Hello,

This weekend in Holland the daysaving time ends.
So I have a longer night from 26 on 27 Oktober.

How is this in your country?

Bertus

 

Here in the US, it ends at 2:00 AM on Sunday, November 3.

 

DST ends Nov 3rd for Canada also, is it really needed any more?
It seems to cause more problems than prevent.
Max.

 

Only a politician would think that subtracting one hour from the morning and adding one hour to the evening would lengthen the day.

 

DST ends Nov 3rd for Canada also, is it really needed any more?
It seems to cause more problems than prevent.

My opinion: it's an outdated, pointless PITA and should be done away with.

 

I still have to get up to be ready by 8am, I get up at 6am let the cat out make coffee and sit in my bed till I've drank 3 cups with my eye's closed. Not sure if being in the dark with my eyes closed helps but, light does set and internal clock of a sort I've been told. I just don't know if losing an hr will help me or make it worse.

kv

 

I still have to get up to be ready by 8am, I get up at 6am let the cat out make coffee and sit in my bed till I've drank 3 cups with my eye's closed. Not sure if being in the dark with my eyes closed helps but, light does set and internal clock of a sort I've been told. I just don't know if losing an hr will help me or make it worse.

kv

Years of being "on call" cured me of that. Regardless of time of day, I can answer the phone and be somewhat lucid.

 

Hello,

This weekend in Holland the daysaving time ends.
So I have a longer night from 26 on 27 Oktober.

How is this in your country?

Bertus

Also in UK - and still pointless.

 

I get one extra hour of sailing in the summer before the sun goes down.

 

I still have to get up to be ready by 8am, I get up at 6am let the cat out make coffee and sit in my bed till I've drank 3 cups with my eye's closed. Not sure if being in the dark with my eyes closed helps but, light does set and internal clock of a sort I've been told. I just don't know if losing an hr will help me or make it worse.

kv

I’m retired, but I still get up long before dawn (3:30, actually). By 4:30 I am out cycling for 60-75 minutes (15 to 17 miles), then at around 6:15 I make breakfast for my wife, then projects/kids/household business.

I try to be in bed for sleep at 8:30, so I really, really dislike daylight savings time since it’s broad daylight when I want to sleep.

Otherwise, I don’t much care since my schedule is pretty odd anyway.

 

My opinion: it's an outdated, pointless PITA and should be done away with.

The 3 west coast states have voted to opt out, but they need Federal approval to do it.

 

The 3 west coast states have voted to opt out, but they need Federal approval to do it.

There has been talk of the UK (and EU ?) opting for not switching the time around.

 

So I have a longer night from 26 on 27 Oktober.

How is this in your country?

We used to switch on the last Sunday in October. Then politicians tried to make it "better" and I can never remember how to determine the date we switch.

 

There has been talk of the UK (and EU ?) opting for not switching the time around.

The idea has outlived it's usefulness.

 

In the USA, they moved the ending to the first Sunday in November so the Halloween Trick or Treaters on October 31st would have an extra hour of daylight for their extortion racket. ;-)

 

Hey! I love Halloweeners! But I wish DST would go away.

 

Only a politician

Since most politicians started as lawyers it make perfect sense. Lawyers are always looking for more ways to bill more hours for a day. They love flying from NYC to LAX just to bill 28 hours in one day!

 

I greatly enjoy living in places that don't change their clocks. When finding my way around a strange place in the North I often intuitively take into account the position of the sun and time of day, but shifting the clocks throws a wrench into that process.

Do any countries in the tropics do this?

 

There is no Day Saving Time in Nigeria.

 

Do any countries in the tropics do this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
Apparently, some tropical countries did, but have discontinued it.