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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That’s the dumbest comment I’ve ever seen.
What is the “it” people’s body are not acclimating to?
That’s the dumbest comment I’ve ever seen.
What is the “it” people’s body are not acclimating to?
WHY do you support the huge disruption of our internal clock? You are aware that there is a HUGE spike in Motor vehicle incidents, personal injuries and unexpected injurious personal events directly attributed to the “time change”, right?
What purpose does the time change serve? It was originally posited as a JOKE by Benjamin Franklin, yet somehow, we are literally LIVING this parody.
Get over yourself about the imaginary “darkness for the kiddies going to school” LIE
What possible sense does it make in your world?
I don’t buy into the ‘darkness for the kiddies’ because I never experienced it. I just like the time changes.
You do you, ok?
Keep daylight time and get rid of standard time. More sunlight.
Lucky gal! :D
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