I HATE THE TIME CHANGE

[magenta]

I really want us to get rid of so called daylight savings. I want to have the same time year round and I want it to be in line with sunrise and sunsets, so clock noon is as close as possible to solar noon.

Character of the day is Miles Vorkosigan.

Comments

[redbird]

The time change is definitely annoying.

Around here, standard time and daylight saving time are equally good, or equally wrong; to have clock noon = solar noon, we'd need to be in a time zone that doesn't exist, GMT-4.5. Living in Boston has made me admire Newfoundland, which has had its very own time zone, GMT-3.5, since before it was part of Canada.

[dreamshark]

I thought that I felt that way, but as possibly the last time change approaches I'm no longer so sure. As sunrise slips later and later it's been feeling so oppressive. I find it disturbing to wake up at 8am and find it still dark and gloomy, and have been looking forward to the time change this year.

Not that it really matters. I'm retired and don't have to get up at any particular time. I just hate the darkness of winter, and finding myself getting up later and later as we slide towards the solstice is just depressing, even if it's just arbitrary numbers on the clock. I'm finding a little bit of joy this year in reclaiming that lost hour as I move my clocks back.

[quadong]

Seconded emphatically!

[quadong]

Seconded emphatically with the caveat that I do support having time zones and not setting local time to exactly mean solar time. It would be annoying for the time to change by a minute for each 32 miles driven east or west (at our latitude).

If we set our clocks to solar time and not mean solar time, that would be even more difficult. We'd either have to use sundials or computers, but nothing between.

:-)