Do we really need daylight saving time?

More daylight at night just means less daylight in the morning. I wish we could do away with it.

http://www.standardtime.com/

I think we should stay sprung and lower the SAD depression

I'm not sure why, of course, but there must be some reason for this.

Whether we have it or don't have it is pretty irrelevant for most people. We change the clocks, then go on about our business with a minimum of impact from the time change.

The reasons for it are sort of silly these days, except, perhaps, for the few rural areas where children are still doing farm chores, but it's a tradition, of sorts.

Leave it or change it. It won't matter to me. All but one of the clocks in my house change themselves automatically, since they're set by querying WWV. The one that doesn't change doesn't get changed, I'm perfectly capable of adding or subtracting an hour whenever it's needful.

that we should just stay on it all year 'round, since we're on it more often that not now, anyways.

so I wish we could keep it year round. I always go into a depression when it ends in November.

for 8 months of the year? Your SAD has to do with the time of the year, not the fact politicians screwed with clocks.

It lifts with DST. The holidays don't help, nor do full spectrum lights.

On weekends I sleep until after sun up so I don't turn on lights and use electricity.


If the majority of the country does the same thing then we must be saving some energy doing this.


Changing the clocks twice a year is such a small thing, are we really so spoiled that this minor inconvenience is a reason to waste energy?

that it does waste energy.

Part of Indiana was in DST and part stayed on Central Standard time. Someone did a study of electrical power use and determined it was higher during DST because of air conditioner use.

Economic productivity as it is currently defined is bad for the earth and bad for the human spirit.

Daylight savings time disconnects people from natural cycles. It is rotten.

I've been waking up at 4 AM practically my entire life. My internal alarm apparently makes no allowances for ambient light.

It shuts out all the ambient light coming from outside street lamps to LED screens to the nightlight in the bathroom down the hall.

I make coffee, feed the dogs, feed the cats, feed the horses, feed the chickens and I still have two hours of uninterrupted web surfing before grandma wakes up and I fix breakfast for us.

Noise is actually more of a deterrent than light for me getting to sleep but once I drop off I can sleep through a hurricane until 4.

at dawn on Sunday mornings for some out of town papers I don't get delivered (we read 5 different Sunday newspapers!). In the dark, I really like my cozy bed...

Doesn't hurt anything.

I don't want to have people be gun shy about posting their thoughts and ideas here because it may have been posted before.

Don

this is brought up twice a year for as long as I can remember

One on August 6th saying "Yeah, we nuked em" and one for each clock changed called "Don' forget to change the clock and STFU"

I hate the spring forward. I like the fall back.

starting the next few days feeling like I'm already behind schedule.

The extra hour in the fall, on the other hand, feels like a gift from the universe :)

given us to make up for the loss of the light...a "gift" like you said...

It saves nothing. The further north you are the worse it becomes. Close to the Equator, it does nothing.

The party animal Benjamin Franklin came up with DST to save candles. We don't need to anymore.

I hate not having any daylight hours after work during the workweek. Who cares if it's dark at 6 a.m.?

Why don't we just keep it DST and stop flipping back and forth?

Also it seems to me that in the Spring when you lose an hour, there are more likely to be even more sleep-deprived people and more accidents.

the late afternoon and early evening..

I hate that it's dark in the morning.

Let's stay on standard time all year, and people who want to get up and go to bed an hour earlier all summer can do that if they want.

100 hours a day - each one about 15 minutes long, divided into 10 metric minutes about 1.5 minutes long, and 100 metric seconds each

Also, everybody everywhere has the same time. Period.
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This state may be backwards in many ways, but it is one thing we figured out. Every now and then the proposal comes up to adopt DST in Arizona, but it quickly falls apart when people start asking why. The only arguments in support turns out to be: "The rest of the country does" or "I can't convince my coffee maker that I live in Arizona".

The Earth will continue to rotate on its axis about the same rate with or without it.

there would be no need to do it at all. I still say we are measuring time the wrong way.

daylight saving time was better aligns darkness with sleep hours, and therefore lights out time. hence, it saves energy.

this is true year-round, though apparently the energy savings are less in the short winter days, when the extra darkness means greater energy consumption regardless.

but if being ON daylight saving time saves energy year-round, why go OFF it at all? not only is changing clock (and computer programs and so on) a hassle and nuisance and creates confusion, but going OFF it actually wastes energy?



of course, we COULD just stay on standard time year-round and replace 9-to-5 jobs with 8-to-4 jobs, but that's far less likely to happen.

and being on Daylight Saving Time wastes energy: http://www.physorg.com/news187946326.html

So I say leave the clocks alone.

or carry a flashlight/etc.

out. I would rather have more AM daylight and deal with it getting dark earlier, actually. But then, I like it staying light later in the summertime. :shrug: Not sure what the answer is.

Driving to work Saturday morning at 715am, and it's pitch dark outside. It shouldn't be pitch dark at that time of the morning.

would be light out!

Fareed Zakaria did a bit on DST on his show Sunday. He said Japan is the only country that does not do DST and that the extra daylight of DST would add billions in economic activity to their economy.

Many equatorial and tropical nations do not employ DST, like Vietnam, Argentina, and Iraq. There are many more.

It's possible he qualified it as "the Western world" or something like that but I wasn't listening too closely.

Thanks for the correction.

People on the Left and Right will complain endlessly about how much they hate big government. Yet virtually 100% of the population will willingly acquiesce to having the government tell them it is noon when it is really an hour before noon. If you live anywhere in the vicinity of a rooster (that's a cock for you Brits - we're too babyish for that word in America), you know what folly DST is.

I live a few miles west of a time zone border. I want the sunlight in the afernoon when I'm actually awake to us it instead of 6 in the morning.

I HATE having to stay at work an hour later in the evening and get home in the dark every night through the winter. I leave early enough that it's going to be dark regardless. All winter, the only time I see my place in daylight is on the weekends.

Even more, though, I don't like the twice yearly disruption to my body's clock. I wish we could just pick one and stick with it.

It's dark all winter and light all summer. I think on balance I'd rather see the sun come up at 10:30 a.m. rather than 11:30 a.m. in the dead of winter, so maybe we should just stick with standard time.

Why? How does that work or supposed to work?

plus we are all on one time zone from Ketchikan all the way out to the west coast, except for the Aleutians, which are an hour earlier. We spring forward and fall back just like everyone else, but it's really kind of a joke.

I seem to remember when I first moved up here, there were at least three time zones in Alaska, maybe four, but it was too difficult to conduct business with Juneau, which was on west coast time, from Anchorage and Fairbanks which were on Alaska time, so they put us all in one zone.

Twice a year, my body goes out of whack for a few days.. I wish we'd just leave it one way or the other, preferably DST, but this switching back and forth serves no useful purpose.