mas24 Loc: Southern CA

If Daylight Savings Time is good enough for 8 months, it should be good enough for 12 months. IMO. Darkness before 6:00pm during winter isn't my preference. Others say it doesn't matter. "Leave the current system alone" as one Arizonan stated on his thread. The only mainland State that doesn't change. Interesting.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

When we were kids we could hardly wait for daylight savings as it meant that we were out of the house in the summer by 7:00am doing what all busy, healthy kids should be doing. Running, jumping, climbing trees, playing tag games, hide-n-seek, fishing, etc. Cutting the lawn with the old reel lawnmower as soon as our hands could reach the wooden handles, weeding the garden and whatever other chores our parents figured we were ready to do. We only went home for lunch, or to get 5 cents for the ice cream man after supper, and went home when the street lights went on. I loved daylight savings and still do. It means I can stay out later for an evening walk and that I'm not sleeping through a perfectly good hour of daylight in the morning. I don't see what the problem is other than my cat, who has no conception of daylight savings, and is still looking for supper at what he thinks is the proper supper hour until I can get his little belly clock re-adjusted.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Yup!! Same for me and my friends in the 40's - 50's. My grand kids love to hear me reminisce about my experiences as a kid. They always seem to yearn for some of those type experiences. We had to create and invent, we had to settle differences without the aid of adults, we were independent and resourceful and I feel much better prepared for life. As for clocks and DST vs. not, I like it the way it is.
This post/thread takes far too much energy. Many more important & critical issues facing us, than DST.

Thanks for sharing that.
Mark

clickety

You could have accomplished the same by going out at 6:00 am.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Of course there are, but those extra hours are not due to DST. There are always more hours of sunlight in the summer because of the earth's angle in relation to the sun. DST has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Geography, astronomy, physics, etc. all teach us that.

Ka2azman Loc: Tucson, Az

How did the Romans change the sun dial in the middle of the night? After all it happens at 2 am. lol

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Why not split the difference and make 7:30 a.m. 7:00 a.m. and leave it like that year around?

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

Someone before you offered that idea. Called it the 1/2 hour method. Not likely to be approved though.

Wandering Loc: Sea Wa

Sorry, but a lot of AZ does change. Namely the Navajo and Hopi Nations. And, that is a lot of territory. Just imagine, two rush hours at some small towns' only stop light. Better make that rush minutes.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

I can just imagine that. Two Rush hours I mean. How chaotic.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Now a bummer would be if you owned a clock and watch shop!