<p>Ugh . . . going to work in the dark, coming home from work in the dark. Dark, dark, dark. The only good thing about it is that I have more time to use my telescope. Looking forward to spring already . . .</p>
<p>me! me! me!</p>
<p>Makes as much sense to me as declaring that today is Wednesday.</p>
<p>We are actually on Standard time. This is how it’s supposed to be!<br>
In the spring we go on DST so we can have some extra daylight after work - and we don’t like the sun waking us up at 4 am!</p>
<p>I think those on the eastern edge of the time zone suffer more since it gets dark earlier.</p>
<p>I hate the fall beginning of daylight savings time, but I am looking forward to putting my daughter on the bus in a little daylight. Spring can’t come soon enough</p>
<p>Justamomof4,</p>
<p>You’re correct – bad nomenclature on my part. I should have said the change FROM daylight savings time! Thanks.</p>
<p>I grind my teeth every time we have to go back and forth. My pets get very confused, because they like to be fed at certain times. Thank goodness I’m not a farm owner and I do not have to milk cows. :)</p>
<p>That’s what I assumed you meant. I would prefer to leave the clocks alone.</p>
<p>It seems like adjusting to the hour gain/loss is getting harder every year. Blech.</p>
<p>I actually like the change back (fall) because I get some light at the end of my early morning runs.<br>
My pets are also confused- the cat insisted that it was feeding time at 4pm. He did not get the logic of all this.</p>
<p>Now that you mention it, my cats get confused about it too…one of them looks for me to go to bed at a certain time, and comes looking and crying for me the same time every night</p>
<p>Confusing cats is fun and the only reason to own one.</p>
<p>Well, personally I have always enjoyed that extra hour of sleep 
Too bad it is only one day…</p>
<p>I like Standard Time a lot better than Daylight Savings time. We live in the far northeast, and for much of the winter we are getting up in the dark. Just when the sun is finally coming up at 6am in the spring, we go onto Daylight Savings Time, and we have to wake up while it’s still dark for another month. Meanwhile, we are sending teenagers and middle-schoolers to schools that start at 7:20 and 7:30 am! Their biological clocks are in exact opposition to this. Then we go onto daylight savings time, so instead of school starting at 7:30, it’s REALLY starting at 6:30 am! I work in the high school, and all of us are in a funk for at least a week after we turn the clocks ahead.</p>
<p>Give me Standard Time any day! I’ll be happy all week this week, because I feel like I’m getting an extra hour of sleep!</p>
<p>I do like the fact that D can now get to band early in the morning without me having to drive (I don’t want her going in the dark). But I dislike what feels like such shorter days.</p>
<p>It’s not a feeling, the days are getting shorter, at least in the northern hemisphere. </p>
<p>We have a tall, steep mountain on the other (west) side of our narrow canyon and the sun now disappears behind it at 4:15pm. By mid December it will set at 3:05pm with sun clearing the east hill at 9:10am making for short sun hours.</p>
<p>Thanks for the correction, OP. The only good thing about such an early nightfall is that you have to quit doing yardwork earlier. In spring and summer my family has missed out on homecooked meals when I’ve lost track of the time and keep doing my gardening… I’m not a morning person, loss of daylight then is no big deal. Being at the eastern edge of the time zone up north makes us envious of that state to the east (and north)- they get better evenings, sigh. There is a reason Christmas and New Years are close to the winter solstice- we need a festival of lights to get over the hump.</p>
<p>Yes, I hate it. I hate getting up in the dark, losing sleep, feeling discombobulated, etc. S1 rebels by not changing the time on his watch forward or back.</p>
<p>I actually like the IDEA of changing time. It is a very cool thing to realize that it is all pretty arbitrary anyway. However, I do always feel a bit jet lagged when we go back and forth.</p>
<p>An earlier post said being on the western edge of a time zone was the worst. I disagree. It’s not very fun when it’s light out until after 10 p.m. during the summer. </p>
<p>Indiana hadn’t been on DST for decades and our illustrious governor ram-rodded it through two years ago. He droned on about how we had to be on DST like “everyone” else. (Guess Hawaii and Arizona don’t count?). Even more unfortunately, he insisted on Eastern time. Yep, it’s the same time in Indianapolis as in Maine–1,000 miles east. </p>
<p>Uhh, never mind the fact our economy is much more tied to Chicago, which is adjacent to Indiana. I guess all the jobs didn’t rush into Indiana like he said they would for DST. Hmmm, somehow I don’t think Indiana’s biggest economic problem is what time it is…He also complained incessantly that no one in the country knew what time it was in Indiana. So, let’s have a show of hands. How many of you know what time zone Indiana is in? Thought so!</p>
<p>/end of rant/</p>
<p>My dog hates it! She can sometimes get a weekday hike in with my husband if he can get home early enough; with the time change that doesn’t happen. When the dog was younger she would want to be feed an hour earlier for the first couple of weeks of the time change. She was so confused and upset with me when I wouldn’t feed her!</p>