How do you cope with the loss of one hour's sleep when we switch to Daylight Saving Time?

“Night owls are more bothered by the time changes than morning people. For some, it can take up to three weeks to recover from the sleep schedule changes, according to a 2009 study in the journal Sleep Medicine.” From link mentioned above.

If only you could convince yourself that you didn’t lose that hour.

I haven’t slept since November 2012, I suspect the hour won’t make a difference.

I try to go to bed earlier that night. 9PM instead if my usual 10PM.

@cookieman.Do you not lie awake until 10PM haranguing your body to fall asleep while it stubbornly doesn’t? (Cute avatar, BTW).

I’m usually too tired to stay awake worrying about it. If you’re busy, the hour back or forth is trivial. For me the big gripe is about adjusting the 6 clocks in the house.

I don’t cope. I’m usually a bit disgruntled by it until we switch back in the fall. I’m also a night owl.

It takes me about a week to finally get my body used to the new time. It also messes up my dog Jessie’s internal clock. She starts wanting her breakfast and dinner an hour earlier.

I too, love @cookieman‘s avatar.

I don’t do anything except simply get over the change mentally and physically within 24 hours.

This is the first time in decades I will be subject to clock changes. I find the whole thing strange, but I am super happy that means summer (summer?) is on the way.

I sleep SO badly that an hour wouldn’t be here nor there for me. Interesting stuff @gailcalled about missing sleep and recovery. I must be in permanent recovery. No wonder I feel like death warmed up.

I get more effected by it as I age. I made us get out of bed and start our day a little earlier this morning, and we’ll try to get to bed a little earlier tonight; but the Spring Ahead transition is definitely more of a challenge to me than the Fall Back. The worst part is having it dark in the morning after getting accustomed to seeing some sunlight when I awaken.

The amount of sleep I get is so inconsistent that it doesn’t bother me. There are some nights I only get 3–4 hours of sleep and other nights I get 6–8 hours. I function best in the 5–6 hour range. I love getting to see more daylight on the days I work though, so I’m looking forward to it. In the winter, it’s dark when I go to work in the morning and dark when I come home from work (12 hour shifts). At least with the spring/summer I get to see some sunlight before and after work.

@gailcalled: Not really. A little jazz helps.

@chyna: Aww, thank you.

I don’t change the non-automatic clocks in my house and car; I keep them on Daylight Time all year ‘round. (My cell phone, computers and some others that I’m not thinking of right now are automatic, and are changed without my input.)

But since Daylight Time is now more than six months of the year (March 9 to November 1 being more than seven months), the idea that “Standard Time” is some other measure is… a joke.

Accordingly, the only thing that I have to adapt to now is the idea that “I need to go to work at the time I should have been going all year, instead of ‘an hour later because it’s winter’.” It’s been working okay for a few years now.

I almost never use an alarm to wake up on Sunday and I have no trouble sleeping during the day, so I don’t lose any sleep.

@Brian1946 – I find that if I let myself sleep in on the Sunday that the clocks change, it becomes harder for me to fall asleep on schedule that evening, and then Monday morning’s alarm rings an hour earlier than I’m expecting – as if Mondays aren’t bad enough already.