Daylight Saving Time: Keep it year round

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/24/opinion/yates-daylight-saving-time/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 ^ | Oct. 24, 2014 | Scott C. Yates

[PROCON]

I like the idea of staying on DST year around. It's only 2 days a year to switch back and forth but it's annoying.

Besides, let's do it for the children.

[Dr. Sivana]

How about changing the schedules, instead of having a fiction that we can change time. (Allowing for rounding to the hour, due to travel schedules and the speed of transportation). The farmers in Indiana have stood firm. The cows don’t like it!

[Buckeye McFrog]

Was tried during the Carter Administration. Kids waiting for the schoolbus in pitch darkness turned out to be an unpopular idea.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Arizona stays on standard time year round. Don’t know about any other states.

But does it really save energy, as that was a key reason to do this????

[Poser]

It’s so the kids can go to and come from school while it is light out. Otherwise, they would be going to school before the sun rises.

[Lee'sGhost]

Totally agree.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Couldn’t they adjust the starting time of school, rather than changing the clocks? Just a thought.

[lurk]

This was tried for a moment back in the Nixon years. The sun didn’t rise until 10am.

[Starstruck]

I used to think the same thing. Leave DST on year around. But now I’m retired and I could care less. Spring forward 6 hours and fall back 4. I don’t care.

[Veggie Todd]

That extra hour of sun every day is what causes global warming.

[PROCON]

It’s so the kids can go to and come from school while it is light out.

But if you go back an hour Nov. 2, the next school morning will be darker.

[discostu]

DST, burn it on the ash heap of history.

[Lee'sGhost]

LOL! Now THAT’S a plan I can go with.

[PROCON]

LOL!

[bigbob]

WHy not just keep standard time all year round?

The point is, stop this silly time-switching.

[PapaNew]

Here in Arizona, we don’t change the time. But for anything outside the state, the time effectively changes anyway.

[PROCON]

I’m retired and I could care less.

Me too. Darn spoiled kids!

When I was their age....

[Mears]

I’d rather keep Standard Time year round,like Hawaii.

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[Vigilanteman]

Yep. I remember that. Of course, they could have started school 30 to 60 minutes later, but I guess that though never occurred to them.

Personally, I'd like to flip off the time changing idea the way they do in Indiana and Arizona.

A decent compromise might be to put in half-hour time zones so the difference would be muted.

Our area (near Pittsburgh) really has more of a midwestern than an east coast feel.

Run the time zone down the Allegheny ridge and call us the east central time zone.

[servantboy777]

>>But does it really save energy, as that was a key reason to do this????<<

I thought it had something to do with farming or harvest.