There was some interesting discussion on my poll about daylight savings time

[andrewducker]

People fell broadly into four camps:
1) "I like being awake at night, so I want the light then."
2) "I like being awake at night, so I need the light first thing in the morning to help me wake up."
3) "I like being awake early in the day."
4) "I don't care where you put the light, but stop moving it around and breaking my sleep schedule!"

With a couple of people, as ever, falling into the camp of "I refuse to accept your hypothetical question."

Overall, the results were half for "Use the light at waking up time to make it easier/nicer." and half for "Use the light to prolong the day into the evening."

On a more personal note, while Gideon has enougb naps during the day to not really be affected by clock changes, Sophia spent the first three days after the clocks went back waking up around 6am and then falling asleep around 7pm. I was actually awake an hour early this morning and couldn't get back over because I was expected Sophia to appear at any moment, only to find that she's slept in today, and I'm going to have to wake her up in 10 minutes!

Also - polls continue to be the best way of stimulating discussion, and having a poll over here on Dreamwidth produces more discussion on Facebook as well. Twitter continues to be completely useless for any kind of discussion, but excellent for making declarations into the void, and reading news from people who, sadly, have decided that it's the best place to talk about things.

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

this though https://twitter.com/carometonym/status/1455662817437224976 ("yes let’s debate whether it’s better to have one hour of sunlight on the way to work or on the way home from work rather than question whether the workday should be so long as to take up all the sunlight on a winter’s day")

[andrewducker]

On the one hand, I agree, somewhat.

On the other hand, I have to get the kids to nursery.

[naath]

Someone I know said "let us stick with the Europeans, changing the offset is the worst thing" for which I currently have extra sympathy, it being dst confusion week (the USA move the weekend we are about to have); I am also very in favour of less work...

My chronotype desperately prefers getting up in daylight, mornings are awful anyway. And I can be awake long into the dark, I don't think I ever go to bed in daylight (except when I moved myself to nz time without going anywhere). Perhaps the answer is being allowed to work 10-6 or even 11-7 but alas, my workplace is super keen on mornings.

[captainsblog]

And then this happened. Wonder how many flights were missed on account.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-telus-clocks-1.6232494?fbclid=IwAR2G-fmkThdrw2I4tue8_o5y6z2YNT3JUt0BIgrW1u-0CT8npYuu2HOIi8w

[andrewducker]

Oh Good Grief!

[symbioid]

I missed this but I think 4. Personally I would rather it be lighter during winter, so keep it moved ahead later, instead of moving back. The only reason I like moving back is so i get an extra hour of sleep. LOL.

[symbioid]

And I just saw your comment on the various platforms... don't even get me started on people who use Twitter as a blogging platform, and know "unfurl/unroll/reader" "apps" for twitter to assist in making it easier to use, are still trash and twitter isn't a blog. LOL.

[agoodwinsmith]

Although I voted, I am in the PICK ONE! JUST FUCKING PICK ONE! camp.

[azurelunatic]

The only personal upside to moving it around that I can see is: at least once a year, other people have to live with the same jet-lag that I have perpetually.

[cellio]

I missed the poll, but I'm solidly in the "do what you want but stop moving it around darn it" camp. It's not just sleep schedules; it's not just the hassle of having to reset devices (not everything is on the Internet); it's also the needless disruptions in anything that depends somewhat precisely on time, like hospital medication schedules and train/air schedules, and the extra chaos of scheduling meetings across time zones. ("Why didn't you call me at 4 like we agreed?" / "I did; you didn't answer." / "Uh, did you catch that 4 this week isn't like 4 last week?" / "oh.")