Yesterday in the morning, I opened my eyes and felt joy. Spring is near, the room wasn’t dark anymore -the sun was raising, and so was I. Today in the morning at the same time it was dark again. We had turned the clocks forward last night, back to daylight-saving time.
The hour of daylight in the morning, I enjoyed the day before, has now be added to the evening, for a reason I will never understand.
Jumping back and forth in time, messes with my body, my inner clock doesn’t care. I got up an hour earlier today, at the same time I always do and I feel tired.
Tonight, I will have trouble going to sleep when I will force myself to close my eyes an hour earlier than usual. My inner balance is out of whack and will continue to be, until November when I will get my hour back.
As I am typing this our dogs are still sleeping. They are an hour late, the clocks states but they know better. They will get up as usual, I am the one who is up too early.
I wish we would stop this nonsense and finally -and once and for all admit- it doesn’t save us anything.
I tried to comment on your latest post that came through on my notifications – about DST but couldn’t find it – so I am posting it here:
DST is an issue that is very controversial here. I live in one of only two states that DON’T have DST and ironically, I love it. I miss it. I do find it helps keep people more active in the evenings of summer – it is cool enough with DST to contemplate going for a walk. Too hot one hour previous in summer.
I understand why it is a big issue for some with children – luckily my internal body clock adjusts to a change within a few days. As for the farmers- the animals should not have to adjust – but people can. The farmers here voted against having another DST trial despite us having oodles of problems on the border with two time zones depending on which side of the street you live or work on, but the farmers’ reasons were ridculous. It is a bit of a joke now but some people in the original trial in the 80’s thought DST faded the curtains!
I so agree! That is one of the only things I miss after having moved back from AZ.
I experienced a “double whammy” on this year’s “spring forward” day. In addition to changing to DST, I flew back east from CA on that same day! As I’ve aged, the time it has taken me to adjust to the twice yearly changes has grown longer and longer. This time, in addition to the “double whammy”, I guess i have still not figured out how to get past or work around more consistently the still extant discomfort in my right leg. I know it’s useless to hope it will completely dissipate all on its own anytime soon, and thus I continue in vain to try to figure out what is best for me to do to try to coax the inch by inch day by day regression of this odd limitation along at a faster pace, while not injuring myself and/or setting my recovery back again and even more in the process. Meanwhile, IDK, maybe this inability and insecurity on my part is contributing to my husband’s grumpiness, along with some other “issues” he has, real or imagined? Just another trial for my own shortening patience, I guess.
We are still a couple of weeks away from British Summer Time, when we too put the clock forward. This is my natural time, you can garden late with the light still good. I feel fresher and more alive getting up that hour earlier and I hate it when we reach winter time again and the evenings suddenly go dark at 4 pm. Each to their own!
Agreed.
I cannot understand why we still do this and I cannot further understand why, if we have to have it (even though most people don’t want it) the US and Europe have to do it at different times. You went yesterday, we go in 2 weeks time. Net result with husband over from the US and us catching a flight from Lyon to Munich yesterday there was a moment when he checked his screen for the time that we thought we had got up later than we had and that we were going to miss the airport bus. Frantic panic doesn’t cover it. Grrrrrr.
Hear, hear. There doesn’t seem to be much support for it in the UK either. We still have 2 weeks to go before we spring forward!
I couldn’t agree with you more! Even our dog is upset today. LOL! I say “pick a lane” and then let’s stay in it.
Our dogs didn’t even get up with me. 🙂
LOL!
I eased into it by sleeping till noon, when it really didn’t matter what happened to that one hour. But generally I like the spring forward and hate the fall back. I don’t know why. Though now that I’m retired it doesn’t matter so much to me. Except for the dog who never springs nor falls. I think we should choose one and just stay that way.
I agree with you. Not going back in fall, just leaving it like it is, would be the best idea.
I know so many people share your feelings, but I’m just not one of them. In fact I love DST – to me it’s always meant spring is coming.
Growing up in the north when the winter days are much shorter and summer days are much longer than they are here, the changing of the clocks in the spring ‘rebalanced’ the daylight. In the summer I definitely didn’t want to see the sun at 4 am – but it’s so much nicer to still have light at 10 pm.
Although it’s not as dramatic here as it is up north, I still associate DST with spring. Ah – glorious spring!
So go ahead, you can hate, I won’t mind 🙂
Why then not keep the time the way it is without going back in November?
The back and forth is insane, especially for farmers with livestock. I don’t mind the longer days but I prefer it dark after 9 pm. That’s bedtime 🙂
I’m so with you on this. We should start a revolution. 🙂
Amen. Screw YOU DLST!! Although, this morning I didn’t have the trouble I usually do with this whole mess. Woke early, and it was light outside, even though it was early. Tonight will tell if I’m to have the usual trouble with whatever dim wit insists we continue with an archaic practice.
I hope you will sail smoothly through the first weeks of daylight-saving time.
I am soooo with you! I am exhausted, it was pitch dark when I got up… it’s crazy!!
It really messes with my body, always has. I have an inner clock and it doesn’t adjust easily and when it does, then I am forced to readjust again.
Moving the clocks by an hour twice a year is so stupid 😠