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In reply to the discussion: Daylight Savings time: How is this still a thing? [View all]Happy Hoosier
(7,221 posts)52. Damn right. And you kids get off my lawn!!!!!
I'm obviously playing this up, but I do think changing the clocks is sill, and I'd rather it not be dark when I get up. That feels inhumane.
When my daughter was young, it would be pitch black when the school bus came about half the school year, and before the sun came up the rest of the year. Yuck.
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Anchorage--Open for business 11-2 in the winter and pretty much 24 hours in the summer.
Cuthbert Allgood
Mar 2021
#61
lol, so i should go to sleep at 2/3pm or so in the late fall/winter? hard pass, this isn't 1821
Celerity
Mar 2021
#63
come here to Sweden (which many seem to fail to realise is what I am talking about) and
Celerity
Mar 2021
#89
If I am not telling you (or anyone else who lives in the US) what to choose, why then is there
Celerity
Mar 2021
#91
I appreciate that, although not much partying going on here with COVID variants wreaking havoc
Celerity
Mar 2021
#93
Especially if it's dark when kids are outside waiting for the school bus.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Mar 2021
#37
Why is it important to you to have solar noon at 1pm, all year round?
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2021
#72
Also, bear in mind that I am talking about Sweden, not the US, and yet I have non Swedes
Celerity
Mar 2021
#84
"and was going to school when it was PITCH DARK in the mornings and we had to carry flashlights"
Polybius
Mar 2021
#76
It seems that a lot of people really don't get it that, depending on where we live,
PoindexterOglethorpe
Mar 2021
#41
"DST should start no sooner than mid-April, and end no later than the end of September."
BumRushDaShow
Mar 2021
#44