[DRAFT]Spring Forward, Fall Back

[The Atlae Isles]

[desc]After @@NAME@@ set its clocks ahead one hour for the international Daylight Saving Time, complaints of sleep deprivation and lost productivity began to roll in. In fact, after a very stressful meeting last night, many came back an hour late! The amount of confusion led many to advocate for abolishing Daylight Saving Time in @@NAME@@.

[option]"Look, it's not my fault we're late." Yawned @@RANDOMNAME@@, your Minister of Science, spilling coffee on the table. "We're already sleeping...4 hours a night with this...backbreaking work. Now you expect us to...wake up an hour earlier? @@LEADER@@...sleep is very...important. It gets rid of...toxins...in the brain, and messing...with it can lead to higher rates of...suicide...after the first...few days. Just abolish...Daylight...Saving...Ti..." @@HE@@ promptly falls asleep on the desk.
[effect]geeks explain the erratic shift in time as "aliens messing with the time-wave"

[option]"The...the waste of time!" Cries @@RANDOMNAME@@, your Minister of Productivity, the only person to arrive one hour early, as @@HE@@ progresses into a seizure-like state. "We lost millions, no, BILLONS with a B, after the @@CAPITAL@@ Stock Exchange opened an hour late! This cannot go on any longer, and we can't go back! Keep Daylight Saving Time on forever!"
[option]the @@DENONYM@@ Winter Festival starts 1 hour early every year

[option]"Ignore them, @@LEADER@@." Exclaims your optimistic, happy-go-lucky aide. "Daylight Saving Time gives us more sunlight in the summer, saving us a lot in our electricity bill! Besides, @@LEADER@@, everyone else has Daylight Saving Time. As for those sleepyheads," @@HE@@ waves dismissively over the groggy group, "they should have slept earlier. Just push it forward 1 hour in the spring and pull it back in the fall, and there's no problem."
[effect]many spend extra daylight hours in bed

[option]"You know, the concept "Daylight Saving Time" has got me thinking," murmurs radical activist @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Why don't we go literally in the interpretation? Every time the sun sets, we move @@NAME@@ back 12 hours, so workers have no excuse to leave work. Of course, they need to sleep, but that's why we invest in whips. As soon as they start to nod off-" @@HE@@ cracks a sinister-looking whip and smiles evilly.
[effect]astronomers compare other planets' days to the @@DENONYM@@ day

[desc]After @@NAME@@ set its clocks ahead one hour for the international Daylight Saving Time, complaints of sleep deprivation began to roll in. In fact, after a very stressful meeting last night, many came back an hour late! The amount of confusion led many to advocate for abolishing Daylight Saving Time in @@NAME@@.

[option]"Look, it's not my fault we're late." Yawned @@RANDOMNAME@@, spilling coffee on the table. "We're already sleeping 4 hours a night with this backbreaking work. Now you expect us to wake up an hour earlier? @@LEADER@@, sleep is very important. It gets rid of toxins in the brain, and messing with it can lead to higher rates of suicide. You must abolish Daylight Saving Time now!" @@HE@@ promptly falls asleep on the desk.
[effect]sleepy clockmakers and programmers rework @@NAME@@'s timekeeping system after @@NAME@@ abolished Daylight Saving Time

[option]"Ignore them, @@LEADER@@." Exclaims your optimistic, happy-go-lucky aide. "Daylight Saving Time gives us more sunlight in the summer, saving us a lot in our electricity bill! Besides, @@LEADER@@, everyone else has Daylight Saving Time. As for those sleepyheads," @@HE@@ waves dismissively over the groggy group, "they should have slept earlier. No reason to get rid of Daylight Saving Time here!"
[effect]many spend extra daylight hours in bed

[option]"You know, the concept "Daylight Saving Time" has got me thinking," murmurs radical activist @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Why don't we go literally in the interpretation? If you could change the time so that it was never night, we could keep our workers working forever. Of course, they need to sleep, but that's why we have whips. As soon as they start to nod off-" @@HE@@ cracks a sinister-looking whip and smiles evilly.
[effect]@@NAME@@'s days are the longest in @@REGION@@

I'm sure that Option 3 and all of the effect lines need some work. Let me hear the criticism!

[Australian rePublic]

This is better than anything I can produce, so I'm just gonna be a nit-picking arsehole and criticise something better than I can make myself

[desc]After @@NAME@@ set its clocks ahead one hour for the international Daylight Saving Time, complaints of sleep deprivation began to roll in. In fact, after a very stressful meeting last night, many came back an hour late! The amount of confusion led many to advocate for abolishing Daylight Saving Time in @@NAME@@.

An hour less sleep once a year is nothing, and you make it up at the other day when you gain an hour in autumn. This isn't really an issue, sorry. If it really bothers you, just sleep one hour earlier than you normally do. A different approach to daylight savings could be th Gold Coast/Tweed border in Australia where NSW observes daylight savings and QLD doesnt, so approx. 600,000 live amongst two time zones for half the year, causing confusion

[option]"Look, it's not my fault we're late." Yawned @@RANDOMNAME@@, spilling coffee on the table. "We're already sleeping 4 hours a night with this backbreaking work. Now you expect us to wake up an hour earlier? @@LEADER@@, sleep is very important. It gets rid of toxins in the brain, and messing with it can lead to higher rates of suicide. You must abolish Daylight Saving Time now!" @@HE@@ promptly falls asleep on the desk.
[effect]sleepy clockmakers and programmers rework @@NAME@@'s timekeeping system after @@NAME@@ abolished Daylight Saving Time

An hour doesn't make much difference and you re-gain it in autumn. A better approach here would be a night shift work either complaining about an extra hour of work, or a lost hour's wage

[option]"Ignore them, @@LEADER@@." Exclaims your optimistic, happy-go-lucky aide. "Daylight Saving Time gives us more sunlight in the summer, saving us a lot in our electricity bill! Besides, @@LEADER@@, everyone else has Daylight Saving Time. As for those sleepyheads," @@HE@@ waves dismissively over the groggy group, "they should have slept earlier. No reason to get rid of Daylight Saving Time here!"
[effect]many spend extra daylight hours in bed

Once a year

[option]"You know, the concept "Daylight Saving Time" has got me thinking," murmurs radical activist @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Why don't we go literally in the interpretation? If you could change the time so that it was never night, we could keep our workers working forever. Of course, they need to sleep, but that's why we have whips. As soon as they start to nod off-" @@HE@@ cracks a sinister-looking whip and smiles evilly.
[effect]@@NAME@@'s days are the longest in @@REGION@@

So you're gonna pick up @@NAME@@ and physically move it to the Arctic/Antartic, so that you can have the midnight sun? Hillarious! But what do you do in winter?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Just so you know, Ransium did an issue on this topic some time ago, called A Switch in Time Kills Nine.

Not that that stops you writing or submitting this, but obviously any issue written would need to be better than his one to displace it from the issue pool.

[Trotterdam]

He clearly knows, it was discussed here.

[Australian rePublic]

Or you could make it about a different topic relating to daylight savings, like I suggested earlier

[Candlewhisper Archive]

He clearly knows, it was discussed here.

Ah right.

[The Atlae Isles]

This is better than anything I can produce, so I'm just gonna be a nit-picking arsehole and criticise something better than I can make myself

*reads the next paragraph* Uh-oh.

-snip-

The entire argument seems to be that DST is once a year, which it is, and therefore doesn't make much of an impact.

While it may not have much of an impact when you aggregate the entire year, a recurring thing immediately after DST is that sleep cycles are disrupted and nationally, productivity falls temporarily. I have edited the draft to say such.

Is it too late (or redundant) to say I've made another draft? Well, 2nd draft bump.