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Surely I can’t be the only one who does.

I knew it was going to happen, I tried to go to bed an hour early, but my body’s like “hey, it’s 9:45 you still have another hour!” and I end up unable to fall asleep until midnight or later. Likewise, when so-called 7:30 rolls around, my body’s like “It’s 6:30!!! What are you doing? I’m not done!” This will take time to adjust to.

Normally, when a phone rings, I answer it; when Lync flashes, I finish what I’m doing and see what it is; when a ticket comes in, I read it calmly and make a plan; when someone walks in with a problem, I talk to them then conclude with some paraphrase of “ok, make a ticket”.

On DST, though my external reactions are very similar when sublimated through my frontal lobe, on the inside I feel like a caged grizzly bear at the intersection of “Can we f*****ng not” and “I can’t”.

America! Why do you insist on, effectively, jet-lagging your citizens for no reason? What purpose does it actually solve? Just pick a time, stick with it, and spare everyone a week of crappy productivity and grumpiness.

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I much prefer DST - I like being able to come home after work, pop open a beer, throw the steaks on the grill, then eat on the deck furniture BEFORE it gets dark. I wish they would leave it in DST all the time

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I dislike it. I liked it better when Indiana did not have it. We would go all year with never having to adjust our clocks. They adopted in 2006, I hate it. I wish we could go back to the way it was, or use central time as I do not live on the east coast and feel I should not have to be on eastern time, oh well.

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DST blows dead goats. Period.

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Instead of DST we should have a “Go work your 8 hours whenever” time

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6

I would rather have DST on all the time. I prefer the sun setting later. However, I agree that we need to pick one time and stick with it. The spring forward, fall back thing is ridiculous. Besides, I can get myself confused, in spite of the mnemonic devices. See?

Spring forward, over the crevice.

Fall backward, onto your honky-tonk-badonk-adonk (because that’s better than landing on your face).

But, you could also argue…

Spring backward, to avoid the danger.

Fall forward, into the push-up position and give me 20.

Anyway…

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It takes me almost a month to adjust every time the time changes. I just wish someone would decide on either DST or no DST and just stick with it and quit messing with my sleep.

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The Spring Forward time change is the hardest for me to adjust, takes at least a week.

The Fall Back is a gift of another hour of sleep…

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agreed. pick a time and stick with it.

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Arizonan here, no DST for us.

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11

Oh how I miss those days.

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It takes me several weeks before I am completely adjusted. If I ever became an elected official, eliminating DST would be a top priority for me.

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You people are nuts! How many hours of sleep have we all lost on late nights out with friends and early morning meetings.

Give me more sunlight into the later hours of the night any day of the week!

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It’s a conspiracy by the man to keep us down! I hate it too.

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Read this too quickly and thought you said you eat the deck furniture. Damn you, DST for making me so sleepy!

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I guess it’s not the time itself that bothers me but the change that takes place. The fall one is okay because it’s easy to get used to things happening later than earlier.

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I’m going to be on the “I really hate DST” side of the fence. I actually really enjoy when it’s super dark outside early. When it’s so light outside early, it makes me feel like I have more time in my night, but then I realize that it’s actually getting late.

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I used to love it in high school. This was 15 or so years ago, before phone were as prevalent as they are now, I worked at a movie theater, and sure enough, those two Sunday’s each year like clockwork (Ha!), people would show up an hour early or late depending on which way the time shifted. And this wasn’t first thing in the morning. I’m talking 1, 2, or later in the afternoon. They’d been off on what time it was all day. I always got a kick out of that.

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I’d be in favor of getting rid of it. There are health issues and other problems associated with the switch, not to mention lost productivity. From a business perspective you are probably running a net loss on productivity from any perceived gains made from this switch.

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I would be in favor of having DST all the time and not change it for seasons.
DST is good for the long evenings.