Daylight Savings Time?

[El Supremo]

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	14 (52%)
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[marym625]

1. Actually, I think it should just stay DST.

[Nye Bevan]

4. +1. Move the clocks forward in March but then never change them again.

It takes me a week to feel normal again after the clocks move.

[marym625]

7. I just read about that in the Washington Post

Going to post it. You're not alone

[Nye Bevan]

11. Thanks (nt)

[pnwmom]

23. Yup. I loved it when we had it year round. n/t

[MADem]

24. Works for me...nt

[yeoman6987]

9. I actually love it.

I know it stinks in the Winter but the Summer is awesome to not get dark until almost 10 o'clock (depending on where you are). I think we complain every time we have to change for a day or two and get used to it quickly. It is only an hour for goodness sake. Yes the first day of work stinks. I think we should change them on a Friday night instead of Saturday night to get two days to get used to it before working again.

[marym625]

10. That hour makes a big difference to some people

Suicide rate going up, no matter how tiny of an increase, isn't worth it. But if we have to keep it, Friday would make more sense

[Agschmid]

15. Are those actually correlated?

[marym625]

16. according to an oped article in the Washington Post

But I don't have any medical study on it. I am going to check though. Tomorrow though. Have to get to bed. Lose an hour sleep and have a long day tomorrow. .

[Reter]

19. If someone kills themselves over DLS, then that is one loose cannon

n/t

[marym625]

21. uhm. not over it

The loss of sleep triggers an episode. Not like they're upset about DST.

How compassionate of you

[Travis_0004]

32. Should we not build bridges over fear of suicide?

I havent heard of mass people commiting suicide over dst, and I dont think we should let the few who might determine narional policy

[marym625]

35. I am not suggesting we should

Use only that as a reason to change what we currently do with daylight saving time/standard time. Just saying if we are going to change it, it should be part of the consideration.

However, I don't believe it will change anytime soon.

[Reter]

50. Sports accounts for more suicides than DST

Wanna ban sports too? I didn't like losing sleep and time last night either and I'm still here. I'm not a loose cannon.

[marym625]

52. dear lord

I didn't say anything about banning DST. Please chill.

[Silent3]

12. If everyone really likes the extra hour in the evening...

...why play stupid games with the clock at all? Why isn't everything scheduled to start and end an hour earlier?

The only reason for the DST game of switching clocks back and forth is so that fixed schedules -- like, say, the hours of a store being 10AM-9PM, or your job 8AM-5PM -- don't need to change twice per year.

If you don't want the clocks to change, however, and rather than saying 1:00PM is average noon time in the middle of your every time zone, keep noon 12PM and make the store hours 9-8, and the work hours 7-4.

[marym625]

13. ok.

Works for me

[Reter]

20. Because we can't tell the sun to stay out an extra hour

It won't listen, so we have to do it manually.

[Silent3]

22. Changing schedules is changing the time "manually" just as much as DST is.

There is an actual meaning to the idea of "12:00", however, that isn't entirely arbitrary.

Nominally "noon", or 12:00, is when the "mean sun" reaches its highest point in the sky. The "mean sun" isn't a real celestial object, but it's the position of the real sun with its annual variations averaged out.

With time zones, 12:00 in a particular time zone means noon for (typically) the middle of that time zone, such that local mean noon is usually only off by as much as half an hour as you move across the time zone, with maybe some greater deviations allowed to follow convenient geographic or political boundaries.

What we're doing when DST starts up is saying "for the next few months, let's pretend noon is 1:00PM, not 12:00". That's kind of a weird thing, but it makes sense from the standpoint that it gets us an extra hour of sunlight in the evening of the day (that we lose from the morning), without having to change the way schedules for schools and government offices and businesses are stated twice per year.

But if most people, all year round, want more sunlight when they leave work, and don't care as much about how much sunlight they have in the morning, which makes more sense? Pretend that 12:00 never had any connection with the idea of noon, or change our actually schedules once, get it over with, and declare that we'd rather come into work an hour earlier and go home an hour earlier?

[Reter]

47. I just want it to stay light out as late as possible in the Summer

If you could figure out a way for that to happen without changing the time, then I'm all ears.

[Silent3]

54. My comments are not about people who want extra evening daylight in the summer only

For that the spring-forward/fall-back DST thing is a reasonably practical solution.

But when people propose shifting to DST forever, "springing ahead and never going back", to me that's absurd, because that would indicate that the fundamental problem is the hours of the day we schedule things for, not the numbers we assign to those hours.

[pokerfan]

55. This

The problem is that the standard 9-5 job (less common these days) never really made much sense. Three AM hours followed by five PM hours and people complain about not enough evening daylight. I always thought an 8-4 schedule would make more sense. But as I said, fewer people kept regular office hours these days.

[etherealtruth]

36. For me .... pick a time (any time) and leave it there!

[marym625]

38. I don't know if I care which one as much as I used to

As I get older, the reasons I have for wanting DST to be the standard just aren't as important as they used to be. But I still prefer it.

One time or the other is the more important thing.

[smirkymonkey]

51. Yes, no "Fall Back".

It's so depressing when it gets dark so early.

[marym625]

53. I don't quite understand

Why we have to change at all. Seems rather silly. Since we already spend most of the year on DST, let's just make it year round

[shenmue]

2. Sleepy time is good!

I wants my sleepy time!

[NaturalHigh]

3. I hate it.

[ohheckyeah]

5. I love DST.

Wish we stayed on it.

[salib]

6. I like it.

Honesty, I really look forward to the change. It is part of the coming of Spring to me.

[marym625]

8. Can you add

Stay year round on each?

[City Lights]

14. Hate it. nt

[Fumesucker]

17. Not yet, in about another half hour..

[shanti]

18. My body clock prefers regular time.

So, no sir, I don't like DST.

[loyalsister]

25. Hate the change prefer the schedule

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[Warren DeMontague]

26. doesnt bug me.

[olddots]

27. what is rhis time

You speak of ?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

28. just PICK ONE and stop playing

ping pong with the damned clocks, already!

sP

[yuiyoshida]

29. spring forward already?

whats the date this happens? I just looked it up.. Just happened. Okay I have set my clocks forward. Ah hell, I didn't want to sleep in anyway

[CTyankee]

30. Since I am an early to bed type I prefer DST. The winter darkness in the morning is

depressing to me. Winter is bad enough with the snow.

I hate feeling like I am getting up in the dead of night...

[kaiden]

31. Dislike it immensely. Have to feed livestock in morning darkness.

Just when it starts to get light around 5:30 a.m. in March, we are plunged into darkness again until June. For people who don't get out of bed until 7:00 a.m. each day, it is no big deal. For those of you who are young enough to not have been alive prior to DST and believe the summer evening sky is only light because of it, you should know that summer nights are lighter longer anyway.

[HereSince1628]

33. That reset into darkness only lasts a couple weeks, yes?

In the wayback I drove ~45 minutes due east to work starting at ~ 6am into the rising sun.

Just about the date that the sun rose early enough to be covered by a visor, time got reset and I had to do another round of sun in the eyes. But because sunrise becomes earlier and earlier it didn't take but a week or so to be back behind the visor.

[kaiden]

39. It will be a couple of months.

We only gain two minutes of sunlight a day. We're out at 5:00 in the morning...today it was light at 7:00. We also drive east into Denver each morning...traffic is wretched with the sun rise as you know.

[HereSince1628]

41. I guess for me, a finger width at arms length seems to be about 5 minutes

it only took half a dozen or so finger widths of progression to get the sun to where a visor would again hide it during the time I drove.

[TheCowsCameHome]

34. Then let him make his own breakfast.

Sorry, too good to pass up.

[kaiden]

40. I wish! Ha!

[MerryBlooms]

37. My cats are the keepers of the clock around here. :-/

[LWolf]

42. DST...permanently.

[Cha]

43. We don't do it here in Hawaii.. just have to know that Cal is 3 hrs ahead of us now.. and EC is 6.

[rock]

44. I had to choose "No" as you

didn't have a "HELL NO!".

[X_Digger]

45. Daylight Saving (no S) time.

Kind of a pet peeve of mine.

[hfojvt]

46. I remember hearing

that the switch saved us billions of dollars.

I am still not clear on HOW that savings happens. Using fewer lights?

Conserving energy IS a bit of a priority for me.

[meow2u3]

48. I don't want to be woken up with the sun at 5AM

I like to get my sleep and have daylight later in the afternoon.

[One_Life_To_Give]

49. Would prefer the East Coast embrace AST nt