It’s Time to Save Standard Time
Daily Signal,
by
Jennifer Galardi
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
5/22/2026 12:06:41 PM
Every March and November, Americans dread the notification in their inbox or on the news to “Remember to change your clocks!” Most of us rely on the adage “Fall back in fall—spring forward in spring” to sort out the confusion of which way the clock is moving. But you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who gets excited about the biannual shift.
However, many Americans do love the later hours of sunlight daylight saving time affords. With equal fervor, others, particularly older people, dislike the thought of getting up in the dark that accompanies it.
It is this lack of consensus, as well as significant pushback from health experts, that has stalled
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mseegal 5/22/2026 12:12:21 PM (No. 2107369)
I also vote for Standard Time all year. Sunlight in the morning has a huge health benefit, while sunlight late at night when your circadian rhythm prepares you for sleep is detrimental.
However, the golf lobby is very powerful, so they will push for DST.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/22/2026 12:12:52 PM (No. 2107371)
We go througgh this every year.
Ilike longer days in summer.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/22/2026 12:17:32 PM (No. 2107374)
Standard or savings. Just flip a dang coin and go with one.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 5/22/2026 12:23:24 PM (No. 2107375)
Parents dislike dropping off children at school in the dark. To Congress critters: please do something relevant like stopping Chinese birth tourism.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 5/22/2026 12:24:45 PM (No. 2107376)
Split the difference. Move on
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 5/22/2026 12:53:19 PM (No. 2107384)
Stop DST!!! It’s unnatural! One’s circadian rhythm does not change in six months. And that extra hour is sunlight is dim anyway. Who wants to sit outside in hot, humid weather with bugs anyway?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/22/2026 12:58:44 PM (No. 2107386)
I prefer standard time year round. The last thing I need is an extra hour of sun in Texas summers, where it gets dark under DST around 9.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/22/2026 12:58:54 PM (No. 2107387)
Another proposal that failed 50 years ago. Got nothing better to do.
I don't change my clocks: half are on God's time, the others on DST. When I want to know the time, I average them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 5/22/2026 4:58:52 PM (No. 2107458)
Daylight savings time works for me.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ALynnMcW 5/22/2026 5:04:51 PM (No. 2107461)
There is no such thing as an extra hour of daylight. It is exactly the same. Only the clock is changing. Not changing how fast or how slow the Earth spins. Leave it alone and deal with it how it was created to be.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/22/2026 5:47:34 PM (No. 2107471)
I like Daylight Savings Time. I find it hilarious that some folks get their shorts all in a bunch over changing clocks twice a year. Minor, minor inconvenience and I love it being light late in the summer.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/22/2026 6:21:43 PM (No. 2107484)
"Boss, we ran out or railroad track."
Then take some from the other end.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 5/22/2026 6:39:44 PM (No. 2107492)
The yearly debate.
Nothing ever changes.
Whatever.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/22/2026 7:32:45 PM (No. 2107501)
I prefer Daylight Savings, but not enough to not go with Standard Time if it means keeping the damn time the same all year round.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 5/22/2026 7:47:15 PM (No. 2107506)
So the real reason for the push to keep Daylight Savings Time is because the golfers and candy people benefit more? Children in Southern Nevada do not go to school in the dark in the morning. Did anyone really complain when we were on Standard Time for ages? If you lived in the desert, you would want it cooler earlier. That's why all of AZ changes time zones, but never the clock. They, like NV get plenty of sunlight. My vote is put the clock on Standard and LEAVE it. But, I'm already predicting that the politicians will vote against the health experts and side with the candy makers and golfers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/22/2026 7:58:34 PM (No. 2107513)
I can't stand DST. I sleep at odd hours and I don't like the sun still being up at 8:30 or later when it should be dark, and I'm tired of the pearl-clutching argument that the chilrun will have to go to school in the dark! SO?! Trump promised he would make standard time standard but then didn't, saying that a lot of people seem to like DST. MAKE STANDARD TIME STANDARD!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/22/2026 8:47:04 PM (No. 2107524)
“Particularly older people”?? How about not sending children to school in the dark? Standard time aligns with the earth’s and humans’ natural circadian rhythms. Just leave it alone. It would still be light at 8 pm in the summer. Plenty of time to take your walk, sit on your deck, grill your brats or play a round of golf, if that’s you justification for needing DST.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/22/2026 10:43:31 PM (No. 2107551)
They tried that silly stuff in 1974 and everyone hated it. It only lasted nine months before it was repealed.
Permanent daylight saving time makes already late winter sunrises one hour later. The sun wouldn’t rise before 8 a.m. in where I live in WV for almost four months, between November and the end of February. The latest sunrise would happen at 8:45 am.
The farther north you live the later it would rise.
Just stick with standard time.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Pepperpot59 5/22/2026 11:21:10 PM (No. 2107558)
It's even worse for people in indiana. Geographically, we should be in central time, but we are in eastern time and now we're in eastern daylight.Savings time and the sun does not go down until very late. Double daylight savings Time is really a bear. Indiana used to not change so half of the year would be on central time and half of the year we would be on eastern time. We didn't change our clocks, though, and that was good.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 5/22/2026 11:30:29 PM (No. 2107560)
Where I live is its own time zone. We don't have DST at all. Our clocks stay the same all year round because it's useless and futile to try to calibrate our clocks to the sun because the ranges so extreme.
The sun comes up at 10:00 a.m. during the winter and goes down 4:00 a.m. in the spring. And there are a few glorious spring days that actually do not end at all. The sun dips just below the horizon line without dimming out completely and rises again a few minutes later. We would stay up on those days just to see that.
I've been in a McDonald's drive-thru 10:00 a.m. in pitch black night conditions. And I've been able to read on my front porch at 11:30 p.m. in natural light. I grew up with it that way, and it doesn't bother me at all. Then again, the Northern Lights were mildly interesting but fairly routine event, and I was shocked to find out people actually travel somewhere to look at them.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/22/2026 11:34:29 PM (No. 2107562)
I say keep the present system.
It is a rough way to align the beginning of the school day and the standard work day with the beginning of daylight. I remember them trying year-round DST in 1974 when I was in high school. It was a disaster, and everyone hated it, so it was changed back less than a year later.
On the other hand, I appreciate having an extra hour of daylight after school or work in the summer, so I was able to do more things before it got dark.
Changing the clocks twice a year is a small price to pay.
The present system is not perfect- there is no perfect system- but it is better than the alternatives being discussed.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 5/23/2026 2:17:03 AM (No. 2107581)
Maybe we should alternate: One year with; the next year without. That would give everybody a chance to see what it would be like. I personally like DST, but my father used to say: "No matter what the clock says, you still have to milk the cows the same time each day!"
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Just pick the one that would require the least changes of opening and closing times for schools and businesses. But enough with the bi-annual changes!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
franq 5/23/2026 8:55:21 AM (No. 2107682)
Theoretically, splitting the difference should satisfy everyone.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
southerngal 5/24/2026 7:49:17 AM (No. 2108087)
The article made sense that certain southern states would want permanent DST and northern states, especially Alaska, would want standard time. Alabama pasted a law a few years ago to keep DST but is waiting for federal approval to implement. Why is this a federal issue and not a state issue?
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