Get up earlier and leave the rest of us alone.
Would it work to just split the difference, and then leave it? I hate this crap. They say this change causes more heart attack fatalities, so why even risk it? People want a risk-free world, right? ;)
If people want to arrive at work at 8 AM, they will do so. If they want to knock off at 4 PM, they will do so. If they want to eat lunch at 11 AM, they will do so. Trick them into doing it by making DST year-round? The disadvantages of leaving the house before dawn will cause people to alter their schedules.
Besides: So-called DST means children and others are out on the streets in the dark in the morning. When Nixon increased the portion of the year for DST, there were more kids killed by cars in the mornings.
AMEN!
I'm just about ready to plant my winter tomatoes. < /sarc>
Between now and March the question on EDT vs. EST is whether I drive home in twilight or in the dark and whether I drive into work in twilight or just after sunrise. Either way I'm not getting anything useful done on either end of the day.
On the other hand I love DST in the summer with sunset after 9 pm.
I like the way we do DST in Arizona. We just change the batteries in our smoke detectors. Done. LOL!
No! Extend standard time year around.
You don't want the sun overhead at noon and on the horizon at 6:00PM?
You'd rather it be overhead at 1:00PM and set at 7:00PM?
-PJ
No no no. We should do away with daylight saving completely. It’s not good to have darkness until nearly 8 o’clock in the AM. Kids going to school in the dark, dragging yourself out of bed in the dark...No No No! Daylight Saving time should be from the Sunday following the Spring Equinox to the Sunday following the Autumn Equinox. Better yet, do away with DST altogether.
Stop changing the clock twice a year.
It is either pointless or pernicious.
Either way, it is a sick farce that has gone on WAY too long in an nation where everyone has electricity.
Russia went to all daylight savings time in 2011. Just saw an article about it.
AS General Patton said: “Nuts!”
The benefits of DST are at best negligible. Let’s just keep standard time. BTW, the driving Congressional force behind tacking ANOTHER week on to DST in 2006 were two Republicans.
Since government has the power to change time, why don’t they also include a provision that the temperature can never rise above 80 degrees and never drop below 60 degrees. It would also help if they were to mandate that we would have no more than 6 inches or less than 2 inches of rain in any given month. They could also totally ban hurricanes and tornadoes. Or they could just stop legislating in areas where they have no business.
Leave it at regular time!!! The Sun is still the time keeper!!!
There are very few children “walking to school” in the morning.
There are a lot of folks home in the evening. With their children. They might do things outside.
Leave it at DST. It makes more sense. We can eat our cornflakes in the dark.
Let’s set the day to 25 hours. We can get an extra hour of sleep or an extra hour of work every day. People can be free to choose what they want to do with the extra hour.
(Do I really need to put in the </sarc> tag?)
We do?
I hate DST.I work nights and it takes a toll on me during the summer months.I’m not the only one.
Love the standard time.No petition signing for me
Keep standard time as the only time.
I dunno. With all that extra sunshine won’t we have a Global Warming problem?
Safer for children to walk to school or to bus stops in the morning without DST. It’s supposed to get dark in the evening, why fool the internal clock?