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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Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He explains why changing is hard. That dose make a case against DST.
Yes, and she is a chemical engineer in the same meetings. She knows, but more careers endure with silence than by being heard. If it’s not safety, environmental, or making smoke, no senior management wants to hear about it besides “I’ve got that”. I had a plant manager hire a friend as a process engineer. He would stand out on production lines and count product output with a stop-watch. After a few months of that, I suggested that any one of the several hundred photo eyes could do that real-time by itself and compile it on a spreadsheet 24/7. Guess who asked “what about DST changes?” I gave up. It was a pointless task and a paycheck for a friend of someone important. That was the priority.
I would prefer to keep standard time year around. No more daylight savings time.
Try living at the front edge of anytime zone without DST. It gets dark at 4:00 in the winter. It’s miserable. I prefer going to work when it’s dark over getting home at dark..
Humans are NOT meant to have the damned DST!
Well, I guess it’s just habit, but I like changing it in the Fall and Spring.
I love Daylight Saving time and wish it could be year round, but I figure a compromise would be to spring forward 1/2 hour this year and just leave it there for good.
Let each state decide about DST for itself. Not the feds’ business, and not the business of residents of other states.
I personally prefer year-round standard time as we have in most of Arizona.
That makes no sense.
What don’t you understand?
The easiest fix is to simply end DST and have every state legislature vote on which parts of the state stay in their existing time zone or move one time zone to the east. Moving one time zone to the east means DST effectively becomes the new standard time.
I enjoy sunsets that occur well after 9 PM from mid-June to mid-July. Daylight after work and after dinner.
The value of standard/saving time goes up as you move north. People at the equator have no value added.
I don’t want sunrise at 4:30 am, and I like it when it’s still light at 9 pm.
Long live daylight saving time!
Changing clocks has less than NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with it!
Many people's bodies just do NOT acclimate to it.
Yes,it's a minor pain to change the clocks twice a year but it's a small price to pay for the benefits.
Really no purpose to having daylight time. However time must be uniform without a hodge podge of states adoption g daylight savings time while others do not. Imagine the confusion of airline schedules with a few states having daylight time
I want clock noon in sync with solar noon.
It’s Gallup.
A fake poll.
Wait till it gets dark at 7 in July and everyone will be begging for DST.
The airlines already do OK dealing with multiple time zones, and even with states that don’t observe daylight saving time, like Hawaii and most of Arizona. It’s not that difficult.
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