Day light savings

[Jerome Stanek]

I hate it and wish they would do away with it. Why not split the difference and go half an hour between and leave that

[George Bokros]

Why not just keep the time we have now - after the change to DST.

[Bert Kemp]

We don't have it here don't really notice a difference that much.

[Chris Padilla]

Yeah, changing clocks is becoming a pain.

And as I'm getting older, I'm feeling that hour loss come Monday morning!

[Mel Fulks]

Probably the silliest idea of all. Supporters often "credit" it to Benjamin Franklin who wrote a satirical piece about how the French stayed up late burning expensive candles. Before quartz watches everyone at a small party might have their own time : "I've got 3 minutes to" ,"I've got 4 past", and so on. Now we can all be EXACTLY an hour off.

[Paul F Franklin]

Someone wrote to a columnist in local paper suggesting that if we are going to keep DST, we should at least change it so in the fall time changes at 2AM Sunday, as it does now, but in spring, it should change at 2PM Monday. A shorter Monday, even if only once a year, is an idea I can support.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

Actually, Hugo Chavez made Venezuela 1/2 hour different for daylight savings. It's just one of his many convoluted things he did.

[Richard Flinn]

Wasn't Daylight Savings a thing for farmers a long time ago? Don't we have the technology to keep track of time in a different manner for them or is it of the utmost importance that everyone gains/loses an hour in spring/fall? A bit annoying I agree.

[Ole Anderson]

Personally I like the extra hour of evening daylight during DST.

[Bert Kemp]

There is no extra hour of daylight LOL the days are the same length as they have always been.Go to work an hour earlier get home and hour earlier and you an hour more of daylight in the afternoon. Farmers don't need dst they go to work when it gets light and stop when it gets dark, heck they don't even need a watch.

Personally I like the extra hour of evening daylight during DST.

[Rich Riddle]

The powers at large seem to think it saves electricity. You can conduct a search to see that argument. It's an infinitesimal amount though.

[Yonak Hawkins]

There is no extra hour of daylight LOL the days are the same length as they have always been.Go to work an hour earlier get home and hour earlier and you an hour more of daylight in the afternoon. Farmers don't need dst they go to work when it gets light and stop when it gets dark, heck they don't even need a watch.

It gives us an extra hour of daylight after work. What's wrong with that ?

[Mel Fulks]

Farmers and others worked from "can see" to "can't see". An easily set up noon mark let them know when it was mid day.
Just doing the rough math, they could at mid day determine that if half the work that needed to be done that day was not done ....they had to speed up. I dare say they would have had even a lower opinion of DST than I do. And it used to be common for some business's to have summer hours, much better than pretending it's some other time. Once people believe that these things are easily controlled it will be easier to eliminate one or two time zones,there are people currently pushing that idea. It makes it easier to be "bi-coastal". And only the people in "the flyover" will be the losers.

Oops! Obviously dropping one zone changes the others. The idea is to have more people awake and working.....more people will see the pic of your sandwich !!

[Wayne Lomman]

The actual reason for daylight saving is to increase economic activity as the population feels they have more leisure time and therefore are more likely to spend money. Translation: another means of transferring wealth upwards. Cheers

[Randal Blair]

John Wayne said it best in his 1972 movie "The Cowboys"...""We're burnin' daylight"" said it at 3:00 a.m.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhO85yWpBJI