This Stupid Time Change

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pegasus216

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It's messing with everyone in the house! The grand kids got up before 6 AM this morning!
Yesterday morning, Kaden was up at 5:15!
I woke up at 2:30 yesterday morning, and couldn't get back to sleep. This morning, it was about 3:15.
I hope this gets better!
What about any of you?
 

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This one isn't nearly as hard to adjust to as the spring change for me. I notice it with the kids, though. Especially at mealtimes and bedtime and they have both gotten up according to their internal clocks these last 2 mornings. (Well, the two youngest ones, anyway. The 13 year old would sleep til noon every day if I let him.)

I have not changed my wall clock in the living room yet. That is always a pain.
 
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It's messing with everyone in the house! The grand kids got up before 6 AM this morning!
Yesterday morning, Kaden was up at 5:15!
I woke up at 2:30 yesterday morning, and couldn't get back to sleep. This morning, it was about 3:15.
I hope this gets better!
What about any of you?
I let Josh sleep until 6:30, even though we had a 5:30 wake up call. That gave me time to make coffee, shower, get dressed etc.

I am just glad I don't have to go to work until tomorrow as I'm pretty sure everyone will be thrown off their regular routine and grumpy.

Isn't it amazing how inflexible we all are? Creatures of habit, I guess!
 

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The difficult thing is to remember to switch. Then it is not so difficult to adjust. But my slleeping habits are always very strange so i might have no say. Internal clock? Mine is always put on sleep, never get up and that does not change with jiggling the time one hour back or forwards.
 

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This one isn't nearly as hard to adjust to as the spring change for me.

Me, too. It's been hard getting up for at least a month now because it was so dark in the morning. My internal clock needs the light to get up on my own. I'm not crazy about it getting dark at 4 PM or earlier as the time goes on toward Dec. 21 but still easier for me on that end of the day than the beginning.
 

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Discomfort with and complaints about the time change is as inevitable as the time change itself. I enjoy having the extra daylight in the other eight months. Don't like driving home in the dark at 5:00. Shrug.

Seems to be that the window of DST has gotten wider over the years, and it takes up more months than "standard time." So looking at it logically, DST should now be "standard" time, and current "standard" time should be Afternoon Lost Light time, or "alt time."
 

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Discomfort with and complaints about the time change is as inevitable as the time change itself. I enjoy having the extra daylight in the other eight months. Don't like driving home in the dark at 5:00. Shrug.

Seems to be that the window of DST has gotten wider over the years, and it takes up more months than "standard time." So looking at it logically, DST should now be "standard" time, and current "standard" time should be Afternoon Lost Light time, or "alt time."

It seems to me that we do this backwards. We should have the extra afternoon daylight in the winter when it gets dark early instead of in the summer.
 

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It seems to me that we do this backwards. We should have the extra afternoon daylight in the winter when it gets dark early instead of in the summer.
I could be wrong, but I think the time change goes back to the days when our country was mostly agricultural-based and we needed more daylight hours to get the crops harvested. Or, sumthin' like that.
 

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