It's weird because the day before we turned the clocks back, 5:27 p.m. was not that dark. Next day, 5:27 p.m. is dark as midnight, yup this comic is accurate.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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Oh yes and add to that a fucked sleep pattern for at least a week.
I really hope this nonsense ends some day. I don't even care if it's summer or wintertime just stop switching.
My sleep has been amazing since the switch. Go to bed tired because it feels like I stayed up an extra hour, wake up an hour early because my biological clock thinks it's time to get up and then get to chill and take my time getting ready in the morning. It's nice. The spring one on the other hand...
This ^^^
The EU were well on the way to agreeing to stop this nonsense, then it got delayed, Brexit happened (so whether it would still have happened in the UK is anybody's guess), and COVID hit. I don't think it has been mentioned since.
I was so excited for that change to rock in. Fucking Brexit. :(
it has nothing to do with brexit.
the eu somehow unilaterally decided to do it and stop the time switching - that has been agreed on. and now the only thing that is left is for 27 countries to agree on which time to keep... π
which will never happen and i am glad for that. i like these long summer evenings where you can do stuff and that is what would probably be canceled.
doing it otherwise and keeping the summer time for all year would mean that the daylight in winter would start at 9am, contrary to today's 8am, which would be terrible for out biorhytms (or so do biologists specializing in this area say)
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They always try to keep the summer time, and everyone is happy until winter, when people get so upset at waking before dawn they inevitably return to the daylight savings system
It does have to be permanent winter time, this has been studied and has clear results
It's weird being in the southern hemisphere. We just recently changed to summer time.
Around the equator, there's no daylight saving time. It's also dark every day year round at 6 pm. The only way to prevent early darkness is to go live in the Southern Hemisphere for winter.
Idk, i think 12h of daylight every day would be nice...we hit something like 7h of daylight where I live during winter. And we don't even have snow or anything to make it nice, we just have a gray wet depressing mess of winters.
The night time is the right time
CST?
Yeah. Imagin go to work at the sunrise and go home when the sun is already set. Yuppy!!!
I reallly don't get why do many people dislike the dark. It's nice at night!
It's not like y'all are doing shit outside in the daylight this time of year anyway.
Just cause you aren't doesn't mean the rest of us aren't.
It's going to be sunny and 60Β° F this week for me - and those temps will be late afternoon - 4pm till sunset.
Hah ha yeah 5pm, definitely not 3pm. Who needs more than 6 hours of sunlight anyways.
Norra Norrland in January is lit - no wait, the opposite of lit, but in a good way.
Idk i love summer here but im just not built for the winter here. It doesnt even get really cold but theres so little daylight. Thats why i might move to canada cause its much less northern, has colder winters and hotter summers. Those are all wins for me.
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could be worse, could be stuck on daylight time
Standard time is where most human circadian rhythms naturally land, so yeah.