Eff You, Daylight Savings Time. Eff You.
What the fuck. Obviously George Vernon Hudson didn’t have children. It gets dark. So fucking what? I’ll start with the Wikipedia definition of daylight savings. I didn’t know the point of it and after reading it, I still don’t see the effing point.
Daylight saving time is the practice of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand entomologist. Many countries have used it since then; details vary by location and change occasionally.
The practice is controversial. Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes problems for farming, evening entertainment and other occupations tied to the sun. Traffic fatalities are reduced when there is extra afternoon daylight; its effect on health and crime is less clear. Although an early goal of DST was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity, modern heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited and often contradictory.
DST’s occasional clock shifts present other challenges. They complicate timekeeping, and can disrupt meetings, travel, billing, recordkeeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Many computer-based systems can adjust their clocks automatically, but this can be limited and error-prone, particularly when DST rules change.
I am in a bad mood. This is my bad mood. I have been absolutely miserable this weekend and for that I apologize. Especially to everyone in my house if you’re reading this. Partially because I was really looking forward to Halloween, and it was absolutely destroyed. Secondly, because of effing Daylight Savings.
The entire purpose of Daylight Savings is moot. Who cares if it’s dark. It was dark Saturday and we were fine. My kids were on schedule. It doesn’t really matter when we have light, because my kids wake up and go to sleep at the same exact time every day, only now instead of 7:30 AM and PM, they’re up at 6:30 freaking AM and are miserable after 6:30PM, waiting for 7:30PM.
I know they advise the whole “adjust their sleep gradually by 15 minutes” and whatnot but that doesn’t necessarily do shit. My kids are officially turned into total D-bags (they are so don’t yell at me) and make it their mission to scream at the top of their lungs and make leaving my home for any reason virtually impossible.
I have little point to this post except to rant and bitch, because I know everyone here agrees with me. I invite you all to vent and bitch and rage, taking all of your daylight savings aggression out on my comment section. Let’s all band together and join my anti-daylight savings time facebook group, because that’s what people do when they hate something and for some reason believe that if they form that group and get a million people to join, Facebook will revert back to it’s old style.
Eff you daylight savings time. Eff you.
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Oh Julie, I am so with you. It is such a pain in the butt and your right it is 900 times harder on the kiddos!
Sorry your in a bad mood. If you get a break from runnin around and get a nap, maybe you’ll feel a tad bit better.
{{{Big MUSHY Hugs}}}
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I bet Benjamin Franklin didn’t have to put up with this daylight savings time nonsense. Good thing it’s not called “Daylight Savings & Loan” or we probably would’ve lost two hours this year.
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I feel your pain! My kids were sleeping until almost 7:00 last week, and now this week my two-year old feels the need to get up at 5 freakin’ 30! She’s tired and crabby, I’m tired and crabby, and it’s a no win situation.
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I was going to write a very similar post on Tuesday about this. I hate daylight savings. My kids get up with the sun. The kids are getting up 6-6:30 am. I’m with you, eff you daylight savings.
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Oh my gosh! I despise DST! I am dealing with the same thing in my house. My daughter has been getting up at 5:45!! Yes, 5:45. And so cranky by 7pm. She was fine sleeping until 7:30am for months. So why is she waking up almost 2 hours early? I just hope she stops the madness before the weekend so I can get some sleep.
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I think that DST does help in some areas. In construction, it helps to get an early start. Funny about what it says though? It actually works the opposite way, it gets dark earlier, and gets lighter, earlier in the morning!
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3 yrs ago my youngest went to sleep at 730, but turn the clocks back and BAM! he’s zonked out by 630, he didn’t change back come spring. He’s still going to bed at 630-7pm and he’s almost 5. I think School will definitely wear him out.
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If I was on FB, I’d totally join your group! DST blows. My baby is now up at 7:30am instead of 8:30am and I’m pretty much a miserable bitch before 9am. So now I get to try to be a good [read "happy"] Mommy at the butt-crack of dawn. Can’t our “Change we can believe in” President change this!?
Good effing morning.
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You go girl!
Darkness at 4:45 in the afternoon totally sux!
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My kids always had a hard time adjusting to daylight savings when they were younger, especially in the spring. I don’t mind it in the winter when it gets dark earlier, cuz I love the dark, but I hate it in the summer when it makes it stay light till 10. That’s just uncalled for.
I heard a rumor that they were going to get rid of daylight savings time in 2012. But, then the world is also supposed to end then too, so who knows?
I LOVE Falling back but I CURSE Springing Ahead!!!
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I can’t stand DST and it’s even worse with babies and young children, not to mention pets and anything living that has any sort of schedule at all!
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I agree Julie…they should just leave it be. It is hard on the kids and hard on the moms to have to make yet another adjustment!
I could have written this post word for word! I once had a happy, on schedule toddler. Now I’ve got a miserable, whiny, crabby, out of control, temper tantrum-throwing monster living in my house!! It will take weeks before he’s normal again!
I don’t care if it’s light in the morning, I am at work in the morning, who needs the sun? I want to be able to go outside and get the mail when I get home without total darkness!
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I absolutely hate DST! Arizona does not do it so it is a big adjustment for me. I miss Arizona… Right now it is 5:25pm and completely dark outside already. I hate it! I also keep waking up too early and can’t fall back to sleep. I love my sleep and I want to sleep in damn it!
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We turn the clocks back in the Winter in Britain then forward in the Spring …. I love turning them back. I always feel tired for the preceeding two weeks prior to them being turned back by that magical hour extra that I can spend in bed and replenished. By nature we really are meant to have slightly more sleep in the Winter than the Summer which very few of us ever have. The next best thing is the animal instinct deep within that urges us to sleep an hour more in the mornings. When the clocks go back – yipee – we can.
According to some we should also have an afternoon nap – of course, they manage to do this in some parts of Europe. Sadly it has never been introduced here. In old fashioned housewife books it actually recommends the practice of all housewives to lie down for a full 30 minutes or more every afternoon …. alas that also doesn’t appear to be common practise.
I suppose – the change of the clocks is all dependent upon whereabouts you live and your lifestyle – it can be miserable getting up in the dark when it is cold and bleak and the snow is falling. Equally, when they have tried what is termed as double-summertime I can remember many mornings in England when it has been really dark and dull until around eleven in the morning and that also can be most depressing. I suppose we can never please everyone. Perhaps the answer is to reduce working hours and schooling hours during the dark days of Winter!!
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You’re like the first person I know who voiced out the illogical and unrational decision of DST. you’re funny!
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oh my…such a pain indeed!
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Amen to that! While I do enjoy gaining that hour back in the fall and despising losing it in the Spring, it didn’t bother me as much until I had a kid. You can’t get them to ‘adjust’…hell, us adults have trouble adjusting to the time change!
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Amen to that!! What is the freaking point? You have put my thoughts into words, so I don’t need to waste the breath. Thank you
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You are soooo not alone! Daylight Savings SUCKS if you have kids. The boys’ sitter said she couldn’t wait for the time change because she gained an hour. Grrr! Yeah, if you don’t have kids! All it does is make for a freakish long day that day and a week of chaotic schedules. My boys don’t adjust 15 minutes a day much either. They did better this year than last, at least, but I still feel your pain. Hope they adjust soon!
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