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November 2016

Fall Back DST memes

Hey, welcome readers! This post is from 2016, and while it’s still funny, there’s lot’s more fun stuff. The easiest way to see it all may be just to use this DST Memes tag.

In the spring I presented a collection of memes about the “spring forward” DST clock changing insanity.

I know we get an extra hour of sleep this time, but it doesn’t feel like it. I’m all goofed up already, and I’m really dreading the sun going down before I get out of work on Monday. 

Turns out, I’m not alone. I need to go update all my research posts, and probably write a couple of new posts. Just a bit of the new reports out this year:

But to help you get through the day, especially an extra long day waiting for the election to be over, I present to you these memes that you can use however you like.

Good luck getting through the next few days and weeks.

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Much-worse

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Reasons to Keep Changing The Clocks Back and Forth for #DST?

This election year in the U.S. has been rough, and as I mentioned, the “fall back” change comes in the middle of the last days of the election, meaning it will be one hour longer than it needs to be.

It’s only an hour, but even an hour is an eternity this year.

One of the reasons this year has been so hard is that the two presidential candidates are so different. People really can’t understand how anybody could support the other side.

That’s why I thought this article in the HBR was so helpful. It provides ways of helping people who support Trump an exit-ramp so that they can avoid supporting him without being “wrong” for supporting him in the first place.

I was thinking about that this morning when a friend posted a picture from an annual tradition that he has.

Lakeview

Every year on the last day of Daylight Saving Time, he and some other faithful go for the last sunrise that comes at a reasonable-enough hour, and take in the sunrise, and then they head into the Lakeview Lounge. This is a throwback drinking establishment that opens at 7 a.m.

So I suggested to my friend that this tradition will have to change, or at least evolve, if we can get rid of changing the clocks back and forth for #DST.

He said only, “Don’t do it.” (The guy was busy drinking at 7 a.m., so I didn’t expect a long answer. 😉

But he’s got a legitimate point of view. Taking away the clock changing would take away a fun annual event for him.

Are there other arguments in favor of changing the clocks twice per year? I really haven’t heard any. I’ve heard from lots of people that like either year-round DST or year-round standard time.

But other than my friend and his desire to have a once-a-year cocktail at 7 a.m., I haven’t heard of anyone who likes the clock-changing aspect of DST.

Have you?

Let me know on on our Facebook page, on Twitter by tagging me.