Fuck you DST
Fucking daylight standard* saving time. You fuck with me, not once but twice per year. How does one tiny hour so thoroughly fuck with my sleep?
* see the trouble you cause!
Fucking daylight standard* saving time. You fuck with me, not once but twice per year. How does one tiny hour so thoroughly fuck with my sleep?
* see the trouble you cause!
Last night I crashed at 6:30pm, then back asleep at 8pm. Awake at 3am today – and I’m blaming DST as well. Extrapolating out, I’m going to try to correct my sleep schedule by staying awake too long today, then relying on my alarm.
Never used to have this problem with DST until a few years ago. Now, the changing nature of the shift a couple of years back fucks it up for me completely. Cost savings… not.
Isn’t it ridiculous we spend more time in artificial time than real time?
I still can’t clue in to clocks springing forward so soon after they fell back. The November date I find easy enough to remember – falls around my birthday. But March always catches me by surprise. I clued in Saturday night and thought “no, I haven’t had time to prepare myself!”
Up for 18 hours yesterday and slept a decent amount last night. Have I adjusted to the hour change? Probably not, but I’m on a regular sleep schedule for the moment. ;)
I forgot to mention I was working on some stuff late Saturday night and suddenly all sorts of warning alarms went off. I had some programmatic scheduled tasks set to run ~0215 and there wasn’t the 2am hour that night. Various explosions and implosions led to me wondering what the hell was going on. ;)
I had another night of thoroughly exhausted by 11. Go to bed. Suddenly, wide awake. Takes a couple hours to fall asleep. Sleep for an hour, maybe two. Wake up for an hour, maybe two… repeat.
Hey, PMS..
I totally understand; I also used to be affected by DST. What I did to fix that was to adjust my bedtime: now I spring forward to midnight and fall back to 11pm. That way, my body is always geared for the same bedtime all year round, so my inner clock isn’t all f-ed up. I sleep much better that way.
If DST is a problem for you, I’d highly suggest trying that :)
The Thorn
Hello again, the Thorn! Nice to see you again:)
I think my issue is my highly variable natural sleep cycle due to a sleeping disorder. It’s difficult enough to sync with a 24 hour clock and the +/- 1 hour just throws me completely off. It’s more an aggravation of my status quo. Not sure I can do much about it.
That is a clever idea. Assuming one can set and stick to a bedtime. Which I have trouble doing =). But I like the idea.
I feel so sorry for you. I don’t sleep well at all most nights, so I do understand.
It is miserable.
Scott
Luckily I have a flexible schedule so if I do ever get to sleep, I can let myself sleep. Unfortunately that can seriously offset me to the rest of the world.
I understand that, too.
Lol!! I have bitched incessantly about this on FB. To the point where a “friend” commented “shut up and deal with it”.
Needless to say, I unfriended that person.
Lol.
Appropriate response on your part:)