Does Daylight Savings Impact Your Reading In Any Way? (11/7/21)

[Marc]

If you live or have lived in a place that observes Daylight Savings, how has it impacted your reading? Does turning the clocks back or ahead have a bigger or different impact?

[Safar]

For me, a subtle impact. I'm able to go to bed at my usual time, curl up with a good book and seem to be getting in an hour extra reading before lights out!

[Hugh]

I don't think it makes any difference to me!

[Sam]

It impacts me by changing the percentages of print and digital media I read. I only read print in sunlight or bright daylight while outside or seated with a sunny sourced window directly behind me. I can read more print while there is more daylight. My audiobook listening may may also go up with less daylight since I listen when my eyes tire at night but I also sleep more in winter so the difference may not be thqt much.

[Paul]

It causes confusion with events for a week given the UK and US change their clocks on different weekends. That’s the main effect!

[LindaJ^]

Turning ahead disrupts my life for about a week until I adjust but turning back has not affect. And Paul's right about confusion with scheduled events in other time zones. I missed the start of a virtual bicycle race today because of the time change and so was unable to participate -- when I went to bed, start time was 8:00 in my time zone but when I jumped on the bike at 8:00, I found the start time was 7:00 and I was too late to be allowed in!

[Marc]

I think I wake up earlier when we turn the clocks back, so for the first week, instead of getting out of bed earlier, I read, but then it levels out.

[Robert]

I do get an extra reading hour in the morning - this is because my cat wakes me up at 4:00am, when she usually has breakfast at 5:00am

[Marc]

One of the cats this morning insisted 5:50 was breakfast time (7am is the usual time; I surrendered at 6:30).

[Robert]

Marc wrote: "One of the cats this morning insisted 5:50 was breakfast time (7am is the usual time; I surrendered at 6:30)."

They're good at persuading

[Stacia]

Hugh wrote: "I don't think it makes any difference to me!"

Same for me.

[Alwynne]

I think it has an impact on what I read, I love the long winter nights so often select books that reflect the season, more vintage ghost stories for example.