Usually make the change over pretty easily but for some reason its really screwing with me this go around.

Between my wife who stays up all night and sleeps all day and the time change I am not adjusting very well.

We are both retired now so most times it really makes no difference when I sleep but its really tiring and draining me more then normal this go around. Find myself waiting and waiting for evening TV shows to start.

Every year talk goes around about going to one time and sticking with it. That really needs to happen. My vote is to also stay on dark AM and lighter evenings. Please!

Increase your physical activity. Being physically active makes for better, deeper sleep.

And it'll give you something to do besides waiting for TV shows to start.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Increase your physical activity. Being physically active makes for better, deeper sleep.

And it'll give you something to do besides waiting for TV shows to start.

Good advice......when you are 30 years old and don't have any limiting health conditions.

Even simple things like walking for 20 minutes can help.

If you can't do that, do light weights, like resistance band arm curls, or wall pushups, or assisted chair squats.

If you can't do that, do simple stretches.

If you can't do that, then it's probably time for the nurse to turn you and change out your bedpan.

(My point being that basically anyone - short of being quadriplegic or bedridden - can find a safe way to increase their physical activity level. It doesn't have to involve crossfit, deadlifts, and half-marathons.)

Spring time change kills me for weeks to a month and change. Fall is a God send. I wish they would just do away with this shit forever like Arizona does. It’s pointless. Farmers can change their clocks and spare us all.

I wish they would stop this stupidity.

Only the government would think that cutting off 2 inches on one end of a blanket and sewing it other end would make it longer.

It is really screwing with my body. Seems to get worse every year as I get older.

Maybe force yourself to stay up a little later or get up a little earlier, a bit less sleep than you're used to. You should settle back into getting the amount of sleep you need after a few days out of whack.

I wish they'd stop with this Daylight Shifting Time stupidity, too, but, "government" ...

We're retired, too. We're not finding the shift onerous. On the evening before the fall-back the following morning I simply set the alarm time to an hour "earlier," which meant we'd get up after the same number of hours of sleep, and carried on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When the next shift happens, "spring forward," I'll just set the alarm wake-up time for an hour "later," we'll still get our eight hours, and, I suspect, all will be well.

This...

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Originally posted by Mustang-PaPa:
Between my wife who stays up all night and sleeps all day ...

... is definitely not healthy.

This one has been messing with me, too. I keep waking up at 4:30 am every day. Then I’m tired all day. If I could just stay asleep until 6, if be fine.

Dogs and cats don't care what the clock says when it's feeding time.

It hit me hard about Wednesday. I feel completely blah.

This year seems to have hit me worse then ever. Still not right with it.

Vote for me as Supreme Dictator and Ruler of the Universe. I will stop this insanity. And anyone who ever mentions it will be fed feet first into a woodchipper!

It fucks with me. My poor pups are all out of wack also.

ARman

I like that it gets dark earlier. More time to get out my telescope and look at the cosmos.

The clock in my bedroom remains unchanged for seven days after these time changes.

I received an email from my Congressperson with a survey of whether I would support staying on Daylight Savings Time year round or continue to have the time changes. I selected to continue the time changes because I did not have the option to remain on Standard Time year round. I guess that means there may be another vote on this subject coming up in the future.

I just want them to pick a time either way. The change twice a year is fucked up.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The clock in my bedroom remains unchanged for seven days after these time changes.

Heh. I have a list in my iCloud Notes for what I have to change. Last Sunday I sorta forgot all about the Daylight Shifting Time/Eastern Sane Time change. So I've been correcting things one-at-a-time as I think about it.

I guess today I'll consult my list and correct what I haven't, so far (Incl. checking the smoke alarm batteries--perhaps the only positive side-effect of the clock time shift twice-a-year.)

ETA: Twenty minutes later: Done!

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Originally posted by Paten:
I selected to continue the time changes because I did not have the option to remain on Standard Time year round.

That would've been my vote, too, being as I feel Daylight Shifting Time only marginally >< less st00pid than twice-a-year clock time shifts.