Everyone talking about being depressed because it's dark "early"...
I work third shift, this is fine. I'm pissed when I'm getting dressed for work and it's still daylight.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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I find it much more dispiriting to come home in the dark, than to get up in the dark. So yeah I like "daylight savings time" more in practice. People arguing noon is sun at highest point aren't arguing that 6 is sunrise and 6 is sunset, we don't use sundials anymore.
I'd be good with a world time. Just decide when a day starts worldwide and let local schedules be whatever works. So maybe the sun rises at 0100 in my longitude and so work starts at 4 or whatever. There's no magic to the 12 being noon.
I used to think this too, but using a global time means the date also ticks over to the next day at odd moments during the day. So in the end it feels like timezones with extra confusion.
God try being in Northern Ireland, get goes from black to dark gray about 10.00 then goes from gray to back to black about 15.00. It's so depressing
Personally, I just lean into it. I get up at 04:00 so that I want to go to sleep by 20:00 at the latest. The bears have it figured out. Extra bonus is that watching late night TV early in the morning doesn't feel as unproductive.
As a critter of the night, this is my favorite time of the year. <3
I’ve got to wake up an hour earlier than normal all week so I really appreciate everyone changing their clocks for me.
Work and school schedules could be adjusted to adapt so we're not "going to work in the dark". They could be, and probably everyone not getting rich off virtual slave labor would fine with that.
With the switch to standard time, I now go to work in the dark, and go home in the dark. How are you going to fix that?
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Life above the equator be like....
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It's the one thing I just never get used to. Everything else about seasons etc. has stopped being surprising and anything more than "oh, this is happening again", but it never stops feeling unreal that it gets dark so damn late in the morning and early in the afternoon.
lol, it’s 5:24 here and I was just thinking about this before I ran across this comic.
...i cannot agree with Ted Cruz, he wants it permanent, fuck that...