[BenLurkin]

Franklin must have known that the reason the Parisians preferred nighttime was that they were busy catting around -- he was doing it himself!

[elcid1970]

Later described in greater detail in “The All-Embracing Doctor Franklin”.

;^)

[chajin]

All of this is based upon the canard that energy is something that has to be conserved, because Mother Earth can only provide us so much electricity. If we were change the DST rules for the sake of trying to save energy, the orneriness of people would cause some unintended consequence that would make it useless. If we are going to move clocks backward or forward, let’s do it for our own convenience, not for our inconvenience.

[Verginius Rufus]

The obvious answer is to have 12 hours of daytime and 12 hours of nighttime year round. If Singapore and Ecuador can do it, why can't we?

Obviously, it's because the energy companies make money from forcing people to use more electricity.

Probably the Koch brothers are behind it.

[agrarianlady]

I miss my daylight in the evening in winter!

[FlJoePa]

[Perdogg]

I think we need to stay on Standard (true) time all year.

[Vendome]

Just think, without the invention of clocks, there’d be no daylight savings time.

The point of daylight savings time was part of makig time regular, at every point on earth, relative to each other and one place in particular.

Additionally, daylight savings Improves productivity and economic output.

The author misses the point.

[MUDDOG]

The name itself, "daylight saving," is wrong.

You'd want to "save" daylight in the winter, when there's less of it.

So the winter should be DST, not the summer.

[4Runner]

The rationale now for the time change is—DOE federal control of local school systems and transportation requirements and the need for light in the a.m. when school buses are out and about screwing up adult traffic. And afternoons. It’s FOR THE CHILDREN (illegal aliens these days).

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m really surprised Eric the Holder hasn’t sued Sheriff Arpaio and Arizona for not participating in the daylight savings time thing. Imagine how many Arizonans don’t change the batteries in their smoke detectors because they don’t have to reset their clocks.

[a fool in paradise]

Back then they said it was to save candles. Now they say that it is to let the chil’run catch buses in daylight.

And shifting the date a week took it away from the “Halloween weekend” party night (most years, people threw their halloween party on Saturday, Friday night halloweens such as last night as less common).

Also showed the power of the government to tell you “what time it is” when they want to change things (electronics that were hard coded to the OLD routine, be damned).

[Sacajaweau]

Leave the clocks alone. Adjust the schedules. My grandson catches his bus at 7:05 and eats lunch at 10:30....when he’s in school. Dumb....messes these kids up. No reason for this type of schedule.

[KarlInOhio]

Back in 1784, hanging out in Paris and heady with Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin had an idea. Struck by the fact that Parisians were sleeping during sunlight hours and then staying up late at night by candlelight, he calculated the number of candles that were being wasted -- and came up with a very impressive number, 64 million pounds worth of them. Franklin therefore jokingly proposed a massive schedule change, noting that a fortune could be saved through "the economy of using sunshine instead of candles," and even suggested at one point that perhaps cannons be fired at sunrise to get everybody out of bed.

So the problem was lazy, partying French aristocrats who stayed up late and slept in late. Seems like the French took care of that problem in 1789 without the need to play around with their clocks.

Get up early or heads... will... roll!

[LukeL]

That's because heat from the sun builds up over the course of the day, making that particular hour of sunlight hotter than it would have been if it occurred in the morning rather than the evening

I think I understand what he is trying to say, but DST doesn't magically make the sun hotter.

[Cowboy Bob]

I’m living in Russia. Last year, we didn’t observe daylight savings time. This year we’ve gone back to observing it. I’ve already noticed the difference. The extra hour of sleep is great. Let’s see how the rest of the winter goes. Last winter was a little depressing...so far this year I’m a little more energetic!

[KoRn]

I’ve always HATED the time changes with a PASSION.

The way it is during the Winter is how it SHOULD be. The days naturally get longer and shorter all on their own. Just LEAVE IT THE HELL alone!

What the Pelosi Congress and Bush did with a few years ago screwed it up even more!!!!

It will never get better. When have you EVER known our government to correct or reverse course on a bad idea? (I can’t think of any)

[bgill]

Split the difference. Turn them back 30 minutes and leave them at that.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Obama should sign an XO that it is the same time everywhere in the world.

I’m surprised he hasn’t signed an XO to declare there are 100 hours in a day and 100 minutes in every hour and 10 months per year all starting with Zero thru 99.

He could then spend billions of dollars changing all the calendar’s and clocks in the world. Clocks are easy just put a new face on them.

He could kick back billions and billions of dollars to his cronies that way.

[digger48]

I refused to change my wall clocks last spring.

So tomorrow, I’m good to go

I work outside. Sun comes up, sun goes down. I work in between

[Stingray51]

It would obviously be possible for people and businesses and schools... to adjust their own schedules for the seasons without state intervention. Oh, but wait, that would require independent thinking and taking personal responsibility.