I don’t have a problem in the Spring going to DLST. Even though we are “losing” and hours sleep by springing ahead, I seem to have a lot more energy with the shift of having the sun set an hour later by the clock.
And I like the shift of more daylight later on the clock during the summer as it affords more time for outside things, mowing the grass, BBQ’s, pool time, going for walks after work, etc.
But I do have trouble adjusting for the first couple of weeks going back to standard time in the Fall - when I come home from work, all I want to do is go to bed. And there is something, for me at least, about sitting at my desk at work and seeing it get dark outside and realizing I still have another hour to work that really screws with my head, and my mood.
But DLST or not, in the northern hemisphere, the days, meaning the amount of daylight hours, gets shorter in the Winter no matter what the clock says because the earth’s tilt doesn’t care what the clock says.
The thing is that DLST or Standard time, from about mid-November to late January, given my commute and my typical work day, I’m driving to work in the pitch dark and driving home in the pitch dark. I feel like a freaking vampire.
