Daylight Savings Time

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How do people feel about this? Is daylight savings time only for America?

Oh yeah, that's coming up. Thanks for reminding me. Most countries observe daylight savings time.

You have it almost everywhere and nowadays it is something that is of no practical use but rather an inconvenience.

A lot of countries change time but most of them change it on last Sunday of March. You do it on 2nd Sunday of March - which is better in my opinion.

As for Poland - rumor says we are going to experience our very last time change 25.03.2018 but I doubt it is going to happen. All political parties agreed but EU didn't agree so we are probably going to return to winter time in the Autumn again.
I wish we had summer time all year long or at least we could switch to winter time later and return to summer time earlier. Longer afternoons!

Time change also messes with my routines - I am experiencing a sort of derealization during first a few days after clocks change. Nothing is happening when it should!
Especially the autumn time change is bad - days are getting shorter and shorter which is depressing enough and all of sudden a hour in the afternoon disapears.
Spring time change is better but pisses me off anyway. I naturally start waking up earlier and earlier every day, happy that I can finally keep normal schedule. But then time changes and I am forced to wake up 1 hour earlier than my biological clock says again!

Just decide on one time all year long!

Exactly. There are some countries that have gotten rid of DST - why can't the rest of the world follow suit?

Yup. Just annoying.

in japan, they don't have an official daylight savings time, but they have a cultural accommodation where on a certain date it is customary to get up an hour later than normal, which changes back in the fall. no clock changes required.

I would love that.

It is different than time change because with time change also the time of going to sleep moves.

11PM now is midnight during summer time, so if someone goes to sleep at a set time no matter when he has to wake up (many people do because they like evening hours - at the cost of getting enough sleep in the morning) they sleep the same amount of hours all year long, just experience a jet lag twice a year.

If the time of going to sleep stayed the same but school and work started at 9AM, not 8AM during winter time people would sleep longer during the months with long nights (winter) and less when nights are short (summer). It seems natural - that's probably what people before electricity age did all the time (sleep longer during dark months and shorter during months with short nights).

It's daylight saving time, not savings. You make it sound like it's a black friday sale at Best Buy.

I don't really care either way. I think it's kind of pointless though.