No, I hate DST. Getting up an hour earlier sucks. I also prefer the darker season in general because I feel like I sleep better.
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Not me. Winter time is the best time of the year in AZ.
As a native, I've only ever known winter time. (Cause we don't have DST for those who didn't know.)
When I moved north, I realized there are only two seasons here: looking forward to summer, and dreading winter.
I go back and forth. I like getting cozy and warm, but when it's cold my skin feels uncomfortable, like it's crawling or shrinking on me, like I put it on wrong. And my hands feel gross and cold and I rue having to touch myself with them in the bathroom.
But when I get warm enough it's nice.
I kinda like it. I guess it helps that in my part of the world it's absolutely blazing hot in summer. I love that, but with the intense onslaught of sun over that period, by the time winter rolls back around it's kind of a welcome change. I also just look way better in winter clothes so it's nice to feel better about my appearance for that portion of the year. I also find that it's way easier to warm yourself up when it's cold than to cool down when it's hot. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big wuss so all summer I'll whine and moan about it being soo hot and then immediately complain about being freezing in winter, but on balance I think I find the discomfort of my region's winter a bit easier to deal with than its summer. I also like not being completely covered in a layer of sweat as well. I don't especially care a whole lot about when the daylight hours appear, I'm as happy being out and about at night as I am in the day and appreciate either for different reasons so if more of my waking hours are taking place in darker periods of the day then I'm just appreciating those for what they are just as I also appreciate all the bright and sunny hours. I would say that as someone who has trouble sleeping when it's too bright I definitely prefer it when the sun comes up later and doesn't wake me up. It probably helps that I'm hardly an outdoors-man so it's not like much if any of the things I'd actually do across a year are really curtailed by the mandates of the season, though I guess I do miss the beach. Besides, like a lot of people, I work indoors so a good chunk of any given day is taken up by a minimum 8 hours of work usually starting at 09 so when the weather is absolutely beautiful and sunny and clear I'll see it for about 20 minutes out the car window before going in to a building with the blinds drawn and the air-conditioning on until I emerge at what is then evening hours.
I dont care what outside is like. It's always dark in the basement.
Iβm an uber driver. I get to be outside in the daylight all day. Work whatever hours I want. Itβs nice.
Winter has his charms as well.
I was born and raised in a country with four distinct seasons. I loved all the seasons. However, I have always been a winter person. One of my bucket list items is to live in a place where the sun sets for months and there is only one long winter night.
I don't mind the winter if its cool & dry, not so much when its windy & raining..
Hate is a strong word, but yes I prefer the longer days of summer, and like doing summer things, and yes going to work in the dark sucks, but coming home from work in the dark is even worse, so dispiriting.
It's not even cold here, and summer too hot for most but summer is still my favorite, winter least favorite.
It's like: would you prefer going to work/school in the dark and coming gome during the day or would you like to spend all the daylight at work/school
I love winter. Cold, dark, and snowy are my jam. To be fair this may be an ingrained coping mechanism from growing up in Alaska.
I'm split on this. Most people here that love the time shift also love winter. I don't love winter but I do love it getting dark sooner.
Lol you people where it only gets dark at 1800 after DST ends
Its the fucking worst.
I actually like it mostly, but fall and late summer are my favorite seasons.
It sounds like you may have seasonal depression, lots of folks do, including one of my siblings. Have you checked out the special lamps they have? They mimic the suns light, Idk about the research, but I know a lot of people who've said they help.
It's not just the season, but the idea of having to change all the clocks and do our life on hour earlier/later/whatever, so now when we leave work it's night, and when we make-up it's dark, but there is enough light to commute to work.
The Whole daylight saving time is stupid, especially when switching to winter time
Fair points, yeah.
Embrace it. Buy yourself a pair of skis and suddenly it'll never snow enough
It doesn't matter what season it is outside my basement, I still will refuse to go outside willingly.
I detest the cold. Iβm skinny enough that I have to wear long underwear basically constantly as it gets colder. The one potential upside to the environmental hellscape weβre creating for ourselves is that I may be able to stop doing that. Otherwise, winter is just annoying as hell, itβs such a stupid ass season.