Die Amerikaner mögen die Sommerzeit im Allgemeinen nicht, aber die Umstellung auf die Standardzeit war unpopulärer als die Umstellung auf die Sommerzeit. Das ist überraschend, denn „nach hinten fallen“ ermöglicht eine Stunde mehr Schlaf, während „nach vorne springen“ eine Stunde weniger Schlaf bedeutet.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0342789
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How do Americans feel about daylight savings?
People on social media dislike daylight savings more when they’re ‚falling back‘ and switching to standard time than when they’re ’springing forward‘, or switching to daylight savings, according to US researchers who looked at social media sentiment around the time changes between 2019 and 2023. This is surprising as ‚falling back‘ allows an hour more sleep, while ’springing forward‘ means an hour less shut eye. The team found negative reactions to both time changes, but the move to standard time was more unpopular than the move to daylight savings. They say individual social characteristics could influence these feelings, and future research could explore which time regimen is preferred.
For those interested, here’s the link to the academic press release:
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/whats-public-sentiment-like-around-daylight-savings-changes
Please explain what I’m missing here. It doesn’t seem like people care about the transition day, just the distribution of sunlight during the day
I truly envy those who live in Arizona that don’t have to worry about adjusting their clocks for this infernal reason.
Not a great study based on the abstract. They only consider people’s reaction to the „time jumps“, rather than how they feel about the state on either side of the jump. An hour of sleep is one night. Right now I’m looking forward to run club suddenly being in daylight, and the sun not waking me up before I’m ready to get up in the morning.
I’m waking up at 6 or 7 regardless of sunlight. That extra hour for my kids to play outside and for us to chat with the neighbors after dinner is priceless, though.
“Falling back” means winter is coming. Winter is cold and dark and miserable.
“Springing forward” means summer is coming. Summer is light and warm and happy.
Seems hard to pin the change down to just daylight savings.
An extra hour of sunlight in the morning allows for more productive time, an extra hour in the afternoon allows for more recreational time.
What if we split the difference and just moved a half hour? Would that solve all of this so we can finally stop messing with the clocks?
Hey OP. Repeat after me: daylight SAVING time.
Turns out people really don’t enjoy leaving work in pitch dark and prefer to be able to do some things in the evening. Who knew
We voted to keep DST year round in Florida but our elected leaders don’t care enough to make it happen
It’s not a bank, a savings and loan or even a credit union.
I’ve always said, people aren’t being logical when it comes to daylight savings switches. They’re conflating the extra hour of „spring forward“ with the extra daylight of spring and summer.
Surprise, surprise, people like more daylight! They seem to think that if we permanently stay on DST that we’ll get an extra hour of sunlight in the winter.
The reality is, we would just be shifting the already minimal sunlight we get towards the evening hours. Instead of the sun rising at 7:30am and setting at 4:30pm, we’d have sunrise at 8:30am and sunset at 5:30pm. I guarantee once people find out the sun won’t rise until 8:30 they’ll want to switch back asap, just like we did the last time we made DST permanent
There’s two things people hate: Change and staying the same.
The internet is so dead.
It’s just „Daylight Saving“ Time, only the one.
I think the „real“ fix is to change to DST *AND* alter the time zones to make it work (to make it work in winter). There was an article on this a few months ago and it really made sense.
As an American, I desperately want to stay in standard time. Waking up is hard enough and suddenly next week I need to wake up an hour earlier? No thank you.
Let’s just switch to UTC and all use the same time.
Daylight *saving
It’s not plural
I like Standard Time; because then the sun peaks at noon.
Extra hour of sleep is cool *that weekend*, but getting dark an hour earlier sucks ass for the months that follow.