Thoughts?
I would vote for a politician based on an anti DST platform alone.
I like summer evenings with sun until 9. It’s great.
And I like it getting dark early in the winter and wrapping up my day and lighting a fire.
Best of both worlds.
My wife just put a sundial in our garden. Now it will be off by an hour.
So, when are the Politicians going to change it once and for all?
Animals still want their chow on schedule. LOL!
I hate and despise Daylight Savings Time!
Every single person I spoke to yesterday said the same thing - especially those with kids in school. As a teacher, I know how hard this was on teenagers - some of whom struggled enough with an 8:00 AM start.
There is a doctor’s group trying to get a bill passed to end this insanity and keep us on Standard, NOT Daylight Savings Time. They well know how this affects people’s health.
I go to bed when I’m tired and I get up when my body tells me to. Being retired has lots of benefits.
I never could see the point of DST. You still get a little more sunlight at one part of the day, but less at the other. I was just reading how it upsets your Circadian rhythm. I can believe that. Then after a while you get used to it only to have it change again some months later. The whole idea is stupidity to me. The sooner they would get rid of it,the better it would be to me.
The Kaiser put Daylight Savings Time into effect in an effort to win World War I. It’s a proven failure.
Most of the world doesn’t use it. Fall back is nice, spring forward is miserable.
I wish they would abolish it.
Calling everything a ‘scam’ is like calling everything ‘racist’ or ‘Nazi’. It tells me the author is an illiterate idiot that doesn’t know the meaning of words.
1. In an age where more and more functions are done outside "normal business hours," it is far more practical to change business, institutional and personal schedules than to change the clock. I once went through an entire DST during COVID where I never bothered changing my clocks. I simply adjusted my schedule to coincide with the rising and setting of the sun regardless of what the clock said. Physically, I never felt so good as I did that year.
2. Any state or region that sees an advantage in "permanent DST" should not even bother. Instead, they should simply move to the next time zone to the east. New England and the mid-Atlantic states can move from Eastern Time to Atlantic Time if they need the "extra" hour so badly.
3. If a later sunset is important to you, relocate to a place near the far western end of a time zone. The sun sets in Boston at 6:46 PM today. In Fort Wayne, Indiana -- in the same time zone -- the sun will set at 7:43 PM.
I’m all for abolishing it completely as well.
And NO! Don’t split the difference and have clocks advance one-half hour permanently. That’s just stupid. Just adjust your schedule to standard time daylight.
My mom was a night-shift hospital nurse for years. When we “fell back” an hour in the fall, she never received pay for the extra hour worked. When they “sprung forward” in the spring, they got docked for an hour the clock said they didn’t work.
It was simply unjust, and I think illegal.
I have never felt an adverse physical effect from switching back and forth, but I can relate to the idea of not changing twice a year simply because consistency makes sense. Because I dearly love the long evenings in summer, my preference would be to have DST the entire year, but it’s just an hour so I’m sure I would quickly not miss that extra hour if we kept standard time all year. What I tire of mostly is all the whining about it twice a year, yet there never seems to be much effort made to actually mount enough support to change the law.
I'd rather have Daylight Savings full time than Standard full time.
