Great, we could sleep one hour more, but suddenly, it’s getting dark at 18.
Great we have one hour more of sun on the morning, but instead of being pitch black when starting to commute to work it’s just still dark and by the end of November it’ll be pitch black anyway.
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Its the fucking worst.
I like the winter. I moved to where I live now specifically so I could experience seasons (Southern California has one season all the time)
Also, your post reminded me of this Smashing Pumpkins song.
No, literally zero other people hate wintertime.
Some people.love taking things literally despite obvious context though.
Yeah but summer time is better
I prefer winter over any other season
I despise getting ready in the dark and getting home in the dark. It’s harder to fit in a lil fishing after work and I can’t wear shorts and crop tops outside on the deck.
Winter stinks!
The difference between DST and ST isn’t going to help that. The daylight is shorter regardless.
Yes it would. I, like most 21st century humans, wake up for work and have free time after work.
In practice for my relatively northern latitude this means I get a little bit of daylight before work (except perhaps around december/january), but winter time is very specifically designed so that today the sun will set exactly 6 minutes before I end my work day.
Were we to keep permanent DST I would get an hour of free time in the daylight today, and at least a little bit of light outside for all winter except perhaps for a month around December. As it stands, I do not get any free time in sunlight for 5 days a week for the entire duration of ST. The switch to ST means “bye-bye sun” and I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I FUCKING HATE IT.
The 24 hour clock is a made up construct. So are business hours. But if we already agreed to change one of these twice a year, can we make it so that it is not optimized to trap me inside for the entire duration of daytime???
I interpreted “I despise getting ready in the dark and getting home in the dark” as you hating both equally. As an adult, I agree I’d rather get up and drive to work in darkness to gain a little daytime after work. But I recall as a child being miserable going to school in darkness.
Kids finish school around 3 pm where I live. They have time to do their extracurricular activities (partially) during daytime even in the dead of winter. So of course it’s the mornings they find dreadful. If school finished around 5-6 pm I think they’d be miserable then as well.
Speaking of which, I’m about to end my work day and the sun is setting right now. FML.
Dark at 18. Its the dark at 16 that really gets me. and it is the dark to. I thought it was the cold. in particular I bike less in the winter and I thought I was a wus but I actually find im fine biking in the afternoon. Its really the problem of I don’t like to bike in the dark.
Honestly I don’t really like winter because that’s when my seasonal depression starts coming in full effect
I believe I have read read somewhere depression (or suicide I am not sure) is more common in summer. Which to me seems counter intuitive until I found out the main cause for this might be loneliness. So lonely people seeing other people getting together.
Would you say in your case depression worsens due longer nights or holiday season in December?
In my case, it’s cause it’s too hot to do anything and I can’t fuckin’ breath with all the plantmatter in the air. Non-winter seasons suck.
Have you tried using AC or drinking more water? Some anti-allergy meds would help too. At least it’s not so cold during the summer that you don’t want to do anything.
All of the above. It doesn’t help enough to make it in any way comparable to winter.
AC is shit and can’t handle much above 80 (most of June through october), I rent.
That sucks I’m sorry. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Maybe we can swap countries haha I’d love to live somewhere with AC and summer year round and not 99% humidity and an average temperature of 10c
Yes. Not me, but yes.
You only get winter because you also have the other three. (We only have autumn here in the UK though).
You could always find a planet without a tilted axis. 😁😁
I wonder how much energy it would take to adjust earth’s tilt 🤔 nothing could possibly go wrong with that, right?
Oh oh oh!
Don’t even think about that! P-l-e-a-s-e! I’m kinda used to autumn now! 😁💕
Moving towards the equator made me hate winter a lot less. Having more consistent daylight throughout the year made a big difference for me.
I just want to pick one and stick with it. Like, holy fuck, the switching is awful.
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Nope. I love Autumn and Winter the most! 🍁❄️I actually can’t stand warm/hot weather 😭
The only thing I hate about Winter is not Winter’s fault, and it’s basically what you said:
Work is somehow perfectly scheduled so that you’re inside, staring at a brick wall for 90-100% of the daylight hours for 5 out of every 7 days.
Winter is beautiful in ways that are completely unlike the other seasons, but unless you’re very fortunate you only get a few glimpses of it.
I feel like if you were designing a society to make people suffer, that’s how you would do it.
It’s a rudiment of a society where artificial light was a scarcity, so people worked during the daylight.
But also these days you can easily get a job with a flexible schedule and spend your mornings enjoying the sun, and then work till the late evening.
At 18? I wish. Getting dark at 16-17 here now.
It will get dark at 15:30 for us in the winter assuming therebis any light at all with the continual rain cloud cover we have for West Coast winters
The best part about winter is staying inside, Christmas, Christmas baking, and New Year’s/New Year’s Eve. Otherwise it’s miserable for me because I really dislike the cold.
It doesn’t help that last winter my area was getting below zero (F°) weather, which I can never recall having to deal with much before. Calling that miserable is an understatement.
The only other good thing about winter I can think of is getting a god damn peppermint patty (hot chocolate w/ peppermint schnapps). Otherwise, absolutely no other reasons for me to like it.
