New time change...

I don't know if its just me or just because I'm not travelling as much this year, but damn I cannot get use to this earlier daylights savings time change. Anyone else have this issue, especially in the northern states? I mean c'mon, almost 8 and there is still light...mid march..

Dark here. SAVE ME FROM THE DARKNESS.

I could never remember when it was anyway.

I know what you mean. I'm on spring break in Michigan right now, and it gets dark so late. It's really weird. My room is in the basement though, with no windows, so it really doesn't affect me to much.

I thought everyone changed their clocks at the same time, yet we haven't changed our clocks yet in England.

We are going to change them the 25th of March this year (2 am --> 3 am).

My birthday will only last for 23 hours this year, due to that :bigcry:

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Originally Posted by ShadeHonestus

I don't know if its just me or just because I'm not travelling as much this year, but damn I cannot get use to this earlier daylights savings time change. Anyone else have this issue, especially in the northern states? I mean c'mon, almost 8 and there is still light...mid march..

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Try Scotland! Been there during a month of June: at 9pm I was feeling like it was 7! the most funny was to be at 4.30 am in the streets, in full daylight!!!

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Originally Posted by Talbot

I thought everyone changed their clocks at the same time, yet we haven't changed our clocks yet in England.

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The US changed it starting this year, spring ahead is 3 weeks earlier, fall back is 1 week later than usual. Europe stayed on the original schedule.
I wish they wouldn't change the damn clocks at all, messes with my body clock and sleep patterns. Seems to take me a couple of weeks to adjust.

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Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito

The US changed it starting this year, spring ahead is 3 weeks earlier, fall back is 1 week later than usual. Europe stayed on the original schedule.
I wish they wouldn't change the damn clocks at all, messes with my body clock and sleep patterns. Seems to take me a couple of weeks to adjust.

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I'll second that! ~:cheers: DST isn't worth the trouble, IMO.

You're all chumps! Move to Hawaii, we don't do Daylight Savings Time. Only change for me is all the TV programs are an hour earlier.

I hate DST, it always signals the days getting cold and the nights getting colder and then I can't be bothered getting out of bed because it is freezing. It requires enormous willpower and effort then my energy is all spent for the day.

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Originally Posted by Hepcat

I hate DST, it always signals the days getting cold and the nights getting colder and then I can't be bothered getting out of bed because it is freezing. It requires enormous willpower and effort then my energy is all spent for the day.

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Agreed.

*Shakes fist at the Earth*

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Originally Posted by Caerfanan

Try Scotland! Been there during a month of June: at 9pm I was feeling like it was 7! the most funny was to be at 4.30 am in the streets, in full daylight!!!

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Wimp. ~;p

Let me put it this way, if darkness outside = night then our longest "day" last for 2 months (not kidding, and I'm still living quite a bit south form the polar circle).

My first reflex when seeing last years 4 July pictures in the Gallery was

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FORGERY. Then I remembered that the sun goes down a bit earlier in most places.

The wierd thing about DST is that it's the summer time that feels most fitting to live with, not the "normal" time.

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Originally Posted by Hepcat

I hate DST, it always signals the days getting cold and the nights getting colder and then I can't be bothered getting out of bed because it is freezing. It requires enormous willpower and effort then my energy is all spent for the day.

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That's the funny part! For us northeners, it's the moment when the days grow longer, and the air warmer (well supposed to, we lost 10°C in France this last week)

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Originally Posted by Ironside

Let me put it this way, if darkness outside = night then our longest "day" last for 2 months (not kidding, and I'm still living quite a bit south form the polar circle).

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Where are you from in Sweden? I've been to Göteborg between december 27th and january the 2nd and was expecting the days to be horribly short, but they were actually "only" two hours shorter than in the south of France. Göteborg is in the south of the country, though...

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Originally Posted by Ironside

The wierd thing about DST is that it's the summer time that feels most fitting to live with, not the "normal" time.

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Yes, that's right! But for the southrons, it appears to be quite opposite, if I understood correctly!

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Originally Posted by Caerfanan

Where are you from in Sweden? I've been to Göteborg between december 27th and january the 2nd and was expecting the days to be horribly short, but they were actually "only" two hours shorter than in the south of France. Göteborg is in the south of the country, though...

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Luleå.

There's about 3 hours of sun during the darkest time (compared to 7,5 hours in Göteborg) and about 1 hour between sunset and sunrise in the summer.

The difference is quite telling when you see live sports-events from southern Sweden during the summer.