Bingo :)

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/04/end-of-daylight-saving-prompts-debate-again-on-if-new-zealand-should-stop-putting-the-clocks-back.html

That was a really difficult weekend. Yesterday felt like it went forever. Should we get rid of the clock changes too? Could a referendum be held over it maybe? If it's really that popular to stay on DST permanently...

quickymart:

 

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/04/end-of-daylight-saving-prompts-debate-again-on-if-new-zealand-should-stop-putting-the-clocks-back.html

 

That was a really difficult weekend. Yesterday felt like it went forever. Should we get rid of the clock changes too? Could a referendum be held over it maybe? If it's really that popular to stay on DST permanently...

 

That's the great thing about it, unless you work on sunday.  Just think if it happened on monday of a work week :(

Even more argument to leave it as is then (on permanent DST), although I imagine some people in Otago and Southland probably wouldn't be too happy. But as I asked earlier in the thread, what about the people who live in, say, the northern slopes of Alaska? They just get on with it and make it work.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-front-page-is-it-time-to-make-daylight-saving-permanent/24YXLOLRGYTG2SHSC4WUJVP6MM/

I can't see the issue. If there was no time change, then someone will need to decide do we favour Summer evenings or Winter mornings. Whichever one is chosen, there will be complaints. At least with DST we can maximise Summer evening daylight, and when it changes, maximise Winter morning daylight. I have no issue changing two alarm clocks, oven clock, kitchen clock, microwave clock, and a solar HW and a HW cyl timer. Two days in, bodyclock is fine

I hate it. I find it an absolute pain. It is silly, unnecessary, and pointless. No, it is no biggie on the cosmic scale of things, just an irritation I could do without.

One of the side-effects of working from home is that I didn't even know it was happening! I remember back in the day Windows used to pop up a "your clock has been changed" notification, but yesterday the first I knew was when I was an hour early to an appointment (as I was running off the kitchen clock at the time, and of course the one in the car was also showing the old time).

I'm over clock switches. The clocks moving forward is the one I really hate.

I honestly don't understand why people find it hard to adjust. Its 1 hour twice a year, and for that you get the best of both worlds. Early morning winter sun and late evening summer sun. 

How do you cope when travelling across time zones?

Senecio:

 

How do you cope when travelling across time zones?

 

I tend to feel exhausted, go to bed, and proceed to lie there awake for hours. It's terrible.

Senecio:

 

I honestly don't understand why people find it hard to adjust. Its 1 hour twice a year, and for that you get the best of both worlds. Early morning winter sun and late evening summer sun. 

 

 

 

How do you cope when travelling across time zones?

 

Yes, it is quite hard, especially with young children. Personally it takes me ages to try and adjust, and even then it doesn't happen properly.

Travelling across time zones is totally different, I don't do that every six months.

Senecio:

 

I honestly don't understand why people find it hard to adjust. Its 1 hour twice a year, and for that you get the best of both worlds. Early morning winter sun and late evening summer sun. 

 

How do you cope when travelling across time zones?

 

Kids - although they are way, way past that now - and getting up an hour earlier because I am expected to be in an office (well, used to pre-Covid).

Travel and time zones - I kinda look forward to as it means I am going somewhere I have chosen to go to and don't have to turn up to an office when I get there.

quickymart:

 

Senecio:

 

I honestly don't understand why people find it hard to adjust. Its 1 hour twice a year, and for that you get the best of both worlds. Early morning winter sun and late evening summer sun. 

 

 

 

How do you cope when travelling across time zones?

 

 

Yes, it is quite hard, especially with young children. Personally it takes me ages to try and adjust, and even then it doesn't happen properly.

 

Travelling across time zones is totally different, I don't do that every six months.

 

I have a 4YO and 8YO.

Was no problem at all, easier if anything as they had an extra hour to get ready

I find the "extra hour" advantage normally disappears after about a week. My boys were up super early anyway, but I imagine by next week they'll be better. It's me who finds it the most difficult to make the changeover.

Senecio:

 

I honestly don't understand why people find it hard to adjust. Its 1 hour twice a year, and for that you get the best of both worlds. Early morning winter sun and late evening summer sun. 

 

Or you get the worst of it all if your preferences are the other way.

It made sense in the old days when people didnt have easy ways to see what trading hours of places were. Now that we do, it makes more sense for people that wish to leave work earlier sun to actually just leave work earlier than to mess about with the timezone to suit.