Time to Fall Back From Daylight Savings Time

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Lets leave the time alone. I think everyone would agree

jim of AL 11:03PM November 05, 2011

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hotels in tux of 9:59AM April 15, 2010

As BUS DRIVER, I CAN TELL YOU, ITS UNSAFE FOR THE KIDS. HAVING THEM STAND OUT ON A STREET CORNER WAITING FOR A BUS, ITS NOT GOOD. MOST OF THEM DRESS IN DARK CLOTHS AND YOU CANT SEE THEM. SOME CORNERS ARE LITE, BUT NOT ENOUGH. AS A PARENT AND DRIVER, I CAN TELL YOU ITS NOT GOOD. WHEN WASHINGTON WANTS MORE TAXES, THEY SAY ITS FOR THE CHILDREN. HA.

ARKEY of OH 7:47PM March 14, 2010

I absolutely HATE DST!! This bunk they give us that it is to 'save' us $$'s and on power...I have news for you..it does not save squat! Do 'they' really think we are all that stupid? The longer the day light...the higher my bill is!! Sun out longer = air-conditioner on longer! If they left it alone, we would not have to put the air on as early...or keep it running as long!
We live in Idaho...who the devil needs it to be daylight until 10:30pm??? It is just down right stupid! And how many more children have to be hit by cars on their way to school??
If they just leave it as is...it naturally gets darker later anyway...9:00pm is plenty late! Also, some wonderful parents think nothing of anyone around them..they let the children play in the streets until 10, 11 and 12 oclock screaming and doing normal children stuff...what about others that need to get up early for work???
It's just another way of squeezing more money out of us...under the guise of 'saving' money!

deidra of ID 4:00AM March 13, 2010

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.

c m of MO 11:45PM October 24, 2009

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!

sen of NY 8:11PM March 20, 2009

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.

david of NC 4:02PM November 03, 2008

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.

of AZ 6:00PM November 02, 2008

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.

Katran Miller of CA 4:38PM November 02, 2008

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.

Michael Weaver of FL 1:51PM November 02, 2008