QUESTION: Do you think changing the clocks actually affects your sleep or mood, or do people exaggerate it?
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QUESTION: Do you think changing the clocks actually affects your sleep or mood, or do people exaggerate it?
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I ignore DST. The clocks change but the sun is still overhead at 12 PM STD. When I worked onsite we decided to go to lunch at 12:30 to split the difference and banned any meetings until 1:30 PM. DST throws circadian rhythms off and can increase obesity. 😎
Affects my sleep but get used to it after a week or two… but would prefer it stay one way or the other – standard or day light
I think it’s exaggerated. One hour shouldn’t make or break a day. Get over it and move on. It happens twice a year.
I’d say “SOMEWHAT” … Too many wall clocks and stove clocks to change. Also wakeup alarm!?!
I think it’s exaggerated. It is the same as traveling one time zone. The rule of thumb is that it takes about one day per time zone change. I have traveled extensively, both for business and pleasure and I haven’t found it to be an issue. My experience is that 1 – 3 time zones are easy to deal with and even 9 (going to and from Europe) take a bit longer, but not 9 days. I prefer the current system of the change from PST to PDT and back.
It definitely has an effect on everyone, perceived or not.
It has never affected my sleep. When I was working, I simply adjusted my
bedtime accordingly. Now that I’m retired, I go to bed when I want, and
sleep until I wake up.
The only people I see that are affected by the time change are the whiners.
It never fails, twice a year they will post a comment whining about the time
change. It’s my guess that they are pessimists and are predominately
unhappy and unable to cope with life’s anxieties and stressful situations.
They feel powerless and find comfort in their whining.
You only go around once in life, make the best of it and enjoy it while you
can, there are far worse things in life than changing the clocks, and it’s
only a big deal when a person choses to make it a big deal.
I agree with Kentucky Derby, ClayDen, and Dawg. 🙂
WELL OF COURSE IT DOES!!!!
Being retired makes no difference.
Need to pick one and stop this bac-n-forth, for those who can’t
figure out how to change time on their microwave and vehicles.
A mess is caused if one state wants to stick with DST and the state next door wants to stick to STD. That means that going between adjacent towns may be confusing because they are in different time zones. Now have you heard the phrase “the time in Indiana” since they kept changing time zones and also adopting the time zone of an adjacent city?
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That’s why I advocate UTC and do away with time zones. And I was reading an article this morning about states legislating either DST or STD year round. IOW, utter chaos!
I don’t think anyone wants STD year round!
FYI
See below links for how changing the clocks effects our health:
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/09/daylight-saving-time.html
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2023/7-things-to-know-about-daylight-saving-time
I like DST, but I think it would be better if it began a month later and ended a month earlier.
I know it affects my mood/sleep. I prefer cool and cozy, not endless bright and blistering. I’ve always associated this time change with stress and falsehoods.
Frankly, as I physically had no Winter due to an injury, I just got started feeling very positive and still do, but that devil of a thought kept coming through. “Great, nine plus months of no cozy cool weather.”
We should have no time zones and no time at all. Get to work whenever you want. Tell your boss you should be thankful I’m here, who else is going to do this for a living. The same goes for school. The teachers should be thankful the kids showed up. They get paid more, right? No more time clocks. If you say you got to work at 8 a.m., you got to work at 8 a.m. Case closed. Go to bed when you want and get up when you want. This will be great for our health, and everybody will be happy and healthy…