Can't stand it!
Can't stand it!
I'm not a fan of DST, and am glad it will soon be coming to an end. It is dark when I go to work, and dark when I get off, and I would just love to see a bit of daylight, since I go home and go to bed. Some days I feel so sun-deprived! Here's to the sun!
I don't care for it either. Lived in AZ without it for 10 years (the last thing you want to do in AZ is save the sunlight - and therefore the heat!).
We would probably use less a/c in summer without DST because the late west sun is what really warms our house, and if that were an hour earlier, we would be less likely to be home and cooking dinner at that time.
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I just wish it could be summer all year long. Long sunny days are my favorite. It's depressing to me to walk up in the dark, but it's also depressing to me to leave work when it's already getting dark.
But back to the original topic, every spring daylight savings throws off our cats' schedule. Normally they greet me at the door when I get home from work. But the first monday after daylight savings starts they're still upstairs sleeping and have to rush down after they hear me open the door. Normally it only takes one day for them to figure out the new schedule. This year they didn't figure it out until Thursday because it was cloudy on monday and Tuesday. Wednesday was sunny so they figured out the new schedule when I came home "early" again, and then Thursday they were waiting for me when I got home.
Our times are all so........well..........humanly manufactured! I do like the longer evening hours of DST in summer, but its fairly unnatural to change things during the year.
I think we should try to be as natural as possible.....but I'm not sure what "time" that would be. We're "supposed to" (naturally) go to sleep when it gets dark and wake up when it gets light. When you think in those terms, we should be sleeping for about 14 hours in the winters. And then we wonder why we have so many health problems. I would love to see what our bodies would do without artificial light.
Being retired it does not matter when I get up. I just need to remember to change the clock so I know if I am eating breakfast or lunch.
I'm retired too and sometimes just don't change the clocks for a week or two ( in the spring - always set them back in fall but hate the "forward" in spring). I just get up with the sun and go to bed when i'm tired (Iris Lily's "God's Hours"). Of course the rest of the world doesn't function like that so I eventually have to change the clocks or I miss out on things.
I'm one who hates DST myself, and always have, but really, in recent years, we don't live by the clock anyway, so it's not much of a problem.
I always loved the summers we spent in AZ, with no DST, but it was sometimes a problem if we were near the "Big Rez", the Navajo reservation, because as the reservation spreads out over several states, they go with the majority and have DST, while the rest of the state doesn't. So if you were in Flagstaff, you often had to clarify appointments as to whether they would be held on "Indian Time" or not.
I liked best when we lived closer to the Equator, where there was little difference in day length through the year, and almost NO twilight......it was light and then it was not, just like closing a curtain. I liked that........
We'll probably forget to change the clocks....we usually do, then have to arrive early or late (depending on time of year) for a few things before we get ourselves in gear......right this very minute I'm going to write myself a note and put it on the table, so this time we'll actually be in sync with the rest of society right away. Thanks for the reminder. ;-)
I like that "God's Hours", Iris Lily and Spartana....of course in our family, they'd by necessity be called "Dogs' Hours" (due to the joke about the dyslexic agnostic (or atheist, I forget which).......
Another hater of the fall back schedule! It seems to always be dark!
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