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Should Daylight Savings Time Be Abolished?

Should Daylight Savings Time Be Abolished?


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I think this business of changing the time is whack. They should set in one way and leave it there. Whose stupid idea was it anyway?
 
I think that the idea was to try to prevent commuting (and school travel) in darkness.
 
I don't care which we do- I'd just like to see one or the other, and stop screwing with it. In this day and age, there is no reason for a switch to DST, and it just blows my mind that some people seem to believe it actually gives them more time in a day.
 
I vote yes and this is one of the polls where I wish I knew how to manipulate them because there would 3.5 billion yeses already :2razz:
 
I think that the idea was to try to prevent commuting (and school travel) in darkness.

Back when Nixon was President they put it in place early. The so called reason was to "save energy."
 
I don't care which we do- I'd just like to see one or the other, and stop screwing with it. In this day and age, there is no reason for a switch to DST, and it just blows my mind that some people seem to believe it actually gives them more time in a day.

Well, this is one thing we definitely agree on. I especially hate the spring time change when they set the time up.
 
DST no longer does what it was supposed to do, which was to allow for some energy savings by having work hours and daylight hours match up better during the wars, iirc. Some have claimed it was for farmers, but farmers have been denying that for decades, so the only other reason I've ever heard was that Nazis started it during one of the WWs and then the whole world picked it up. Now that lighting is so much more prevalent and things like air conditioning are common place, there seems now to be more cost with DST than without it in recent studies. It really should be stopped and I'm amazed at how global the DST bs remains.

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Should Daylight Savings Time Be Abolished?

move the clocks forward an hour, and leave them there permanently. falling back for a couple months is less than useless.
 
This question gets asked twice a year, and I answer it the same way twice a year. Not just yes, but hell yes.

I would prefer to have the daylight savings time shift in place year round, since daylight hours in the evening are more useful to me than ones in the morning, but I honestly don't care which route they go with as long as they stick to one and quit changing it.
 
This question gets asked twice a year, and I answer it the same way twice a year. Not just yes, but hell yes.

I would prefer to have the daylight savings time shift in place year round, since daylight hours in the evening are more useful to me than ones in the morning, but I honestly don't care which route they go with as long as they stick to one and quit changing it.

I find the morning more useful, but could live with that as long as they left it that way.
 
I have no issue with it either way actually. I don't have a problem with DST. The only place I've been without it is Hawaii, so it didn't matter because days and nights were close to each other. If I had to choose between the two time periods, I prefer having the longer evenings of sunlight. However, I bet there are others who would prefer having their sun up earlier in the morning, especially those with children. DST makes a good compromise between the two.
 
I have absolutely no problem with it.
 
move the clocks forward an hour, and leave them there permanently. falling back for a couple months is less than useless.

This. :yt

And yes - this question has been asked and answered multiple times here.
 
move the clocks forward an hour, and leave them there permanently. falling back for a couple months is less than useless.

Some parents don't like this idea because it could have their children going to school in the dark for several months during the school year.
 
Some parents don't like this idea because it could have their children going to school in the dark for several months during the school year.

That happens regardless of the clocks in many cases. Perhaps schools don't need to start so damn early?
 
I voted "maybe" for the simple fact that I would not support moving the clocks "back" to "winter time" and then not ever changing the clocks again.

I want the extra hour of daylight in the evening - not the morning.

Leave the clocks where they are now, and never change them back.
 
Only one "intelligent" vote . a maybe .. and not mine .. Me ? DST must not be abolished ... DST's plusses outweigh the minuses ..We do have many more important things to discuss.
 
Some parents don't like this idea because it could have their children going to school in the dark for several months during the school year.

the kids around here go to school in the dark anyway. kids in Alaska go to school in the dark for most of the winter. i go to work in the dark and sometimes drive home in the dark for part of the year. but them a flashlight, or keep them inside while they wait for the bus.

there is no good reason to switch the clocks back. none. stop inconveniencing me and everyone else with pointless clock switching. set the clocks and leave them alone.
 
The poll question is poorly worded.

The question should be: "Should we stop changing the clocks twice a year?"
Then the responses could be yes or no, and further divided into leaving clocks in summer hours, or winter hours.
 
The fact that we can move time around at all suggests time is arbitrary. Hence, just pick one and leave it there.
 
That happens regardless of the clocks in many cases. Perhaps schools don't need to start so damn early?

My sons go to school at 9 am. If we stayed on DST year round, there is a good possibility that during nov/dec/jan they could be walking to school in the dark or as the sun is coming up. Just going at 8 would put many students in the dark.
 
it is ridiculous to have it daylight till 9:30 in mid summer and 5:30 in mid winter.

Put it all back on Standard time is my preference, but at least quit this oscillation back and forth
 
The FINAL answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, now stop posting these threads!!
 
My sons go to school at 9 am. If we stayed on DST year round, there is a good possibility that during nov/dec/jan they could be walking to school in the dark or as the sun is coming up. Just going at 8 would put many students in the dark.

so drive them or let them ride the bus. we shouldn't all have to engage in an utterly pointless and useless ritual twice a year just because somebody won't find alternate means of getting their kids to school.
 
so drive them or let them ride the bus. we shouldn't all have to engage in an utterly pointless and useless ritual twice a year just because somebody won't find alternate means of getting their kids to school.

We participate in all sorts of things that are pointless. This isn't really that big of a deal. And I was pointing out a possible reason people might prefer standard time to DST. Changing times isn't a big deal to me personally either way.
 
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