@jef it’s MY daylight and I want it NOW

@jef I've lived in Arizona all my life and there are many downsides, including entirely too much daylight, but one upside is that we get to point and laugh at all the states that try to save it.

@jef write to congress?

@jef I endorses this toot ... As a horologist ... hugz

Hugz & xXx

@jef unfortunately they picked the daylight savings time so now it's daylight savings year round!! 😂💀💔

@jef In response, I must post this:
https://youtu.be/q5q77MQzU2Q?si=q4ZqecJaDq7iC17P

@jef Kazakhstan also used to switch to summer and winter time. But then they canceled it. It's much better and more convenient.

@jef Yes, but morning people who are bullies have a: solution is permanent daylight saving time. From now until you die and beyond.

@jef

Don't forget! Spring back! Fall ahead!

@jef it was introduced so that factory owners could save on candles. That's it. That's the whole story behind it.

Capitalism is a scam everywhere you look closer.

@jef@mastodon.social you reminded me we are never experiencing this again

@jef "Spring forward" "Fall back" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged.

@jef sorry mate but I kind of enjoy changing my clock

@jef they give your saved daylight to us in the southern hemisphere instead.

@jef this but unironically though

Daylight savings time is unnatural, the sun is supposed to be at its highest point at noon, and that's impossible under dst

@jef Absolutely disgusting I agree

@jef And don't forget the second shock to the system in spring when, after adjusting to 'daylight saving', an hour of sleep is snatched without cause.

@jef move away from the equator.

@jef An utter PITA - speaking as a former airline software person.

In Scotland it is especially annoying in that it is asymmetric. We have to wait another month in the Spring before we get our evening daylight. Anyway I am no longer working so I can just adjust the time I get up to compensate,

@jef there are health benefits of sticking to solar time! So perhaps we should move back to local time. for the bigger regions the time zones is a reasonable compromise, but stick to the natural time. The idea that you can't change office hours, is rubbish as most businesses expect staff not to work to contact! So the whole idea of a fixed office day is baloney.

Perhaps just another example of how the Berks in power are out of touch with reality of all.

@jef always attribute your quotes. Erdoğan said it first 😜

@jef Native Joke: White men are the only people who think cutting off the bottom of the blanket and sewing it to the top of the blanket gives them more blanket.

@jef
Yes I don't understand this. Some folk in the far North say it helps them but why not just adapt your day if you are affected , start schools a hour later etc

@jef Wanted to live with daylight? We had something called adjustable work times for that

@jef I prefer the politically correct term of deferred daylight time.

@jef and anyways the daylight is beyond saving.

@jef I feel bad for the people at Stonehenge, who've got to move the stones round twice a year

@jef yes I agree. But our reps never will do this.

@jef Demand base-10 while you're at it :)

https://medium.com/@duspom/proposal-for-a-base-10-calendar-b385071a219d

@jef “Today we have one extra hour” STATEMENTS made up by the utterly DERANGED

@jef
*Sundial makers have entered the chat*

@jef Oh, I don't mind in the autumn. I can adjust to that. It's the spring that's the kicker. I end up mildly jetlagged for up to a week. (Not even exaggerating. I used to cope a lot better, but that was before I was seriously ill and almost died, and as one might expect I've never been the same since.)

@jef @snaptophobic “YEARS OF 'SAVING' yet NO NET GAIN OF DAYLIGHT” 🤣🤣🤣

@jef clocks were not supposed to be at all, but here we are

@jef As a South African I still hardly understand "daylight savings." Is it a way to get people to work longer hours or something?

@jef Every time they change the clocks, I say this - WHY are we doing this when we know that the medical, psychological and practical costs of it outweigh any of the (mainly theoretical or historic) benefits? Especially, as it was introduced in my country as a 'temporary wartime measure', a whole century ago!

@jef I don't have a problem with DST, and I couldn't care less whether it is kept or killed, but it is a great reminder of how our politics work in the US: we generate enormous tempests online, we see incredibly high levels of support, our outrage is met with supportive talk but no action by politicians, and the whole thing blows over as we move to the next outrageous thing we are fired up about and repeat this cycle issue when the same issue flares up again in a few months.

@jef It just makes everything more complicated.

Oddly enough, it's to my knowledge, airplane companies that have been lobbying against getting rid of it. Mostly because it would become a logistical nightmare for them as DST is so baked into their systems from what I can gather. Still though, just give them enough time and they'll be able to adjust I'm sure.

In addition, seriously, the US needs to ditch the imperial system. It's sooo baaaad ...

@jef I hate changing time twice a year! We need to just pick one and stick with it and I don't even care which one! If Congress actually passed something like this it would be the one thing everyone likes 😆

@jef

The U.S. tried permanent DST back in the 70s. Americans HATED it so much it was revoked.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/

@jef
At the beginning of each Summer, they borrow from us an hour.
At the end of summer, they pay us back that hour.
We demand 5% interest.

@jef

The whole concept of daylight savings died when humans started using electricity wide-spread.

I'm so fucking tired of making sure servers changed their time to match this horse shit.

@jef Yeah but so what else is new?

@jef @mattgrayyes I'd be happy with UTC (GMT) everywhere. I don't care if my clock says 12:00 or 19:00 when i'm having lunch.

@jef

Anyone who has ever had infants or pets (who want to wake/play/eat at a time their bodies have gotten used to) HATES changing clocks with a fiery passion.

@jef Early bird freaks want to impose their habits on everyone by changing the clocks. I'm glad to get my stolen hour of morning sleep back.

@jef
One of the issues is that even if you change clocks, you still have darkness when you go to work, and darkness when you come from work.

@jef This daylight saving thing sure sounds like a campign for stealing your time under the veil of good will, now, doesn't it?

@jef

They are going to make DST permanent. Then you can all get up in the dark, go to school & work in the dark. It’s shown to be unhealthy but when did US ever care abut that?

@jef
Let's start saving daylight daily!
Let's start changing clocks daily!
Sunrise should always be 5 o'clock in the morning!

@jef I hate the whole thing with such a vengeance, especially since they voted to get rid of it in Europe and the US, and then started fucking dicking around about implementing it

@jef

@jef Daylight Saving Times literally kills! Every Spring in the Northern Hemisphere on the Monday after the switch, hospitals report a 24% spike in heart-attack visits. Doctors see an opposite trend each Autumn. The day after we turn back the clocks, heart attack visits drop 21% as many people enjoy a little extra pillow time. Not only that it also causes road accidents, work injuries, strokes, and may lead to a temporary increase in suicides. We should really stop this now.

@jef @lisamelton I am convinced that in the USA people use more energy during DST because the AC runs longer, and there is an energy lobby whose job it is to perpetuate DST forever.

@jef The challenge is that the effect is much more than a few minutes the further away from the Equator you are. When I lived on latitude 64 the sun rises at about 9:30 in the morning and goes down at 13:30 (4h daylight) in the middle of December. In June it would be the crazy opposite with the sun rising at 01:45 and settle at 23:30 (21h daylight) Massive changes compared to living on the Equator.

Maybe we just should flip 30 min and then stay at that?

@jef we are currently saving daylight and will stop saving it soon.

@jef funny fact: in one province in Australia (NT is one of them iirc) they change clocks at half hours and another does 45 minutes. Last I knew WA, AU doesn’t change at all.

I might be wrong but I think only the US has the term ‘saving’. In Europe for example it is Summer Time. So CEST during summer and CET otherwise. But it’s the concept that matters.

On a certain website it says that even the states that voted to end it (many) have to wait for congress. Respected site.

@jef Love the template, good job! But please don't forget "Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged", it really ties the meme together.

@jef What's funny is that the U.S. Senate passed a bill unanimously to end DST switching and make it permanent. It never got a vote in the House.

Talk about ineffective government. 🤦‍♂️

@jef the Senatw unanimously passed permanent DST a year or so ago. UNANIMOUSLY. In this day and age.

I hate this time of the year. I love dark mornings. Hate dark nights.

@jef

This all started when farmers worked in fields without lights.
It was meant to give farmers an extra hour to work in daylight.
I'm no expert, but I don't think the extra hour is needed anymore being as tractors have lights and many use GPS and you don't even really need t be on the equipment anymore.

Just sayin

@jef But, you can't fight the moonlight.

@jef My partner always says that if they steal an hour from us in the spring, we should get interest on that hour when we get it back in the fall.

@jef

Personally I'd like to both "fall back" and "spring back", eventually we would cycle 'round

@jef With leap seconds, they instead get changed every couple of years instead.

@jef at least I don't need to rember to adjust any clocks anymore.so that is something.

But yeah.we should get rid off it fully.

@jef @being i would like to opt-out of daylight savings this year

@jef
I'd rather save some darkness

@jef Maybe we should start a movement and go on strike? Not joking, what are they going to do, arrest us for refusing to change our clocks? Get enough people to do this, and DST is effectively dead.

@jef@mastodon.social This but non-ironically.

@jef @revk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4EUTMPuvHo

@jef

If the US went on permanent DST sunrise will not be until 8:30 AM in the winter.

If the U.S. went on standard time sunrise will be at 4:30 AM in the summer.

@jef When my daughter was about ten. I explained that the clocks were changing and it was so that it would be lighter in the morning when I took her to school. She thought about it a moment and said "why don't we just go to school an hour later?" and to this day I haven't thought of a reason why not!

@jef when I become pope changing the clocks will merit an anathema at least as sternly worded as that of 1054.

@jef

I like dst, but I don't change my clocks until I feel like it ⌛

@jef I learned about Japanese clocks where the time between dawn and sunset is divided into equal parts, so daylight hours are shorter in Winter than Spring. They abandoned it when they got mechanical clocks from the West. It would be perfectly feasible now, with digital clocks. Scheduling International phone calls would be 'interesting'.

@jef how do I boost twice?? DOWN WITH BIG CLOCK

@jef it's actually really bad for sleep disorders and iirc can cause sleep disorders

@jef @AnarchoNinaWrites 💯💯💯

@jef Get a grip.

@jef the moment when winter hits and it's dark and wet and daylight savings comes in is just plain rude. Dark when leaving for work, dark when coming home.

The government is disrupting our circadian rhythms. Wake up early sheeple

@jef
And here i just got used to it is dark around bedtime

...WRONG!

@jef it was never a good idea. the farmer who came up with it for his own benefit just managed to convince the right influential people and got away with it, the lil fucker 🤣🤣

@jef +9001%

Also #DaylightSavingsTime is.not only a #Scam but #Torture and should not only be #abolished but #banned entirely!

It doesn't do javk shite except inconvenience people and organizations at no benefit but huge costs!

@jef it’s horrid and I hate it. Every October it throws me for a loop and I don’t recover until the spring!

@jef @jann https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpbW7JRu0Q

@jef just gonna drop this here

https://mastodon.social/@Natanael_L/111354421400794673

@jef
I'm not particularly fond of sun and light but god damn it every year 2 times we need to readjust to differences in daytime!! Why is it SO hard to stick to ONE timestate???

@jef based and true.

@jef "YEARS OF SAVING yet NO NET GAIN"

Stop looking at my bank account! 😂

@jef It did once help some kids distract their scenery-chewing abductors long enough to escape. Happened in Salem, Mass thirty or so years ago, I think.