[don-o]

It's about time. (Doh!)

I want this to happen.

I would prefer to stay on standard time, but eliminating the 2x switch is better than how it is now.

[Abby4116]

The thing that has always bothered me when they have expanded daylight savings time is the kids that walk to and wait for the school bus while it is still pitch black outside.

[SamAdams76]

I agree that changing the clocks twice a year is a hassle (and a growing IT burden for many corporations). But if we are going to agree on keeping one time, we should stick with Daylight Savings Time instead of Standard Time. Having that extra daylight during the summer months at the end of the working day is psychologically important for most people.

In fact, push the daylight as late into the day as possible. How drab would it be to come home from work in the middle of summer to a sunset? On the other hand, how great would it be to come home from work in June or July, fire up the grill and sit in your backyard for hours before the sun sets.

Make it so you get a sunset in summer around 9 or 9:30 pm and I can live with that. You would even still have some daylight left in the middle of winter on the way home from work.

Dark mornings, I think we can learn to deal with.

[AlexW]

Gee, I forgot what DST was when I left Tennessee, and the USSA.

[txrefugee]

We are such stupid sheep that we let the D. C. masters tell us what time we have to get up in the morning....and how much water we can have to flush our toilet. From that point on, have you ever counted the number of Federal and State laws you comply with every day? It is staggering....and yet we call ourselves “free.”

[bert]

I already live on EDT.

At some point in the not to distant pass, my old body determined to hell with it. I function on daylight time. So, I fall asleep or wake at pretty much the same time regardless of what the clock says.

Curiously my wife seems stuck om EST. We live an hour apart

[Sybeck1]

Since I live two miles from the Tennessee border and work there I personally hope this does not go through

[southernnorthcarolina]

That there extry hour of sunlight makes mah crops burn up.

But seriously, this debate has been going on in Tennessee for a half-century or so. The fact that Tennessee is in two time zones (the Eastern/Central line runs between Knoxville and Nashville) adds another complication, particularly for those who live near the line.

In the 1960s or 70s, in Nashville, the two major newspapers, the Tennessean (the morning paper, solidly Democratic), and the Banner (the evening paper, staunchly Republican), though under separate ownership, were printed in the same building. On the front of the building was a vertical sign, bearing "Tennessean" on one side, and "Banner" on the other, with a two-faced clock underneath it. Yep, you guessed it: during daylight saving time, the two clock faces showed two different times.

I don't know which paper had which position. But some of the anti-DST people were Christian fundamentalists, who regarded standard time as "God's time," not to be interfered with by mere mortals.

[ExCTCitizen]

Nice, but is Tennessee doing good that it has this to pass.

[Sacajaweau]

btt

[Sacajaweau]

Stop playing with the clocks and work on the schedules. My grandkids school day started at 7:15. Ridiculous. Lunch was at 10:50. What a bunch of stupid grown ups we have running this stuff.

Same thing for work...change the damn hours. Robots don't tell time.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

DST destroyed the drive in movie business...

[Don Corleone]

A wise old Indian once said that ,”White man is crazy if he thinks he can cut one foot off one end of his blanket and sew it on the other end and have more blanket’”

[Balding_Eagle]

Wouldn’t it make more sense just to move all 24 time zones 1 hour?

[managusta]

DST was first adopted to replace artificial lighting so they could save fuel for the war effort in Germany during World War I.
One of the many innovations from the Great War.

[Semper911]

Am I the only one who hates Daylight Savings Time? And no need to tell me to move to AZ because I was born there and lived there until I was 24.

I call it Pretend Time. I just cannot understand the whole thing. The sun will set later in the summer regardless of our clock manipulation. 8:00 isn’t late enough for you for the day to end? We have to push it to 9:00, and for what?

I have to get up at 5 am, and I can’t freaking stand that it is still light out when it is time to go to sleep. People need darkness as much as they need light. And they need it before bedtime because that’s how the sleep process works. It is just not natural to try to block out all the light in the windows to simulate nighttime.

I say again: the summer days are already longer! Why do we have to mess with them? I will never understand. I guess I have already had enough sun from growing up in Phoenix. I prefer shade, cloudy days, snow, rain, and nighttime. I just don’t understand the sun worshipers.