There was some interesting discussion on my poll about daylight savings time
People fell broadly into four camps:
1) "I like being awake at night, so I want the light then."
2) "I like being awake at night, so I need the light first thing in the morning to help me wake up."
3) "I like being awake early in the day."
4) "I don't care where you put the light, but stop moving it around and breaking my sleep schedule!"
With a couple of people, as ever, falling into the camp of "I refuse to accept your hypothetical question."
Overall, the results were half for "Use the light at waking up time to make it easier/nicer." and half for "Use the light to prolong the day into the evening."
On a more personal note, while Gideon has enougb naps during the day to not really be affected by clock changes, Sophia spent the first three days after the clocks went back waking up around 6am and then falling asleep around 7pm. I was actually awake an hour early this morning and couldn't get back over because I was expected Sophia to appear at any moment, only to find that she's slept in today, and I'm going to have to wake her up in 10 minutes!
Also - polls continue to be the best way of stimulating discussion, and having a poll over here on Dreamwidth produces more discussion on Facebook as well. Twitter continues to be completely useless for any kind of discussion, but excellent for making declarations into the void, and reading news from people who, sadly, have decided that it's the best place to talk about things. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
comments there.
1) "I like being awake at night, so I want the light then."
2) "I like being awake at night, so I need the light first thing in the morning to help me wake up."
3) "I like being awake early in the day."
4) "I don't care where you put the light, but stop moving it around and breaking my sleep schedule!"
With a couple of people, as ever, falling into the camp of "I refuse to accept your hypothetical question."
Overall, the results were half for "Use the light at waking up time to make it easier/nicer." and half for "Use the light to prolong the day into the evening."
On a more personal note, while Gideon has enougb naps during the day to not really be affected by clock changes, Sophia spent the first three days after the clocks went back waking up around 6am and then falling asleep around 7pm. I was actually awake an hour early this morning and couldn't get back over because I was expected Sophia to appear at any moment, only to find that she's slept in today, and I'm going to have to wake her up in 10 minutes!
Also - polls continue to be the best way of stimulating discussion, and having a poll over here on Dreamwidth produces more discussion on Facebook as well. Twitter continues to be completely useless for any kind of discussion, but excellent for making declarations into the void, and reading news from people who, sadly, have decided that it's the best place to talk about things. Original post on Dreamwidth - there are
comments there.