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Gear Grinding 7: Really? This crap again?

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St. Clown said:
The issue isn't setting the clocks for me, or most people, I'd wager. It's the messing around with our sleep schedules.
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Most of it is messing with sleep schedules; but we adapt.

For me, another major annoyance is having it become so dark again in the early morning. DST was not originally designed to start this early in the year; and it was designed in the first place for an agrarian society. Since then, we've become far more urbanized; and light in the morning, relative to light in the evening, is more important (the "schoolkids going to the bus in the dark" concern you hear every year at this time).
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
is it really that big of an imposition to set your clocks twice a year?
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only in one of the cars; I always have to get out the owner's manual to find out how to do it; and the really annoying part of that is the index doesn't tell you where to find the instructions. :mad
 
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I actually woke up an hour early today. I'm a little thrown off with food schedules, but it's not that bad. I enjoy the shift to later daylight during the summer. I also like the daylight shift back to normal in the winter. It's worth the two or three clocks in my life that don't automatically get reset. Even my car does it automagically now. Nice bonus!
 
FreshFish said:
light in the morning, relative to light in the evening, is more important (the "schoolkids going to the bus in the dark" concern you hear every year at this time).
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No, it's not. If the time changes bother people that much, the majority would prefer the daylight hours according to year round DST to year round standard time. Because most people want sunlight until 9 or 10 at night in July, and they don't want sunrises at 4 or 4:30 in the morning. Meanwhile in the winter, even without daylight savings it's still dark during both commutes.

And I'll be honest, there has been more *****ing about daylight savings time this year than I remember there being in past years. Is it just general discontentment or what?
 
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FreshFish said:
Most of it is messing with sleep schedules; but we adapt.

For me, another major annoyance is having it become so dark again in the early morning. DST was not originally designed to start this early in the year; and it was designed in the first place for an agrarian society. Since then, we've become far more urbanized; and light in the morning, relative to light in the evening, is more important (the "schoolkids going to the bus in the dark" concern you hear every year at this time).
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I'd say "rural" is more accurate than "agrarian" in that most farmers I know (mostly dairy farmers who deal with animals) hate it. The cows don't care what the clock says.

Me, I don't care. I'm retired, and the clock above my desk tells me what day it is. Guessing the time by looking out the window, whether I'm hungry or not, and how sleepy I am is usually close enough.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
https://www.theatlantic.com/nationa...t-saving-time-americas-greatest-shame/354753/

Proof that even the Atlantic has stupid writers. This is a dumb article. Not just because the title is cringe-worthy, but is it really that big of an imposition to set your clocks twice a year? Hell, most of them do it automatically now.
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I've seen proposals to fold Central Time into Eastern, and Mountain Time into Pacific, and then eliminate DST. Always good for a laugh.
 
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All of the complaining about DST is always much ado about nothing. Adjusting sleep schedules? It is 1 hour? How do you even notice it? I sure didn't.
 
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Adjust sure, but there have been studies that show that the solidly on the day after and tapering off for the week following a time change, there is an increase in vehicular crashes and a rise in health issues (heart attacks, etc.).

There is no benefit to daylight savings. It was enacted briefly for WWI, for three years in WWII, and not formally enacted nationally until by Nixon in 1974. It was amended in the 80's and last ratified by GW Bush in 2005.


Honestly, move to DST permanently, and be done with this bullsh**.
 
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A large portion of our country is sleep deprived as it is, working two jobs, single parents taking on that struggle, people with sleeping disorders, and so on. Taking away yet another hour of sleep can really mess with people when it's not really necessary.
 
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aparch said:
Adjust sure, but there have been studies that show that the solidly on the day after and tapering off for the week following a time change, there is an increase in vehicular crashes and a rise in health issues (heart attacks, etc.).

There is no benefit to daylight savings. It was enacted briefly for WWI, for three years in WWII, and not formally enacted nationally until by Nixon in 1974. It was amended in the 80's and last ratified by GW Bush in 2005.


Honestly, move to DST permanently, and be done with this bullsh**.
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St. Clown said:
A large portion of our country is sleep deprived as it is, working two jobs, single parents taking on that struggle, people with sleeping disorders, and so on. Taking away yet another hour of sleep can really mess with people when it's not really necessary.
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Well, that saved me some typing. For a small portion of the population, who have fluid Circadian rhythms, this seems silly. For the vast majority of the population is screws a bunch of stuff up medically for a bit. Bell curve like- for a portion of the population is really messes things up.

Those who whine that people aren't adjusting are obviously those who don't have Circadian rhythms that work worth a dam.
 
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Stolen from somewhere:

"How come people use the clocks as an excuse for being late when they move forward, but no one has ever been an hour early to work in the fall?"
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
Stolen from somewhere:

"How come people use the clocks as an excuse for being late when they move forward, but no one has ever been an hour early to work in the fall?"
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Yeah, I know it's a joke, but I've seen that happen with a few people here over the years, where they report having arrived early for work when daylight savings ends in the Fall.
 
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leswp1 said:
Those who whine that people aren't adjusting are obviously those who don't have Circadian rhythms that work worth a dam.
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Thank god. If having one makes me a whiny biatch that complains about something so trivial as an hour time change.

I've honestly never seen or heard of a person ever having an issue with a time change of 1 hour while traveling. Never. This is exactly the same. I don't buy it.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Thank god. If having one makes me a whiny biatch that complains about something so trivial as an hour time change.

I've honestly never seen or heard of a person ever having an issue with a time change of 1 hour while traveling. Never. This is exactly the same. I don't buy it.
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I usually don't have an issue, but this time around seems to be messing with me. Strange...
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Thank god. If having one makes me a whiny biatch that complains about something so trivial as an hour time change.

I've honestly never seen or heard of a person ever having an issue with a time change of 1 hour while traveling. Never. This is exactly the same. I don't buy it.
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There are people that get royally screwed up with the littlest time change. NASA did some really cool research after the Astronauts had all sorts of systemic medical issues when they came back from being in orbit. Truly fascinating. Kidneys, fluid balance, cortisol, sugar, digestion, blood pressure, respiratory function (the ones I remember the most, there are others) are all affected. There are certain meds that can be effective or not with even an hour deviation because they work in concert with your body's rhythms. They also do lots of stuff with shift workers who have a nasy habit of having outcomes way worse than day workers.

You can poo-poo it all you want but there is plenty of medical evidence that makes it very real and for some very disruptive. Other people can fly half way around the world and not notice.
 
bigblue_dl said:
Thank god. If having one makes me a whiny biatch that complains about something so trivial as an hour time change.

I've honestly never seen or heard of a person ever having an issue with a time change of 1 hour while traveling. Never. This is exactly the same. I don't buy it.
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Your lack of empathy is appalling.
 
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