Violentvixen
(She/Her)
I am pleased that we returned from Japan the day after this so were already screwed up anyway
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I should look this up every year and start doing this myself. Daylight savings time increasingly makes me more furious as I get older. I don't sleep well to begin with, and my cats being confused they're not being fed at their normal time and waking me up early for a few days does not help!I'm taking Monday off specifically to prevent this from being the shortest weekend of the year.
This is a very good idea.I'm taking Monday off specifically to prevent this from being the shortest weekend of the year.
The problem for most people is tiredness, the confusion of suddenly waking up in the dark again and kids/animals being off sync and keeping you on the old schedule. I wonder if since Europe does it later you don't get the sudden shift in sunrise/sunset as hard as we do in the US. But yeah, it's nice we're not missing appointments or showing up late anymore.With phones and computers automatically change time, I thankfully don't have to think about it much anymore, so it stopped being a problem for me. I don't really mind it anymore. I still think we should stop this nonsense, though, because I still think it's largely pointless. Or annoying, when I get reminded of animals, who will not just understand that time was changed for no sensible reason.
Also, I didn't realize that you have this nonsense three weeks before we do. Huh.
Lately I've been thinking a lot about how "eight hours for what you will" is basically impossible. I spend ~90 minutes every weekday just commuting, and that certainly isn't "what you will".After all, fiddling with the clock doesn't address the real problem, which is that people are required to spend too much time working, and at times not of their own preference.
Or instead of an hour forward and back we could make it half an hour.Clearly the answer is to fall back every night at 2 and spring forward every afternoon at 2.