Do you hate Daylight Saving time?

[Mule Packer]

Personally, I don't like it, but I doubt that we'll ever see it abolished. Why? Simple. Money.

Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1975 showed that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a small but significant amount, about one percent each day, because less electricity is used for lighting and appliances.

Doesn't sound real monumental. Right? However, in the state of Indiana in 2005, they found that they saved $7 million in energy costs...plus with the extra daylight, residents spent an additional $8.6 per year. That was 13 years ago. Just think what it is now.

Like the old saying goes, "Money talks." With those kinds of figures, I doubt seriously that our politicians would be willing to scrap Daylight Savings Time.

Just my view from the saddle.

 

[Absalom]

Are you smack on a line of longitude a multiple of 15° from Greenwich? If not, the sun will not be at its zenith at 1200 if your timezone operates in integer hours.

Right on. That's one issue I have with all this whining about DST: this delusion that the "regular time" is somehow part of the natural order and we're screwing with God's work if we play around with it.

Re-setting the clocks may be a minor inconvenience, but it's no different from what I have to do a few times every winter after a power outage anyway, go around the house and reset the non-smart electric clocks.

And back in my youth when I worked on a construction crew, it happened several times in spring, DST or not, that the boss would say okay guys, it's getting light early enough, tomorrow we start an hour earlier, and nobody went "OH MY GOD, WE'RE MESSING WITH NATURE!"

 

[tlawler]

I'll take either DST or standard all the time. I hate changing twice a year and now it looks like we might not have to any longer in Florida. I got used to the year round standard time from my years in Hawaii from 17 to 24 years old and don't think I ever got used to it when I came home after the military.

 

[Salty RI]

I still havent done the clock in the truck yet.

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[ParadiseRoad]

...I read a while back that some environmentalists were mad at the Government for the extra hour of sunlight during daylight savings time...

...believe it or not...they claimed that extra hour of sunlight was causing global warming...

...apparently they never got up early enough to figure out what was actually happening...

 

[mike from st pete]

Why isn't an engineer smart enough to invent clocks that change themselves?

 

[tlawler]

Why isn't an engineer smart enough to invent clocks that change themselves?

I think them there nucular clocks change their ownselves

 

[jtcarm]

I'd be fine if we could just change it to spring back, fall back.

Summer/winter back would work, too.

 

[jtcarm]

...I read a while back that some environmentalists were mad at the Government for the extra hour of sunlight during daylight savings time...

...believe it or not...they claimed that extra hour of sunlight was causing global warming...

...apparently they never got up early enough to figure out what was actually happening...

DST is like the guy who's blanket was too short to cover his feet. So he cut 1' off the top and sewed it at the bottom.

 

[Lee in Quartzsite]

It's one of the reasons I probably WON'T retire there. Growing up in a northern latitude, I became used to long, light evenings in the summer. In Arizona the sun is gone by 2000 even in high summer. That's just wrong.

Being that I now live 110 miles South of you I think we see the sun go down at the same time. Phoenix and points East is a different story. At least now when I take a trip to your hometown we are on the same time. Funny how crossing the Hoover dam can change the clocks 1 hour...........

 

[Sevens]

Cannot believe the sheer volume of whining about this. No possible way can I believe that changing clocks twice a year is difficult for anyone who isn't quite literally suffering from some diminished capacity. Although, the amount of angst in this discussion points to exactly that.

 

[cmore]

Pardon my ignorance, but what are the health problems?

I agree that it's a PITA to change all the clocks twice a year, and is completely unnecessary.

Here are a couple of sites with more info about health problems related to time changes:

Can Daylight Saving Time Hurt Your Health?

Economic and Health Effects Of Daylight Saving Time - Business Insider

I agree it should be one or the other then just leave it alone.

 

[cmore]

Personally, I don't like it, but I doubt that we'll ever see it abolished. Why? Simple. Money.

Studies done by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 1975 showed that Daylight Saving Time trims the entire country's electricity usage by a small but significant amount, about one percent each day, because less electricity is used for lighting and appliances.

Doesn't sound real monumental. Right? However, in the state of Indiana in 2005, they found that they saved $7 million in energy costs...plus with the extra daylight, residents spent an additional $8.6 per year. That was 13 years ago. Just think what it is now.

Like the old saying goes, "Money talks." With those kinds of figures, I doubt seriously that our politicians would be willing to scrap Daylight Savings Time.

Just my view from the saddle.

Did they figure in the additional cost of using A/C for those extra times?
I doubt it. A/C costs much more than lighting does.

There are also several states right now trying to change how they observe
DST. Fla, Il, OK, SC, Tn, Ms, Sd are all trying to change the law.
Several states consider changes to daylight saving time

but even if they accomplish this they still have to get congressional approval. So why not start with congress?

 

[mtgianni]

I like my grandchildren to arrive at school and play when it is light. I like to pick them up at 5:00 PM from their activities when it is light enough for them to see my truck. DST is the only way this is done in the winter months.

 

[mike from st pete]

The closer to the Equator you are the less the amount of daylight per day changes. Want to save daylight move north or south depending on which hemisphere you inhabit of that arctic or antarctic circle. The lands of the midnight sun. Also a few weeks of no sun, but...

 

[straightshooter1]

I absolutely love it and I really hope Congress acts on our Legislature's "request" that we, here in Paradise, have DST ALL year round.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

I suggested back in the 80's to change it 30 minutes and leave it. The U.S. time zones were established by the railroads anyway so 30 minutes would be a little of standard and daylight saving. But, who listens to me?

 

[dg101win]

I have one of them.

Why isn't an engineer smart enough to invent clocks that change themselves?

About 15 years or so ago I bought an alarm clock that changed it self twice a year. But back then Indiana didn't change. Then Indiana changed their rules and started changing twice a year. But big Govt. then changed the rules on when DST happens. So now my clock will change on its old pre programmed time.

 

[Doug M.]

I dislike having it stay light at night now that I only work days and have to get up so early that bedtime is usually by 2000. During the summer, it can be light here until nearly 2200, which is a real problem. I worked and preferred nights for so long that sleeping at night is not all that easy and the extra light makes it worse.

 

[76Y40]

Okay, so you get rid of Daylight Savings Time. Now how are you going to know when to change you smoke alarm batteries, huh?