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More Than Half in U.S. Want Daylight Saving Time Sunsetted
Gallup ^ | March 06, 2025 | Mary Claire Evans and Jeffrey M. Jones

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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TOPICS: Astronomy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Society
KEYWORDS: dst; standardtime
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To: Jamestown1630

I want it not just gone, but dead, and buried with a stake through its heart forever and ever!


21 posted on 03/06/2025 12:53:17 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Red Badger

Uniform Time Act didn’t keep AZ and Indianapolis from not recognizing DST.


22 posted on 03/06/2025 12:53:48 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: nopardons

LOL!


23 posted on 03/06/2025 12:55:29 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Sicon

when i was younger traveling in and out of time zones didn’t bother. now that i am older,this time change twice a year upsets my system. pick either daylight or standard and be done with it.


24 posted on 03/06/2025 12:55:55 PM PST by avital2
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To: Red Badger

Just leave it one way or the other...I don’t care which....


25 posted on 03/06/2025 12:56:14 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Red Badger; All

Wouldn’t that be absolutely wonderful if this was gone forever?

“Helps the farmers” - THE FARMERS ALWAYS KNOW WHEN IT’S TIME TO GET UP, DUMBA$$!!!

The best explanation for daylight savings time I ever heard was from an office manager where I worked: He heard me b1tching about it and said, “If you manage a large building anywhere within a city, daylight savings time helps you save money.” His explanation made sense, but I don’t think it really helps anyone. I mean, if your job involves showing up at an office just before sunrise to turn on the heat and lights - so the heat/lights don’t sit there cranking away for two hours before sunrise heating/lighting an empty building, then that’s your job and it’s up to you to adjust your schedule. As an office manager, if you don’t want your employees driving in the dark to work on ice-slick roads while their kids wait in the dark and cold for the school bus to show up - you send out your memo: “Hey folks we’re going to winter hours! So that means next week you can show up to work ONE HOUR LATER!” - and so on.

It’s understandable but that doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid anyway.


26 posted on 03/06/2025 1:06:56 PM PST by Scarlett156 (Remember to pray. )
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To: suthener

“I don’t want it to change. I like having this same conversation every few months FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE!”

These are words of wisdom.


27 posted on 03/06/2025 1:08:03 PM PST by Scarlett156 (Remember to pray. )
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To: blackdog

Are you married?


28 posted on 03/06/2025 1:09:23 PM PST by Scarlett156 (Remember to pray. )
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To: Red Badger

Why daylight saving time is unhealthy – a neurologist explains

https://theconversation.com/why-daylight-saving-time-is-unhealthy-a-neurologist-explains-175427

The dark side of daylight saving time
Why can an hour’s time change in spring disrupt our body, sleep, and mental health?

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-dark-side-of-daylight-saving-time


29 posted on 03/06/2025 1:09:27 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: blackdog

OK, that’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are!

And yes, I would think anything re-done for Y2K would tend to have this be automagic, too. just an event that made programmers take a hard look at time and date with their apps. Though I think I do have one thing in my life that’s on the old DST schedule, so it’s off for a week or two twice a year. Couldn’t tell you what it is offhand, though.


30 posted on 03/06/2025 1:09:34 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Sicon; All

The argument against it due to having to press a few buttons on a clock reveals how lazy they are.


31 posted on 03/06/2025 1:10:58 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Fledermaus

And we here in Indy got along fine without it.


32 posted on 03/06/2025 1:11:03 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Jamestown1630

I vote for gone! Enough of this seesaw back-and-forth crapola…keep it as is.


33 posted on 03/06/2025 1:13:28 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: Jamestown1630
I say split the difference. Permanently offset the clock by 1/2 hour.

Personally, making daylight savings permanent discriminates against early risers. And school children will be going to school in the dark. Split the difference, or stay on standard time.

34 posted on 03/06/2025 1:19:44 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Nifty

I don’t know about that. Many Floridians have concerns about kids at bus stops in pitch black darkness.


35 posted on 03/06/2025 1:19:46 PM PST by FLNittany
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To: central_va

I agree. I like the longer daylight in the evenings, and safer for people especially women who have to walk through a parking lot to get to their car. Daylight savings time all year. I’m in.


36 posted on 03/06/2025 1:21:04 PM PST by Omnivore-Dan (Shut)
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To: Red Badger

One more hour of evening sunlight…permanently. Quit switching after we switch this spring. I think most people confuse DST and switching. They oppose switching bet I bet most people would like a permanent change to DST.


37 posted on 03/06/2025 1:21:53 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I don’t remember ever going to school in the dark. That must have been a change in school schedules that happened after my time.


38 posted on 03/06/2025 1:22:16 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Sicon
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.

Then that's their decision, which is not the same as forcing it on others under government dictate.

39 posted on 03/06/2025 1:22:47 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Red Badger

I want DST to be year round, not sunsetted.


40 posted on 03/06/2025 1:23:07 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that I was kicked off the Ping list.)
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