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I hate fall back. I live in Washington State, so I am so far North that it is dark by 4:30PM here. I wish they would keep it on Daylight Saving Time year round. But then in December that'd mean 9:00AM sunrises.
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I hate fall back. I live in Washington State, so I am so far North that it is dark by 4:30PM here. I wish they would keep it on Daylight Saving Time year round. But then in December that'd mean 9:00AM sunrises.
You may not remember this, but I do: DST was originally legislated to begin the last Sunday of April. This also did not interfere with Easter's occurence, and because sunrise and set by then were already early and late enough, it minimized how much the effect of the change was felt. Sunrise was moved from 5am to 6am under that scheme. With the start point in March now, sunrise shifts from after 6am to after 7am, making it feel like December again, in March!
It may feel like December again in March due to the late sunrises, but the sun also sets after 7PM, 2 and a half hours later than December, I much prefer that.
But we aren't on Daylight Saving Time in December. So the sunrises are 8:00AM, but if you look at it the other way, if we were on Standard Time in June, it would be starting to get light at 3:40AM, that's way too early. DST all year for me.
I live in Arizona, all it causes is Cardinal football games to start later and TV programs start an hour later as well (except typical network programming.) I honestly am glad I we don't, it seems silly at this point. Keep us an hour early or late all year already.
See I'm different, I prefer my daylight earlier, as in standard time, and couldn't care less how early it got dark. But I'm the only one here who feels that way, and probably among the whole country!
I prefer DST because office worker culture in this country is obsessed with the 5pm stop time. I have worked for four companies and numerous managers and the vast majority of them mandated working until 5pm regardless of how early the workers arrived. I could arrive at 6am every day and I would still have to work until 5pm. Since I work indoors and the first shift, morning daylight is worthless to me. I want to experience even just a little daylight during the commute home in the depths of winter. Getting out of work in darkness is just depressing.
If office worker culture in this country became more flexible on timing then I could learn to enjoy standard time.
See I'm different, I prefer my daylight earlier, as in standard time, and couldn't care less how early it got dark. But I'm the only one here who feels that way, and probably among the whole country!
You're not the only one. Count me in for standard time, too. Maybe before March DST will be abolished. One can dream.
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Maybe before March DST will be abolished. One can dream. 
