I'm the other way around. I spend this week luxuriating in the extra hour of sleep--and the first month after the accursed 'daylight time' starts wandering around in a good simulation of trans-Atlantic jet lag...

I'm actually a morning person, in the sense that I'm usually up by 7:30 even when I don't need to be, but still think DST should be "regular" time. While it's a bit harder to wake up in the morning when it's dark, I really don't need a lot of sunlight to brew coffee, shower, and such. I'd much rather have the light at the end of the day when the time is my own.

I used to be a hardcore night owl, up til 2:30 and awake at the crack of 9. For a music industry heavy, that was a perfectly cromulent schedule.

But then I moved to a new town and got a job that starts at 8:45 with a 90 minute commute. Add to that the hour I spend in the morning doing yoga, and I'm up at 5 effing 30 in the morning these days. I gotta tell ya, Standard Time is a Godsend for a displaced night owl.

My problems will begin in six months, when 5:30 comes an hour earlier, requiring me to push my bedtime up to some idiot hour like 9 PM. You want cranky? You'll see cranky then.

By the way Stephen, legumes supposedly help your body adjust to a new circadian rhythm. It seems to work for me, so I'd recommend cooking up a huge pot of bean chili or black eyed peas and greens and chowing on that until Mr. Crankypants is happy again.

The mountains don't help either. Anywhere else in the country has an extra hour, hour and a half of sunlight. But the sun hits that mountain range and then poof. Gone. No leisurely sunsets, no light poking out above the range.

It's just night.

I stil recall a cartoon from the political page of the Sacramento Bee. Must have been around 1975.
Three frame cartoon. Caricature of R. M. Nixon. It was a political statement on the newly enacted expanded DST.
First frame showed Nixon, holding a blanket. He says (to the best of my dusty grey matter, “Here we have a blanket”
Second frame shows His Jowlness with a large pair of shears
“We cut a foot off this end of the blanket”
Third frame shows RMN with the cut end poorly sewn onto the opposite end of the blanket from which it was cut, and he says, “And we sew it on this end of the blanket, and end up with a longer blanket”.

I have used this visual demonstration to explain Daylight Savings Time to my kids. They still ask why we change clocks twice a year, and go to school in the dark for the first two months, then its light.
Maybe I should tell them DST allows them to play more golf in the spring and fall.

Ed

this is why cali is better than co (though the politics suck)

it's all about western exposure!!!!

cali the sun comes up in like 3 seconds... black as night, then intense sunlight.. but the sunsets last forever...

co... sunrise takes forever but the lights go out at 3pm...

but co has less hippies (or at least they don't control state gov and there are enough cowboys to keep them in line)

Have you ever considered relocating to Arizona or Indiana?

They don't do daylight savings time. Of course, that means standard time all year round, but you don't get the semi-annual jolt.

Downside: confusing as hell for those of in one of the other states when we're trying to figure out when we can call our friends and family in IN or AZ.

Oh, and if you live on the western end of your time zone, you get almost one full hour more of sunlight at the end of the day (and one hour less at the beginning) compared to the eastern end of the time zone.

And Jaybird is right about mountains, but tall buildings have the same effect.

Went to Chicago a few days in April (from Kansas) and stayed downtown. It was a bit weird how it got dark so much earlier. (There's also a difference in latitude, but that effect would be minimal.)

Hawaii doesn't have DST either, but they have so much daylight they don't need to save. I miss it.