Around the equator, there’s no daylight saving time. It’s also dark every day year round at 6 pm. The only way to prevent early darkness is to go live in the Southern Hemisphere for winter.
Haha, weaklings. I love the winter and setting the clock this way or that way has never bothered me.
CST?
Oh yes and add to that a fucked sleep pattern for at least a week.
I really hope this nonsense ends some day. I don’t even care if it’s summer or wintertime just stop switching.
It’s weird because the day before we turned the clocks back, 5:27 p.m. was not that dark. Next day, 5:27 p.m. is dark as midnight, yup this comic is accurate.
Nah. It’s 7.55. AM or PM, no difference. Welcome to Finland, the land of depression and suicide.
Yeah, was gonna say, 17.27 it’s been long dark in southern Scandinavia
Yeah, currently the day light time is 8 hours 28 mins where I live. And it’s getting shorter still for quite some time.
At least the oil money trickles down to the people, unlike in murrikuhh.
Nah, that’s Norway.
Yeah. Imagin go to work at the sunrise and go home when the sun is already set. Yuppy!!!
Western Australia got rid of daylight savings years ago and it’s literally gone unnoticed. Only reason I remember it’s a thing is the memes, or if I have to do something involving eastern states and they’re either 2 or 3 hours again depending on time of year.
People love to complain. Do you really want to rid them of an opportunity just like this?
Hello darkness, my old friend…
The night time is the right time
Stupid fucking fall back to standard time.
But if we stayed in daylight saving time, in January the sun wouldn’t rise until like 9 am in some places.
Maybe if we just stayed in standard time all year round, the shortening days wouldn’t be so jarring to people because it would happen gradually instead of having a sudden fall back of an hour in autumn.
Or we stay in daylight saving time all year round and just accept the dark mornings.
Or the people who really don’t like shorter days in winter can just move to the equator.
I would way rather have a late sunrise than an early sunset. It’s not even close.
I however find it agonizing to get out of bed when it’s cold & dark outside.
Exactly, I do stuff after work. In the morning I just go to an office that has electric lighting.
Of course there are jobs that don’t take place in an office, but having worked one of those, in my case we already just worked daylight hours, not a 9-5.
Stay in DST please.
If you want to wake up an hour earlier, you can just do that. We don’t need to fuck with the clocks.
DST is ridiculous. The sun should be near its zenith at noon, not at 1.
Yeah, this is my conclusion as well. It literally does not matter what the time is; we can choose to start school/work after sunrise like sane people.
Might as well fall back one more time, leaving an entire generation with an extra hour of sleep that is never taken away again.
we can choose to start school/work after sunrise like sane people.
That’s the crux of the problem though, isn’t it? We don’t do that. We let psychopaths who enjoy waking up before the sun decide when everything else starts and, big surprise, they chose early as fuck.
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The US House has passed a resolution to make DST permanent, so the folks who want permanent DST in the US might get their wish. But, I’m telling you, people are going to complain when their kids are having to walk to school in the pitch dark in the middle of winter.
They could follow the recommendations of the pediatrician’s group (I forgot the name) and start school at a reasonable hour so that growing kids can get enough sleep.
Yeah I have clear memories of driving to school in the dark because of the asinine concept that is zero period
EDIT: I just learned California recently passed a law preventing high schools from starting before 8:30am to combat teen sleep deprivation. Good for them
My province switched to permanent DST this year, so we’re experiencing it for the first time and it’s… not that bad 🤷
I’m in Vancouver where it’s already cloudy, and some kids were already heading to school an hour early for various extracurriculars
IMO if kids going to school in the dark is really a problem, then it should be fixed by adjusting when school starts and ends rather than changing the clock for every single person. I like having more sunlight in the afternoon when I can make use of it, compared to in the morning when it’s used up by transit / getting ready for work and school.
However I wouldn’t mind it too much if we had switched to permanent standard time either. I’m just glad that we don’t have to change anymore.
They’re not going to pass it by January when the new Congress starts.
To hell with the kids, I want to live too.
Why can’t you live on permanent standard time?
Its nice to have sun light at the end of a slave wage shift. Schools and most jobs could start later. Most studies show humans do better when there is sunlight, because its what we had for millions of years to guide us.
I want summer time the whole year. Summer time is warmer.
That’s why rich people own so many homes.
Move closer to the equator.
Agreed! I got up this morning at 6:30 and had already wasted some daylight, and then it was night before 5!
But just wait, in a couple weeks you can go to work AND come home, in the dark.
It’s weird being in the southern hemisphere. We just recently changed to summer time.
I reallly don’t get why do many people dislike the dark. It’s nice at night!
It’s not like y’all are doing shit outside in the daylight this time of year anyway.
Just cause you aren’t doesn’t mean the rest of us aren’t.
It’s going to be sunny and 60° F this week for me - and those temps will be late afternoon - 4pm till sunset.
Better than it being daylight at fucking 8pm
could be worse, could be stuck on daylight time
Standard time is where most human circadian rhythms naturally land, so yeah.
