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 was tried back when I was in junior high, so around 1972 or so. As I recall, the move to stop the annual time changes did not last very long at all because children were having to go to school in the dark and parents objected.
Perhaps the reason that the biannual time change remained popular until this recent poll is that those of us who are old enough to remember the previous attempt to eliminate DST are greatly outnumbered by those who never lived through the previous attempt.
Okay, you got me here. Why would anyone need to label zebras?
Yes.
It is unnecessary.
If individuals, businesses, schools, towns, cities, counties, want to voluntariily and colletives want to change their daily schedule, one hour in either direction, seasonally, they can do so without anyone changing any clocks - just start earlier or later as the case may be.
It's worth the minor inconvenience because we'll get more sun during your day.
Do nothing, we'll work longer in the dark.
Depends upon how many clocks you have in your life.
Same with those north of the Arctic Circle.
I’m in Arizona and I thought daylight savings time was last weekend. 🤣
Not this Floridian. Having a little more light on both sides of a day is preferable to having it all at the end. The daylight hours are still longer until around the next equinox. It’s been years since I’ve been able to adapt before the next time change came around.
I want to know why Saturday, and not Sunday when people go to church, isn’t the designated change day. At least when this was started and for decades afterwards, most people were off on the weekends, so why choose the day when many had somewhere important to be?
I like when it stays light out until later in the day. I think we should leave it as is, after this change.
Barcodes are stripes, hence “Zebra”. It sells better in the states than “Sato Printers”.
That will throw off the rotation of the earth
Can we sue Donald Trump when our homes burn down because we didn’t change the batteries in the smoke detectors?
So if I cut off six inches from the top of my blanket and sew it on the bottom I now have a longer blanket. Got it.
At least the one in the Autumn gives you an extra hour to sleep...
“They say, “Oh, it’s so difficult to adjust, and we have to do it twice a year.””
Well, yes it does, in the Spring. Once, the first day was all right and I thought I was okay. The second day hit it me like a ton of bricks. On the way home I ran a stop sign onto a very busy highway. I came close to parking my car.
As for jet lag, that is your choice. Get over it.
The time change occurs at 2 AM Sunday. Why 2 AM? Because that is closing time for the bars in most states. There was no consideration for church. Fridays are important for Muslims and Jews. Saturday is important for Seventh Day Adventists. Sunday for most of the Christian world.
Wow! You'd be in trouble trying list the 5 things you did every week.
Creative programming changes that very few knew anything about. That filled most of my time. Machine cycle time mostly. In six months I could squeeze out 25% more output by manipulating timers between cycles. Thousands of them. A half second here and there, and before you know it you’ve made some big gains.
No, when it was begun, most people worked on SATURDAY, though many only worked 1/2 a day and THAT was morning until noon or 1:00PM.
If making the switch, make it Standard Time year round...Arizona and Hawaii (and PDJT) have it right!
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