[SamAdams76]

I actually like the changing of the clocks.

We should get an extra hour of daylight in the warmer months. In the dead of winter, nobody cares that it's dark at 5 o'clock. It's too cold to do anything outside anyhow.

Daylight savings makes no sense for winter time. In fact, it will make the mornings much darker as sunrise would not happen until much later and everybody will be going to school or work in the dark.

[Jeff Chandler]

at 5 o'clock. It's too cold to do anything outside anyhow.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[erlayman]

It doesn’t make sense anytime. Why should we get an extra hour in the summer ? To disrupt our sleep cycles ? Or no cost savings on energy usage ?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“In the dead of winter, nobody cares that it’s dark at 5 o’clock. It’s too cold to do anything outside anyhow.”

Um, Wisconsin Dairy/Cattle Farmers do! The cows can’t wait. ;)

I wish they’d just leave it alone and let people get back to the regular rhythms of Nature adjusting things by the season. (And, it’s already dark by 6pm up here!)

Government can regulate daylight? Well, how come they haven’t solved climate change, yet? I mean, it just takes the stroke of a pen, obviously!

*SNORT*

[mmichaels1970]

In the dead of winter, nobody cares that it's dark at 5 o'clock.

Suppose I'm a rare exception. I would rather it be dark longer in the morning than shorter in the evening. In the morning I'm resigned to the daily cubicle-commute and couldn't care less what the sky looks like. It can be depressing when you head for home and it's already dark.

[WhattheDickens?]

The issue isn’t light, it’s how time changes mess with circadian rhythms — twice a year. As with so many things, people look only at the advantages and ignore the costs.

“Fall Standard Time isn’t nearly as nasty as changing clocks ahead in the spring: each year, on the Monday after the springtime switch, hospitals report a 24% spike in heart attack visits around the country. Researchers estimate that the sleep deprivation may take weeks for recovery.

And, perhaps not surprisingly, we’re also prone to make more deadly mistakes on the roads: Car crashes in the US caused by sleepy daylight-saving drivers are estimated to cost 30 extra people their lives.

Your body is “… fragile and susceptible… to even just one hour of lost sleep,” said sleep expert Matthew Walker, author of How We Sleep. “The brain… is just as sensitive as the heart to very small perturbations of sleep,” Walker explains in his book.”

[coloradan]

Legislative acts do not alter the actual number of hours of daylight. Ever. Anywhere. It depends only on where the Earth is relative to the sun, and where one is located on the rotating Earth. These things aren’t changed by any decree.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm convinced that Daylight Saving Time only exists because so many of our nation's largest cities in the 20th century were situated at the eastern areas of their respective time zones -- think NYC, Boston, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia in Eastern Time, Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans in Central Time, etc.

Sunrise in Boston this morning was at 6:50AM. The sun rose in Fort Wayne, Indiana almost a full hour later -- at 7:46. When you get to areas like western Ohio and eastern Indiana, you never hear all those concerns about the sun setting too early during Standard Time. Instead, their bigger issue is having kids wait for school buses in the dark early in the morning.

[backwoods-engineer]

In the dead of winter, nobody cares that it's dark at 5 o'clock. It's too cold to do anything outside anyhow.

And it's THIS kind of provincial thinking that got us this stupid law in the 1st place. Not true for >50% of US population.

Here in Alabama, we look forward to the winter, so we CAN do things outside that aren't pleasant in the blazing hot spring/summer/fall. I do most of my building and maintenance on my farm in the winter.

[stevio]

I like the changing of the clocks for the same reasons you state.

[metmom]

We should get an extra hour of daylight in the warmer months. In the dead of winter, nobody cares that it's dark at 5 o'clock. It's too cold to do anything outside anyhow.

The heck we don’t.

Dark at 4:30, actually, not 5PM, is no fun at all.