Moving the clocks forward or backwards

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I hate it when we have to do this. Moving the clock forward an hour in Spring and then moving the clock back in Autumn. I always find that on the day itself the day always seems to drag a lot slower than normal and my mind is either an hour ahead or an hour back. It is a change that I find can get irritating and it always takes me a few days to readjust to the time change.

That almost makes me glad that I live in the one US state without Daylights Savings.

Why can't we move the clocks forward an hour Friday afternoon and go home early while moving the clocks backward Monday morning for another hour of sleep?

I am surprised there isn't a phone app that displays GMT (or whatever it is in your area) all year round and then in the summer has a +1 in front of the hours.

My opinion is that people should be free to decide whether they change all their clocks or not.

Changing the clocks doesn't bother me, but I hate it when the clocks go back because it means it will get dark even earlier than it should. I think we should put them forward for a last time and leave them that way.

I hate it, because I'm basically right on the eastern edge of the central time zone (in the US). So when we set the clocks back in the fall, we get the shortest days. The sun starts setting before 5! And by 5 it's completely dark. I hate it getting dark so early and it makes me feel more depressed.

It really isn't necessary anymore and Canada is discussing removing it. It was originally to help farmers and doesn't really apply to them anymore but for some reason we continue to observe it. I think it will be gone soon.

Yeah it's completely pointless. Which is why I like how Arizona got rid of it.

Farmers get unfairly blamed, but if anything it makes things worse for them. The animals don't care what the time is. If the sun comes up, that's when it's time to wake up.

It has more to do with giving humans a larger frame of time to get things done during daylight. This also saves on trying to light things during times of darkness. Factories, businesses and such could operate when there was daylight, thereby requiring less artificial light. Essentially using the most of daylight that they could. They were, quite literally, trying to save daylight. There were other reasons, depending on the country/jurisdiction. Not all countries participate.

Now with the levels are artificial lighting it's not really necessary anymore.

It's kept here for kids to be able to walk to and from school in daylight (just about). It always throws me.

I prefer light evenings and do not care for light mornings. I would genuinely be happy for us to move clocks forwards multiple times as autumn and winter come in just to keep light evenings!

I don’t like the long drawn dark evening but at the same time I don’t like the extremely long light evenings. I would want it to get dark between 7-8 every evening and maybe get light between 6-7 in the morning.

I have an inconsistent schedule so I barely notice if the time changes. I mostly just notice that the microwave & toast-R-oven clocks are off of what my phone, computer, & cable-box say. I had a more consistent schedule when I was in skewl or working & I still didn't feel the difference much. However both my parents are hit hard by it but my mom has it the worst. She doesn't really get used to the time change till it's almost ready to change again.

I live near the equator in a tropical climate country. If someone nitpicks about it, I was born after 1990 and after it's problems, so...
Nothing much to say here. Except recalling more than half of my once foreign online friends fussing about daylight savings.

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