<p>No, I hate standard time! I’m so glad they extended DST until the beginning of November. I can never drag myself out of bed early enough to get the benefit of the morning light. And I hate going home in the pitch dark at 5 pm.</p>
<p>We walk our dog for an hour every day. Through last week, we could leave work at 4:30 or 5, go home and get the dog, and finish our walk before dark. Now, we’ll have to leave at least 1/2 hour earlier in order to be able to do that. Or at least one of us will. </p>
<p>Don’t like it at all!</p>
<p>In answer to Post #19, Arizona does count! And we got it right too – no clock changes!</p>
<p>Now if we could just get the rest of the country to go along…</p>
<p>I am so relieved that we are back to Eastern Standard Time. I really needed that extra hour. Last week I hated waking up in the dark. Walking the dogs at 7 AM in the dark. Taking my son to school at 7:20 AM when the sun had just come up. Now it is heavenly waking at 6:30 and not needing to turn on the lights! Of course in two months we will be back to darkness though as the days get shorter. I really like it getting darker earlier too since I go to bed early.</p>
<p>Why do we know return to standard time later than we used to? I believe some other countries already changed their clocks back to std time over a week ago…</p>
<p>^^^Because a bunch of congressmen decided that extending Daylight Savings Time would give us “longer days.” Bull - the day is the same length, courtesy of the laws of the universe - it’s just what time we call it.</p>
<p>My real complaint isn’t with daylight savings time or standard time… it’s with starting high school at 7:30 am. There is NO need for it. Ugh.</p>
<p>Hey Indiana, I would have assumed you were on Central time with Chicago.</p>
<p>Indiana- your time zone depends on which part of the state you are in. I’m glad they changed because we always know the relatives are one hour ahead of us in their part of IN. The worst situation for us was when my father-in-law died one summer before the whole state did DST and the funeral was in a town further north than the near Louisville, KY town of my sister-in-law. We drove down, changed our time to stay at the relatives, then had to remember that 10:00 am was different in the funeral home town. They talked about slow and fast time- very confusing, especially for people living and working when clocks did or didn’t get changed for the season.</p>
<p>When one of my boys was in day care at age 4, the caregivers hated the time change. They said for a few weeks after the change in the fall many of the children would get freaked out (with a lot of crying) when it got dark so early (and abruptly), and mom or dad hadn’t come to get them yet! I’d never thought about it, but it makes sense.</p>
<p>I hate it. Always have. Then again my best friend loves it. Go figure. I’m counting the days till I can change the clock ahead an hour!</p>
<p>I hate it. Depression has set in big time.</p>
<p>I was in southern Indiana many years ago. The radio station kept announcing fast time and slow time. The little town I was in had one time for the post office and a different time for the bank on the other side of the street.</p>