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Today is a rant. Why do we still follow daylight savings? I get why it used to be done due to daylight hours getting shorter and longer depending on the time of year, but still in this day and age? Does it really reduce electricity use? I highly doubt it since every freaking light gets left on in my house (3 kids in the house will never reduce your light bill).
Why is it that losing one hour takes us a week or longer to recover from it? We know its coming, it comes every year, well for those of us lucky enough to live in an area that observes it. Why oh why don’t we plan accordingly? I will admit I am horrible when it comes to planning as far as I’m concerned it doesn’t happen Sunday morning at 2 am, it happens Sunday evening when I go to bed so instead of losing the hour during my day Sunday, I get to loose an hour of sleep. Isn’t that what everyone does? Well my husband will tell you that it isn’t the case, after all he is perfect and he plans ahead by setting his clock when he goes to bed on Saturday. Can you say overachiever? I’m kidding if it weren’t for him I would never know what the correct time was. Seriously his clock is always set right, mine however, an hour fast. Today it was the right time! Go me! Believe me though when I got to bed tonight I will be setting it an hour fast. Yes I am that person and yes I know its an hour fast but it helps me in some weird way it really does. I’m not a morning person so when I first wake up the clock tricks me, yes I’m not working on all cylinders at 6 am so the hour fast ensures I’m on time to work.
You know what a great idea would be? If all clocks worked like my smart phone or my computer, it automatically changes the time you never have to do a thing. You are up all night surfing the web, blogging, facebooking, whatever it is you do at 2:00 am (you know that you do it), and all of a sudden you look at the clock and its 3:00 am and your brain says “WTF how is it already 3:00 am, ok off to bed”. You don’t stress over the hour you just think you have been doing whatever for an extra hour. Ok am I grasping at straws here? Really, for me if its out of my hands then I don’t think about it and just rock on.
Now that I’ve had my daily rant and because I’m tired from losing an hour I will leave you with a question. How do you deal with Daylight Savings Time? If you feel like joining my rant feel free to use the comment section below to rant I would love to have some fellow ranters!
I used to be like you and it would take me a week to get used to time change and I did the whole thing with the clocks being an hour fast. Rest ashured your not alone…I always did it…not so much now with me being on disability..time doesn’t matter as much as it did before…However I did forget when my bedroom clock said 730 and for a sec, couldn’t figure out why the kitchen clock said 630 and then it dawned on me…i was like duh!! lol….
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I have done that so many times. The kitchen clock throws me off because it’s the one we always forget to set.
I like this time of year. I love to keep my blinds open longer and love the sunshine coming in. My dogs though have the hardest time adjusting to the time change…but we all manage.
Your rant has been read….you’ll get use to it in no time…Let spring begin!!
I’ve never noticed if my dogs have ever been affected by it. I am definitely ready for Spring!
Oh, I have to agree with you, I’m not a huge fan of daylight savings time. I hate losing that hour of sleep most of all, but at least they did it on the weekend so I could try to adjust before Monday. Not to mention I hate how I can never remember how to change my digital watch to the right time, so I’ve been walking around the past few days with it set an hour back. The only good thing about daylight savings time is that I think I’m actually more awake during the day because my body is used to being up and about an hour earlier than it is. I still miss my extra hour though…
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I never remember how to change the clock in my car. I have to pull out the book and look it up.
I would generally agree. In fact I would agree up until last year. This year after giving birth to shall we just say not such a great sleeper seeing “6:20″ on my digital clock instead of “5:20″ when I wake up makes a huge difference. Next year I hope to agree with you again
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I think that was the only time I didn’t have an issue with the time change was also when my children were infants. That wasn’t the case when my youngest was born though since time change happened two weeks prior.
On Saturday Night Live they said it was Daylight Savings – which means the clock on your stove will now be wrong for 6 months. It’s funny because it’s true!
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With me its the clock in my car that typically is wrong for 6 months. Sometimes I take the time to get the book out to figure out how to change it. But our kitchen clock stays wrong for about a week or two.
I also hate daylight savings time. I love the extra daylight but I hate changing clocks. The one in my living room is difficult to change and i keep thinking it’s an hour earlier than it really is.
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Sometimes thinking its an hour earlier is a good thing.
My only issue with the time change…is my clocks don’t all reset themselves! It takes me weeks to get all the clocks set correctly.
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I would pay someone to provide a service of coming in and setting all my clocks. It would be so worth it.
Daylight savings time really messes with me personally, I wish we didn’t have to do this…..I can’t even explain why but it really does!
I can’t explain it either. It really messes me up too.