Does anyone else hate winter time ?

I hate summer and daylight saving more.

If you're too cold, you can always do something. If you're too hot, you can only do so much then be miserable.

I am of the opposite opinion, I LOVE winter for the exact reasons you're describing!

I have some inherited photosensitivity, so nighttime's my favourite time! I also handle the cold waaay better than I handle heat, and my organism just feels like it starts coming back to life once autumn shows up!

Summer pretty much always makes me wish I could sleep my way through it.

The only thing I hate about Winter is not Winter’s fault, and it’s basically what you said:

Work is somehow perfectly scheduled so that you’re inside, staring at a brick wall for 90-100% of the daylight hours for 5 out of every 7 days.

Winter is beautiful in ways that are completely unlike the other seasons, but unless you’re very fortunate you only get a few glimpses of it.

I feel like if you were designing a society to make people suffer, that’s how you would do it.

I just want to pick one and stick with it. Like, holy fuck, the switching is awful.

Average winter enjoyer here, just chiming in to say “fuck summer!” We may be few in number, but we are large in spirit.

I hate the concept of Daylight Savings Time. It's such a "Baby formula: Now with even more lead!" solution to a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

The table is a little bit too far South, it's kind of difficult to walk around the table because the wall is too close. So we'll lift the roof off with a crane, suspend the table from a sophisticated set of guy wires, tear down the house around it, and then painstakingly reinstall the house 16 inches to the South so that there's room between the wall and the table.

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Absolutely love winter. It's my favorite time of the year. I like being inside when it's cold and dark out. I like not sweating. Feels good man.

Absolutely detest switching back and forth between standard and DST. What a load of crap. Just pick one and be done with it.

I like winter but the daylight savings nonsense sucks, I don't want it to get dark even earlier, it's all backwards.

I despise getting ready in the dark and getting home in the dark. It's harder to fit in a lil fishing after work and I can't wear shorts and crop tops outside on the deck.

Winter stinks!

Yes. Not me, but yes.

The best day of the year is the first day of daylight saving time (end of March). There is no day I look forward to more every year, not my birthday, not Christmas, not Easter, not a day I go on vacation: the first day of daylight saving time beats all of these.

I LOOOOOOOOOVE winter time. It's snowboard and snowmobile season baby!

18?

Damn southerners.

Honestly I don't really like winter because that's when my seasonal depression starts coming in full effect

I like sun as much as the next person but I feel getting more daylight by changing the clocks is like going on a diet by changing the definition of a pound. Standard Time all year for me please.

The point when it gets dark at 4pm in December is the worst.

Winter? Nah. Love it for many of the reasons already being stated.

But the fake as fuck holiday season that comes with it? Done with it. I'm celebrating Festivus unironically this year. Done with the rest of that shit.

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No light is not natural for humans... I feel like I'm missing out on life for four-five months every year. November to March is awful.

At 18? I wish. Getting dark at 16-17 here now.

I work 3rd shift, the darkness doesn't bother me. I hate it when it's daylight when I go to work and daylight when I come home.

When DST flips, I get an extra hour of work and my sleep schedule goes to shit for a week.

definitely hate DST, but mostly because of the annual death toll it entails, and the fact that it makes no fucking sense.

Yes! Brother, we might be few but we are here. Fuck Wintertime, summertime all along.

I prefer winter over any other season

Moving towards the equator made me hate winter a lot less. Having more consistent daylight throughout the year made a big difference for me.

I wish we could hibernate, honestly

The best part about winter is staying inside, Christmas, Christmas baking, and New Year's/New Year's Eve. Otherwise it's miserable for me because I really dislike the cold.

It doesn't help that last winter my area was getting below zero (F°) weather, which I can never recall having to deal with much before. Calling that miserable is an understatement.

The only other good thing about winter I can think of is getting a god damn peppermint patty (hot chocolate w/ peppermint schnapps). Otherwise, absolutely no other reasons for me to like it.

Nope. I love Autumn and Winter the most! 🍁❄️I actually can't stand warm/hot weather 😭

Dark at 18. Its the dark at 16 that really gets me. and it is the dark to. I thought it was the cold. in particular I bike less in the winter and I thought I was a wus but I actually find im fine biking in the afternoon. Its really the problem of I don't like to bike in the dark.

"Great, we could sleep one hour more" can you explain this? I have no idea how the season determines how many hours of sleep everyone gets in a day,

No, literally zero other people hate wintertime.

Some people.love taking things literally despite obvious context though.

Winter time is standard time with the sun at the highest being noon. If we all want more sun in the evening then we should shave an hour off the workday and stop whining that the sun comes up earlier in the summer.

Not me. Winter time is the best time of the year in AZ.

Yep! It's cold, damp, and dark and it goes on too long. Having to shovel snow is also awful. 0/10, do not recommend. I much prefer spring and summer.

No, I hate DST. Getting up an hour earlier sucks. I also prefer the darker season in general because I feel like I sleep better.

When I moved north, I realized there are only two seasons here: looking forward to summer, and dreading winter.

I like the winter. I moved to where I live now specifically so I could experience seasons (Southern California has one season all the time)

Also, your post reminded me of this Smashing Pumpkins song.

My 2,5yo has been refusing to sleep earlier than 21:00 on the dot for months now so I'm hoping winter time will finally get us back to a somewhat sane schedule. So far it's working, she just fell asleep at 19:30.

Does anyone else lowkey love the short bout of darkness before the sun rises and you're up early? It feels like Christmas but nobody else is up

I like wintertime, it is comfortable sleeping in low temps. Great for my astma as well.

I also like the dense sound taking a walk when it snows, and appreciate returning to a warm home after. Then it is time for green pea soup or stamppot and rookworst.

They should get rid of changing clocks though

I sort of feel like I'm walking in a tunnel that gets smaller and smaller as I walk.

You only get winter because you also have the other three. (We only have autumn here in the UK though).

You could always find a planet without a tilted axis. 😁😁

I go back and forth. I like getting cozy and warm, but when it's cold my skin feels uncomfortable, like it's crawling or shrinking on me, like I put it on wrong. And my hands feel gross and cold and I rue having to touch myself with them in the bathroom.

But when I get warm enough it's nice.

I don't mind the winter if its cool & dry, not so much when its windy & raining..

I was born and raised in a country with four distinct seasons. I loved all the seasons. However, I have always been a winter person. One of my bucket list items is to live in a place where the sun sets for months and there is only one long winter night.

I’m an uber driver. I get to be outside in the daylight all day. Work whatever hours I want. It’s nice.

I kinda like it. I guess it helps that in my part of the world it's absolutely blazing hot in summer. I love that, but with the intense onslaught of sun over that period, by the time winter rolls back around it's kind of a welcome change. I also just look way better in winter clothes so it's nice to feel better about my appearance for that portion of the year. I also find that it's way easier to warm yourself up when it's cold than to cool down when it's hot. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big wuss so all summer I'll whine and moan about it being soo hot and then immediately complain about being freezing in winter, but on balance I think I find the discomfort of my region's winter a bit easier to deal with than its summer. I also like not being completely covered in a layer of sweat as well. I don't especially care a whole lot about when the daylight hours appear, I'm as happy being out and about at night as I am in the day and appreciate either for different reasons so if more of my waking hours are taking place in darker periods of the day then I'm just appreciating those for what they are just as I also appreciate all the bright and sunny hours. I would say that as someone who has trouble sleeping when it's too bright I definitely prefer it when the sun comes up later and doesn't wake me up. It probably helps that I'm hardly an outdoors-man so it's not like much if any of the things I'd actually do across a year are really curtailed by the mandates of the season, though I guess I do miss the beach. Besides, like a lot of people, I work indoors so a good chunk of any given day is taken up by a minimum 8 hours of work usually starting at 09 so when the weather is absolutely beautiful and sunny and clear I'll see it for about 20 minutes out the car window before going in to a building with the blinds drawn and the air-conditioning on until I emerge at what is then evening hours.

I dont care what outside is like. It's always dark in the basement.

Winter has his charms as well.

Hate is a strong word, but yes I prefer the longer days of summer, and like doing summer things, and yes going to work in the dark sucks, but coming home from work in the dark is even worse, so dispiriting.

It's not even cold here, and summer too hot for most but summer is still my favorite, winter least favorite.

I love winter. Cold, dark, and snowy are my jam. To be fair this may be an ingrained coping mechanism from growing up in Alaska.

Its the fucking worst.

Lol you people where it only gets dark at 1800 after DST ends

I'm split on this. Most people here that love the time shift also love winter. I don't love winter but I do love it getting dark sooner.

Embrace it. Buy yourself a pair of skis and suddenly it'll never snow enough

Nah, gimme the dark mode time. Year round.

It doesn't matter what season it is outside my basement, I still will refuse to go outside willingly.

I detest the cold. I’m skinny enough that I have to wear long underwear basically constantly as it gets colder. The one potential upside to the environmental hellscape we’re creating for ourselves is that I may be able to stop doing that. Otherwise, winter is just annoying as hell, it’s such a stupid ass season.

I actually like it mostly, but fall and late summer are my favorite seasons.

It sounds like you may have seasonal depression, lots of folks do, including one of my siblings. Have you checked out the special lamps they have? They mimic the suns light, Idk about the research, but I know a lot of people who've said they help.