Strange question IMO!
For me, it has no effect on my gaming. My work times don't change because of daylight savings. And since most countries in the EU switch at the same time, the people I play with (from all over europe) will be on at the same usual times.
It could become more difficult however. There was an informal vote in the EU (more like an official online questionaire), asking wether the switch to daylight savings should be discontinued. A majority voted for discontinueing...but there the problems start. Because now some people voted for making the old normal time the standard, while others asked for making the daylight saving time the standard. EU authorities said they might consider the result of the vote, but if/when they do it would be each country's own decision which time to follow. So if/when this is actually done, it could lead to a lot more differences in times used between the countries in the EU.
Personally, I would like to see the daylight savings gone, and a return the normal time as standard.
I hate, despise, abhor, abominate and detest the twice a year switch. Plus I don't like it. Every spring the accursed government steals an hour of my precious time and every fall they give it back without interest. This is just *wrong*.
I would much prefer that they pick whatever time they like and leave it that way all year.
It does not affect my computer time in any slightest way.
I'm having it and I don't give much attention. I usually forget it happens and my clocks are setting themselves automatically, I simply imagine it's more depressing for the mind to have shorter evenings due to static time, but I never experienced it.
It's however a bit messy to calculate timezones due to it.
DST is great, it is when it ends that everything sucks. It does not affect my gaming but having it cold and dark when I leave work is a notable detriment to the mental health. Let's just standardize time around a constant 7:30pm sunset, I don't care if it would still be dark at 9am.
In Arizona I could see it affecting my gaming since we don't observe daylight savings and basically everywhere else other than Hawaii and a couple of aleutian islands do.
@Gintoki88, I grew up near Anchorage and moved last year after 37 years. I always loved the "double daylight savings" affect we used to get. Since the Alaska time zone is centered on the panhandle (solar noon is closest to actual noon) Anchorage got an extra hour of daylight in the evening since it is that far away from the panhandle. Throw in regular daylight savings and solar noon becomes two hours after regular noon in Anchorage, giving us two hours of extra daylight in the evening. That said, I wish DST would just go away everywhere.
I work outside for my job/side hustle. In the winter it gets dark pretty quickly. Right now I'm expecting it to get dark at around 5:30-6, where as before it was getting dark around 7. But even for me, it doesn't affect gaming as I still work whaterver time I need to...I just hold a flashlight in my mouth. So maybe it affects me because I don't talk as much on discord as my mouth is tired lol. Thats it though.
It really does need to go away all together. In January it will be pitch black by 5pm and that is ridiculous.
I can't recall it ever effecting my gaming but I am with others here. I have allways hated it and want it to go away.
Ruinar said:In Arizona I could see it affecting my gaming since we don't observe daylight savings and basically everywhere else other than Hawaii and a couple of aleutian islands do.
@Gintoki88, I grew up near Anchorage and moved last year after 37 years. I always loved the "double daylight savings" affect we used to get. Since the Alaska time zone is centered on the panhandle (solar noon is closest to actual noon) Anchorage got an extra hour of daylight in the evening since it is that far away from the panhandle. Throw in regular daylight savings and solar noon becomes two hours after regular noon in Anchorage, giving us two hours of extra daylight in the evening. That said, I wish DST would just go away everywhere.
In Florida we're trying to do the same thing as Arizona!- to get rid of daylight savings. It's with Congress right now if I understand correctly so we'll see.
But to the OP's comment, there was one time where it was nice on the fall back side of the clock. We were raiding with european/scandinavian folks (Suometar the Pally! nice AA's! ,and Kalevalatar and others) and we were pushing and it was late and then we realized oh- we turn our clocks back tonight and it felt like a second wind so we stayed up. Its more of a pain on the spring ahead side
During my Everquest days I was working night shift at a chemical plant, so after work I would play EQ and raid with an Aussie guild. Half the year my raid time was 4am-8am (CST) and half the year it was 6am-10am (CST) because when USA moves an hour back, AU moves an hour forward. Made me really hate daylight savings time.
It never affected me. Don't have it where I live now. I guess when I played EQ with friends in the US it may have affected how long they were still on for, but didn't actually notice it.
Only time is really affected me was when servers were going down for patching, trying to work out the time.
Kilsin said:Community Debate - Does Daylight Savings affect your gaming at all? Do you like Daylight Savings or would you rather keep the time standard all year round and why? #MMORPG #CommunityMatters
I live in Arizona.... What is this "daylight savings" that you speak of?? heheheheh
That said, I think the whole changing of the clocks is nonsense.
It doesn't bother me at all. I'm struggling a lot more with timezones and trying to translate different announcements into my timezone. A game's announcement + guild event + friends time zone + my own.
Honestly at this point the only reason it happens is because our phones and computers set themselves back automatically. If we just didn't program them to do that we could end daylight savings time.
honestly for me it can have an affect on my gaming. During the summer if I am raiding at 9pm its still light out and I feel great. During the winter if I am raiding and its 9pm its already been dark for 5 hours and I want to go to bed.