No I really enjoy it being dark at 4pm. /s
Yes, I can live with UTC, GMT, Pacific, a single global timezone. I don’t care at this point - just stop making me feel out of wack twice a year!
I hate changing the time, but I’ll be honest, as a night owl, I kinda love how early it gets dark
I have not noticed a difference yet…
Keep this forever and just skip summer
Did you just resolve global warming and summer heat waves ?
I will gladly accept the Nobel prize for this.
My youngest has been awake since 5am send help.
I’m fine with keeping the time change every so often as long as they can program my 2-year old alarm clock to also give me an extra hour of sleep when it happens.
It would be cool if we all commited sucide
U first, i follow
On the count of 3?
I don’t really care which one, but end this nonsense. Switching every 6 months is so last century
For whatever reason I read time as tires. And I’m like. No this is stupid the roads would be damaged.
Then I reread it 2-3 times then I got it. And I agree we need to stop changing our clocks.
Sounds like someone needs that extra hour of sleep!
I fucking hate the changing of the clock for the season. I wish it was banned across the planet. It’s stupid and statistically shows it’s bad for traffic, deadly to older people, especially men, and generally bad for businesses.
Elaborate on “especially men.”
Specifically, I’m assuming they’re talking about the change in spring when we lose an hour overnight. That morning is pretty deadly, statistically. The lack of sleep causes car accidents, heart attacks, and strokes. The stress lack of sleep puts on the body is no joke, and when it hits most of the population all at once, people die. And I’m assuming men are more likely to suffer from heart attacks maybe?
Statically men have more heart issues in the days following the time change
It should have ended years ago. It costs money, but worse, it also kills people.
The EU has decided to drop the switch, and asked the members to decide whether they want to stay at CET (Central Europen Time) or CEST (Central European Summer Time). That was many years ago. Nothing happened.
Something did happen. Everyone started arguing about which time we should stay at.
And they won’t ever agree, because “daylight savings” time is more popular, but all the science and experience shows that standard time is better for everyone.
Wait, is it not next week?
I do agree that we should end it, and I think most people agree. My part of the world (BC, Canada) is ready to drop it and it is waiting for the US states in our time zone to push it through their gridlocked politics. There’s growing pressure to just give up on the US and just do it ourselves. Last I heard, there was bipartisan support in the US to also drop it, but there’s always some other mess to clean up or some other partisan thing that gets stuffed into the bill.
As for winter time vs. summer time, I really do not care. Both options will hurt some people and help others.
Pick either one and stick with it
You guys need to just do it. Some moron goes “won’t someone think of the children!!1! (Except massacres)” and then we never do it. Canada doing it might actually push us to change.
EU was last night/today (for me), US and Canada is first sunday of november right?
This is my favourite part of the whole ridiculous parade. For a good two weeks or so all my meetings with US colleagues are just chaos.
Ah makes sense, even weirder that we do it on different days.
What’s the public sentiment like in the EU, are people close to dropping it?
It’s being discussed but there’s no agreement yet. The main debate is over whether to choose the same one (summer vs winter) for the whole EU. If we do, countries at the geographic extremes like Spain vs Finland will get shafted. If we don’t and allow each country to pick one (or a completely new timezone even) we could end up with weird fragmented time zones where neighboring countries are all over the place.
We do agree for the most part that it needs to be dropped.
Obviously I can’t talk for everyone, but I have seen some shows and such on tv or on the internet in favour of dropping it. It would make sense to me as well, but it’s not actively discussed politically afaik. I’m in the netherlands fyi.
The EU voted to drop it. It just hasn’t actually happened yet. I think the last change was supposed to be in 2020 but a global pandemic got in the way.
Didn’t know that, that would be great!
I feel like everyone’s complaining too much about it, it really doesn’t matter that much and I think people only care because they’re told to. I don’t take this position seriously it sounds like a joke.
Daylight savings is a fucked up idea. People that want to end the practice but stay with summer time are fucking idiots.
There’s a fucking resason why we call 12 “12”. Stop fucking with it!
It comes after 11?
Do you live on the western edge of your time zone?
I’m boycotting the time switch.
Sure, the clocks show something different now. But in summer I went to sleep at 11pm, got up at 7:30 and arrived at work at 9.
Now I go to sleep at 10pm, get up at 6:30 and arrive at work at 8. I’ll stay on that schedule till they switch the clocks again in spring.
