QUESTION OF THE DAY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2022

[neely]

Good morning and Happy Wednesday! This Saturday some of us will be turning our clocks ahead for daylight savings time. That means it will be darker when we wake up in the morning but it will stay light longer in the evening. Since I generally wake up early I don't look forward to it being dark but it will be nice to eat dinner and have it be light out.

QUESTION OF THE DAY -
ARE YOU AN EARLY RISER AND WILL THE CHANGE IN TIME AFFECT YOU OR YOUR CATS?

 

[game misconduct]

i wake up normally around 4 am so things wont change much other than i get to see the sunrise sooner along with graycie taking longer to finish her mealswill affect the gf most out of all of usher being one of those"snooze "just a few minutes more people

 

[Lari]

I get up when J does. It was nicely 8-8:30ish over the winter, but lately it's been closer to 7. So if this means I get a few more weeks of later waking because it's darker in the morning, I will not complain!

Is this the tome change where it seems to the cats that they get fed early or late? They'll either be happy or unhappy. Mostly Sparkle.

 

[misty8723]

I don't get up as early as I did when I was working. Usually now it's 6:30 or 7:00 ish. The time change always affects me, but I may have some earlier meowing for awhile. I wish they would just leave the time alone. There is no reason at all for doing it.

 

[maggiedemi]

I get up by 6am every morning, but lately I've been getting up at 5:30am. I hate Daylight Savings Time, it messes up my schedule and the cats. I wish they would end it.

 

[rubysmama]

I didn't realize it was time change weekend already. As an early riser, I won't love it being darker again at 6AM, however, I will love every minute of the sun being up later in the evening.

Is this the tome change where it seems to the cats that they get fed early or late?

They'll get fed an hour earlier.

 

[vince]

I might be on daylight saving time, but the cats' bellies are still on daylight wasting time. I'm certain they will wake me up an hour earlier. Since I'm retired, it doesn't matter too much to me.

 

[Margot Lane]

W/ Vince and Ruby here…am on daylight cat time, so no dif.

 

[Kat0121]

I'm not an early riser. The change won't make any difference here.

 

[susanm9006]

I would rather just sleep until I naturally wake up, but since Lola came to live with me I am on her schedule. When she decides it’s time to leave her room she will scream until I get up. So we will just have to see what happens with DST. I will likely be up an hour earlier.

 

[allmykitties]

I get up according to the clock on work days (5am). I hate, loathe, despise, detest, and even don't like DST. I like the light to be in the morning, thank you very much. It will probably result in me sleeping "later" (until daylight arrives) on non work days, though (meaning that I will sleep until the same *real* time, just a different clock time). The cats are generally accepting of my schedule (with morning feeding of the cats to commence shortly after I become upright).

 

[denice]

I am an early riser. This time change is harder for me to get used to than the one in the Fall. Charlotte my cat has gotten into this thing of thinking that 3 a.m. is playtime. I haven't rewarded her for it, but she is insistent. I guess now it will be 4 a.m. which is an improvement.

 

[Willowy]

I guess I'll lose an hour of sleep. . .but for some reason my body adjusts better to this time change. I just never really adjust to standard time, even with the extra hour of sleep. It won't affect the cats because I don't have a set time to feed them, so they're used to an erratic schedule.

 

[LTS3]

I get up early because I have no choice. It's either feed the cats or listen to one whining non-stop or the other one trying to scalp me The start of daylight savings time doesn't affect either.

 

[NY cat man]

I'm an early riser by nature, so that part is no big deal. The only effect is that Michele has the Wi-Fi shut down for 15 minutes every morning at 3:30, and it doesn't change when the clocks do, so I will have to wait to check e-mails and such until almost 5:00.

 

[Elphaba09]

I tend to go to bed around 3. I have been trying to change that since my daughter's schedule has changed a couple of times and messed with Hobbit's sleep pattern. When he would stay over, he used to get up at 9/10, and I would be up by 8. Now, he is getting up between 7 and 8:30 and has been staying most nights for the last month. Needless to say, I am tired. I am working to adjust both.

My schedule is not an easy switch because my PTSD gives me insomnia and night terrors that wake me. I do not take my sleep medication when he is here out of fear I will not hear him wake up, so the insomnia and night terrors are worse.

 

[debbila]

It won't affect me since I'm in Arizona. We don't have daylight savings time.

 

[kashmir64]

I'm not an early riser and we don't change time. So no difference here.

 

[KittyJ]

It won't affect me since I'm in Arizona. We don't have daylight savings time.

Lucky.

I usually get up at 7 am but with the time change, 8.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

I am definitely NOT an early riser. Fortunately Mooch is good with time changes. If DS is up before me; she just gets in his lap for snuggles on the couch.