DST: We Still Hate It

I realize this is a non-issue for most people except on two particular dates each year, but I found out today that an earlier post of mine comes up No. 1 on Google for the exact phrase, "I hate Daylight Saving Time." (Well, technically, it's the Technorati excerpt and link to my post that comes up No. 1.)

For kicks I checked some of the other results for "I hate Daylight Saving Time." Here are what some of these kindred souls had to say:

[I]t always feels like getting screwed out of an hour. My body will know what hour of the day it is, no matter what time all the clocks say. I hate Daylight Saving Time. I really do.

I HATE Daylight Saving Time ... Does anyone else hate Daylight Saving Time as much as I do? Now Congress is thinking of extending it. Last time that happened, I understand school bus accidents increased drastically. ... [W]henever anyone says they are in favor of Daylight Saving Time because they like having an extra hour of daylight I just want to scream. Do they think the sun is working overtime just because we mortals changed the clocks?

I hate Daylight Saving Time. It messes with my sleep patterns (that is, when I can sleep) for days. Just leave my days alone!

Curse you, Daylight Saving Time! ... I hate Daylight Saving Time. I enjoy the extra hour of daylight we end up getting from it but OMFG do I hate losing an hour of sleep.

i hate daylight saving time ... i go to sleep around 3:00 am and i wake up at 3:00. and i still fell tried and when i go down the steps i look at the clock and it is 4:00 . and i lost an hour of slep

Night falls on the Coleman household in suburban Alexandria, Va., and it's noisy. Startled cries come from a grandfather prone to World War II flashbacks; loud bouts of snoring bedevil the grandmother; shouts of "Quiet!" erupt from the bed-hugging, teenage grandson. The family didn't exactly feel like springing forward a couple weeks ago. ... "I hate daylight saving time," said grandmother Ellen Coleman, a State Department employee who recently tested in an overnight sleep lab at Virginia Hospital Center. "I hate it for the morning after. ... We have to turn the clocks ahead and we're plunged back into darkness."

I hate Daylight Saving Time. Hate. Hate. Hate. If I found the people who created this day, I would sneak into their houses every day and move their clocks back one hour until they died from lack of sleep.

I hate daylight saving time. 2 times a year we have to either set the clock forward or back an hour just so we can keep up with the sun until Leap Year, at which time we add another whole day! Why don't we just leave it alone ...

Grumph, arggh. I hate daylight saving time. That first Monday morning is so painful, your body wakes slowly, outraged at the duplicity of clocks everywhere. ... Did you know that this morning is one of the most dangerous to drive? The spike in severe traffic accidents the first 3 days after DST is shocking.

I hate daylight saving time. Not so much because of the time change, itself, as because it makes absolutely no sense to me. None. ... Look there are 24 hours in a day, here on earth where most people not in Washington live. You can take 12 hours, or half of that day, and move it anywhere you want, within that 24-hour cycle, and you still have exactly what you started with….24 hours, period. The sun has no idea you are trying to save it’s light! It is going to come up at sunrise, and go down at sunset, no matter what time is showing on the face of the clock.

I hate Daylight Saving Time. No, loathe may be a better word. Seriously. For the life of me, I can't figure out how someone actually came up with this harebrained idea and why anyone would actually like it enough to actually do it.

I hate Daylight Saving Time. I want less freakin' daylight, not more of it! I know that's been said before (and will pretty much be said by me too until it ends on October 31 -- Happy Halloween.

I hate daylight saving time. Of course, I would generally hate anything that robs me of an hour's sleep.

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