[MeekOneGOP]

Mostly a courtesy reminder to set your clocks FORWARD 1 hour tonight.
DST begins at 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
Please keep this bumped for me.....
How do you remember how it works?.....

Spring FORWARD
Fall BACK

[Miss Marple]

Indiana does NOT change their clocks. Neener, neener!

Beginning Sunday, we are on Chicago time instead of New York time, which is where we always were until someone moved us into the Eastern time zone!

[OC_Steve]

OK, this is nerdy and probably a bit anal retentive, but it is also a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors. Better safe then all burned up!!!

[Taft in '52]

We ought to have standard time year-round. You can't legislate the length of the day.

[Salo]

I'd prefer we never change our clocks. Leave that to the Third World. It's an idea whose time has passed.

[ContraryMary]

BTTT

[daviddennis]

Funny article; if we really saved 1% of energy use PER DAY of Daylight Savings Time, we would be using a negative amount of energy by the end of DST. Wouldn't that be cool? :-)

I like daylight saving time; I'd prefer it if the clocks stuck there and never went back to standard. It's quite depressing to get out of work and find it dark already (when standard time hits).

D

[RadioAstronomer]

Makes it easy for me. I will be only 6 hours off from GMT again.

[Ferris]

Daylight Saving Time saves energy.

Daylight Saving Time saves lives and prevents traffic injuries.

Daylight Saving Time prevents crime.

Makes complete sense...

That's why Daylight Saving Time should be around ALL YEAR!!!

Not to mention the fact that you can still see the grill much later in the evening...

[GuillermoX]

Only on FR will you find people bashing DST. Sheesh.

[Pablo64]

This whole issue of changing the clocks has actually worked to my benefit. I have actually gained one hour of time and never gave it back!

I was living in a state that observed DST when the fall change (set clocks back one hour) occurred. I got my "extra" hour of sleep that night. Shortly thereafter, I moved to a state that did not observe DST and was there during the time when I normally would have set the clock ahead again, but instead just left it alone. I ended up moving back to the state that observed DST again just in time for the fall change back! I've never had to give that hour back yet (Sshhhh...don't tell the feds....they'll want to figure out how to tax me for it!). So I guess that I can say that I have some "time to spare", or maybe I can be an hour late for my own funeral if I'm careful and don't blow it before then!! LOL! ;-)

[w1andsodidwe]

Daylight Saving time saves energy

I have never figured out how this is possible in the central valley of California. Temperature regularly peak above 100 in the summer months. High temperatures usually peak around 4:00 PM PDT, so everyone leaving work to crank up their home air-conditioners at the time of peak temperatures cannot possible save energy. We are continually being told to use less energy during this time period.

Add to this California's requirement that more battery operated cars be sold. What happens when everyone plugs in their car as they get home?

I have always thought that daylight saving time's energy savings is a liberal myth. The government mandated change in my sleep time is an intrusion into my private life that I do not appreciate. It takes me weeks to be able to fall asleep earlier, and keeps me from being as productive during the day because of sleep deprivation.

Why do I need more daylight at night? It already stays light until 9:00 in mid-summer without daylight savings time.

[let freedom sing]

<))) PING

Why do we subject ourselves to this nonsense?--

We ought to save daylight year-round, and be done with it!!!!!!

[Risky Schemer]

"Jim Thrash prepares for daylight savings time"

"Shhh. Be vewwy vewwy quiet. I'm hunting cwocks."

[antidemocommie]

Its time to stop jerking around with our clocks. Set them once and never change them. There are psychological and physical responses to altering our clocks.

[SamAdams76]

Does anybody remember during 1973 and 1974 when Nixon extended Daylight Savings by two hours? I was just a kid then but I remember going to school in the dark most of the time and in the summer, it was still daylight until well past 9PM.

[Lurker]

Spring backwards in the fall, fall forwards in the spring....

L

[RightWhale]

A what's the point, it won't be dark again around here until September bump. Tonight might be a poor choice for staying up an hour late?