I wish we could hibernate, honestly
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I'm split on this. Most people here that love the time shift also love winter. I don't love winter but I do love it getting dark sooner.
The best day of the year is the first day of daylight saving time (end of March). There is no day I look forward to more every year, not my birthday, not Christmas, not Easter, not a day I go on vacation: the first day of daylight saving time beats all of these.
I also love-it so much, Suddently, there is day light late, you see people outside, no matter whether it's about kids playing outside after school, or adult having an evening walk, but suddently looks like life is back
I like the hours being dialed back. Whenever they're dialed forward, it feels like time moves even faster than when it did beforehand. I didn't like that feeling. Feels like everything is just being rushed and rushed.
I kinda like it. I guess it helps that in my part of the world it's absolutely blazing hot in summer. I love that, but with the intense onslaught of sun over that period, by the time winter rolls back around it's kind of a welcome change. I also just look way better in winter clothes so it's nice to feel better about my appearance for that portion of the year. I also find that it's way easier to warm yourself up when it's cold than to cool down when it's hot. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big wuss so all summer I'll whine and moan about it being soo hot and then immediately complain about being freezing in winter, but on balance I think I find the discomfort of my region's winter a bit easier to deal with than its summer. I also like not being completely covered in a layer of sweat as well. I don't especially care a whole lot about when the daylight hours appear, I'm as happy being out and about at night as I am in the day and appreciate either for different reasons so if more of my waking hours are taking place in darker periods of the day then I'm just appreciating those for what they are just as I also appreciate all the bright and sunny hours. I would say that as someone who has trouble sleeping when it's too bright I definitely prefer it when the sun comes up later and doesn't wake me up. It probably helps that I'm hardly an outdoors-man so it's not like much if any of the things I'd actually do across a year are really curtailed by the mandates of the season, though I guess I do miss the beach. Besides, like a lot of people, I work indoors so a good chunk of any given day is taken up by a minimum 8 hours of work usually starting at 09 so when the weather is absolutely beautiful and sunny and clear I'll see it for about 20 minutes out the car window before going in to a building with the blinds drawn and the air-conditioning on until I emerge at what is then evening hours.
No, I hate DST. Getting up an hour earlier sucks. I also prefer the darker season in general because I feel like I sleep better.
When I moved north, I realized there are only two seasons here: looking forward to summer, and dreading winter.
The only thing I hate about Winter is not Winterβs fault, and itβs basically what you said:
Work is somehow perfectly scheduled so that youβre inside, staring at a brick wall for 90-100% of the daylight hours for 5 out of every 7 days.
Winter is beautiful in ways that are completely unlike the other seasons, but unless youβre very fortunate you only get a few glimpses of it.
I feel like if you were designing a society to make people suffer, thatβs how you would do it.
I like winter but the daylight savings nonsense sucks, I don't want it to get dark even earlier, it's all backwards.
I'm aware of all the dissatisfaction with DST, but hear me out... What if we just weren't going hard enough? I propose Runners Savings Time. We set the clock forward like, 4-5 hrs. It'll be dark during working hours, but then you'll have some time to go for a run or do whatever during the daylight.
I work 3rd shift, the darkness doesn't bother me. I hate it when it's daylight when I go to work and daylight when I come home.
When DST flips, I get an extra hour of work and my sleep schedule goes to shit for a week.
Average winter enjoyer here, just chiming in to say βfuck summer!β We may be few in number, but we are large in spirit.
I just want to pick one and stick with it. Like, holy fuck, the switching is awful.
Iβm an uber driver. I get to be outside in the daylight all day. Work whatever hours I want. Itβs nice.
I hate summer and daylight saving more.
If you're too cold, you can always do something. If you're too hot, you can only do so much then be miserable.
"Great, we could sleep one hour more" can you explain this? I have no idea how the season determines how many hours of sleep everyone gets in a day,
When we switch to DST, we "Fall Back. ". We set the clocks one hour back, at 2:00am Sunday, so basically we get an extra hour of sleep just on that night. Then we lose one when we set the clocks forward in the spring.
To be fair, I don't think that extra hour, once in the Fall, is used as a reason for Daylight Savings in any debates.
Oh, I wasn't even thinking about places that changed time; I thought it was something just related to winter itself, hence the confusion. Thanks!
Yes. Not me, but yes.
I am of the opposite opinion, I LOVE winter for the exact reasons you're describing!
I have some inherited photosensitivity, so nighttime's my favourite time! I also handle the cold waaay better than I handle heat, and my organism just feels like it starts coming back to life once autumn shows up!
Summer pretty much always makes me wish I could sleep my way through it.
Not me. Winter time is the best time of the year in AZ.
As a native, I've only ever known winter time. (Cause we don't have DST for those who didn't know.)
The best part about winter is staying inside, Christmas, Christmas baking, and New Year's/New Year's Eve. Otherwise it's miserable for me because I really dislike the cold.
It doesn't help that last winter my area was getting below zero (FΒ°) weather, which I can never recall having to deal with much before. Calling that miserable is an understatement.
The only other good thing about winter I can think of is getting a god damn peppermint patty (hot chocolate w/ peppermint schnapps). Otherwise, absolutely no other reasons for me to like it.
No light is not natural for humans... I feel like I'm missing out on life for four-five months every year. November to March is awful.
Get up in the dark, go to work, get out in the dark... πππ
Nope. I love Autumn and Winter the most! πβοΈI actually can't stand warm/hot weather π
I dont care what outside is like. It's always dark in the basement.
I despise getting ready in the dark and getting home in the dark. It's harder to fit in a lil fishing after work and I can't wear shorts and crop tops outside on the deck.
Winter stinks!
The difference between DST and ST isn't going to help that. The daylight is shorter regardless.
Winter? Nah. Love it for many of the reasons already being stated.
But the fake as fuck holiday season that comes with it? Done with it. I'm celebrating Festivus unironically this year. Done with the rest of that shit.
You ditch fake holidays and... replace them with another one?
Youβre somehow puzzled by this?
I think the confusion is that you seem not to like what is presumably Christmas because you perceive it to be fake but Festivus, is literally, actually, fake since it comes from a plot of a TV series from the 90s and has only been celebrated by a broader range of people since as a fun tribute to that series. You could argue that the fact that people really celebrate it means it necessarily can't be fake, but then by that logic...
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At 18? I wish. Getting dark at 16-17 here now.
It will get dark at 15:30 for us in the winter assuming therebis any light at all with the continual rain cloud cover we have for West Coast winters
Moving towards the equator made me hate winter a lot less. Having more consistent daylight throughout the year made a big difference for me.
Embrace it. Buy yourself a pair of skis and suddenly it'll never snow enough
Yep! It's cold, damp, and dark and it goes on too long. Having to shovel snow is also awful. 0/10, do not recommend. I much prefer spring and summer.
Winter time, not wintertime.
I LOOOOOOOOOVE winter time. It's snowboard and snowmobile season baby!
If I'm not mistaken, I think OP meant switch from daylight saving time.
Honestly I don't really like winter because that's when my seasonal depression starts coming in full effect
I believe I have read read somewhere depression (or suicide I am not sure) is more common in summer. Which to me seems counter intuitive until I found out the main cause for this might be loneliness. So lonely people seeing other people getting together.
Would you say in your case depression worsens due longer nights or holiday season in December?
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