Time to Fall Back From Daylight Savings Time

I hate daylight savings time

I hate getting up an hour before the sun to be at work on time. I look forward to falling back. I like the shorter evenings in the fall. It helps slow us down and we actually get more rest. It just seems more natural to my internal clock. It's a real pain switching back and forth and now the government decides to extend DST! I walk around half asleep for a month into DST. Just get rid of DST all together. I believe it is just a way the wealthy think they can get more productivity from us poor working stiffs.

lets compromise on dst

the bad on dst: move it forward one hour and for at least two weeks you cannot sleep for an hour more but must get up hour early. do the math= thats up to 14 hours lost per week. stay up two nites straight anyone? what the hell does that accomplish? u got evidence of declining student performance, accidents, mistakes that cost money and even heart attacks because of dst. two to three weeks after dst people suffer from over active feelings, stress, vomiting and lack of enthusiasm. you can live without food for more than a month. live without water for more than a week. but you cant live without sleep for more than a couple of days. this is the weakest link. and we screw with it the most. all this for a extra stupid hour of daylite? come on people. since there will always be someone who wants and someone who does not, i suggest we simply we make our congressman pass a law that will make time move a HALF HOUR UP FROM THE STANDARD TIME AND FOGGEDABBOUT IT. THIS WAY those who want it lose a half, those who dont want it gain a half one season. reverses the next season or whatever. important thing ladies and gents lets not keep do one more thing to screw up what we so desperately look for-FEEL GOOD!

Pretty simple reason to continue

I'll give you a good and very simple reason for changing the clocks one hour twice a year.

Assuming that you're like the majority of people, you wake up and go to sleep based on work schedules and the like, which means that you wake up and go to sleep at about the same hour every day. Also, it is a natural phenomenon that the daylight hours are shorter in winter and longer in summer.

In summer - the additional daylight is in the evening which allows people to take advantage of the light doing what they want to do outdoors. Who wants the extra hour of daylight before you wake up?

In winter - kids wait for the school bus in the daylight rather than the dark.

Sorry, but the so-called jet lag twice a year is insignificant. Most people have more time shift than that every weekend when they go to bed a little later and sleep in Saturday morning.

Daylight Savings time

I live in AZ, and DST is a classic example of chasing your tail. The only reasonable explanation for doing it was energy conservation, and now we know that it saves nothing. It confuses everyone, cause needless disruption to business, and is, simply, stupid. You can't fool Mother Nature or your biological clock. And then our Congress extended the insanity. But that is not surprising for people who want to live forever and die at their desks. Arrogant and stupid is a dangerous combination.

How about emotional/biological factors?

It used to be we coordinated our activities according to sunrise and sunset, but for most people, that's not true anymore. Instead it's the clock.

Allowing people to drive home in daylight longer helps traffic safety, but it also helps in another, huge way: psychologically. Getting to see daylight on the way home, after a long workday, has a positive benefit-- all the more for people in higher latitudes, where the shorter day is noticeable. We now have a term for it, Seasonal Affective Disorder, but that describes only the extreme version of a real problem all northerners face.

You folks in Arizona don't have to deal with it. But a big chunk of America does, more or less. I recall growing up in PA and living in Massachussetts, and wishing many times that DST was year round.

The energy savings were irrelevant. It was day to day human experience that mattered.

Daylight Saving Time

Leave the clocks EST,I living in Florida. I drive a school bus and have for plus fifteen years. When I drive into the sun at a particular time of year, I have the unnecessary hazard of doing it four times a year instead of twice. With the extended daylight saving time frame, my elementary students are boarding before sunrise longer. When I moved to Florida in 1959 from New York I noticed Quickly that they didn't mess with the clocks down here and It seems more sensible for the sun to go down a little earlier in a hotter climate in addition to not having to acclimate to the change of clocks one hour two times a year. Leave the clocks on EST year round. Its just plain more practical, and for the many who disagree,its just my opinion and I know its a very divided issue with alot of people liking the change for various reasons.

It's all relative

There are obviously good reasons to participate in DST (like those where people would work in the dark and go home after dark) and there are other situations in which it is useless (like in Arizona where they don't need it because it costs more to keep things cool if people tried to get more sun)

Yes people could change the work hours instead of having DST. Imagine that though. It would be horribly uncoordinated. Hence the standard. Could you imagine your daycare decides to keep their hours, your job changed theirs, and your husband or wife is on some other schedule as well. Add your dailies to that (grocery stores, coffee shops, etc all having different "lunch hours" and you've got a giant mess. If there is a specific day before the work week begins it it much more coordinated. Your state chose wether or not to participate in the DST anyway back after world war II. It didn't get standardized until 1966. So you can get it changed in your state if it's that useless.

I personally like it because it gives me a better chance to not live in darkness all of the time. I liked it when I was a kid. We would go from walking to school in the dark to walking in some light for a little while.

It's not really something to get bent out of shape over, but if you do then do something about it, but take everyone it will affect into consideration before you get a personal preference enacted on people that don't want it.

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The Insanity of Daylight Savings Time

Daylight savings? The earth revolves around the sun according to the physical laws of the universe. We humans cannot change that fact. We can change what we call any given moment, and do fiddle with our linear concept of time with incessant regularity. So be it, but that doesn't make our society-molding experiments rational.

I have traveled widely around the world. Some places adopt daylight savings time and some don't. I see no benefit garnered in those jurisdictions which do over those which don't, only bureaucratic interference with lives and increased complexity.

Anyone who wishes to arise an hour earlier or go to bed an hour later may do so. Any business or government agency which wishes to set working hours an hour earlier and quitting time an hour later may do so. Why should government force the rest of us unwilling souls to violate the natural order?

Thankfully, I live in Arizona, where we have maintained both our integrity and our sanity regarding time.

Stay on DST

Having spent nearly 40 years in ND before moving to MO I sadly recall the very dark days of winter in the north where I walked to and from school in the dark each day. In the summer the sun would rise by 5:30 and set around 10:30. Who wants the sun up at 4 or 4:30 in the morning? In MO it isn't much better. Keep it on DST year round. No need to "fall back."

The airlines, railroads, bus services, 2nd and 3rd shift workers all have to deal with a scheduling problem each time we change the clocks. I remember riding Amtrak one time when we "fell back" and the train stopped in the middle of nowhere for an hour it had to kill since it all of the sudden was an hour ahead of schedule. In the Spring when we "sprung forward" the train was magically an hour late, even though it was truly running on time. How stupid. Let's stop the insanity!

Tyranny of the south

That's a lovely analysis for those who live in the southern half (geographically speaking) of the continental U.S. Where I live, near the 45th Parallel, within the month it will be dark by 4:30 p.m. on standard time, which means that most people here will go to work in the dark and go home in the dark. In the summer, if we didn't have DST, the sun would rise at 4 a.m. in the summer? What possible benefit is there to having 4 a.m. sunrises?

I'd be fine with leaving the clocks on DST permanently. At least then we'd have usable sunlight.

Your view needs to expand, geographically speaking.