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I hate Daylight Saving Time

anjinhamarota said:
I'm usually pretty much like you about the cold but since I came back from NYC I've never felt cold in Lisbon. I remember just before I left to go to NY that it was 7ºC in Lisbon and I was wearing a ton of layers and feeling really cold. When I came back 7ºC felt warm, even when wearing just a light jacket. :p
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Who the hell told you to come to NY during the coldest week of the winter? :D
 
anjinhamarota said:
I'm usually pretty much like you about the cold but since I came back from NYC I've never felt cold in Lisbon. I remember just before I left to go to NY that it was 7ºC in Lisbon and I was wearing a ton of layers and feeling really cold. When I came back 7ºC felt warm, even when wearing just a light jacket. :p
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It's been like 45º the past few day here, and I'm walking around with no jacket. Just an overshirt. Waaaarrrrm! I'll have to pull out my jams if it gets any warmer..
 
JNB said:
You should travel with me some winter. You'd get that out of your system right quick. ;)
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I'll have to decline since I remember you mentioning how cold it got. :p I just want snow, not extreme cold. :D

EDIT: I was just thinking to myself that if/when I ever go to NYC again I should not go during the Winter again because I wouldn't want to risk getting the cold I got when I was there... but who am I kidding? I would definitely go in the Winter again, Central Park covered in snow is awesome! :D
 
Ben Franklin invented many wonderful things the bifocal lense, the lightning rod, a very interesting musical instrument I cannot remember the name of at this moment. He also had many interesting quotes and concepts like a penny saved is a penny earned, and don't sacrifice liberty for security (paraphrasing here), early to bed early to rise......

Two things I am not happy about credited to him:

Catheters

daylight savings time

**** you Ben Franklin!
 
^ :D Yeah, bugger off, Ben Franklin!

anjinhamarota said:
I'm usually pretty much like you about the cold but since I came back from NYC I've never felt cold in Lisbon. I remember just before I left to go to NY that it was 7ºC in Lisbon and I was wearing a ton of layers and feeling really cold. When I came back 7ºC felt warm, even when wearing just a light jacket. :p
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I wonder if the humidity is lower in Lisbon than NYC. People look at me like I'm crazy when I say ~5ºc in the UK feels colder than ~5ºc I've felt anywhere else. I'm guessing it's because of the high humidity here.
 
iBlue said:
wonder if the humidity is lower in Lisbon than NYC. People look at me like I'm crazy when I say ~5ºc in the UK feels colder than ~5ºc I've felt anywhere else. I'm guessing it's because of the high humidity here.
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It might be, I know for sure that the humidity in Lisbon is lower than in my hometown and I always felt a lot colder there. But this year we had a particularly humid winter in Lisbon.
 
I love daylight savings, longer days in the evening and it means warmer days are not far behind. I will gladly give up an hour of sleep to get 6 months of longer evenings.
 
Melrose said:
I don't see the point. Time is time, there's still 24 hours in a day. So some don't like to work in the dark. Boo hoo.
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Well...
Queso said:
If the clocks didn't move back everyone would use more fossil fuels in the mornings, accelerate global warming, and we'll all be on the beach in shorts every February after 2020 :)
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There you go.

It supposedly saves energy by making the available light match the workday better.
 
I also hate it. I suffer from SAD and the winter gives me mild amounts of depression in NYC when the sun goes down at 4pm. Get rid of it as quickly as possible.
 
str1f3 said:
I also hate it. I suffer from SAD and the winter gives me mild amounts of depression in NYC when the sun goes down at 4pm. Get rid of it as quickly as possible.
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Not sure why you would hate it. DST gives you an extra hour of sunlight in the evening.
 
str1f3 said:
I also hate it. I suffer from SAD and the winter gives me mild amounts of depression in NYC when the sun goes down at 4pm. Get rid of it as quickly as possible.
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Oh man, that reminds me of my year in Canada, spent the winter working at Lake Louise. The sun would pop over the mountains at 9 and be down by 3 - during which I was inside working.

Even in the winter we're used to at least 8 hours of sunlight but usually much more so all the Aussies working there were GRUM-PY.

We had early daylight saving introduced for the Olympics in 2000, it was awesome. We could snow ski late into the day in September then go inside and watch the summer olympics from the same state - very odd situation.
 
Chundles said:
Oh man, that reminds me of my year in Canada, spent the winter working at Lake Louise. The sun would pop over the mountains at 9 and be down by 3 - during which I was inside working.
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Found that on a map. Farther north, aren't there times when the sun is out for more than 24 hours? (maybe only once a year)
 
Spring forward in Spring, Fall back in Fall! :D

But yeah it does get a little irritating, especially when you have friends in other countries who's Daylight Savings stopped before or after yours, so it's another hour to add or subtract on the time differences (and that can get annoying).

IMO the extra sunlight is convenient...here in Australia that means more beach time and dinners outdoors!
 
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