I feel like I’m in such a minority of people who think DST is great.
No. I don’t like spring forward, but fall back gets me a nice boost as suddenly the sun comes up an 8 am rather than 9.
It’s winter. The sun is going to set at either four or five (where I live, it’s certainly worse other places and better others). You’re not getting daylight after work.
How good DST is for you, depends on where you live and what your time zone is. Some time zones are set for economic and political reasons rather than to match up clock time with the time of day. For some places DST lines up with the position of the sun, for others it’s the exact opposite.
Here in the Netherlands, our time zone matches up with a longitude between the German/Polish border and Rome. Basically, we’re off by an hour for most of the year, we should really be on UK time. Portugal, Spain, and most of France have it even worse.
What would be shifting an hour in the wrong direction for the east-most European countries in the same time zone, is fixing the offset for the west-most countries.
There are even worse places in terms of time zones. China has one single time zone for example, as does Brazil, while both of them should really be on three. Africa’s time zones seem to be divided between “sensible” and “was once as French colony”. Alaska is just more than an hour off for the heck of it, it seems, as is the west-most part of Canada.
Some countries even have north-south time zones divides (Australia, America). Kiribati probably has the worst time zone, lining up with Hawaii and Alaska geographically, but it’s a day ahead because it lies beyond the date line (but mostly trades with Australia and other islands on the other side of the date line), but New Zealand is also pretty far out there for no good reason.
Take a look at this map and you can see how silly time zones are. I’m betting most DST proponents live in places where DST fixes their clock.
Handling time series with DST can be hell in data sciences or sensors
I have a couple of “smart” things I didn’t have at the last change, and it turns out I need to change the timezone on them manually. Argh! Just pick a timezone and stick with it - it’ll make everyone’s life simpler.
I don’t care which one we go with, but pick one and stick with it.
Let’s keep the normal time all year round. If you think the sun rises or sets att the wrong time, change your routine, not the time
I just want a bit more light in the most depressing time of the year.
no need to change the clocks for anything other than traveling to another time zone. it’s cool an all that you get another hour of sleep, but that’s for one day. switch the time forward of back causes more harm to people’s circadian rhythms than anything else. there’s seasons and there’s more darkness during winter. we lived without day lights before before the Great War and it was done away with after the war was over, but for some reason it stayed around after WWII. in my mind it just needlessly adds complications to the already complex way of life and we should be actively working that reduce that complexity.
to people’s circadian rhythms
it also causes a conflict between human time-schedule and animals like pets, livestock, and other cared for animals
Animals don’t know and don’t care for a clock change. They work with bio-rhythm and familiarization alone. (We humans do too, but put the time-schedule on top, and have to have our bio-rhythm adjust.)
Because the trade off isn’t worth it.
While it’s nice having extra sunshine in the morning or evening depending on the time of year, it is quite disruptive, especially with kids and working with teams across timezones etc.
But more importantly, people actually die from it. Consistently, and predictably. I can’t in good conscience support a policy which is merely “nice” for me but will literally cause other people to die.
