Spring Forward, Fall Back? Bills Would End Daylight Saving in Michigan

Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 10/26/2015 | Jack Spencer

[T-Bird45]

The modern use of daylight saving time, the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour, was proposed in New Zealand in 1895.

If you want to get all historical, try Ben Franklin in a whimsical essay, written while he was in Paris in 1784: Ben Franklin

[cripplecreek]

[mykroar]

Split the difference one year (move back 1/2 hour) and then leave it from then forward.

[Yo-Yo]

A slightly different perspective:

[Politicalkiddo]

I’ve heard he proposed it as a joke.

[Walkingfeather]

Who cares about Michigan...if they wanted their opinions to matter they wouldnt live in Michigan.

[Wuli]

“Daylight ‘Savings’ Time” = Sheer waste of time.

What it gives on one end, it takes on the other. What “benefit” it is to some, it is not a benefit or worse to others.

The natural time of the 24 hour day, with noon approximately when the sun is directly overhead, for a location, is the “natural order” and is why there are 24 time zones across the planet. Messing with it is all politics and all a waste.

Maybe that’s why the Asians are ahead in so many things. Most Asian nations do not do “daylight savings time”, so the politicians are not messing with peoples natural biorhythms twice a year./sarc

[Osage Orange]

LOL!!!

[Walkingfeather]

It has enormous economic impact. Like it or not, daylight savings provides ( yes a false sense) that it is still early to go out to eat, go to a movie, shop.... whiners that do not like losing an hour of sleep deserve no sympathy.