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- March 8th, 2008 10:43 pm
Ugh. I suppose I’ve never mentioned my hatred for Daylight Saving(s) Time. I mean, why would I? It’s not like it occurs everyday. It isn’t like my neighbor’s dog in that it feels the need to do its business in my yard daily.
You see, the problem is that every spring Daylight Savings Time comes to shit on me. I don’t mind it so much in the Fall. Then, I gain an hour which for some odd reason makes me feel like I am pulling one over on the man, making the me to the man ratio 1:0. Until the Spring, when the man feels the need take that hour back. Me 0 The Man 1.
How rude.
I know it’s just one measly hour. But I swear, it throws my life off for about two weeks.
The underlying problem is the fact that the hour is generally stolen while I am sleeping. How dare the man rob me of one hour of sleep! I normally get up around 5:30 a.m. or 6:00 a.m. Now, due to Daylight Savings Time, my body will be getting up at 4:30 or 5, while my mind wakes at the new time.
(I will not even discuss the fact that an hour of my weekend is being robbed.)
I will be a slug Monday. I’m not sure why, but I just have a hard time internalizing all of this.
The only person who hates this more than I do is Adam. Mostly because he has to listen to me go off about it.
My reasoning here is that theft of time is pretty significant. Even if it’s just a sleeping hour, even I’m gaining it back, it still drives me nuts.
At 2 a.m., we are getting robbed. It doesn’t matter that I’m getting the hour back in the fall, just like if someone robbed your toaster it wouldn’t matter if you got it back in the fall. You were still a victim of theft.
What about you guys? Do you hate Daylight Savings Time or am I just a nut? (Note: If the diagnosis is that I’m just a nut, leave it as a pleasant smiley face. You know, for my feelings and all. )
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March 8th, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
HATE it. The child does not do well to Mr Sandman playing with him. Trying to convince him to go to sleep an hour early!? HA. I fear tomorrow. And, of course, Monday.
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March 8th, 2008 @ 11:11 pm
Let’s start a blog-o-sphere wide protest, petitions, sit-ins, and get this craziness ended right now. What really ticked me off was when THE MAN tacked another month on to the madness.
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March 8th, 2008 @ 11:12 pm
I love it! I love having it be daylight after dinner so I can go outside with my kid. It makes me feel like I still get some “day” to enjoy after I get home from work.
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March 8th, 2008 @ 11:42 pm
I’ll be all sorts of messed up tomorrow. I’ll just blame it on daylight savings instead of the booze.
March 8th, 2008 @ 11:50 pm
I like the fact that it gets dark an hour later. It makes it easier because right now I leave in the dark and I get home in the dark. I get to spend a little time outdoors with Riley this time of year. But I absolutely detest the time shift. Just leave it one way all year. Why jack with it. Argh.
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March 8th, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
Total. Hatred. For. Daylight. Savings.
It takes me almost a month to normalize, if you can characterize my wretched existence at all as ‘normal’.
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March 8th, 2008 @ 11:58 pm
Here in the wonderful land that is Arizona we don’t believe in such things. Time moves forward one hour at a time, always
March 9th, 2008 @ 12:00 am
We don’t do daylight savings time and I love it. The only problem is that most of the country does and since this affects my job, we have to go in an hour earlier. So basically it’s still the same as having to do it anyway. I do love getting off at four though. It will mess me up for a week or two then I’ll be over it.
March 9th, 2008 @ 12:19 am
Yes…I hate it as much as you do!!! I see no rhyme or reason for it…we need to do away with it!!!
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March 9th, 2008 @ 12:19 am
Yes…I hate it as much as you do!!! I see no rhyme or reason for it…we need to do away with it!!!
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March 9th, 2008 @ 3:18 am
Yep, I hate having that hour so brutally robbed from my sleep. I bitched about it on Friday for my Haiku Friday, so I’m in the same boat. I do like having more sunlight after work, but I think it would just be so much simpler to let nature do its thing and not monkey with the damn clocks and our bodies.
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March 9th, 2008 @ 3:48 am
I LOVE it in the Spring time.
I HATE it in the FAll.
This is the only thing Prez. Bush did good on… which was shortening the day light savings time season.
I get an hour more at NIGHT now! YAY!!
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March 9th, 2008 @ 3:14 am
Oh, I am only a friend of daylight savings time in the Fall when we GAIN an hour!
Do not take time away from me, I need all I can get, especially when we’re talking about sleep here!
Hate It!
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March 9th, 2008 @ 5:27 am
Just kidding.
I know a guy who feels the same way as you about DST, so he doesn’t alter any of the clocks in his house. Coupled with the fact that each clock is between 20 minutes fast, and 5 minutes slow, figuring out what time it is in the rest of the world can be a little awkward.
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March 9th, 2008 @ 9:12 am
I still haven’t figured out if our clocks [aka the tvs and computer] have set themselves right or not.
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March 9th, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
Hate it.
Also, I totally forgot and was very confused this morning. Although, in my defense, I’ve been on cold medicine…so, even if the time hadn’t changed, I probably would have woken up confused;)
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March 9th, 2008 @ 2:07 pm
I hate it too, although I do like that further north it will stay lighter, longer, earlier in the year.
March 9th, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
I used to love it - you know, before I lived with tiny people who have no idea how to tell time. Now it just licks goats’ balls.
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March 9th, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
Before I had kids I loved it.
Now I hate it.
It takes me like two weeks to get myself adjusted..grrrr
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March 9th, 2008 @ 11:58 pm
hated it. thnx
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March 10th, 2008 @ 12:23 am
I haaaaated it.
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March 10th, 2008 @ 5:41 am
I just hate that the government decides to screw with our clocks, twice a year, TO PROP UP THE ATHLETIC GEAR INDUSTRY. Or so I’ve been told.
As an uncoordinated, geeky person much more inclined to blog than participate in sports, I just…would rather my clock was left to its own devices, all year.
Hell, part of me wishes we could just look up at the sun, and decide what time it is based on that. Worked for generations, baby. And people always got enough sleep, back then, consarnit.
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March 10th, 2008 @ 8:23 am
Growing up in Arizona, Daylight Savings was never an issue because we don’t observe it. Where in Arizona are you from Melissa?
Alas, living in New York, DST has become part of my life and I could not hate it more. Especially since my Sundays involve me waking up at 5:30 to begin with (therefore 4:30 this week). I’m still confused and sleepy. I say if we are forced to change the clocks an hour that for the following week we are given one hour siesta time to help our bodies adjust.
March 10th, 2008 @ 9:13 am
The only good thing about daylight savings time is the extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon/evening. I took Zach back to school yesterday and I drove home in the daylight!!
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March 10th, 2008 @ 9:18 am
there is NOTHING good about daylight savings time…NOTHING, i tell ya!
feh! poo poo!
xoxo
March 10th, 2008 @ 9:50 am
I flippin hate daylight savings. It is one of the stupidest random acts our USA has thought of yet. What’s even funnier is that it was found to not generate any more daylight time, which is how they sold the whole proposal anyway! Can you tell I’m bitter?
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March 10th, 2008 @ 11:32 am
I second your blatant hatred of “the man” stealing our sleep time!
March 10th, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
I hate losing the hour…at first. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE having daylight late into the evening during the summer. I’m an outside kinda chick and winter drives me insane with it’s gray skies and dark at 5:00 PM crap.
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March 10th, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
LOVE..that it is light outside longer.
HATE..getting up when it’s pitch black.
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March 10th, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
I just don’t understand why we do it. I mean really, we have electric lights–why give everyone mild jet lag twice a year just for a measly hour of daylight?
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March 10th, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
I’m the same way, Amanda! I HATE losing that hour. It means I wake up an hour late, and then have to go to bed an hour earlier, PLUS get the kids into a new schedule.. it’s ridiculous! They should outlaw daylight savings time- it’s not like we’re farmers!
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March 10th, 2008 @ 6:21 pm
I actually love daylight savings time. I love having the sun out for longer and being able to go to 8pm dinners while the sun sets.
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March 10th, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
Hate it.
I’ve never lived on a farm, so I’ve never seen the point. In the spring, it robs me of an hour of sleep I don’t have to spare, and screws my my kids’ schedules. In the fall, it gives me an additional hour of gloom in the morning, setting me up for an immediately perceptible thrust towards depression.
Hate it.
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March 10th, 2008 @ 10:25 pm
I love it.
But I’ll pretend to hate it just for you!
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March 11th, 2008 @ 9:04 am
Hate it and love it. Love the fact that it stays light later in the day…hate the pitch black morning. It’s a no win situation. And losing an hour of sleep is never a good thing…at least for weary mothers.
March 11th, 2008 @ 9:48 am
Have to say that I’m not a big fan of the daylight savings time. The kiddos don’t adjust well and as I get older **gulp** I don’t adjust as easily either.
I could do without it, definately!
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March 11th, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
:::shakes fist at clock:::
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March 11th, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Whoever came up with DLS clearly had no children…that’s all i gotta say.
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March 26th, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
I know what you mean!! It SUCKS! I am, just as you, so angry about it, that I did a blog posting the first Monday after. Hehehe.
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