Please end it!

Could this be the DUMBEST article ever written? I don´t care if it saves a lot of energy, a little energy or no energy. The point of daylight savings time is what? It saves daylight!

Without it, where I live the sun would rise at 4:25AM and set at 7:30PM. Find me one person who would rather not have an extra hour of daylight in the evening.

It saves daylight? Nope - it should have been ended long ago. But don´t worry it won´t be ended whether its needed or not.

Personally I would get rid of it. But don´t expect our masters to do it.

Somewhere bureaucrats are assigned to monitor DSL compliance and prepare reports that are never read.

SWAT teams are trained and on alert for terrible events at midnight twice a year. FEMA is ready too.

Planes might find themselves in the air when they should still be on the ground. And what ever would we do if all milk went sour at the same time?

DSL is also an oversight item for legislative committees. And such work must never be reduced.

We have seen how cuts forced by the Sequestration devastated the economy. We dare not further reduce government now.

In the northern parts of the USA, you go to work in the dark or come home in the dark. Take your pick. In Az, we don´t have to be involved in the semi-annual silliness.

Had one or two software packages that had a minor Y2K problem. But I had one with a Daylight Savings Time bug. When we Sprung forward or Fell back the software crashed and I had to reinstall it. One way or the other this is not high up on my list of stuff to worry about.

#2 here´s one. The one year we had daylight savings time in Phoenix, back in the 60´s, many nights it was still 110 at 9 PM. I was in Little League and it was brutal. Worst summer ever.

Mrs. Berg and I don´t care whether we have standard or daylight ´savings´ time. Could we please just pick one or the other and stop this idiotic switching back and forth spring and fall?

#5 brings up another point. The population has been moving south for decades. Changing the clocks makes more sense in Vermont and Idaho than it does in Arizona or Florida.

Of course the one thing worse than either having DST or not having DST is changing the schedule around, as Congress did a few years ago. I liked the old schedule because the time change was just before Halloween. Little kids could go trick-or-treating in the dark on Halloween before it was their bed time.

Yes! End it now!

I say we end Standard Time. I vastly prefer having an hour more daylight at the end of the workday.

I hate getting up in the dark. Don´t end it but don´t start it so early! Go back to the way it used to be.

Let´s split the difference and change by only half an hour each time. 10 becomes 1:30, 1:30 becomes 20. It´s called compromise, you know, it´s what politicians do. Always works out great.

The board has a problem with colons. What I meant was 1PM becomes 1-30PM. 1-30PM becomes 2PM.

Anyone know what the problem with colons is?

Well I love it-living in Atlanta it means for the next month or so it will be light until 8pm and I can have a life when I get home-and in May it is light until 9pm
-I can work in the yard, go out and shop or meet friends for dinner not have to worry about driving home in the dark. I love it, can´t wait! But if I had kids, another story - getting a grammar school kid in bed when the sun is still up is not fun.

In Australia in one state they actually were able to measure projected savings.
One state did not switch the time and after big brouhaha about saving our planet, they adopted the time switch next year.
Calculations from one year to the next indicated there we NO MEASURABLE savings in electricity usage.
#2
I have no problem with staying and working during daylight.
Switching back and forth is the issue.
Put it on summer time and leave it. If it not broken do not touch it.

Doesn´t matter whether it´s Daylight Saving Time or not, when the aliens come they´ll land any time they damn well please.

Hey, folks! Wake up!

There´s no daylight being "saved"! Although many boobs in Congress undoubtedly think they´re actually creating extra daylight.

Why not tell the truth - - and call it what it actually is - - Daylight Shifting Time?

Hey, if they can sell you on the idea of changing your clocks twice a year, they can probably sell you on any idea they might want to.

Whether you gain more ´useful´ daylight depends on where you live in the your timezone. Those folks on CST but living near areas on EST find that it gets dark ridiculously early in the winter when DST ends. Alabama and Florida are considering ending the time change but switching entirely to DST. This makes sense for AL as it would put it´s time more in line with EST and with GA. I don´t think that the FL plan is wise. Would not such a plan, at least for half the year, put itself in the same time zone as Halifax NS?

Does DST screw up the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox´s?

An American Indian once said, it was like holding up a blanket and cutting off a portion at the bottom end and sewing it to the top end and thinking you have a longer blanket! I think we should keep it year around!

Don´t have to go to Australia to see that it doesn´t save electricity. When I moved to Indiana, there was no DST, and so, of course, the powers that be decided we needed to be like the states around us, so we got on DST. The year after they started, we discovered the utility companies raked in lots more dough!! So, of course we´ll be staying on it.

I normally wake up at 5:30 am to get ready for work. Monday I will have to get up at 4:30 am. By the time I leave, sunrise is beginning, at least it has been. When I leave Monday it will be pitch black as we are in a rural area. By the time I get home and we have family time/dinner and do a few things that need to be done, I will be too tired to enjoy that ´extra´ hour of daylight tacked onto the end of the day. Also, children here will be waiting in the dark at bus stops for the school buses coming at 5:40 am instead of 6:40 am. This is not a good thing. You are so right #18. Time to keep the original time.

#14, colons with open or close parenthesis or a colon with a ´zero´ used to give us sad, happy or angry emote icons. One of the site ´revamps´ got rid of the icons but now the ´text´ used to create the icons gets eliminated from our posts. You can circumvent to post times by using a capital ´O´ instead of a ´zero´. If you want text ´emotes´ you have to put a space between the colon and the parenthesee. : )

I like Daylight Saving Time during the summer, but we are on it too long--March to November. I liked it better when it was from the last weekend in April to the first weekend in October.

The People´s Republic of China has one time zone for the whole country, called Beijing Time. They observed Daylight saving time from 1986 to 1991.

Yes, please end it! I´m tired (literally) of having my sleep schedule wee-weed up (as POTUS would say).

There are some serious grumps on this thread. I love daylight savings. There is nothing like sitting on the porch on a warm summer evening watching the sun go down around 9pm. More time to play after dinner!

I think we should use standard time in the morning, from midnight to noon, and switch to daylight savings time at noon every day. Let´s just skip the 12-1 hour every day. People can eat brunch and then we´ll have an extra hour of sleep every night but can stay outside playing longer as well.

Keep daylight savings time. Get rid of democrats.

#2 I don´t want that extra hour. Get rid of daylight savings time. We are early risers,Hubby leaves well before dawn, and standard time is fine for us, thank you.

Daylight savings time is yet another sign of our Godless government imposing its will on Americans. Obamawannajihad wants to take away freedom, guns, God and TIME from Christians. He´s basically stealing an hour of our lives. An hour we could spend fighting, praying or enjoying our families.

Right on schedule. Every year, when we go on DST, this article appears in the news in some form or another. Lazy reporting.

DST serves no useful purpose. Dump it. In summer around here at 9 pm the sun is still up and it´s hotter than the hinges of the gates of Hades. Dump it.

Might as well save daylight because I can´t manage to save anything else. It would make the same interest in the bank....none.

Time to get rid of this.

Like sheep we let idiots dictate to us and declare that we are saving daylight. We save nothing ... nothing.

It needs to end. Look at any poll and 90% of people hate it and the confusion it causes.

I hate it too. End it, my second choice would be switch to DST permanently. ANYTHING except this changing twice a year!

end it...PLEASE!!!

Well, I LIKE it!! But I prefer the old schedule better. I am with you #29 and yes, #31, let´s keep it and get rid of the Democrats!!

Geez...grumpy folks...oye!

#18, thank you, thank you, thank you. Nothing more needs to be said.

Remove this nuisance! Be gone, unuseful hour changers!

It is done to satisfy various interests in congress. The latest change was at the request of candy manufactures to extend it beyond Halloween. The Golf industry has had a say, the outdoor and leisure furniture manufactures. Lots of interests think they will have more sales if there is more time in the evening.

A farmer in Minnestota once told me that he didn´t really care for DST but he thought it was good for the corn.
Moving a bit further west, I was told that it was invented by a Lakota tribesman who cut one end off of blanket and sewed to the other end to make longer.

But seriously folks, I think that if we are going to continue this folly, let´s change our clocks two hours each month just to take the shock out of it.

I heard a major funder of the DST scheme were the charcoal briquet manufacturers, who wanted the Dads to come home and barbecue after work.
Your lobbyist, at work, for you.

Having actually experienced living in a country without Daylight Saving Time (Japan), I prefer having an extra hour of daylight at night to the sky starting to get light at 3:30AM.

"Whether you gain more ´useful´ daylight depends on where you live in the your timezone. Those folks on CST but living near areas on EST find that it gets dark ridiculously early in the winter when DST ends."

And if you didn´t have Daylight Saving Time, it would still get dark ridiculously early and do so even sooner because you get standard time when DST ends. This sounds like an argument for just shifting to DST all the time, which seems to be the direction we are headed in.