An early heads up for our change to Daylight Savings Time on March 10th.

[chameleonic]

Three weeks from today we switch to Daylight Savings Time! Although I'm quite certain that there are some here at the Senior Forum who probably don't like having to change their clocks and/or they dislike having to make sleep adjustments to the new time, I'm more of the attitude of 'hip hip hooray to more light in the evening'. If I had my way we'd go on double daylight time and have been a big proponent of permanent daylight savings time for some time now. Transitioning back to standard time in the fall results in an increase in depression diagnoses in the month after the time change (according to the Journal Epidemiology, 2016 and based on data from the Central Psychiatric Research Register from 1995 to 2012).

 

[papa tiger]

Yea Life's brightness is lit back up! I just change wrist watches rather than fight the scientific finagles to adjust one of these digitals.
Sure I regard November as the worst month. Why not move DST ahead another hour instead. Yea. now that's got a good outcome!

 

[rasmusjc]

Wouldn't it be better for everyone's health if we stayed on either Standard or Daylight Savings all year long?

( And, no, this senior doesn't mind changing clocks, especially since all of my clocks coordinate with the US Timezone SW Station, WWV. But admittedly I don't like that prospect of being in the dark in the morning until 8:30am. )

 

[Bella]

Wouldn't it be better for everyone's health if we stayed on either Standard or Daylight Savings all year long?

( And, no, this senior doesn't mind changing clocks, especially since all of my clocks coordinate with the US Timezone SW Station, WWV. But admittedly I don't like that prospect of being in the dark in the morning until 8:30am. )

Yes, standard time, all the time, please. I loathe daylight savings time.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I think the guy who thought up switching back and forth from standard to daylight time should be tied to the clapper of a 20 story bell, which rings 100 times every 15 minutes. Then we hold a contest to figure out how we're really going to torture him.

 

[hollydolly]

I think the guy who thought up switching back and forth from standard to daylight time should be tied to the clapper of a 20 story bell, which rings 100 times every 15 minutes. Then we hold a contest to figure out how we're really going to torture him.

I agree...

I think the people who like long daylight hours tend to be outdoorsy folk.... I like to have evenings where it gets dark early because I like to know I can stay indoors and cosy on down with my computer or a book..or tv.... instead of feeling that I need to be out until 10pm cuz it's still light.. and believe me I do feel that ... I wish I didn't..

 

[Lakeland living]

Does not mean a lot up this way...lol

 

[papa tiger]

Of course it's of easy to live in the shade of day, Dark Drapes and the proper lighting.
To each their own, wear shades to protect youe eyes from life or wear them to experience it.
Toche to you and your love of life. As For us others?

Obviously, northern latitudes need not an extra hour of extra evening daylight
to play in the summer afternoons of their existences. Come down south 1000 miles
and the longer day are great. A golf cart from 4PM to 8:45 / smiles __ 19th holes. ......

 

[Remy]

Thanks for the reminder. Do not like it. Working many weekends and 10 years, 12 hour shifts, the time change is a real bother. Leave the time alone! No one is listening to me though.

 

[Tommy]

I'm retired.

I go to bed when I'm tired and wake up when I wake up regardless of what the clock says.

Changing clocks twice a year doesn't bother me.

 

[oldaunt]

I never bother, just ignore the whole mess. Time isn't a issue unless I have an appointment somewhere, then the laptop tells me what time it is so I can wind and set my watch.

 

[oldaunt]

DST is like a blanket that's too short and your feet stick out, so you cut a foot off the top and sew it to the bottom.

 

[againstthegrain]

We in the northern latitudes need DS. It would still be light till midnight in the summer and first light in the winter would be 9am.

 

[horseless carriage]

I think the guy who thought up switching back and forth from standard to daylight time should be tied to the clapper of a 20 story bell, which rings 100 times every 15 minutes. Then we hold a contest to figure out how we're really going to torture him.

That would be New Zealand entomologist George Hudson first proposed modern DST. His shift-work job gave him spare time to collect insects and led him to value after-hours daylight. In 1895, he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift, and considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch; he followed up with an 1898 paper.

Many publications credit the DST proposal to prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett, who independently conceived DST in 1907 during a pre-breakfast ride when he observed how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.