Daylight Saving Time

I hate switching to Daylight Saving Time. Hate it.  It always screws me up way more than it should.  It's a day that has since childhood felt like melancholy and loss, which I fully appreciate is kind of silly.  It's 8:30 at night, allegedly, and all I've had to eat all day is a couple of slices of rye toast with peanut butter for breakfast, or lunch, or whatever one is having when it's ten-eleventy o'clock.  Now it too late or too early or too something for dinner and I'm hungry and restless and mopey.  Anybody else get bugged like this?

"Anybody else get bugged like this?"

Answer - No because I have a life and I dont get bothered by things like this

I remember reading a year or two ago about a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that concluded that the risk of heart attack spiked 5% in the week following the switch to Daylight Saving Time.  In the fall when the switch is made back, risk drops 1.5% below the baseline.  It affected working people (who are tied to the clock) almost exclusively.   I thought that was pretty amazing for a single hour of lost/gained sleep.

All I know is the switch sure makes me feel predictably dissonant every time.  I ended up taking a drive for a couple of hours last night just listening to music, which is my favourite cure all.   Satellite thoughtfully blessed with a little Bohemian Rhapsody. :)

It definitely requires more adjusting from me than I would ever have thought. One hour doesn't seem like much but I feel it. I'm just thankful that I'm on Spring break this week and didn't have to experience waking up at 6 am and having it feel like 5. :-)

It always takes me a few days to adjust. I don't have this problem when we return to wintertime

It's total bullshit.

I hate it, as far as going an hour forward. From the day afterwards, I feel more exhausted and a bit 'jet lagged' for a few days :-(

Funny story though...One time a few years ago, on a weekend day following the daylight savings going an hour back, I totally forgot to change one clock (that I used for my alarm I believe), and I went to Future Shop that morning to get some DVD-R spindle packs that had quite the insane discount prices, but there was a limited amount per store, so I wanted to get there right before opening time, right? Guess what....I got there an hour too early, and it was freezing outside on top of that!  >______<

DST is such a brilliant idea I wish we could do it way more often.  It's 12:45 in the morning, and I'm still up.  Which would possibly be less annoying if I hadn't tossed and turned ALL last night.  Feh. I'm off to bed to stare at the ceiling and count DVD-Rs.

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[b]GratefulFan wrote: [/b]



DST is such a brilliant idea I wish we could do it way more often.  It's 12:45 in the morning, and I'm still up.  Which would possibly be less annoying if I hadn't tossed and turned ALL last night.  Feh. I'm off to bed to stare at the ceiling and count DVD-Rs.

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That'd better not be a dig at me...

No, of course it wasn't a dig.  It was a joke!

funny how you never hear anyone having a moan when they get an extra hour in bed in October....?

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[b]JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: [/b]



funny how you never hear anyone having a moan when they get an extra hour in bed in October....?

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Thick walls?