Time Change

Living in a state with divided time zones sometimes sucks. If you regularly travel between the two, you always have to think "now exactly what time do I need to be there?"
Our high school football playoffs started Friday night, and you had many teams crossing from Eastern to Central both ways. I was at a game where the visiting team had to travel three hours of actual time plus factor in the time change.

 

I know I am in the minority in this, but don't think people think enough about how late the sun comes up in the winter with daylight saving (on the other end, it also comes up really freaking early in the summer with standard time). They just don't want the sun going down earlier, but what is everyone going to say when it doesn't come up until 9?

That said, time changes are stupid. Just pick one. You'd get used to the sunrises and sunsets regardless of which and which season. Why we still adjust clocks or why it really was ever a thing is beyond me. Seems like a universal complaint that most can agree on, yet here we still are!

 

I’m one of the annoying parents here to bitch about how my kids wake up at the same time regardless so, really, I’m just getting up between 5:30-6 am instead of 6:30-7 am.

Dogs, too. I’m such a cliche.

 

This makes a ton of sense.

Personally my biggest beef with the time change is losing the hour of sleep in spring. I don’t particularly have strong opinions about how early or late we make sun rise or sunset. If it were left up to me to make the choice, I’d say let me have it darker later and lighter later. Driving to work without sun in my face is nice and coming home and having it go dark at a time that feels right is also nice. But I’m not going to complain a bunch because like you said, you adjust. The ebb and flo of the season changes mean you have to deal with it one way or another.

 

It's pretty wild in summer visiting the eastern edge of a time zone and having the sun blazing through your window at 5:15 a.m.

It's also freaky on the opposite side when it's 10 p.m. and still light enough to see.

 

Move it back 30 minutes and leave it there. School buses need to see the kids they're supposed to be picking up. Half an hour would do that, speaking as someone living in the northern tier of states.

The daily solar cycle varies quite a bit more than a couple biannual clock changes can accommodiate, according to this article: Clock time and sun time agree | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky

 

All the talk about where clocks should be set only distracts from the real cause of all the problems. Someone needs to take the dang tilt out of the Earth’s axis, already!

 

Having Uranus' axis would be . . . interesting.

 

I personally lead dark when you go home, but again, know I am in the minority it seems. I lived in Arizona and as weird as it may sound the lack of time changes was the best part of the place. It's amazing how much of a suck they really are. It's standard time there and none of the sunrises or sunsets really bothered me too much any time, although my oldest who was then like 4 did go through a phase of waking up with the sun in the summer, which was something like 4:30 a.m., and that was no good. But we got on top of that pretty fast!

Still, I am on board with ditching it one way or the other.