Posted on 03/06/2025 12:40:59 PM PST by Red Badger
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the March 9 switch to daylight saving time (DST) approaches in the U.S., the majority of Americans (54%) say they are ready to do away with the practice. By contrast, 40% of U.S. adults say they are in favor of daylight saving time, while 6% are uncertain.
These findings come from a Jan. 21-27 Gallup poll, which marks the first time Gallup has measured Americans’ opinions about daylight saving time since 1999. During the 26-year interlude, views about the practice have shifted dramatically. In 1999, 73% favored daylight saving time, similar to the 74% who did so in a 1990 poll. Support was more muted in readings from 1937 to 1957, when between 51% and 57% were in favor, though daylight saving time was not uniformly observed across the U.S. in that period.
Daylight saving time was introduced at the national level in 1918, the last year of World War I, when the U.S. sought to conserve fuel by extending daylight working hours as a wartime necessity. From then until the 1960s, the U.S. employed a piecemeal approach, with different states deciding to use, or not use, daylight saving time. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act to institute time changes nationally in the spring and fall each year.
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This is one of the very few things my husband and I ever really argue about. I like the changing of the clocks twice a year. He wants it gone.
Anyone who travels to a different time zone has to deal with the same thing, and it's usually more than a 1-hour difference, and they have very little time to adjust before returning home.
I like that it stays light until much later in the summer, and I like not waking up in the dark in the winter. I don't understand why people have such a problem with it.
Time to get rid of it, once and for all.
Some will cling to the custom of switching back and forth mainly because that’s how it’s always been, and they don’t like changing such seasonal customs.
I want EDST all year.
Year- round Daylight Savings Time (later evenings)!
Me too! I wish it would stay like that all year.
I don’t want it to change. I like having this same conversation every few months FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE!
Rubio had something sitting for years in DC that would leave it as it is in the summer. I just needed congressional approval. Florida wants it lighter later in the day.
KILL IT. And I don’t care which way we go - just all year one way or the other with no changes.
I don’t care either way
Just be done with it.
Just split the difference. Next Spring set the clock a half hour ahead and just leave them there for now on.
LOL. This is one of those ongoing debates. Some people like daylight time, others don’t. The discussion never ends.
I want Southern California climate/temps and sun in the NE, is that asking too much?
which reminds me, who really killed JFK?
Keep DST permanent. Don’t need that much light so early.
I tried several years ongoing to tell them it was already in the software programs, but my boss eventually told me to just shut up and act like it was something important. So I did. It was even in my performance reviews, how good of a job I did with the clock change across 7,325 IP Addresses. Servo drives, frequency drives, date code printers, Zebra labelers, Allen Bradley Controllers, Siemens Controllers, Bar code readers, and yes, even the Kronos time clocks.
When setting it all up, you just click the icon for DST, Yes, or No. A whole month of doing not a thing, and getting praised for it.
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