Daylight Savings Time

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I say No - it was fine the way it was.  Although this year, nobody has an excuse that they forgot - b/c everybody's reminding everybody b/c it's different.

[muon2]

The shift in the fall was particularly needed. Halloween is the most dangerous night for children when they are frequently crossing busy streets. Extending DST until the following weekend in November is a good sense change.

I don't have as strong a feeling about the spring shift. I'll see how it goes this year.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The shift in the fall was particularly needed. Halloween is the most dangerous night for children when they are frequently crossing busy streets. Extending DST until the following weekend in November is a good sense change.

I don't have as strong a feeling about the spring shift. I'll see how it goes this year.

I did forget about that - changing my answer now.

EDIT: I forgot to vote the 1st time- voting Yes.

[KEmperor]

I don't really care that much one way or the other.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I say No - it was fine the way it was.

I agree. (The law to change it was industry-backed, by the way.)

But I'd be less concerned about it if they'd just move my area to Central Time where it belongs.

[Hatman 🍁]

Nope, but for different reasons. They basically changed it because they did in the US.

[KEmperor]

Nope, but for different reasons. They basically changed it because they did in the US.

Makes sense.  I figure the times in the two countries should be in alignment. 

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

DST = annoying.

[memphis]

Any reasonable step we can take to use less energy is a plus.

[Brandon H]

I work in the IT field. I was real busy last week. But the guys running our mail servers (Exchange) but super busy. We'll see how well things go on Monday. But if anything goes wrong, it's all George Bush's fault.

[MODU]

It's really a non-issue either way it goes.  However, it is nice that I will have 3 weeks less of having to drive into the sun while going to work this year. 

[Ban my account ffs!]

The shift in the fall was not needed.  So what if the kids have to walk in the dark on Halloween.

Now the kids have to walk to school in the dark for an even longer time 5 days a week.  That is more dangerous.

If congress had had their way originally, we'd have DST until late November, in which case, the sun would rise here around 9am, about 90 minutes after most kids are getting to school.

I think they should have left it the way it was.  It won't save energy.

[??????????]

Any reasonable step we can take to use less energy is a plus.

How does adjusting hours save energy??

[ilikeverin]

Now the kids have to walk to school in the dark for an even longer time 5 days a week.  That is more dangerous.

Kids walk to school

However, I do not support the change because I support the abolition of DST (I seem to be, horribly, reprehensibly, one of those creatures called a "morning person", so I appreciate the extra sun when I start my weekday).  That said, if we do have DST, to extend it that extra week in the fall seems to make sense.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Any reasonable step we can take to use less energy is a plus.

How does adjusting hours save energy??

The idea that since we've largely become so dependent on the clock instead of the sun to regulate our lives to adjust the clock so that more hours of daylight occur when we are awake, thereby saving energy on lighting and to a lesser degree heating.

For those of us in the south other than being an inconvenience, Daylight Savings doesn't accomplish much, but in a place such as Philadelphia, home of Benjamin Franklin, to whom DST proponents like to attribute this idea, it makes more sense since in the summer they have about three months summer in which the sun rises before 5am, standard time.

[Fritz]

If Daylight Savings Time is so much better than Standard Time, I say just move the clocks ahead, and leave them there permanently, all year long.

[Ban my account ffs!]

If we abolished DST, the sun would rise in northern Minnesota around 3:30am and set at 8:30pm... nobody lives on a schedule of 3:30am-8:30pm... an hour later is nominally better.

But to push it back so that kids are walking to school in the dark is just not a good idea.(yes, we're not in the suburbs where sidewalks are rare and walking much too physical, so children actually have to walk to school if they live anywhere from 1-2 miles from the school building).

[??????????]

If we abolished DST, the sun would rise in northern Minnesota around 3:30am and set at 8:30pm... nobody lives on a schedule of 3:30am-8:30pm... an hour later is nominally better.

But to push it back so that kids are walking to school in the dark is just not a good idea.(yes, we're not in the suburbs where sidewalks are rare and walking much too physical, so children actually have to walk to school if they live anywhere from 1-2 miles from the school building).

It rises that early up there? Seriously. Wow, even during the summer time the sun never rises before about 5:45 am and it sets at about 9:15pm here. The winter the sun rises about 6:30isAM standard and sets about 5:45ishPM.

[??????????]

Any reasonable step we can take to use less energy is a plus.

How does adjusting hours save energy??

The idea that since we've largely become so dependent on the clock instead of the sun to regulate our lives to adjust the clock so that more hours of daylight occur when we are awake, thereby saving energy on lighting and to a lesser degree heating.

For those of us in the south other than being an inconvenience, Daylight Savings doesn't accomplish much, but in a place such as Philadelphia, home of Benjamin Franklin, to whom DST proponents like to attribute this idea, it makes more sense since in the summer they have about three months summer in which the sun rises before 5am, standard time.

Yeah, I forgot it's so different in the south then way up north. I can see there point on that I suppose.

[MODU]

(yes, we're not in the suburbs where sidewalks are rare and walking much too physical, so children actually have to walk to school if they live anywhere from 1-2 miles from the school building).

It's the same in the suburbs as well.  Rural areas tend to lack sidewalks, not suburbs.

[??????????]

(yes, we're not in the suburbs where sidewalks are rare and walking much too physical, so children actually have to walk to school if they live anywhere from 1-2 miles from the school building).

It's the same in the suburbs as well.  Rural areas tend to lack sidewalks, not suburbs.

We live in the city limits and don't have sidwalks.

[MODU]

(yes, we're not in the suburbs where sidewalks are rare and walking much too physical, so children actually have to walk to school if they live anywhere from 1-2 miles from the school building).

It's the same in the suburbs as well.  Rural areas tend to lack sidewalks, not suburbs.

We live in the city limits and don't have sidwalks.

OMG U SUXORZ!  (Did I do that right?)

[Rococo4]

If Daylight Savings Time is so much better than Standard Time, I say just move the clocks ahead, and leave them there permanently, all year long.

agreed totally.  It should be done away with.  Losing an hour of sleep is the worst.

[Jacobtm]

Clocks should just be set to noon and made to adjust themselves every day so that noon is when the sun is at its apex. We went to the moon. We have Hydrogen Bombs. We've cloned nearly everything. We can do this clock thing.

[MODU]

Clocks should just be set to noon and made to adjust themselves every day so that noon is when the sun is at its apex.

That would be very confusing, since you would depend on all clocks to change each day.  When sailing overseas and bouncing through various timezones, even though you were on "ship time" your internal body clock was on real time.  It made some people completely wiped out since they couldn't adjust to a constantly changing daylight schedule.