Facts about 'Daylight Savings Time" and is it needed anymore? http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html. Interesting article. Is DST needed anymore? I say no.

Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-debate.html.

Interesting article.

Is DST needed anymore?

I say no.

Swede

edwdickinson Loc: Ardmore PA

I was just thinking the same thing. Also no.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Probably not. But I would like to see a repositioning of the working day so that the old 9-5 becomes something like 7-3. Have a bit of light in the evening after work. Probably more important to Canadians (your side) but worth remembering all of the UK is further North than the U.S. (except Alaska).

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

"No, No, A thousand times no." To quote a line from the song.

There's probably money-making involved, so we're stuck with it. I recently got two atomic clocks - two that I never have to set.

fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

What has changed from the time that this started to the present day? For what reason would you want to change it???

Say Cheese Loc: Eastern PA

Do away with it!

chevman Loc: Matthews, North Carolina

Just leave the clocks alone! I once heard that they kept the daylight savings time in effect so the kids wouldn’t have to walk to school in the dark. That seems to no longer be the case anymore as the school times start much earlier so now the kids are waiting in the dark for school bus.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Daylight saving time was never needed. I grew up here in Indiana where we were on CST when I was a boy. Now today we’re back on EDT, which is the same as double-daylight back then. Now the sun is directly overhead about two o’clock in the afternoon--that’s not right. For the July fireworks, it won’t be completely dark until about 10:00.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

jaymatt wrote:

Daylight saving time was never needed. I grew up here in Indiana where we were on CST when I was a boy. Now today we’re back on EDT, which is the same as double-daylight back then. Now the sun is directly overhead about two o’clock in the afternoon--that’s not right. For the July fireworks, it won’t be completely dark until about 10:00.

The State of Florida (well one of the represenatives.. State Senator or State Rep) is attempting to put Florida on perpetual Daylight Savings time. Now, while normally, all of Florida with the exception of a small piece in the Florida panhandle, is on Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Daylight Savings time, he would put us on DST year round. Isn't that the same as saying, hey we are just always going to be on Central Standard Time. Did we suddenly pick up the state of Florida and move it to Texas?... somehow, I missed that move. To me, if we are going to eliminate the change, keep us on Eastern Standard time and leave it alone. There is a reason for the time zones it has something to do with the rotation of the earth, and somehow, I don't think that the state of Florida is moving on a different plane from the rest of the world (although, I suspect that many of the elected officials are).

bedouin Loc: Big Bend area, Texas

God bless Arizona for not having it. They have been threatened numerous times to comply by the Feds and gave them the old digitus obscenus.

llamb Loc: Northeast Ohio

chevman wrote:

Just leave the clocks alone! I once heard that they kept the daylight savings time in effect so the kids wouldn’t have to walk to school in the dark. That seems to no longer be the case anymore as the school times start much earlier so now the kids are waiting in the dark for school bus.

We had to walk seven miles back and forth to school, uphill both ways. And I had to come home at noon for lunch and to slop the hogs. Every day there was a snowstorm or tornado. And we didn't have shoes either.

~Lee

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

When Daylight Savings was first implemented, it was described to a Native American who remarked, "You white people. Only you would believe that by cutting a foot off the top of a blanket, and sewing it on to the bottom...do you get a longer blanket." Pretty much sums it up.

brobill Loc: Fort Worth, Texas ( Haslet)

This is what happens when feds have an idea. No possible benefit comes from DST.
For some 20 years, I have led the church I pastor to change our clocks AFTER the morning service. Evidently our leaders see Sunday morning as the least important time of the week and the best time to make this switch. We find it better to rob the hour from our Sunday nap that to wreck our day taking it from our night’s sleep. It works quite well. By the way, this plan does NOT work for time change in the Fall!

brobill Loc: Fort Worth, Texas ( Haslet)

This is what happens when feds have an idea. No possible benefit comes from DST.
For some 20 years, I have led the church I pastor to change our clocks AFTER the morning service. Evidently our leaders see Sunday morning as the least important time of the week and the best time to make this switch. We find it better to rob the hour from our Sunday nap than to wreck our day taking it from our night’s sleep. It works quite well. By the way, this plan does NOT work for time change in the Fall!

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

brobill wrote:

This is what happens when feds have an idea. No possible benefit comes from DST.
For some 20 years, I have led the church I pastor to change our clocks AFTER the morning service. Evidently our leaders see Sunday morning as the least important time of the week and the best time to make this switch. We find it better to rob the hour from our Sunday nap that to wreck our day taking it from our night’s sleep. It works quite well. By the way, this plan does NOT work for time change in the Fall!

There’s one big benefit from DST--the lawyers have more evening light to play golf after work. Beyond that, I don’t see any benefit, either.