn Australian here. Extra hour in the evening in summer is superb. Our northernmost state somehow voted against DST because the extra hour would fade the curtains.
ein kleines z@thraeryn
Yes. But it's somewhat capitalism-related. If I have a job where I have to start in the morning, it's brutal to have to arrive there in the darkness. I think it helps if the mornings get some light a bit earlier. The EU suggestion was to keep winter time for the whole year and I'd absolutely hate that. Because I like how in spring, we get longer light in the afternoon. And I absolutely don't want super early morning light basically in the middle of the night. That's a waste of daylight.
However, if I never had to get up and be somewhere at 8 or 9am again, full year summer time would probably be ok.
Yes. But it's somewhat capitalism-related. If I have a job where I have to start in the morning, it's brutal to have to arrive there in the darkness. I think it helps if the mornings get some light a bit earlier. The EU suggestion was to keep winter time for the whole year and I'd absolutely hate that. Because I like how in spring, we get longer light in the afternoon. And I absolutely don't want super early morning light basically in the middle of the night. That's a waste of daylight.
However, if I never had to get up and be somewhere at 8 or 9am again, full year summer time would probably be ok.
Dyn Hafren - NSFW π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ ΏπͺπΊπ@thraeryn Not here in Cymru but I can understand that it does for the Scots
yelling jackal@thraeryn So I'm in the Netherlands, where the time got changed to match Germany's during WWII and didn't really get changed back (these days most of Europe is the same time zone, too).
Result of this is that geographically the time doesn't match with actual daylight. UTC would be great but we're stuck in UTC+1 and UTC+2, and north enough that it actually matters (without it being north enough that it doesn't matter either way).
So the situation is, as I understand it, keep doing the switch and keep the economic advantages of having similar time to most of Europe + sunlight, or stick to UTC+2 and have pretty much all office workers not see any sunlight during all of winter (instead of a lot of winter), or switch to either UTC or UTC+1 and lose the economic advantage.
I dunno, but I'd rather stick to switching than staying permanently in UTC+2, winter is depressing enough.
Result of this is that geographically the time doesn't match with actual daylight. UTC would be great but we're stuck in UTC+1 and UTC+2, and north enough that it actually matters (without it being north enough that it doesn't matter either way).
So the situation is, as I understand it, keep doing the switch and keep the economic advantages of having similar time to most of Europe + sunlight, or stick to UTC+2 and have pretty much all office workers not see any sunlight during all of winter (instead of a lot of winter), or switch to either UTC or UTC+1 and lose the economic advantage.
I dunno, but I'd rather stick to switching than staying permanently in UTC+2, winter is depressing enough.
Kat@thraeryn lol i did this backwards because i forgot we just shifted OFF DST. and i guess i canβt change my answer. but my answer is no. the shift we just did is the good one!
Sarah Sammis@thraeryn no. Just months of misery and bad sleep