[issybird]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

It takes me at least a week before I can appreciate that side of it. I like the effect, hate the fact that we lost the hour of sleep today.

I really hope this is the last time I need to do this. Our state legislature passed a "year-round day light savings time" bill last year, hopefully the US congress will get off their duffs and let us actually do it.

Here in New England they’ve been batting around a similar idea for a few years, and we wouldn’t need congressional approval, either. The proposal is to go on Atlantic Standard Time all year. The wrinkle as I understand it is that you need congress for permanent daylight time, but not permanent standard time. But I could be wrong about the semantics of it and it boils down to the same thing. I’d love it.

Basically we need to get in tune with each other, as there’s a series of cascading conditions in effect. New Hampshire is waiting on Massachusetts, Maine is waiting on NH. Connecticut, for obvious reasons, would presumably opt out. I think the real objection is that sunrise would be awfully late early in January; the kids waiting for buses argument.

Originally Posted by Hitch

I run a group meeting every morning, online, that is tied to the time of day elsewhere, so it means I'm up at 5 each morning during DST (where I am does not observe DST, so, to the view of the rest of the world, we "shift" 2x annually, although it's actually the other way 'round--we do NOT shift, everybody shifts around us).

I rather loathe it for that reason. Getting up an hour earlier, 6 mos out of the year is tedious.

That would be eight months, just about. At which point, I think it’s more logical to say that you get up later for four months.