It’s one hour. Not sure why people are being babies?
I feel this is one thing that people are getting upset at just for the sake of being upset.
If you don’t have the good fortune to get outside from 8:00am to 5:00pm, one hour of light in the evening can be a big deal. I really get no useful sunlight during this period if I’m in the office. This has been one of the huge benefits of WFH. Last winter was the first in my adult life where i didn’t notice the lost hour of evening light.
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But later I'm gonna hate the early darkness. I'm not even a morning person and don't work till 10AM, so I don't even get the benefit of extra morning sunlight.
Did you not need your flashlight for walking your dog in the morning?
Nope, they go in the run in the morning while I make coffee. The after work walk is probably as much for us as it is for them, but they need at least one good walk a day, and it’s so much better in the light
Getting dark at 613pm: this is wonderful. I love all this late evening sun!
Getting dark at 513pm: this is literally the end of the world, even though it’s been like this for my entire life, I’ve never known anything different and it’s only gonna get worse.
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Noting that 613 is less bad isn't the same as claiming it is wonderful.
No idea if 'Fall back' is statistically as bad as spring forward, but this tragedy 8am the Mon after the time change is at least somewhat noteworthy...
Thought I would resurrect this thread to see how everyone is feeling about changing the clocks now. We are in the shortest daylight times right now and I think this is a good time to think about what it would be like if we had stayed on daylight time. Personally, I would like the extra daylight at the end of the day.
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Thought I would resurrect this thread to see how everyone is feeling about changing the clocks now. We are in the shortest daylight times right now and I think this is a good time to think about what it would be like if we had stayed on daylight time. Personally, I would like the extra daylight at the end of the day.
Would it matter? It’s the shoulders right around time change where you get meaningful light one way or another. Sunset at 5:30 dark at 6 doesn’t really make a difference.
Thought I would resurrect this thread to see how everyone is feeling about changing the clocks now. We are in the shortest daylight times right now and I think this is a good time to think about what it would be like if we had stayed on daylight time. Personally, I would like the extra daylight at the end of the day.
Walking to my kid’s school in daylight is nicer. And safer. And I went tobogganing at 6:00 tonight in the dark and it was great. It wasn’t even that dark thanks to the snow.
My ranking is still firmly:
1. Keep the status quo of changing the clocks.
2. Adopt permanent standard time
99. Adopt permanent daylight time.
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Why can’t the whole world just be on the same damn time zone?
With so much smart lighting technology around us, can we not just finally learn to turn the sun on and off?
1. Decide on agreeable amount of daylight hours for the whole world in a few UN meetings.
2. Use some of Elon Musk’s hundreds of thousands of Starlink satellites to hang up cosmic smart drapes and reflectors to surround the planet and so we can turn the lights on and off at will.
I know it may cause a bit of stuff happening with weather and such, but at least all humans would have daylight before AND after work. This would help TV scheduling and probably other things too. I think to make it work we may need to change the number of hours in a day, but I’m sure the kinks could be worked out.
Cosmic smart drapes could also totally eliminate global warming so we could keep burning whatever the heck we want down here.
