Perfect Halloween… Yet I was stuck with a vacuum pump attached to my back not able to party 🤣😭
That sounds like a party.
Actually it was Daylight Saving Time on November 1 back in 2009 (17 years ago). It was a great night.
Instead I was in bed by midnight and totally sober. I think I had more fun
There is some weird loophole in Baltimore that allowed bars to stay open all night on new years eve, and the first year I lived there I didn’t know about it. Was very confused when I left the bar and the sun was coming up.
Imagine the time changing twice a year for no fucking reason 😂
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During the second World War we had double save lights savings. So it went 12 am. 1am. 2am. 12am
New Zealand‘s worst invention. Closely followed by instant coffee.
There used to be a reason, for farmers to have more light in the morning.
This was never the reason. It was to do with factories saving on electric lighting during WWI, by getting their workers out an hour earlier. Then after WWII we just kept it going for some reason
I never understood this argument because farmers are the least likely job to use the clock to tell them when to work… The idea of a farmer waiting for 8am to clock in is ridiculous.
It’s nothing to do with farmers. I don’t know where people got that idea.
Farmers get up when it’s daylight and you can see, what time it is isn’t relevant. It’s not like the animals know what daylight saving is so if they don’t get fed when they expect it, they’ll kick up a fuss.
where people got that idea
Political propaganda
It gave them more day light in the morning
It’s got nothing to do with farmers. So whether or not farmers find daylight savings useful (I think the split is roughly 50/50) is irrelevant.
All of it is irrelevant now. Especially in CA where we voted not to have it anymore and yet they keep doing it.
Well California is the entire planet as we all well know, so I guess it’s conversation over then.
Because the hens, pigs and cows came out an hour early, right?
I have zero clue, I guess they can feed them in day light. For fuck sakes who cares tbh.
I guess any kid in school fucking cares that their politicians set the clock after when cows want to be milked.
How does it give them more daylight? The amount of hours between sunrise and sunset is not dependent on our clocks.
I said in the morning, not total hours of daylight
That’s a myth. Farmers in the US lobbied against the change. Animals and crops don’t care about the time, so it just meant they had to start work earlier on the clock.
Why cant farmers just set their alarm an hour earlier though, no need to drag everyone else into this
Apparently this was a myth, but I’m against it, I voted in CA to pass a law where we don’t have to do it and yet we still do. No one wants day light savings time
No I want permanent daylight savings. I want to spring forward and not fall back.
But let’s have spring forward every year, let’s make it real confusing. In 6 years 9am will be in the middle of the afternoon.
Studies have shown more health benefits for more people sticking to Standard time, despite widespread resistance. Personally, I’m all for permanent Standard time, but I’ll take DST if it is the only way to kill the switch.
Studies have shown or studies suggest?
I think we should have four clock switches per year.
In northern Europe an hour isn’t enough to make a difference regarding daylight, the winter days get really short up here. Initially it’s okay but then as the winter drags on you start to find that it’s still dark in the mornings again so really we should have the clocks move forwards and back every three months.
Obviously that would be kind of unnecessary in the US outside of the Alaska.
Sorry, let me rephrase, no more time change and spring forward would be my choice
If you check farmers’ out they can still do the same amount of work in daylight hours.
Daylight savings’ history is actually more white than you think. The law was passed by politicians that just wanted to golf earlier. Farmers are commonly used as the excuse because every accusations is a confession.
Wait, you guys switch from 2 to 1? We switch from 3 to 2. Also on a different weekend, but I knew that already. This one is new to me.
We do 4 to 3 and we did it last weekend since this Sunday is already November.
Time is one of those things that only exist to drive programmers crazy.
Nah that’s a problem for the one guy who wrote the module/function and the sysadmin when it does something weird.
I was trying so hard to figure out why these tweets look weird, thinking maybe they were just fake tweets… Turns out these are “threads” from Threads and that’s why they look weird, but ngl, I genuinely did not know anyone used Threads.
As you can see, at least 2 people use Threads. Maybe it’s kinda like the fediverse?
If I’m correct, you can literally federate your Lemmy instance with Threads. I don’t know, I saw something like that. Really strange.
:angryupvote:
I am surprised every time I get reminded that Threads exist. Yet I know therapist friends who get a ton of clients from posting on there.
I bet a therapist could clean up on lemmy
I’m a therapist 👀
Big therapy is infiltrating our spaces!
Never! I’m a small time progressive, neurodivergent therapist. I’m one of you!
Great. Now we can’t be honest lest we get committed
I don’t believe in sending people to hospitals against their will unless they are an active danger to themselves or others. Tons of my clients are passively suicidal (complex trauma), and we just work on that in therapy. In my 6 years of therapy, I only had to call 911 once, and that’s because the client directly asked me to.
That’s great, I have a transference kink. Want to chat with me wearing nothing but house slippers and a clown nose? C’mon, I can sense that you want to.
You kid, but I had someone get in touch with me through my contact form saying he has a fetish for therapist shoes and asking if I would be willing to sell my shoes to him. He was very polite about it.
Sometimes I feel like I’ve seen or heard it all after a decade in the kink community, then I hear shit like this
That’s wild
Are you also an analyst perchance? You could become a real analrapist
😂 made my night
hey
I used threads for a while, you have no idea how batshit threads ppl are
It seems like it really caught on with the Instagram demographic, since they auto enrolled you into threads if you have an IG.
Instagram (and presumably other meta apps) push threads, you can accidentally sign up and be sent to download the app vv easily if you aren’t paying attention.
The ads for it are integrated better than ads.
That and you can’t block them.
its full of random posts, and people Ratioing AI stuff with pictures of random stuff. Its a good place to be
Aaand this is how I learned tomorrow is daylight savings.
It was last week in Europe (or Nordic countries anyway, not sure how consistent it is tbh)
It’s harmonized across the EU at least
I had no idea that happened until right now lol
*in some random, unknown part of the world
Weak club that didn’t go past 2
Lol in Germany clubs have to get a special permit to allow the club to be open past 12 am on Halloween because November 1st you’re not allowed to dance. Having a legal party that went after 12 am on Halloween was radical back when I was a teen
Dancing is illegal in November??
Nah, just on November 1st since it is a religious holiday.
There are a couple more no-dance holidays, November 1st is just the one that started to become most noticeable because of the emerging Halloween parties in the 2000s
That’s such a weird law to have in modern day
It’s heavily criticized and campaigned against. I mean no one will call the police if they see you dancing or throwing a private party at home (I think, though I don’t know about rural areas). It’s more for businesses and public screenings. It is absolutely outdated. My guess is that the federal lands will eventually abandon them, they just don’t get around to do it.
What happens if you dance on a nodance holiday?
Straight to jail
“Southern Germany” - Hamburg, Berlin etc. dont care about All Hallows Day
That’s true. I grew up in Munich and they take that super seriously. At least they did 10-15 years ago.
They still do. I heard it in the news yesterday.
It’s All Saints’. It’s also banned to show movies that mock religion like Life of Brian
In a weird way I like that. It is such a funny and harmless way of defying social order to watch a forbidden movie and dance on one of these blacklisted days. It’s absolutely outdated and ridiculous but that makes the rule breaking somewhat wholesome.
Hm well yes but it also a testament to history
And a real burden to clubs that want Halloween to be a good time for their patrons. Many Germans will report people having illegal fun even if nobody is actually harmed.
I don’t understand. Every Halloween there is a weekend before or after (well almost) where we in the US get another hour to drink at a bar. I did it for 15 years straight. And that was 15 years ago.
I think the point is that it’s happening on Halloween…
what is so special on halloween?
Where is this that the clock goes from 2 to 1? Here in Europe it always goes from 3 to 2 or from 2 to 3 when it goes in the other direction.
The East Coast of the United States
I’ve experienced a few of these crazy nights on the dance floor myself
While you’re not wrong, it should be mentioned that the same thing happens in most of the rest of the country too.
Does it? I remember that, 25 or so years ago when I lived in the central time zone, the switch happened at 12/1 am.
Maybe I’m misremembering. It was a long time ago.
Central does 2 to 1
2 to 1 in the UK
It doesn’t really. It goes from 2:59 (DT) to 2:00 (ST). But if a place says they close at 02:00, I suppose they could choose to interpret that time as the second one.
In the spring, it goes from 1:59 (ST) to 3:00 (DT)
Lol nope. My bar closed at 2/1am and told everyone to get tf out. I also work at 10 in the morning so its perfect for me
Australian here horrible horrible daylight savings started 3-4 weeks ago.
Why do I have to be the pendentic one that says it’s daylight saving and not daylight savings.
If you’re being pedantic you should know how to spell pedantic.
I kinda like that spelling because it recalls “pendejo” which in spanish means “dumbass”.
Well axetuly you dont
I don’t understand what DST has to do with it?
An extra hour appears in the middle of the night, while folks are partying, leading to some…extra-spooky haunting, ya might say.
