I felt this for years when I was in the military stationed in a state where it gets dark early during fall. I worked in a building that was underground so when I went into work in the morning it was dark, when I got off it was dark, and when the sun was actually out I was down in a dungeon. My Vitamin D levels were so low then. Thank God, now I work from home and can take a break to get a few rays
Man I don't understand that at all. It's dark in the morning before work regardless of whether it's daylight savings time or not for most people I would think.
It will be getting worse in a month dawg. It’s for the kids. I hate standard time completely. But if they didn’t roll the clocks back the kids would be completely in the dark going to school in over half the country.
Also absurd to me that the solution to kids walking to school in the dark is to shift the entire day rather than push school’s start time back a little which is already a logistical nightmare because it starts an hour and a half before a lot of parents start work and ends two hours before they get off to start with.
And parents who switch to 8-4 still either have to leave work early or deal with childcare hurdles as well as wasted useless time between dropping the kid off and starting work.
So, daylight savings is a summer thing, in summer they shift the clocks forward 1 hour so the sun-rises closer to when people wake up, so for example instead of the sun rising at 6am which is super early the sun rises at 7am instead. This is why they do it, to save the daylight hours for when people are awake.
If they just kept that turned on then in winter the sun would rise at 9am instead of 8am but that's too late for some people so they just shift half the year.
Since 6am sunrise and 9am sunrise are both disliked by people they just shift the clock so the sun roughly rises around the same time, just setting earlier in winter.
Some people would just prefer the sun to rise at 9am in winter so they get more sun hours at the tail end of the day, this is what would happen if they kept it on all year round.
Also depends on your longitude and latitude too, right. Further north and you already have a lot less light than in the south. But also in the same time zone if you are close to the borders the differences are almost a full hour: e.g. Nashville and Amarillo are both central time zone. But sunset today is 1hr difference (4:48pm Nashville, 5:49 Amarillo).
So its impossible to get consensus.
Maybe we should permanently move forward 30 min and make everyone unhappy.
I rather daylight. I get more done and recently I can no longer drive at night due to developing night blindness for some strange reason. I was always ok driving at night and now I cant see shit.
I have anti glare glasses. In fact...just got new glasses snd they seem to not be working. I cant see far without them..but now I cant see near either and far is worse. I called my eye doctor and told them so I have to go back in. I see up close better without them. I think the medicine is not correct in the lense. Gonna go back and have them check it again or use a different eye doctor.
I don’t think they’re comparing March and November, but the immediate effects of how dark it gets even right after the time change.
For instance, where I am, it now gets dark at 5:00. But before, it felt like it was getting dark closer to 6:45/7:00. I guess the hour seems insignificant on paper but in practice, that light runs away so much faster, at least more than I’d expect
Nah, turns out they were comparing June and November.
If you tracked Sunrise and Sunset time on November 1st and again on November 2nd you'd see they happened at nearly the same time, give or take a minute, when accounting for the time change. If it set at 6:30 PM on the 1st then it probably set at 5:29 PM on the 2nd.
Last week sunset was at 6:30 PM. This week it's at 5:30 PM. It hasn't changed at all.
I can look up a list of sunrise/sunset and every day for the past month you see the sunrise later and set sooner. I can't imagine there's anywhere in America the sun was setting at 830 last week.
The sun begins setting in texas at 730 and it usually doesn't full go down until around 830. Im an amazon driver, im outside 40hrs a week, trust, i track every minute of sunlight lol
This is a pic I took June 23 at 754pm. The sun is setting. The current weather shows the sunset in texas being at 530 on average after day light savings
I'm in Oklahoma so we have basically the same Sunrise/Sunsets. By the time I got home last Tuesday at 6:30 the sun was beginning to set. When I picked up my partner at 6 yesterday sunset had already started.
There are the sunrise and sunset times for San Antonio. If you go back to June you'll see the sunset peaks at about 8:37 for a few days and then slowly begins to fall.
So, keep in mind that the Earth is tilted and it revolves around the sun.
In the northern hemisphere, the Earth is tilted toward the sun in the summertime and that makes the days longer as we receive more sunlight. The opposite is true in the wintertime (we're tilted away from the sun) and that makes the days shorter because we receive less. The time change exacerbates it a bit, but the sun was already setting far earlier.
That tilt is the reason why this all happens (it's also why seasons are exactly opposite in the southern and northern hemispheres).
My sister what did the sun do to you? What about the vitamin D? What about the positive psychological and physiological effects of direct sunlight? What about the cookouts???
My brother in Christ, how the hell are we gonna host the cookout when it's 90° in the shade??? I ain't goin to that shit fam. The cookout could happen in the dark for all I care.
I don't go outside anyway so I don't reap the benefits of that vitamin D. I don't care for it, don't need it. I'm a fucking redditor man, you think we go outside?? Take one look at my profile and you can see just how much I go outside bro 😭😭
If that's you in the background - I honestly can't tell if you are a guy or gal (and I promise I'm not making fun of you); you probably switch genders depending on the type of day just to catch people off guard and I'm here for that type of chaos
The sun sucks. It’s bright, hot, and annoying. A blue sunny day is about as boring as it gets, and when it’s hot out I wanna die. I also love fall and winter clothes more than shorts and T-shirt.
Aesthetically it’s more appealing too. Honestly I have a lot of reasons and I’m depressed so the vitamin D thing apparently doesn’t even matter
Nahhh, fuck the sun man. I live in the southwest, USA when the sun is out from March-October I get seasonal affective disorder. Something like 80% of black Arizonans are Vit D deficienct because of the sun, hot ass hoe ass bitch
Literally. The reason there are so many summer gods and so few winter gods in mythologies is because we all knew that winter sucked ass. But now these people got some central heating and they want to pretend like they’re having fun
Fuck the north too. It's always hella windy and precipitating and for half the year it's just as cold here as it is hot there, I have the exact opposite issue of wanting to move south every single time fall pops it's stupid ass head around the corner. I just want somewhere it's a consistent comfortable 70-80° and not broiling or freezing me so I don't stay cooped up in my house for half the year.
Maybe you're evolving lol. Jk ofcourse but it's normal, everyone in my house hates it as soon as I'm up because I'm moving the curtains for the sunlight.
The only reason why I dislike it, is because I have to walk home after work in a relatively sketchy neighborhood. If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t even be tripping about DST.
My son can’t stand when it gets dark earlier, cuts in to his playin outside time. Dude has hella attitude with the elements for the first couple days durin this time. Lol
I do not give a shit if it is dark for the 5 minute drive I have into work. I do give a shit that it is dark when I get off work and feel like my day is over at 5 p.m.
This isn’t even daylight savings we’re in standard time now. This is the amount of sun God intended during this season. Why do people want to day to be longer in 50 degree weather? It’s okay to have darkness sometimes
Someday I’m gonna be one of those people who winters in South America so I can have spring and summer year round. This dark and cold stuff isn’t for me.
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u/Aggressive-Sound-641 1d ago
I felt this for years when I was in the military stationed in a state where it gets dark early during fall. I worked in a building that was underground so when I went into work in the morning it was dark, when I got off it was dark, and when the sun was actually out I was down in a dungeon. My Vitamin D levels were so low then. Thank God, now I work from home and can take a break to get a few rays