Marco Arment9 AM: This is awesome! I feel great! I love this DST change!
5 PM: shit
Jane@marcoarment I woke up feeling refreshed, only to discover it was an hour earlier...and then I ended up eating supper an hour early. at four instead of five. I hope I adjust ...
Mieszko Ślusarczyk@marcoarment adjusting sleep cycle is a challenge for me
Shantini@marcoarment oh….so funny story this is how I found out
Jamie Blumberg@shantini me finding out was when the cats started complaining for their 6 PM meal at “5 PM”
Rainer Tenhunen@marcoarment if ever there will be a vote for picking a permanent time my vote is for permanent summer time to keep the longer evenings.
Ted@marcoarment for the first time, we visited NH in early January and it being dark at 4pm fucking sucks. I do not know how people on the eastern end of a time zone, especially the north eastern part, are not revolting to get standard time condemned to hell.
Christian Keefer-Moomaw@hardly_ted As someone who has lived his entire life in the eastern end of time zones, I absolutely hate visiting places like Indiana and Texas (on the western end of time zones) in the winter. The sun doesn’t come up until after 8 AM and I loathe waking up in the dark.
Dark afternoons suck, but I prefer them to pitch black mornings. Winter days are short, no way around it. You can chose to put more darkness in the morning or the evening, but you can’t legislate more daylight into existence ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@cdmoomaw heard but while I understand, I also just can’t imagine living there in that way. The mornings are not my time, and waking in darkness, working through all the daylight, and then my free time spent in darkness feels soul crushing. I want my free time in light, not my working hours.
@hardly_ted Precisely. I’m going to be coming home from work in the dark regardless if the sunset is at 4:30 or 5:30. Might as well at least enjoy some light before work.
@hardly_ted Neither perspective is objectively correct, of course. There are plenty of people in each of the three “permanent standard time”, “permanent DST”, and “keep seasonal time changes” camps. Probably because each of the three is a crappy solution to the unsolvable problem of dark winters.
Still sucks of course that the current clock configuration is especially ill-suited for your routine. Best of luck this winter :)
@cdmoomaw well said. I was thinking of how to say essentially the same, but you saved me from having to do so.
To poorly paraphrase Douglas Adams, time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
If you want the daylight before the working day, and I want it to be after, society should be understanding enough to accommodate both.
Casper 👻@marcoarment
It’s only 6 o’clock? Damn!
It’s only 6 o’clock? Damn!
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mrkite@marcoarment one good thing about living in Arizona... No dst garbage.
@marcoarment but but… DST _is_ the change… now we’re back to standard time.
HollieK9 PM: Is it bedtime yet?
Furbland's Very Cool Mastodon™@marcoarment my sleep schedule is perpetually awful so there i win /j
Brandon Butler@marcoarment What’s so great about 9AM?
I don’t see what the benefit of falling back is.
Chancerubbage@marcoarment I think it is much more meaningful to those living above the 40th parallel than below.
It has its proponents north and south, but it hits harder in the north.
Buck@marcoarment *"Hello darkness, my old friend" *🎶