I know I’m not in the majority but here’s my annual post asking why 1 hour is such a big deal for people. So like why? I don’t notice anything. I think people just like to complain about something en masse, change my mind.
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Normally getting up an hour earlier is painful for me. And changing the clocks is a hassle.
This particular go-around wasn’t so bad. I woke up reasonably well rested yesterday. I slept poorly Friday night so I was tired Saturday night so I think that had something to do with it.
And hubby was home and changed most of the clocks 
(including the wall clock that’s incredibly difficult to get back onto the hook) so I only had to change the couple that he forgot about instead of all of them.
So this may have been my smoothest Spring Forward ever. I normally hate it with a white hot burning passion though.
Yeah I’m not saying DST makes sense, and the clocks are annoying I’ll cede that.
It’s not a huge deal to me/the family to change times. When my kids were younger it was a bit tougher. I might be tired for a day or 2, but after that I am fine. Its really not that different than taking a vacation to a different time zone and getting your cycle all screwed up and taking a day or 2 to recover.
It gets more and more difficult for me to make the transition every year. I can’t just “get up an hour earlier” and not be affected.
This year was especially difficult because of external reasons already detailed in this thread.
In short, I have not been able to reverse the aging process.
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My sleep schedule is easily messed up. Could be my age/habits/cat. But yeah, an hour makes a difference. It didn’t when I was in my 20’s & 30’s (other than impact on my kids).
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Maybe we should move forward or backward 2-3 minutes each week instead of an hour twice a year. That could work great if all the clocks were electronic and automatically synched.
This has been my idea as well. Need to update my microwave, car clock, & analog clocks to do this, too.
This year, I have discovered an easy way to minimize the discomfort from the shift to DST:
I traveled from Eastern Time to Pacific Time the day before the change. 
I’m flying back east today. I suspect the only annoyance I’ll face with the time change is having to adjust the clock in the car when I find it in the garage tonight.
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Because it doesn’t have to happen. It would be easier NOT to change clocks for no legitimate reason.
And it won’t be gotten rid of, because half the people in each time zone like DST and half do not (and half don’t care, just pick one and be done with it… see? I’m all innumerate for a couple days!). Having it is the compromise we live with.
So, Sunday, I dug a hole in the front yard. In Fall, I’ll fill it in. Don’t ask why, that’s just the way it is. Someone (the government, a century ago) told me to.
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You posted that last year.
And I’ll probably post it next year.
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Being consistent is key!
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FWIW, the Romans accounted for time in a similar fashion: Day and night had the same number of “hours”.
Also . . .
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
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I would probably be happy living with that clock.
Last week, it got light too early. Sometimes it woke me up, other times I just lost that amount of useful sunlight. This week, the sun rose at EXACTLY the right time, just as it was time for me to get up.
But if we’d been on DST 3 weeks ago, I would have had to wake up when it was dark. And while I can do that when I need to, it always messes me up. I have trouble getting out of bed when it’s dark and stormy, too. I really need my morning dose of sunlight.
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[snoopy]It was a dark and stormy morning…Lucy couldn’t get out of bed…[/snoopy]
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For Spring forward my parents sorta did this with me when I was a kid. 10 minute increments each day for 6 days.
I am not as disciplined as my parents, however.
I’m baffled by how much people struggle to wake up an hour earlier.
But I give up, let’s do year round dst, ie wake up earlier all the time and pretend it’s not that.
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