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    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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    Dark here. SAVE ME FROM THE DARKNESS.
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    I could never remember when it was anyway.

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    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.



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    I thought everyone changed their clocks at the same time, yet we haven't changed our clocks yet in England.
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    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by Talbot
    I thought everyone changed their clocks at the same time, yet we haven't changed our clocks yet in England.
    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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    Quote 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..
    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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    Quote 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!!!
    Wimp.

    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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    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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    Quote 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).
    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...

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

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    Quote 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...
    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.
    We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

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