DST = Daylight Savings Time.
There are a few things that I like and hate about daylight savings time in general, but that all depends on my current situation. For instance, I’m leaning more towards on the “hate” side:
#1 – My storefront staff meeting starts at 7:00 am. It’s a mandatory meeting that all of us have to attend or we’ll be having huge chances of getting fired. Because of DST, we’ll be losing one hour, meaning one hour of sleep. In short, we need to sleep super early to make up for that one missing hour.
#2 – Time goes really fast. It’s like your entire life will be fast forwarded and you are feeling forced to rush things you enjoy taking your time to and the next thing you know, the day is already over.
#3 – Oh hell, too much sunlight! I happen to like the calm of the cloudy days, the dark and cool starry night sky, and the sound of the rain pitter-pattering by your windows and doors. I say this because this is a part of the typical California weather, but if you live in NorCal,1 it’s got a good mix of hot and cold temperatures at the most unusual and unpredictable times. We may be having another El NiΓ±o phenomenon in our weather this year.
#4 – DST will last about seven months this year. It’ll end in early November when we fall back our clocks back to its regular time.
On the other hand, there are good things about DST too, which I also happen to like:
#1 – DST saves electricity. You won’t be turning on your lights at home until… say… 8:00pm.
#2 – You can stay out and soak in the daylight sun as long as you like. That’s why we have DST during the summer season.
#3 – Going back to the point of the time going fast, if your daily life may be dreadful (ie. work, school, etc.), your dreadful period quickly ends before you know it. This doesn’t quite apply to me though. :3
#4 – The brightness of day welcomes you as you wake up in the morning, encouraging you to get up in the bed immediately instead of falling back to sleep simply because it’s still dark outside.
I’m pretty sure there are other reasons I haven’t thought of right off the bat, but at the moment, these are all I could think of.
So, don’t forget to spring forward when you adjust your clocks tonight.
(blogged from Adri’s phone)
On the sidenote...
- especially in the Bay Area… [↩]
March 12, 2014 @ 1:47 pm
I’m personally really not a fan of adjusting the times, because my body is super sensitive to changes in the environment. So when I have to shift an hour, my body hates me for it for the next few weeks. XD Doesn’t help that it’s still winter here in Maryland… We got some nice 60 degree weather for 2 days, but now we’re going to fall back to the 30’s again. Woopie joy! Still have snow everywhere, too, and might get some more!
This winter has truly been crazy here… I’m ready for winter to be over though. It was fun while I got out of school but now that I’m home, it limits my driving and going places, so I’m not much of a fan anymore (and I hate shoveling snow too XD).
The longer weather IS nice though. Now I can actually run outside (once it gets warmer anyways) in the evening and it won’t be dark by 5PM… :)
March 18, 2014 @ 11:34 pm
Spring arrived way too early here in California (especially here in NorCal). So much sun and cool breezes and… well, I miss the rain LOL.
I used to have relatives who live in the East (New Jersey) but because they got sick of the long and unpredictable weathers that they decided to move out here west. I enjoy visiting the East (mainly NYC and Boston) because lodging with the relatives is for free (LOL), but now we have to pay to book a hotel LOL.
It’ll take awhile for me to adjust to DST as well.