My watch says "actual sleep time 9h 13min", and I really needed that. I've been on 3-5 hours most nights since the cursed daylight savings change three weeks ago.
If you're annoyed by #DST, spare a thought for Montaigne, who found Italian cities disagreed on whether mechanical clocks should start from 0 at sunrise or noon.
I maintain that switching between standard and summertime should not be a thing anymore.
Then again, two days a year with an excellence excuse to play with all my watches 🤷🏼♂️
There are, for instance, more heart attacks and digestive and immune-related diseases in the week following the shift to DST. A small bump in car accidents also tends to be recorded.
Long-term health effects include depression, slowed metabolism, weight gain and cluster headaches.
That's because our "social clock", ie, the schedule under which our societies operate, and our internal clocks, which are more or less aligned with the sun, are out of whack.
Me: I have a new idea about Daylight Saving Time and time zones...
Them: Okay
Me: That will make literally everyone unhappy...
Them: Oh no
Me: No DST, but we break the whole globe into 10 minute time zones instead of hour long ones
Them: ...
Me: ...
Them: Why are you the way that you are?
Marijke Gordijn, a chronobiologist, calls daylight saving time "a governmental order that you all have to get up an hour earlier than normal" at the opening of #Eurodark.
What a great way to describe the madness that is #DST. Go #StandardTime!
I hate #daylightsavingstime. I hate it so much. The week where #DST changes occur lets me find the weirdest of higgs-bugson and mandelbugs in #GNOMECalendar while doing #QA.
At least the majority of those issues have already been durably fixed for #GNOME 46 by @danigm's fantastic #TDD (unit-tests-backed) bufixes 😌
You'd think after being forced to suffer through Daylight Saving Time for over 40 years nowI'd have saved enough Daylight to get like a bonus day or something.
I used to laugh at "The Olds" for complaining about the time change. "It's just one hour," I said, energetically, with a stupid look on my stupid young face.
From my brief interactions with coworkers today, seems we're all affected by the #DST time change. Boss said it should wear off quickly, to which I could just reply with my best impression of The Simpsons' Nelson: Point and say "HA-HA!". #tmi
You know that scene in Lord of the Rings where Frodo is in Shelob's lair, discovers and runs towards an exit, only to twang get caught and stopped in that web?
That's what I feel like runny towards Spring and getting hit with DST.
Time has had a different meaning for me ever since I began working from home sometime in March of 2020. Daylight as well. For more than a quarter of a century, I commuted 90 minutes each way to work, a fact I can barely comprehend today. When the clocks turned back in the fall, it was the start of a long, dark winter. I would leave the office after the sun had set and drive the 70 miles home in the dark. It was not something I enjoyed, but rather endured.
If #DST (#DaylightSavingsTime) is good, countries like #China (1986–1992), #Japan (1948–1951), and #Korea (South: 1948–1951; 1955–1960; 1987–1988) would've kept on using it. They're doing perfectly fine without it.
My country, the #Philippines, used DST multiple times in its history (1936–1937; 1954; 1978; 1990). The last time was mainly to conserve energy, and abandoned it after the energy crisis was solved.
To countries still using DST, make up your mind. Either stay in Standard Time or permanent Daylight Time. It's good for you and everyone else. ^_~
I'm a little bit late, but happy Daylight Savings Time to America or as I like to call it, #Non24 Day!
Today's the day when everyone gets to experience for one day what I experience on an everyday basis. On this day, people get to feel what it's like when their body clock is forced to wake up an hour earlier and go to sleep an hour earlier.
People who have Non24 have circadian rhythms that aren't sensitive to sunlight so we can't follow normal 24 hour days... not easily at least. My normal day is 26 hours long so every single day I have to go to bed and wake up 2 hours later or it becomes impossible to get any quality sleep.
Mostly it sucks, but there is one limited advantage to having Non24. I'm able to naturally stay awake for 1-2 additional hours without fatigue. This is usually more than negated by the chaos created by not being able to sleep well, but when facing urgent deadlines, the extra hour of clarity gives you more time to be at peak effectiveness.
New rule: Daylight Savings Time is officially abolished. When clocks next revert to Standard Time, there they shall remain. Why? 12 Noon literally means the hour when the sun is at its highest point in the sky. To give people the illusory extra hour of daylight, work shifts shall change from 9-5 to 8-4.