Daylight savings is neurotypicalcentrism and a hate crime.
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Daylight savings is neurotypicalcentrism and a hate crime.
Even the people who act like it's not a big deal don't like it. It's just ... mean. It's something a wicked prison warden would do "oh yes let's move the clocks around so as soon as you get settled waking up at one time now you need to change everything around and feel "off" for two months until we change it again.
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Daylight savings is neurotypicalcentrism and a hate crime.
Even the people who act like it's not a big deal don't like it. It's just ... mean. It's something a wicked prison warden would do "oh yes let's move the clocks around so as soon as you get settled waking up at one time now you need to change everything around and feel "off" for two months until we change it again.
Spring forward! Fall back! Spring forward! Fall back! Spring forward! Fall back! A relentless nightmare that never ends and no one can explain or justify.
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Spring forward! Fall back! Spring forward! Fall back! Spring forward! Fall back! A relentless nightmare that never ends and no one can explain or justify.
I'm being a little dramatic, yes, I can recognize that. But, it's normal and natural to wake up at the same time everyday. It's healthy and normal, and often, at least for me I wake up within the same five min. window naturally.
Until they change the clocks. THEN I need an alarm clock again. Or I'm up an hour early, sometimes on the train an hour early even. It always makes the two weeks after the change feel like I have the flu.
WHY. No one can explain.
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Daylight savings is neurotypicalcentrism and a hate crime.
Even the people who act like it's not a big deal don't like it. It's just ... mean. It's something a wicked prison warden would do "oh yes let's move the clocks around so as soon as you get settled waking up at one time now you need to change everything around and feel "off" for two months until we change it again.
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Every 6 months pets are tempted to revolt
That's why I know the people who say "it's for the farmers" are LIEING. No one who has a bunch of animals would want this.
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I'm being a little dramatic, yes, I can recognize that. But, it's normal and natural to wake up at the same time everyday. It's healthy and normal, and often, at least for me I wake up within the same five min. window naturally.
Until they change the clocks. THEN I need an alarm clock again. Or I'm up an hour early, sometimes on the train an hour early even. It always makes the two weeks after the change feel like I have the flu.
WHY. No one can explain.
@futurebird I hate the transitions. But I like the later light in summer, and having daylight time all year would make it too dark in the mornings in winter. I suppose that if schedules were more flexible it wouldn't matter.
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@futurebird I hate the transitions. But I like the later light in summer, and having daylight time all year would make it too dark in the mornings in winter. I suppose that if schedules were more flexible it wouldn't matter.
I would be open to having sunrise be defined to be at the same time every day and each day you move the clock by a few seconds or minutes as a compromise.
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I'm being a little dramatic, yes, I can recognize that. But, it's normal and natural to wake up at the same time everyday. It's healthy and normal, and often, at least for me I wake up within the same five min. window naturally.
Until they change the clocks. THEN I need an alarm clock again. Or I'm up an hour early, sometimes on the train an hour early even. It always makes the two weeks after the change feel like I have the flu.
WHY. No one can explain.
@futurebird also: might not affect many people, but if you ever need to keep a written record of events during the night when the clocks are turned back an hour, and you need write about something that happened 90 minutes after midnight, how do you distinguish between that and 150 minutes after midnight?
(ok, so maybe i just answered my own question, but how many people are going to think of that instead of writing the ambiguous "1:30 a.m. [local time]"?)
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I'm being a little dramatic, yes, I can recognize that. But, it's normal and natural to wake up at the same time everyday. It's healthy and normal, and often, at least for me I wake up within the same five min. window naturally.
Until they change the clocks. THEN I need an alarm clock again. Or I'm up an hour early, sometimes on the train an hour early even. It always makes the two weeks after the change feel like I have the flu.
WHY. No one can explain.
@futurebird Ooooh, that explains your perspective. You must be one of those weird people with a circadian rhythm that's exactly 24:00 hours long so it aligns to the natural day-night cycle over a long period of time.
As someone with a sleep cycle with a natural period that varies between 24:30 and 28:00, the disruption you describe is "going to work" for me.
My natural state in the absence of external requirements (e.g. extended WFH periods with no need to wake up at a set time to go into the office ) is to wake up a little bit later each day than the day before. This leads to a slow drift so that if I started out in sync, after two weeks or so I might be waking up around the time my wife is going to bed and getting most of my work done overnight - something i don't mind at all because it ensures a distraction free environment. After another week or two we're back in sync and I'm getting up at 5am without an alarm... Then 5:30, then 6...
The real hell is when I have to get up at the same time every day, say because I'm on a project that requires me to be in the office a lot. I get tired later and later each day but am forcibly waking up more and more exhausted. It would be like you waking up at 6am one day then setting an alarm for 5:45 the next, 5:30 the next, etc. Eventually I crash hard (usually on a weekend) and nap all day then wake up the next alarm somewhat well rested and the cycle repeats.
So I don't mind DST shifts at all, it's business as usual. And if I'm in one of those "going in to work a lot" periods it's actually quite nice being done with work for the day and still being able to enjoy outdoor stuff. Perpetual DST would be fine by me too.
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@futurebird Ooooh, that explains your perspective. You must be one of those weird people with a circadian rhythm that's exactly 24:00 hours long so it aligns to the natural day-night cycle over a long period of time.
As someone with a sleep cycle with a natural period that varies between 24:30 and 28:00, the disruption you describe is "going to work" for me.
My natural state in the absence of external requirements (e.g. extended WFH periods with no need to wake up at a set time to go into the office ) is to wake up a little bit later each day than the day before. This leads to a slow drift so that if I started out in sync, after two weeks or so I might be waking up around the time my wife is going to bed and getting most of my work done overnight - something i don't mind at all because it ensures a distraction free environment. After another week or two we're back in sync and I'm getting up at 5am without an alarm... Then 5:30, then 6...
The real hell is when I have to get up at the same time every day, say because I'm on a project that requires me to be in the office a lot. I get tired later and later each day but am forcibly waking up more and more exhausted. It would be like you waking up at 6am one day then setting an alarm for 5:45 the next, 5:30 the next, etc. Eventually I crash hard (usually on a weekend) and nap all day then wake up the next alarm somewhat well rested and the cycle repeats.
So I don't mind DST shifts at all, it's business as usual. And if I'm in one of those "going in to work a lot" periods it's actually quite nice being done with work for the day and still being able to enjoy outdoor stuff. Perpetual DST would be fine by me too.
I don't think I'm naturally 24 hours. Naturally I wake up at sunrise. But, that isn't good for anything. But, when I keep doing the same thing at the same times over and over I get used to it and don't need a clock anymore which I love.
But then they keep moving the times around so that little advantage never sticks.
