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Happy November!!! This weekend many parts of the world will be observing Daylight Savings Time. If you aren’t aware, twice a year the time either goes forward one hour or gets pushed back for one hour. There is even a cute little saying to help you remember which way to change the time, Spring Ahead or Fall Backwards. Many people will say they either lose and hour of sleep or gain an hour.

I live in Michigan, and we observe daylight savings time. I have to say I am not a fan. I feel that it is way too dark too early in the fall and really dark in the mornings. There has been talk to stop observing it and I will be honest I will not be sad if it ends. We lived in Indianapolis and they did not observe daylight savings time. It was wonderful. The weird thing was that half the year we were central time zone and half the year we were eastern time zone.

Does your part of the world observe daylight savings time?
Do you like it?
If you had a choice would you rather you did or didn’t have it?
 
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You must have lived in Indiana a long time ago since they started observing DST in 2006! I live in Ohio and worked for a company that had dealings in Indiana and the clerk dealing with those customers always had problems because of the time differences. She loved it when they started changing!

I prefer DST since sunset happens later in the evening. When I worked I would have to take my walks when I got home at 4:15 because if I ate dinner first, it was too dark to walk since there are no streetlights or sidewalks in my neighborhood. If I worked late then I was driving home in the dark.

Sunset on Nov 1 for me is 6:32 p.m. Sunset on Nov 7 (after time change) is 5:27 p.m.

Give me DST all year long...
 
We just had a referendum on the local elections to see whether we would do away with DST in our province and it narrowly failed to pass. It would be weird to not be on DST, because our timezone would change depending on what part of the year we were in. Since I work for a company in another province (I telecommute), it would make work hours a bit awkward, since they would still be on DST even if we weren't. But I'm sure we would eventually adjust.
 
Does your part of the world observe daylight savings time? Yes we do, ours changed to “spring forward” a few weeks ago now
Do you like it? I don’t mind it now that I’m not working weekends, it takes me a day or so to recalibrate so to speak with the time change so working the Sunday after the time had changed was often brutal for me
If you had a choice would you rather you did or didn’t have it? I don’t really have a super strong opinion either way now though do prefer the lighter evenings that come with “springing forward”
 
HavaDrPepper said:
You must have lived in Indiana a long time ago since they started observing DST in 2006! I live in Ohio and worked for a company that had dealings in Indiana and the clerk dealing with those customers always had problems because of the time differences. She loved it when they started changing!

I prefer DST since sunset happens later in the evening. When I worked I would have to take my walks when I got home at 4:15 because if I ate dinner first, it was too dark to walk since there are no streetlights or sidewalks in my neighborhood. If I worked late then I was driving home in the dark.

Sunset on Nov 1 for me is 6:32 p.m. Sunset on Nov 7 (after time change) is 5:27 p.m.

Give me DST all year long...
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We moved in 1998. I didn't realize theyt started it up there, lol
 
we do. I wish we didn't. It really messes up my children's medical condition as their insulin dosing is based on hourly rates, and sometime the dose difference can almost double from one hour to the next. The result is nearly always a mess for several days.
 
I DO not like the "falling back"! It really messes with my head. The "Spring Forward" is great though. Yes, we'll be falling back!
 
It doesn't really matter too much to me which we are in, but like others here, I just hate the switching back and forth. It messes me up for days both at the start and at the end of DST.

I love/need sunlight and wish we could just have the long amounts of summer daylight all year round. My current schedule at least has me up early enough that I will be able to fully appreciate the extra light in the morning we'll get when DST ends this weekend.
 
We don't have it, but I am aware of the difference when dealing with the Lilypad scraps and chats that the times have changed and now son #1 in the UK is two hours behind us instead of one. So I need to remember not to message him before 9am my time.
 
I hate the time changing. I wish it would just stay the same all year long. It always makes me feel out of sorts for a week or so and with the dogs too.
 
I live in Arizona, and the majority of Arizona does not observe DST. I get to have this discussion with my husband twice a year how we are Mountain Standard Time, but not Mountain Daylight Time (that is the difference between the D and S in time zones: EDT/EST)... so we stay Mountain Standard all year round, while the states around us move to Daylight (pacific Daylight time, Mountain Daylight time). It *feels* like half the year we line up with California and the other half we don't.

The biggest challenge I face is adjusting to my coworkers' schedules. Most of my team is eastern time zone. Our outlook calendars all auto-adjust for Daylight savings time so meetings then get shifted an hour on my calendar or if I set up the meeting it shifts an hour on their calendar...

All our weekend releases are based on Eastern time. So I have a November release weekend I have to work, and I get to "sleep in" and start at 6am my time (8am eastern) instead of 5am .
 
I have been dealing with Daylight Savings Time most all of my life so I am used to the time changing and actually look forward to it. However, I will say that natural light changes gradually on its own with the changing of the seasons. I would rather it just stay the same. Once we change back on November 7th, that is where it should stay. IMO
 
KimJ said:
I love/need sunlight and wish we could just have the long amounts of summer daylight all year round. My current schedule at least has me up early enough that I will be able to fully appreciate the extra light in the morning we'll get when DST ends this weekend.
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For someone like me that is not an early riser, I prefer it later in the day. I'm never awake early enough to see it! LOL
 
We have it and I hate it. And the older I get, the longer always it takes me to get used to the changed time.
I was really looking forward to the end of it and it looked promising, but now we know we will have it for another 5 years...
 
I don't like the changes, BUT of the two, I prefer FALLING BACK. I always love the feeling of getting an extra hour. The Spring Forward jacks me up supremely. LOL I also love the coziness of the evening falling earlier, but I know I'm in the minority on this one.
 
I've always had DST everywhere I've lived (California and Virginia). For a long time, I have thought it should be abolished. I've read about it and we really don't need it anymore. And I like simplicity.

This year I'm going to appreciate falling back, though. My new teaching work schedule has made me give up morning walks because I can't fit a significant walk in before I have to leave for work, unless I want to walk in the dark, which I have tried and I don't like it. I'm walking right after school now, in the 4:00 hour, but I much prefer walking in the morning. For a few weeks, at least, sunrise will be early enough again that I might be able to take morning walks in November. Although now it's getting very cold, so we'll see . . .
 
Not happy about this at all!! I do not like it getting dark right after I get home from work. All my energy goes away with the sun. I wouldn't mind if we stayed on one time, but I'd prefer it be DST. I love the extra daylight in the summer!!
 
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