#daylight savings

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[ukulelekatie]

happy daylight savings to those who observe

[coffee-mage-sans-caffeine]

My wife's service dog in training, Matilda, is trained to be super annoying at specific times of day. This is because my wife's executive dysfunction does not allow her to 'unfreeze' and therefore she gets 'stuck' in places/doing things long after she needs to move on to another task, room, etc. This isn't some arbitrary 'you should only play video games so long' type of thing. It's 'If unattended, my wife will not eat or sleep because moving from one thing to another is very hard'. Eating and sleeping are necessary things for survival, so moving to these tasks is necessary for survival. Matilda has therefore been taught things like 'ten pm is bedtime'. In order to help Matilda with this, her feeding schedule is on a pretty tight timeline as well--this way her internal body cues are lined up with the schedule of the day. For example, Matilda is fed between 8 and 830 pm (usually at about 810 pm, as it works out). She poops at 830 pm after dinner and she will throw a WHOLE FIT if she is not let out at this time. Daylight Savings has Happened to Matilda. She's only just a year old, so she does not remember Daylight Savings last year (she was two weeks old, roughly) and she does not remember the spring time change, either, as she was a fairly young puppy at that time and therefore not trained to a schedule like this. She is BEREFT. We're making her wait an hour for dinner. We're making her wait an hour for bedtime. She knows she needs to go out at 830, but it is not time for her to poop yet, which is BAFFLING. This poor dog. I'm sure she'll adjust in a week or two, but poor Matilda. We need to outlaw Daylight Savings. For Matilda.

[beardedmrbean]

[rocktheholygrail]

tfw it’s daylight savings time again

[its-your-mind]

Update in mind news: we are not having a baha blast with daylight savings in this household

[caitylove]

This was too damn funny not to share.

[incognitopolls]

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[correctopinionhaver]

[eskiworks]

tumblr, I'm ashamed that I didn't see a SINGLE Oskaar post today for daylight savings. I WILL BRING HIM TO YOU IF YOU DO NOT BRING HIM TO ME.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[todays-xkcd]

I average out the spring and fall changes and just set my clocks 39 minutes ahead year-round.

Daylight Savings Choice [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Black Hat is speaking at a lectern, flanked by Ponytail and Hairy.] Black Hat: From now on, everyone who likes daylight saving time should change their clocks, and everyone who doesn't, shouldn't.

Caption: The government finally decides to put an end to all the arguments.

[maklodes]

Daylight Savings Time has a number of arguments against it, which generally seem more persuasive to me than the arguments for it, but one thing that's compelling to me that I don't see mentioned is maybe more idiosyncratic and curmudgeonly: I think daylight savings time corrupts the metric of time. If we want to do everything earlier in the more summery months, the honest way, the way with integrity is to schedule things sooner. If your work day was 9:00-5:00, reschedule it to 8:00-4:00.

The hours of the day are supposed to be arranged so that the sun is at its apogee around 12:00 noon. If sunrise is at 5:00 AM, sunset should be around 7:00 PM. I suppose time zones are also a corruption of time to an extent, but that strikes me as more of a necessity so that someone living 30 km to the east of a city center doesn't have a clock time that's three minutes ahead of someone living 30 km to the west of city center.

[bastionofbibliophiles]

Please reblog for a higher sample size. If you want, tag/comment the option you chose and whether you live in the east or west side of your local time zone.

[charlottelerose]

[thegoodmorningman]

At least you'll be at work so there's something worse to distract you!!!