Happy Day Light Savings Time Sleep In

[Brent Cutshall]

Although it is annoying sometimes, as a farmer/woodsman I find it useful in the summer. The days are longer when there's more to do, I think that's where and how it started.

[Mel Fulks]

The Franklin idea was a only a comic piece mocking French society people sleeping late then burning candles in the evening.

[Wayne Lomman]

The real reason for daylight saving is to increase economic activity. We all do more stuff in daylight, so more work and therefore more profit for those who collect it. Governments of all persuasions do it. That being said, it takes about 1 nights to adapt and three months to complain about it. Cheers

[Bruce Page]

Time changes don't bother me but they always mess with the dogs. Dinner time is at 6 and they start bugging like clock work at 10 to 6. Today they were bugging at 10 to 5..

[Myk Rian]

I guess everybody could move to Arizona.

[Bill McNiel]

I have always liked DST. I love having more daylight after school, work, whatever in the evenings to do fun stuff. Switching back to Standard time in the winter is essential if you work outdoors, think construction, and don't light to work "under lights" in the morning or join the evening office commute. Seattle traffic truly sucks, and is getting worse every day, the difference between leaving a job site in the city at 3:30 PM and 4:30 PM amounts to more than twice the travel time.

I believe Daylight Savings Time was initiated to allow folks who work outdoors (farmers, construction, etc) to better utilize/maximize daylight vs artificial illumination thus saving energy. Apparently those who work indoors don't see the benefits. For me, DST provided the opportunity to get down to the beach and catch the evening "glass-off", work on outdoor projects, play some golf, or sit on the deck drinking wine and enjoying the evening outdoors.

Just MHO.

[Jason Roehl]

Although it is annoying sometimes, as a farmer/woodsman I find it useful in the summer. The days are longer when there's more to do, I think that's where and how it started.

No, they're not. Still the same number of hours of daylight, no matter what the numbers on the dial say.

[Pat Barry]

Time changes don't bother me but they always mess with the dogs. Dinner time is at 6 and they start bugging like clock work at 10 to 6. Today they were bugging at 10 to 5..

+1. The dogs, like farmers and woodsmen, don't need no clocks to tell what time it really is.

[David Helm]

Why should I set my clock back an hour Then I'd be an hour off

Unless you lived on the Navajo Reservation. They use the time changes. I do think that Arizona may be the only state that doesn't.

[Matt Day]

It's not as happy with young kids and adjusting their sleep times!

[Jay Runde]

Unless you lived on the Navajo Reservation. They use the time changes. I do think that Arizona may be the only state that doesn't.

Hawaii does not observe DST either.

[Jerome Stanek]

Wish I could save an hour a day in the summer and use it in the winter

[Chris Padilla]

Hawaii does not observe DST either.

I don't know if it is still true, but parts of Indiana didn't observe it.

[Bert Kemp]

Its funny how people think the days are longer But the days are exactly the same, Same amount of daylight and darkness as the year before and the year to come. The only thing different is what the clock says. A true farmer gets up and goes to work at daylight and stops at dusk, what the clock says doesn't matter

Although it is annoying sometimes, as a farmer/woodsman I find it useful in the summer. The days are longer when there's more to do, I think that's where and how it started.

[Jason Roehl]

I don't know if it is still true, but parts of Indiana didn't observe it.

Indiana is fully on DST--have been for 10 years now. Prior to 2006, the NW and SW corners (a few counties in each) of Indiana were on Central Time, observing Daylight Saving Time while the rest of the state was on Eastern Standard Time year-round. Those two corners (a few counties may have flip-flopped, I don't recall), remained on Central, and the bulk of the state began observing DST.