Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 06, 2020

Janis probably wishes Arlo was inaudible, too.

Please set the clocks ahead an hour and leave them there. I don’t care about the childrens or the early risers.

Love Janis’s face in the third panel.

Jimmy Carter tried that and it was a total failure. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.

I could live without DST. Because of DST I lose two hours every year. Let me explain. No, that’ll take too long. Let me sum up. I have 25 clocks that have to be changed manually. In the spring I lose an hour when we spring forward and another hour to reset my clocks. In the fall I gain an hour when we fall back but lose an hour resetting my clocks.

The main argument for DST is to save energy. But it’s questionable as to whether we do save energy.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-daylight-saving-times-save-energy/

If you’re not getting up until the sun rises you’re not an early riser. I’ve an hour long commute and I’m still in the office well before the sun. Admittedly, on the weekend, I often sleep in until 6.

normally I am just getting into office before sun rises when clocks go back, so I then get an extra week or so of sun being straight in your eyes as you drive to work .

I love when the clocks go back means I get another hour of sleep and I need it with my sleep patterns being so off with age.

I love being an early riser. It a nice quiet alone time. I can relax, drink my coffee, read the comics, etcetera, before the madness of the day starts.

Only 45 more days until the days start getting longer, rather than shorter.

Early riser here. And the sun is NEVER up at 4:30am unless maybe you live above (or below) the arctic circles.

Yes!!!

<—— Early riser even in retirement, up at 4:50AM this morn cup of coffee down the hatch already breakfast next.

6 am is not early, 3 am or 4 am is early, 6 am is just right.

It really is time to stop the time shifting. It doesn’t save any energy (see Indiana’s data) and the Spring change causes more road deaths.

“Time has come today!” – Willie & Joe Chambers, 1966

Why are we all a week late with this time change thingey?

DST still needs to go away.

Viva Early Risers, aka, Larks // Alondras I wish they had backed it up TWO hours

Morning People are a misunderstood and often scorned group (says the person typing this at 5:40 am).

I wish they had backed it up TWO HOURS.VIVA Early birds. AKA LARKS// Alondras

I’ve been a pre-sunrise runner (now mostly a walker) for about 25 years, and I have never been able to talk my wife into getting up to see the sunrise, as beautiful some days that I can describe. In fact, she has a small framed needle point on her dresser her mother gave her that says, “If God had wanted us to see the sunrise He’d have scheduled it later in the day.”

When DST ends you don’t gain an extra daylight hours as it just shift from the evening to morning. I personally prefer DST all year as I live just inside Central Time Zone and today’s sunset will be at 4:45. By the time the shortest day arrives, the sun will set about 4:00 pm. I hate it now, and I hated it before I retired.

This is the fallacy of daylight saving time, that you get “an extra hour” or in the spring “lose an hour”. Time frames are relative, the planet spins the same as it always does, and due to the eccentric wobble of the poles days get shorter in the winter (unless you’re near the equator".So what if it’s darker in the morning when you get up. We surround ourselves with electric light now, we don’t walk around with a candle.

I’m with Arlo! :-) (I could actually do without DST entirely.)

The hated people…..

The lonely people.

If we just condense time, the days will seem longer. Or just stay in quarantine.

Once everything is said and done it will be determined by historians that the true divide in people was not race, or gender or religion – but whether they were morning people or not.

Joggers and walkers are up and out at the crack of dawn. Of course dog people have to be up and out too, regardless of the weather.

Our world is geared to early risers.

Every day this week, I’ve commented on how wonderful it is to be able to get a good start on my day! By the time I’ve taken my walk and fed the pets, it’s 7 a.m. and light enough to drive to the store. Since the store opens at 7, I pretty much have it all to myself which makes distancing a breeze. Home by 7:30 and I have the whole day to do whatever.

And the U.S. needs to stop minting pennies.

I am an early riser BECAUSE of my cats. They’ve managed to turn “getting their breakfast when I make mine” into “If we wake the human up before the sun rises, maybe he will feed us early…”

Eliminate time zones entirely. The time globally needs to be GMT or a decimal based system.

I hate the time change. By the time I get used to which of my clocks are correct and which are an hour off, the time changes again and I have to get used to them being the opposite again.

Late riser here. Always have been, always will be- was even born at 10:05 pm. When husband was working would wake around 10:30/11 am long after he had left for work. I would make all appointments with clients for the afternoon. Bedtime was around 1 or 2 am and then I would watch TV in bed until at least 3 am.

Since he quit his job we have started going to bed later and later and waking later and later. These days he gets up at 1pm and watches TV in bed before forcing me to wake at 2pm. Since he never ate breakfast our first meal of the day is lunch, followed by dinner at 8pm and late night snack before going to bed.

When we have to, we wake up earlier – reenactment events are generally have a 10 setup time – and it takes us much longer to dress in period clothing (and help from each other to dress) plus time to drive to events so depending on where the event is being held we are up and getting dressed by 9 am the latest. One of my biggest fears is being called for jury duty – one has to be there by 9am and parking is hard to find – so more like 8:30 the latest. Since I rarely fall asleep before 5 am – that is means that 3 hours sleep at most (only 5 years left to fear same).