I'm retired, I don't care about an hour either way. Half the time I don't know what day it is.
Many states are considering not changing to DST. Arizona and Hawaii currently the only states that don't change. Many (most?) people believe it's a waste of time to switch and actually causes issues with circadian rhythms and higher energy use.
In working years, this next week was always rough and a little depressing, getting up when it's still dark.
Indiana used to have some screwy rules about time zones and whether they observed DST. The finally straightened it out in the last 10 years. My favorite story about that is when I was flying from NY to Cincy back in the summer of 2001 and sat next to a man who was connecting to Indianapolis. On his ticket it showed him leaving Cincy at 3 PM EDT but arriving 45 minutes "later" at 2:45 PM Indy time (EST, or CDT). Looked like something out of the Twilight Zone!
I ran into a snag a couple of years ago. I was in northern Arizona, near Page. My cell phone was in and out of service, and the cell phone clock was flipping back and forth in and out of DST. As it turns out, the part of Arizona in the Navajo Nation recognizes daily savings time. Probably because the Navajo Nation extends into Utah and New Mexico that both recognize dst.
The Central Time Zone Evansville area changed times back then also.I lived in IN and they simply stayed on EST all the time except the burbs of Cincy and Chitown followed the big city. Not changing the clocks was great.
7 clocks don't auto change: MW, stove, two battery operated hands clocks, & both alarms, DW's car. Then there's DW's two watches.
Hands clocks definitely aesthetically more pleasing. Maybe I should get a coo-coo.
I lived in IN and they simply stayed on EST all the time except the burbs of Cincy and Chitown followed the big city. Not changing the clocks was great.
This article was in Forbes last week:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomzel...-energy-savings-possibly-deadly/#59264d2272eb
In 1973, the oil embargo led to year-round daylight savings time.:
Two weeks to go before we begin DST in Britain (and Europe). When living in England while we were working then DST was very welcome as it gave us more daylight to work in the garden in the evenings right when everything started growing vigorously. Now that we are retired it's just a nuisance setting clocks twice a year.
Today I wish I was one of those fortunate people who sail right through time changes with no problems whatsoever. I am miserable this morning due to the time change. I only got about 3 hours' sleep for some reason, and it was fitful sleep too. I tried to just sleep an hour later and pretend the time change hadn't happened, but I couldn't get back to sleep. It didn't help that we had a storm going on during much of the night. Every time we have a time change I get clobbered like this.
Today I wish I was one of those fortunate people who sail right through time changes with no problems whatsoever. I am miserable this morning due to the time change. I only got about 3 hours' sleep for some reason, and it was fitful sleep too. I tried to just sleep an hour later and pretend the time change hadn't happened, but I couldn't get back to sleep. It didn't help that we had a storm going on during much of the night. Every time we have a time change I get clobbered like this.
I was in the UK one year in the fall. I was working with people in the US, UK, mainland Europe and South Africa. Each had their different weekend to fall back. Except I don't think SA did DST. Anyway it was difficult to remember who's time was ahead or back.
Living and working in the US I was often frustrated with the different time zones I had to deal with. I also had both friends and close relatives in Australia that I used to talk to on a regular basis. Those in New South Wales were either 15, or 17 hours ahead as they moved forward an hour when we fell back, plus there was a couple of weeks difference during which it was 16 hours. Queensland does not do DST which is where my brother lives, and apparently a common thing for coach drivers to say on driving north from NSW to Queensland is, "We are now entering Queensland, turn your watches back one hour and your minds 100 years."