I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again
Stop the madness!
Purely anecdotal, but I work in 911 dispatch
And for a few days after the clocks change it always feels like we get a bunch of calls from/about people acting strangely.
My pet theory is that a lot of people with mental health issues are either really dependent on taking their meds at certain times, or just really need a steady routine to keep them stable, and in either case shifting things by an hour throws that all off.
And not for nothing, I work nights, and when I work the clock change, it’s nice when I get to work 1 hour less, but it absolutely does not make up for when I have to work an extra hour.
I have ADHD, and the time change fucks me up so bad. Makes me anxious and weird for days.
Don’t you love that feeling of having an absolute shit 0100-0159 and then watching the clock reset to 0100 again? I worked last fall when the clocks changed and a couple of us had just cleared calls at the hospital and we were standing around our ambulances talking. I happened to pull my phone out and watched the time tick from 0159-0100 and I was like “hey guys, that shitty hour we just had? We get to do it all over again!”
Yep.
Also not sure how they work it where you are, but as far as payroll goes we basically just pretend it doesn’t happen since the way our shift rotation works, if you work it in the spring you’ll work it again in the fall.
Fuck that, give me my hour of overtime for turning my 12 hour shift into a 13.
The Big Time lobby strikes again!
Not only should we get rid of it, we should find out who is responsible and torture them with sleep deprivation.
fuck these guyes… Having to change the timezone 2 times a year is just a nuisance.
British Columbia, Canada just went to permanent DST.
So far, it seems no different than before. Maybe it’ll be different when others set their clocks back in 6 months.
Realistically, I can’t see it making much difference. People already don’t live in alignment with their circadian clock.
Didn’t California also follow suit?
California voters overwhelmingly approved the permanent shift several years ago. HOWEVER no one in the state assembly brought it up during the legislative session to ratify it, so nothing changed. Most frustrating display of incompetence for those of us who voted for it.
I want perminate standard time. Mostly because any US state can do that now, but year round dst requires us congress to change the law. I want to be done with the nonescence now and what the clocks read doesn’t matter much so long as they are consistent.
Same. I live in a Northern state. permanent Pacific Standard Time just makes sense. Time to go around that sissy Congress.
You want permanent DST
Their point is we can’t get it because of a federal law that Congress would need to change. That same law allows permanent standard time right now, so that would be better than keeping switching twice a year while waiting for the legislature to do their job, even if permanent DST would be nicer.
