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Hey all,

Goodmorning from the east coast! With daylight saving here, we are losing an hour of sleep of course…those of us with early starts will have even earlier starts. I was just wondering, what is your favorite or preferred shift/hours and are you affected by daylight savings?

For me, I always wake up early, I prefer going into work early so I can leave earlier however with daylight savings day 3 I am definitely feeling it.

What are your thoughts?

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DST screws up our kids’ schedules (kids with special needs rely on specific routines). I work a typical shift so I adjust, but the fall is usually where things go haywire with meal times and bed times for the kids.

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I work a traditional 8 to 5 shift (barring on-call of course), and DST definitely affects me. I hate it. In fact, I heard POTUS has talked about being willing to sign a bill doing away with it if one reaches his desk, and I very much hope it happens.

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I still was expected to be at work at 7 AM on Monday. I got over it, ride home in the day light now though.

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I’m always up early for my 8-5. Can we riot and get rid of DST…it’s dumb and making me dumb for losing an hour of sleep. Soooooo much caffeine.

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It’s never really affected me too much. I’m a night owl so I’ve always preferred night shifts but my current employer doesn’t offer one so I’m here 8 - 4:30.

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Doesn’t matter honest with DST or not. I’m still at the office at 6 am and leave at 4 pm.

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Hawaii and Arizona dont observe DST so why should the rest of us. Screw it, Abolish it i say!!!

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I don’t mind waking up super early and ultimately an hour is pretty minor and easy to adjust to. That said… let’s just get rid of this stupid DST nonsense. I’ve yet to hear or read a single argument for it where I’ve been like “oh yea, that makes sense…”

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Made a kind of sense, decades ago. It’s just an annoyance now, really.

Fall Back doesn’t bother me much, Spring Forward can suck for the 1st week ‘cause my body is convinced "you’re gettin’ up an hour early, whatforwhy?!?"

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I hate the time change, it messes me up for the next few days. My preferred shift is night shift.

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DST is just annoying. Especially since I like an early shift anyway (usually get in between 5 and 5:30), so I have plenty of daylight after work without having to screw with the clocks.

To those who say “But DST gives us more daylight hours!” I say, “No, you get the same amount of daylight hours as before; you’re just labeling them differently.”

To those who say “But DST gives us more daylight hours after work!” I say, “So just go into work an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier.”

To those who say “But I don’t get to choose my own schedule!” I say, “Why does your inflexible schedule mean that the rest of us (except Arizona [except the Navajo reservation {except the Hopi reservation}] and Hawaii) have to change their clocks twice a year?”

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I don’t lose an hour of sleep with DST. I change all my clocks at 4 pm on Saturday. So I jump from 4 to 5 and lose one hour on Saturday afternoon. I then finish the day with the new time, go to bed and get up with the same amount of sleep I would normally have. It has worked great for us (kids included) for a number of years now. By the time Monday rolls around it has zero effect on me, and therefore, my job.

Edit: spelling

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i work 7 to 3:30 so cant fall asleep till 11:30 and have to be up at 5:30 so feels like 4:30. feels sleep deprived

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Doesn’t matter much. Before DST the sun was up before I got to work at 7:30 am. Unless I magically leave early like the rest of the office does at 4:30 pm, I did not leave before dark. I usually end up staying until 5:30 pm or 6 pm.

Now after DST, it’s dark no matter what. There seems to be more to do than before and I’m getting to work in the dark at 7:30 am, and leaving in the dark 7:45 pm.

I find the excuse for DST so farmers can get their crops to the market before morning a joke. Maybe it’s vastly different in the Northern states. Around here with rice, corn, wheat, hay, cotton, and watermelon fields the farmers work day jobs, then hop in their 4 bedroom house sized tractors with 30 LED light bars that light the fields up like football stadiums and work all night.

I think I would prefer to stay on standard time. I like the night life and don’t like it only getting dark after 9 pm in the Summer. I’d rather drive in the evening dark than the morning dark with fog.

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An hour either way doesn’t bother me. If I could work 11am to 8pm, that would be great! My boss disagrees…

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I don’t like change at every time DST occurs, it throws me way off of everything and it’s pretty agitating. I work from ~7-~3 every day though so I’m definitely not complaining there. :slight_smile:

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I think this is the one thing the entire country could get behind.

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I typically always have been a 7-4 or 7 to 4:30 guy, i get screwed up for like a week then i am back on track.

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See, that’s why EU the passed legislation that countries can choose :slight_smile: