No secret in my family that I HATE the time change. This is your reminder to change yours tonight. :(.
Trying to find some good or benefit in this thing I hate so much. It will be a little lighter for my pup walk in the morning before work. I MAY be able to run a little in the morning before I go to work in the next month or so (before snow/ice becomes a problem).
Will need to develop a new evening routine. Like have to get out for outside time SOON after I get home from work before it gets dark. Build in some reading time or a small household task so the evening isn’t so long. I never want to spend more than an hour or two just sitting in the evening - or anytime of the day….time change is torture….
That’s about all I’ve got. Give us all a reason to put up with the time change. Whatcha got???
The benefit for me…Tuesday I will be working at the polls and need to be there by 5 a.m. With the time change so close…it will feel like 6 a.m. which isn’t a lot better but a little better!
I’m a morning person, so I do appreciate that it gets lighter earlier. But I hate hate hate when it gets dark by 5:00 PM. It makes the evening feel like it’s two weeks long.
I haven’t had to think about DST in 22 years but, for some reason, the DST light on my bedside clock is stuck on and I can’t figure out how to get it to go off. Time to Google…
As someone who grew up being told “you need to be in the house when the streetlights come on” I absolutely hate DST! It’s muscle memory, but my body and soul still believe I need to be in the house when the streetlights come on.
Hate it. Can think of zero redeeming qualities or value.
I am officially counting the days until Dec 21, when the daylight hours begin getting longer. I am a fan of daylight.
My dog likes to go out and then eat breakfast at 5 am, it’s going to be a very long week (she also likes dinner at 5 pm and starts crying around 4). She doesn’t understand the time change.
The existing Uniform Time Act allows states to have Daylight Saving Time or to stay on Standard Time all year round (as in Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico). It doesn’t permit Daylight Saving Time all year round, which is what many states want.
This doesn’t bother me although it is tough in the spring for a week or so. In MN, I think the change benefits us. With the time change, in December daylight is from 7:45 to about 4:30. In June it’s 5:30 am to 9 pm. If we didn’t change clocks, the sun would rise at 4:30 am in June, I think, and 8:45 in December. I don’t like either of those scenarios. Personally I hope it does not change, but for those in more southern areas maybe the sunrise times are not so stark.
One good thing about it is the extra hour of sleep this week. We’ve all been having a hard time waking up this week - busy schedules, college apps, etc - so it’s a little reprieve that feels good for a few days.
One good thing is that standard time is better for teenagers with their biologically delayed circadian rhythms (easier for them to fall asleep at night because it gets dark earlier, and easier for them to wake up in the morning because it gets light sooner.)
