this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2026
663 points (97.3% liked)

Mildly Interesting

25608 readers
731 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 hours ago

leaving work at dark is the real thing negatively effecting my health.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Who makes money off of Daylight Savings Time?

I don't know, but I know someone is making a fortune off of it somehow and I want to know who. It's the only explanation

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The real question is, how can the rich make money off of changing this? As soon as someone figures that out, I'm sure it will change.

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Whoever has a business full of hourly employees that are working during 1-3am and lose an hour of pay.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 minutes ago

ughh, I lost an hour of pay working as a security guard to this kind of thinking a while back.

"Oh, we'll just make up for it in 6 months."

[–] Averagejoe@lemmy.org 3 points 4 hours ago

You know they understand parents. Also it messes with my sleep 

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 19 points 8 hours ago

God yes. I don't even care which side of DST we land on. As long as we stop changing the damn clock.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Today has been the absolute worst. Daylight savings shift coinciding with my job becoming absolute trash and my idiotic self doing a Sunday funday yesterday.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

There's a lot of things that I don't like about Arizona but the abolishment of moving to and from DST has been such a great thing to have.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It’s pretty obvious the American government doesn’t care about its citizens health. Sick citizens = more shareholder profits for their scam corporations

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 hours ago

Yeah i'm not trusting American anything at this moment.

[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Who could be for keeping that around?

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 minutes ago

some people (not me) complain about the sun going down at 4pm.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

AMA....Ask Maria Anything, right?

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Well that was a non article.

Committing to standard time has health benefits and allows us to end the biannual tug of war between our biological and alarm clocks,” said AMA Trustee Alexander Ding, M.D., M.A, MBA.

So are they saying committing to standard time, or simply committing to a single time?

If they are saying Standard is better that Daylight Savings, then they are complete morons. And it isnt because I like one over the other. The fact is IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER. Just pick one.

Daylight is constantly changing, depending on what latitude you are in. In the northern hemisphere millions of people will gain over an hour of daylight this month alone. Your rhythms are effected by people fucking with the clock, and that is it.

load more comments
view more: next ›