Does anyone else feel like daylight saving's time this year has made it dark WAY too early?

Yeah, these complains come up EVERY YEAR. It's perfectly normal. The Earth's tilt is the same as it was last year, and the year before that, and before that.

The previous calculations are still good plus or minus 1 day, and will be for the next 2000 years at least. A few people are talking about changing things maybe in the year 4000 or 6000, but it's way to early for that.

It's getting dark just as early as one year ago (and two years ago, and three years ago, etc., etc., etc.) on this date.

Go away, troll.

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Just the opposite - In the Summer it gets dark too late; astronomers have to wait and wait to put their telescopes into action

Going back to STANDARD time ALWAYS makes the SUN rise AND SET an hour earlier. Depending on how far east your location is in your time zone, the earlier the Sun will set. THIS IS NORMAL. We are NOT on DST. North Amerca fell back an hour TWO weeks ago. Europe fell back to standard time THREE weeks ago. The calendar IS NOT OUT-DATED. A leap second was added to atomic clockls at the end of June THIS year., so that atomic clocks are NOT outdated either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Times of sunset and twilight have not changed on Earth in millions of years. Earth's tilt has not changed significantly in millions of years.

Daylight savings ??

I haven't noticed any thing being darker ...

But daylight savings gives me an idea.

I might rob the bank ...

I could use a few extra days now and then.

Do you think anyone would mind?

Do you think anyone would notice ??

I'm worried that because of an extra hour of daylight, all my curtains are fading too quickly.

Who can I complain to ?

No. It's nice.

I wish it would get dark early *all* the time. It really is about time that they got rid of this "Daylight Savings Time"...

This year is not different from other years, except that the change back from daylight time was later than usual. So a year ago on this date (and the year before that, etc.), the position of the Sun was the same at a given clock time as now.

Some cars have their headlights on at NOON, too. But, apparently, some people like school kids not having to wait for the school bus in the dark, and others worry about farm animals being confused.

I don't know if they changed, but when I visited China a dozen years ago, it was all one time zone, and no worry about the whole thing.

Edit for your additional details...

There has been no significant change in the Earth's tilt during any of our lifetimes to be observable -- the precession of the equinoxes is a 23,000 year cycle, so the change even in the past 100 years is almost nothing.