Dear Everyone who’s like, “I love Daylight Saving Time!”
Yeah, it’s light out when you leave work. But is it even warm enough to do anything? Nay, it is not I say. The light is just a tease.
Moreover, when I left for swimming practice on Friday morning, the sky was aglow with the beginnings of a beautiful sunrise. When I left for swimming practice this morning, the sky was aglow with STARS. Stars! In the morning! Before breakfast! That is so wrong. It’s not that I don’t love this beautiful country view without serious light pollution, but I’d rather that viewing the starry sky be the last thing I do before going to bed, not the first thing I do upon getting up.
Additionally, I wanted to go to the health food store yesterday to get a delicious vegan desert. I got there at 6:15 only to find that the store had closed a quarter hour earlier. I tell you, if it is light out, stores should stay open. We should be allowed at least that trade-off. But no, the proprietor of the health food store was out enjoying an extra hour of sunlight like the rest of the DST lovers.
So keep your love to yourself. I’m not impressed.
Sincerely,
Noelle, who thinks that if the powers that be can move the date of Daylight Saving Time this early in the year, they can also officially start calling it “Daylight Savings Time” because that sounds so much better.
March 10, 2008 at 7:14 am
Who needs official? I call it Daylight Savings anyway. It does sound better, like a bank that is giving me high yield interest rates on sunlight.
I very much enjoyed that it was light out at 7 p.m. yesterday, but very much hated that it was pitch black when I left for work this morning. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: screw science.
It’s not even science! It’s lobbying from people who want people to be out later!
March 10, 2008 at 7:38 am
I have nothing to say to change your mind, but I LOVE IT!!!
Again, we’re going to have to agree to disagree despite the fact that I’m right.
March 10, 2008 at 7:46 am
I call it Daylight Savings too. AND I HATE IT! And I read an article about how it doesn’t even save energy as it was originally intended to do.
It’s all kind of a wash. It’s one of those things that we just do because it’s what we do.
March 10, 2008 at 7:57 am
I go with the extra S.
And I love the daylight in the evenings because here in the South, it has been warm enough to go out and enjoy it, which is exactly what I’m going to do. So ha!
(That said, I was liking the sun-shiny mornings, but you can’t have it both ways this time of year.)
Yeah, I’m totally digging the late June evenings, but guess what, it’s March, I live in New York, and I’m cold.
March 10, 2008 at 8:41 am
Well, we slept in yesterday, so that was OK. The alternative was waking up at 5:30 that used to be 4:30 so hubby could go to his 7:30 church and be home in time for all of us to go to our 9:00 church. So we didn’t go to church. We went out to breakfast. That was fine.
You know that I will always stand firmly on the side of not going to church. Especially if the alternative involves breakfast.
March 10, 2008 at 9:10 am
I’ve had Daylight Savings Time explained to me time and time again – the rationale behind it – and I must have a mental block the size of a sundial in my head because I just don’t get it.
Why are we fussing with the clocks when we’re moving toward more sunshine anyway? Is that simple of me?
Here’s my idea: once November hits, everyone hibernates and/or skis until mid-March. No? The trains need to keep running, you say? Okay. Well, I didn’t say it was a good idea.
I like the hibernating idea! It’s almost what I do anyway. (And I was able to delete the double comment, as much as it hurts me to delete any comment…)
March 10, 2008 at 9:42 am
I think NPW is on to something. If I were getting high yield interest rates in exchange for that jet lagged feeling I’ve got going today, it might all be OK.
It’s so true! Earning interest makes things so much better.
March 10, 2008 at 9:50 am
I hate daylight saving(s) time, too. I can’t wake up in the dark–it’s unnatural. And exactly what are these “things” people are doing in the evening that they need sunlight for, anyway? The TV picture looks better in the dark, and let’s not pretend the average American isn’t just going home to plop on the couch and watch “Two and a Half Men.”
Plus, the whole springing forward and falling back thing bugs me. I HATE losing that hour. It takes weeks for my body’s internal clock to reset. Gah.
Right on, sister! It takes me a long time to get back into the time rhythm as well. Apparently, disturbing the circadian rhythms is real problem for a lot of people that outweighs the extra hour of sunlight.
March 10, 2008 at 10:03 am
I hate DST.
I had a very weird thing happen just now that involves you. Strange.
I still hate DST. I hate waking up in the dark. Unnatural.
I am intrigued about the weird thing that involves me! I also have to clarify that if we’re talking about WDST, the Woodstock radio station, I love that. But remove the “W” and it sucks.
March 10, 2008 at 10:31 am
Wow, I didn’t know people had such strong feelings about Daylight Savings Time (and yes, I also add the s.) I like this time change, but I really hate it when it changes back in the fall and it’s dark outside before I get home from work.
The fall back is both annoying because sometimes you have to move some clocks all the way through time to get them set correctly, and jumping into late darkness is always depressing.
March 10, 2008 at 10:31 am
It’s not called Daylight Savings time? I thought it was and personally, I hate it. It screws me up and I prefer it not to be dark when I wake up. I know – wah wah wah.
Hey, we’re all free to whine on this post, I’ll allow it this once!
March 10, 2008 at 11:57 am
Man, I feel like an idiot, because i have been calling it Daylight Savings Time for years. It’s like I’m the equivalent of my friend’s ex-boyfriend, who I despised for calling Airtran “Airtrans”.
I’ve been calling it that, too. It sounds much more natural.
March 10, 2008 at 11:58 am
Not a fan of DST. I don’t know why I was so tired yesterday, but I was. It made no sense. Waking up sucked ass. Not a fan of waking up to darkness.
It tends to drain you quickly.
March 10, 2008 at 11:59 am
We aren’t SAVINGS daylight, we’re SAVING it, singular. I know it feels better to say it the other way, and I do, too. If only they’d hyphenated it: Daylight-Saving Time. But they didn’t, damn “they.”
I like to think of it as “it’s time for daylight savings!” Hence, the “s.”
March 10, 2008 at 12:43 pm
shane just dropped major knowledge.
She’s always doing that.
March 10, 2008 at 1:11 pm
why in the heel do we have to keep changeing the clocks anyway?? just set it for one or the other and leave it alone. that way I don’t have to runaround this house changeint the clocks back and forth.
Word.
March 10, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I thought it WAS Savings-with-an-S. Europe doesn’t switch until the last Sunday this month. I’ve been thrilled with your switch though because I do a lot of work with people in California and having only a 7 hour time difference instead of an 8 hour time difference actually does make my life easier. (And, in a weird way, it makes my family feel a little closer, since now they’re only 4 hours behind instead of 5.)
That’s another strange phenomenon, the countries that switch at other times, or not at all.
March 10, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I hate DST in the morning… but I get to go for a run today. AFTER WORK! OUTSIDE!! That pretty much wins me over.
Someday I’d like to run after work, it is so much better. But it’s still too cold, and my ankle needs to heal more.
March 10, 2008 at 3:00 pm
DST is insane to begin with, and then enacting it earlier in the year is part of the federal conspiracy to keep us compliantly dizzy, devout and in debt. Destroy DST!
I knew that somehow it was The Man’s fault.
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March 10, 2008 at 4:41 pm
You tell ‘em! My sleep is all messed up and who really needs all this extra time in the evening anyway! I haven’t heard a Daylight saving time rant yet – Thanks! Jen
March 11, 2008 at 9:53 am
i like the sun longer at night, since I like to do more after work, not before work. for you, i understand the dismay. you should get a medal just for getting up so darn early!
it is still cold out, but is this the fault of DST or of just plain ol’ mother nature in cahoots with global warming? and good ol’ new england (which we’ll stretch out to include NY)
March 11, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I saw almost no sun from November through February; I need to catch up. I respectfully disagree.
March 11, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Because we’re on Eastern but longitudinally aligned aligned with Central, it’s dark here until almost 8 and light until 8. By July it will be light until almost 11 pm. I’ll be Al Pacino in Insomniac by the end of the summer.
March 11, 2008 at 8:41 pm
It’s Tuesday, I’m readying your DST blog and I’m still agreeing with it because I’m still cranky from the obnoxious screwing with my body clock.
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