As a critter of the night, this is my favorite time of the year. <3
Next month it will be 4:00. Ugh.
Already 4 here, anywhere not on the coast is in a valley so the functional susnet is even earlier.
I hope you guys never get mosquitoes there, because it mean mosquitoes time is now 4pm.
Not many mosquitos when it’s -20C.
It’s the one thing I just never get used to. Everything else about seasons etc. has stopped being surprising and anything more than “oh, this is happening again”, but it never stops feeling unreal that it gets dark so damn late in the morning and early in the afternoon.
God try being in Northern Ireland, get goes from black to dark gray about 10.00 then goes from gray to back to black about 15.00. It’s so depressing
Work and school schedules could be adjusted to adapt so we’re not “going to work in the dark”. They could be, and probably everyone not getting rich off virtual slave labor would fine with that.
With the switch to standard time, I now go to work in the dark, and go home in the dark. How are you going to fix that?
Shorter work days.
The cold is fine. The short days absolutely suck.
…i cannot agree with Ted Cruz, he wants it permanent, fuck that…
Life above the equator be like…
I have a summer seasonal affective disorder. I know it’s a bit controversial diagnosis, but I absolutely have a terrible time during summer. It’s so bad I start to be increasingly anxious about summer by the end of February because I know it’s slowly approaching.
I find daylight to be pleasant like everybody, but after a very short time I start to feel drained as if it was too much. I like cloudy days or when it rains. During summer, I basically don’t sleep. Even when the heat is not an issue I just can’t sleep.
Lately I’ve been smiling and laughing more and more; I feel much more at peace. It’s always strange to finally feel energized and genuinely happy when most people around me feel the complete opposite.
I’m similar. Definitely way more sluggish and depressed in summer, and my sleep is very poor even if I control the temperature. I enjoy rain and darkness. I prefer night shift. Autumn is my favorite because summer is finally over and it’s the longest time before summer comes again, plus it has the best holidays. I sleep best in winter and I’m more productive, energized, and happy.
But unlike SAD, it’s a lot harder to fix than just getting a sun lamp. I already do sleep in as dark a room as I can get during the day, but it’s never enough. Though the few times I’ve had access to a truly pitch black room to sleep in, it’s been really helpful.
It’s a weird way to be and most people really don’t understand.
This is me, though I figured out a while ago it’s better if I just ignore Daylight Savings.
My inner clock doesn’t “switch”. There’s no change. There’s just half the year where I’m up an hour earlier and forcing myself to bed earlier and it completely fucks my energy cycle.
I feel for you. Although I never got an actual diagnosis, I am fairly sure I have traditional SAD. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, because I handle cooler temps better than warm ones, but I guess it’s a sunlight exposure thing.
I knew someone who claimed that light therapy helped. I don’t know much about it, in your case it might be worth a short. Some people talked about melatonin, but I don’t think it helps that much if at all (but that’s just based my own experience).
In any cases, I hope this winter won’t be too hard on you this year.
Thank you. I bought a light therapy lamp years ago. I will have to find it.
Living abroad and this being so much less extreme really let sink in how much I hate this 😭
lol, it’s 5:24 here and I was just thinking about this before I ran across this comic.
I really HATE Daylight Savings time. I prefer the summer hours, but just pick one, and stick with it. This twice a year switch is stupid, and a century from now, they’ll look back at it, and wonder why we did such a stupid thing, for so long.
I’ve got to wake up an hour earlier than normal all week so I really appreciate everyone changing their clocks for me.
I find it much more dispiriting to come home in the dark, than to get up in the dark. So yeah I like “daylight savings time” more in practice. People arguing noon is sun at highest point aren’t arguing that 6 is sunrise and 6 is sunset, we don’t use sundials anymore.
I’d be good with a world time. Just decide when a day starts worldwide and let local schedules be whatever works. So maybe the sun rises at 0100 in my longitude and so work starts at 4 or whatever. There’s no magic to the 12 being noon.
I used to think this too, but using a global time means the date also ticks over to the next day at odd moments during the day. So in the end it feels like timezones with extra confusion.
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