Semiannual Daylight Saving Time complaining thread

Only thing I can say nice about the time change is my son’s school district gave us a two-day break Monday and Tuesday. Makes it easier getting a first grader up and ready by Wednesday than after one day.

 

Naturally, the dogs don't know we moved the clocks back. So at 6:30, when it starts getting light, they start moving around wanting to go out, instead of 7:30 a.m.

I thought we'd be the only creatures out that early, but no. EVERY DOG in the neighborhood ignored the clock switch and wanted out an hour early.

 

Change really screwed with me yesterday. Couldn't sleep past 6:15, fell asleep before 9 p.m. Woke up around 2:30 and couldn't get back to sleep. And tomorrow I'm heading to the Central Time Zone for the rest of the week, so my internal clock is just going to be a mess for a while, it seems.

 

My cat started stepping on me at 2:30 this morning to be fed. Usually I can sleep a little longer before he does that.
Oh and the Tiny Human didn't turn his clock either. He got up at 4:30 yesterday and today, which especially sucks because he was sleeping closer to 7 before the time change.

 

Puppy woke me up at 6 to go outside. Wife gets up to work at 7 usually, so he knew it was "time"

Going to be a few weeks before this gets fixed I bet.

 

All I know is, it sucks getting dark at 5 p.m. or earlier. And today is absolutely wet, cold and miserable. Welcome to standard time.

I was in Northern Virginia/ Richmond this past week. The weather was absolutely spectacular, the Mall and museums were practically empty on Wednesday so being a tourist was great (no school trips in the Smithsonian, pure heaven) so coming home to this crap is a tough gig.

The plane from Dulles to PDX had to change course because of 200mph headwinds in the Midwest and we flew over Canada, a 5-hour flight took 6. But I did get to see Toronto at night, which was pretty cool.

And of rant and thread hijack. I love DST and I think on the West Coast this was the last time we have to turn our clocks back because Cali, Oregon and Washington have all petitioned for year-round DST.

 

I had less than two hours of usable light from the time I got home from work until it was pitch dark.

 

Arizona won’t? Thought they would considering they are fixed to one already.

 

This Friday night begins the annual pain in the butt ritual of the second round of football playoffs where teams will start crossing time zones each way.
You know you kick off at 7 wherever you are, but it makes travel a pain.

 

I spent most of the last six months in Australia, which means I had no Daylight Saving Time this year. I was crossing the Pacific on both time-change days.