Posted on 10/29/2025 6:40:58 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Switching permanently to either standard time or daylight saving time would disadvantage either early risers or night owls, according to experts. The current system provides each group with benefits for half the year. Now, the Coalition for Permanent Standard Time is calling for change. The group contends abolishing seasonal time changes and adopting permanent standard time, follows science and prioritizes public health, safety and efficiency.
A survey by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) found that half (50%) of Americans support legislation to eliminate seasonal time changes, while only one-fourth (26%) are opposed. Currently, more than 60% of countries around the world follow standard time all year. Most of the United States shifts between standard time and daylight saving time each year. >[? “The switch to daylight saving time in the spring may seem harmless, but the reality is far more complicated," said Jay Pea, co-chair of the coalition and president of Save Standard Time. "It disrupts our body clocks, affects our sleep quality and increases risk of avoidable health and safety incidents, such as motor vehicle accidents, cardiovascular events, and even workplace errors in the days following the time change. Adopting permanent standard time, on the other hand, offers a better solution for year-round well-being.”
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I don’t care which way is chosen, just so long as the change ends. It’s stupid, causes accidents, and has absolutely ZERO benefits.
For those who say “Extra hour of daylight.” If you REALLY believe that, then just drag your sorry carcass out of bed an hour earlier so you can leave me, the clocks, and the rest of the freaking world ALONE!!
My workday starts a 0630hrs, and it ends around 2000hrs, (self-employed) so cry me a river about “Go to work in the dark, come home in the dark”.
That is my (and a LOT of business owners’) NORMALITY. We start working before most people drag their sad butts out of bed, and are still working while so many are complaining about how brutal the commute was while sitting down to dinner with the kids.
I remember what year ‘round standard time was like when I was a kid and how messed up the seasonal time changes were in comparison.
My preference is year ‘round standard time but year ‘round DST would still be better than “spring forward” and “fall back.”
End Government Time!
We need daylight savings time in the Pacific Northwest. Otherwise, we would be in the dark most hours of the year.
I wake up 5:30 in the morning and I have to wait 2 hours till the sun comes up.
Ymmv.
We’ve had enough of Ben Franklin’s practical joke.
Time is my favorite dimension.
It was first introduced in Germany in 1916 during World War I as an energy saving measure, according to CU Boulder sleep researcher Kenneth Wright. The U.S. followed suit, adopting DST in 1918. Initially implemented as a wartime measure, it was repealed a year later.Daylight saving time was reinstituted in 1942 during World War II. The next couple decades were a free-for-all, when states and localities switched between DST and standard time (ST) at will. To put an end to the clock chaos, Congress finally passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966, which standardized daylight saving time and its start and end dates across the country — with the exception of Hawaii and Arizona, which opted to keep standard time year-round.
Colorado must have been one of the states that dropped DST after WWII because I recall it beginning in 1966 when I was 11 yrs old.
My cat unfailingly knows when it’s 6:00 and wants her food.
Yep, cats have no concept of daylight savings time.
I’m fine with it as it is.
If they change it, wouldn’t bother me.
But usually it’s liberal whiners want to change it so, I’m going to be for keeping it.
Only artificial time changes. Natural time still follows the equinoxes.
Yes, please.
Why can’t we just permanently move it 30 minutes.
The sudden “drop off” to more darkness in the evenings would be more gradual without the time change.
I sent you a Freepmail!
People, changing the time in the spring and fall does NOT, N*O*T, N.O.T, give you more or less sunshine. there are 24 hours in every day (except the 2 days the time changes).
No, it’s a matter of WHEN it’s light outside. To have more light in the evening rather than the morning is why people believe staying on DST would, to some extent, lower crime rates.
It was tried when I was in preschool I believe, we went to school in the dark.
That was in the Nixon days.
Bottom line, as you said, this changing of the clocks needs to end, and I'm with you. If someone wants an extra hour of sunlight, drag your body out of bed early and stop inconveniencing the rest of us because of their laziness.
I remember that. I was in eighth grade. That was a rough time.
Your saying it is afternoon when it is really before noon and forcing the rest of us to play let's pretend is wrong.
why people believe staying on DST would, to some extent, lower crime rates.
Those people are known as nitwits, morons and idiots.
Crime rates rise as the temperature does. So lets adjust the thermometer to make it seem colder so people will not commit so many crimes in the summer.
Most would say that is stupid. So is DST.
So go play make believe about time like the mentally ill play make believe about their sex if you like. Just stop using force to make the rest of us play your silly game.
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