How excited is everyone for daylight saving time?
 

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DST should be abolished. It's just a useless tradition which has no purpose. ..All it does is disrupt peoples circadian rhythm and mess up their sleeping patterns.

We're (EU) is thankfully getting rid of that bull**** and we're more north than you guys.

I'm also a fan of riding in the dark early AM

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Originally Posted by Jim from Boston (Post 18597775)

…One of the enjoyments of Winter cycling is the extended period of darkness of the morning to ride. One benefit of riding in the dark is that if it’s gloomy weather, you don’t notice it…

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Originally Posted by banerjek (Post 18597061)

…I think it's safe enough, but car headlights make it hard to see things…

But on clear nights, it's a blast -- I always had the sensation that everything was all mine. Rural roads in the dark, particularly with a bit of moonlight assist is awesome.

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Last autumn, when I stayed overnight at my job at a suburban site, I tried some very early morning riding and had the same problem about oncoming car lights.

In the city there is enough ambient light to keep my pupils constricted, but on the very dark suburban/exurban roads I become very dark-adapted and oncoming lights are blinding. But I too enjoy that sensation that everything is mine, and I’m in my own world. I calI it “cocooning.”

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Originally Posted by Rowan (Post 18597753)

…I have done a lot of night riding over the years. Often, the roads and paths are very quiet, and on country roads, I find myself in a cocoon or tunnel of light and my imagination can run wild…

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This...but then I'm retired and not getting kids off to school in the dark.

I spent the last two months toiling in the dark at 6AM. Just recently it's been light out for the last half hour of my commute, which feels great. Now I gotta go back to the dark ages!:mad:

Not excited at all. But looking forward to what it means it terms of the weather.

It will be abolished in the EU.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/site...ive-639_en.pdf

As early as 2019, but most likely in 2021.

Good riddance!

NOT excited. More like Furious that we still have to deal with this BS in the modern era.

"Simon says ... turn your clocks forward an hour."

F.U. :(

Spring is coming! :)

Sometimes I feel safer in the dark...

I have hated the periodic time change for decades. I go through a weeks-long period of feeling messed up with every change. In the Fall of 2017, I decided to modify my work schedule to split the difference, offsetting my schedule by only 30 minutes, reverting back 30 minutes the following Spring. I have to say that it worked rather well; however I would prefer that we just pick standard or daylight time and stick with it all year long. Is anyone euphoric about the time change? I expect that it is more tolerated than appreciated.

My biggest commuting issue with the time change was having to endure the twilight periods twice as much. During these period of low light, as many as one third of local motorists would not run lights on their vehicles making them very difficult to see. Moreover, the lights of prudent motorists would "hide" these stealth runners making it almost impossible to gauge traffic while riding. Definitely scary. Having made it through that sketchy period once, only having to go through it once more when the time changed was discouraging.

I personally have a mixed feeling but am mostly positive to Daylight Savings. The hour early shocks my system. I have been trying to acclimate to the expected time change for about two weeks now.

But I LOVE the extra day light right out the door in the PM. It means to me that the chances of surviving my commute go up, up, up. Plus it means I can do more exercise (run, go to the gym) and still finish before it gets dark

It does get darker in the AM, at least at the outset. But it does eventually get brighter out in the am.

So partly it's an appreciation of extra day light in the PM, and partly it's a huge "milestone" that is also a harbinger of spring

Bleh. I hate DST. It messes up my sleep cycle, and I prefer the dark morning commute as my times square lighting/reflector setup is much more visible in the dark. I'm happy for spring, because I'm tired of being cold, but we really should just make up our minds about this clock changing business one way or the other and leave it that way.

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That said, I do prefer DST over Standard. In Standard time I end up riding in evening twilight, and I prefer either light or dark.

What is the EU permanently adopting, standard time or daylight savings time?

I think a "no change" approach. The savings time is the adapted version, so I assume that will be dropped.

DST is the best thing ever invented. I love changing back and forth. I love not being a grump who complains about this twice a year. It's hardly different than changing time zones on an airplane trip.

DST is probably my favorite thing in the world!

i love it so much i wish chicago would just stay on it year round and ditch central standard time altogether.


full disclosure: my work schedule is such that i leave home at 7:50am every morning, so i always have plenty of daylight for the ride in, even on the winter solstice.

it's at the end of my workday (5:30pm) where i really appreciate the extra daylight that the DST switch brings.

I prefer dark on morning than when going home :)