Comments | spyderella: I'll follow the sun.

spyderella

I'll follow the sun.

Mar 14, 2007 10:53

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captain_squid March 14 2007, 16:02:49 UTC

I don't know why we still have it at all. Pick one damn time and stick with it.

stellarbaby March 14 2007, 16:22:34 UTC

>I. Hate. DST.

me too! i had a deadline monday morning, so i had one less hour to paint, darnitol.

spyderella March 14 2007, 17:56:31 UTC

I forgot about artists! Very nocturnal people, artists, who could have put that lost hour to good use.

DST hurts our culture, people! Object! Rebel!

griffjon March 14 2007, 17:02:35 UTC

nocturnalness aside, the calendaring and software update headache was insaaaaane, with everyone playing by different rules. And embedded devices? HAH.

qmrf March 14 2007, 19:20:53 UTC

The goddam "patch" that County IT installed on my box at work moved every appt. in Outlook forward by an hour for three weeks following the new DST switchover.

Some patch, that...

the_macnab March 14 2007, 17:13:29 UTC

I like it. I've lived among northern winters for long enough that the burst of joy when DST kicks in in the spring outweighs the crushing despair when it turns off in the fall.

Granted, I don't have to administer software.

spyderella March 14 2007, 17:53:03 UTC

I don't get it. Doesn't being more north make it even worse? Setting the clocks ahead just makes it darker and colder and awfuller when you have to wake up, no?

I guess it depends on when your innate wake-time is. I don't mind lamp-lit evenings, so I don't get much benefit from having creepy-weird sunshine at 7:30 pm in early March; just makes it harder to go to bed at 9. But having to get up in the cold, rainy dark? Excruuuuuuciating.

la_chispa March 14 2007, 18:08:52 UTC

I think you have to be even farther north than here, though, for it to be a real problem. Or a very early riser. It's already dawn-ish at 6:45 here.

Also, much as the brief interval of darker mornings sucks, I've always hated going home from work in the dark about equally. So it balances out for me.

qmrf March 14 2007, 19:25:00 UTC

Second. I much prefer having my trip to work darkened than my trip from work. Though, also, it is lightish now, even at DST-7:30am.

And yesterday was that magical 70 degree, clear-blue-sky day that had everybody on their porches, and the band down the street practicing with the windows open, and enough light to read by until 8:30pm. Thank you, DST!

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cipstar March 14 2007, 18:24:23 UTC

hear, hear!
i can't wake up if it's not sunny in my eyes. rainy mornings? forget it.