Do you wish they would do away with daylight savings time?

[Mrs. Readsalot]

I really enjoyed living in Hawaii. The beaches, tradewinds, temperatures, and they don't do daylight savings time(seriously what would be the point there). But even living in Maryland I do not like having to change the clocks twice a year. I am a creature of habit and it messes me up for weeks. Am I the only who feels this way? Please tell me I not!

[jacqui in mo]

Oh Yeah. I think this every year.

[Plaid Dad]

You are not alone! I've never liked DST and I never will. I like it even less with a young child whose sleep patterns get messed up for weeks twice a year. :mad:

[Mom2legomaniacs]

Pick a time and stick with it! I hate switching back and forth. Total pain and seemingly not important to do anymore (is it?).

[mrscopterdoc]

Yes! I wish they would ban it altogether. We lived in Puerto Rico for 3 years and they don't do daylight savings time. That was so nice. What a pain resetting all the clocks, messing up your sleep, etc. So not worth it.

[Jenny in Atl]

Ditto to all above... DST stinks :mad: Pick one or the other and stay with it. You know the morning after the change over to DST there is a major jump in traffic accidents. Not really surprising is it.

[Karen sn]

I hate it. Pick a time - any time - and stay with it.
The farmers get up before sunrise and stay up past sundown - so there's no excuse there. The kids are still waiting for their buses in the dark half the year - so no excuse there either.
So tell me - why are we still doing it? (Especially when everyone hates it!)

Also - if you look at insurance claims, they spike after both changes. You'd think with all their power the insurance companies of America would have lobbied already for change.

[jail warden]

We live in IN and we did not have DST for all my life and now just in the last few years they decided to start and it annoys me!

[Beth in Central TX]

I agree. I know it depends on the child, but DST can affect the sleeping patterns of an older child too.

[WTMindy]

honestly, I never thought about it. :-) It doesn't seem to affect me much.

[Tracey in TX]

I like DST. It allows us to enjoy more evening sunlight in the summer months, and sunrise earlier in the winter months--which is a bear to get up in the dreary weather.
Mostly we like the summer sunshine and hang out at the pool until 9:30pm with sunlight. That's worthy of celebration :)

[KristineIN]

I don't like it, the kids get to bed so late, fireworks are late on 4th of July, you can't really go to the Drive In Movie like you used to be able to. I much prefer it when we didn't change time.

Kristine

[Patty Joanna]

Yes, so my husband would stop complaining about it.

(whee)

[cin]

I like DST. It allows us to enjoy more evening sunlight in the summer months, and sunrise earlier in the winter months--which is a bear to get up in the dreary weather.
Mostly we like the summer sunshine and hang out at the pool until 9:30pm with sunlight. That's worthy of celebration :)

I wish we would stick to the summer time also. In winter, when we change the clocks it gets dark at 5:30...I would LOVE an extra hour of daylight in the winter. It would help with SAD so much!

[shanmar]

It drives me crazy.

In Alaska it makes so little sense, that it is, just, well, rather dumb. We either have no daylight or all daylight, so it doesn't really matter what time it is. (That was a rather large simplification of things, but it works for me.)

Did you know that all of Alaska is in the same time zone, even though it stretches across a distance equal to the Lower 48 (that is what we call the rest of the U.S.)?

[PinkInTheBlue]

I really despise the time changes. It's one of the top "pros" to my thoughts on moving to Arizona!

[Whisperlily]

I don't mind it. It doesn't bother me at all.

I used to be able to get the kids to go to bed at the same time no matter what the clock said, but I don't know whether that'll fly much longer. ;)

[Pencil Pusher]

Awful. In fact, I bet it's a govt conspiracy...to keep us all...tired...and dumb...dumb because we're too tired.

WHY ELSE WOULD THEY DO IT????

LOL (sort-of)
:cool:Aubrey the Suspicious

[Montana Peach]

I actually prefer DST and don't like standard time as I fall in the ' more sun' category. Here in Montana, we run into really unbalanced days too. IN summer it's not dark totally till around 10 PM adn by 4 AM I can see outside very clearly. In the winter, with standard time the days are so short you miss them if you blink.

[Luanne]

It messes me up. It messes my daughter up (and she is 19). I don't know why they can't just leave the time alone.

[Doran]

I really enjoyed living in Hawaii. The beaches, tradewinds, temperatures, and they don't do daylight savings time(seriously what would be the point there). But even living in Maryland I do not like having to change the clocks twice a year. I am a creature of habit and it messes me up for weeks. Am I the only who feels this way? Please tell me I not!

Oh, and did I say I hate DLS? As a farmer, I was one of those people it was supposed to benefit. Well I say :phooey: on that and to any official who says it saves energy because people turn on their lights later. I've seen how people waste electricity burning lights that aren't used, using bulbs that aren't cfl, lighting buildings after dark. HOCKEY puck, I say! Energy savings from DLS is bogus!. The only thing dls did for me during my farming career was create light for me to work later into the evening thereby royally wrecking my family's dinner hour. Dh, the kids, and I have difficulty adjusting to the time shift - it takes us weeks.

So, shall we all get together and storm captitol hill? :D

Doran

[Tracey in TX]

Awful. In fact, I bet it's a govt conspiracy...to keep us all...tired...and dumb...dumb because we're too tired.

WHY ELSE WOULD THEY DO IT????

LOL (sort-of)
:cool:Aubrey the Suspicious

govt conspiracy...hmm? I was thinking it's sponsored by the electronics companies to encourage us to purchase the clock radios w/ DST options! :D

[kalanamak]

NT

[Whisperlily]

In the winter, with standard time the days are so short you miss them if you blink.

But the days are short in winter no matter what time the clock says. Most people get up when it's dark and go to bed when it's dark in the winter, so why would the time change make the days seem shorter? It's really the same amount of daylight.

Now, if it was already light when we awoke, then we'd be sleeping away some of our daylight and I wouldn't like that, but since most winter evenings are indoors anyway with artificial light I don't think it really changes much.

[Alana in Canada]

I hate it. The sun is finally up by 8:00am in the morning here--and with DST, it'll lose a whole month! That's pretty major for those of us North of the 47th!

[Meliss]

You are not alone! I've never liked DST and I never will. I like it even less with a young child whose sleep patterns get messed up for weeks twice a year. :mad:

The messing up of sleep patterns is the reason why I hate it too!

[Ellie]

I love it when the time changes and we have such long days...but still, just let time be what it is. That instant change in the fall makes me crazy:mad:

[Kay in Cal]

I'm with you... I like having my sunlight at the end of the day rather than the beginning---I'd do it year round and then have "double" daylight savings in the summer. Frankly, I'm much happier when the sun doesn't come up until after 7am, because I don't WANT to get up before 7am most of the time.

[RoughCollie]

No, I do not think DST should be done away with. It reduces energy consumption and reduces the number of traffic accidents.

Here's a link I found that goes into great detail about DST -- it's pretty interesting:

http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html

[Laura Corin]

The whole of China is on Beijing time, but it's big enough to have four or five standard zones.

http://www.travel.com.hk/region/timezone.htm

edited to add: I've just noticed that this map still has Hong Kong marked as belonging to Britain - we had the tenth anniversary of the handover last year.

Laura

[Sasharowan]

I hate it and now they are making it earlier and for more months.

[elegantlion]

I enjoy having more light at the end of the day. It messes with our sleeping patterns for about a week, then we're okay. I've noticed the dog gets more confused than anyone.

[Heather in the Kootenays]

They say (whoever they are) that there are more accidents just after the time change So it's a real problem.

But here we don't change time but everyone around us does. Our little valley (15,000 people) stays the same while everyone else we know - radio, TV, planes, buses, relatives - change. For several weeks, each fall and spring, I'm confused - don't know what time it is anywhere else in the world. And the rest of the world is always phoning here an hour early or an hour late. Makes me crazy.

It makes DST look easy.

[mcconnellboys]

I have to say that this year, with the changes that have been made to the dates, I am finding that I'm having an easier time through the winter months (SAD tendencies run in my family). I live on the far western edge of the eastern time zone, so maybe only folks in certain areas are helped by this, but it's been very good for me this year!

Regena

[Michelle in MO]

You are not alone! I've never liked DST and I never will. I like it even less with a young child whose sleep patterns get messed up for weeks twice a year. :mad:

my kids' sleep patterns get messed up for weeks! I guess DST is great if you love gardening (which I don't!).

[AngieW in Texas]

Yes. I want them to set the clocks back 30 minutes in the spring and then just leave them there forever. Daylight savings always messes up my sleep.

[Jackie in AR]

honestly, I never thought about it. :-) It doesn't seem to affect me much.

Same here. Although I do enjoy the extra hour on the Sunday when we "fall back."

[Tammy]

nt

[Rhondabee]

nt

[Lorna in the boonies]

Another vote for getting rid of standard time and having later sunsets all year round.

I love, love, love DST! I will happily give up an hour of sleep on Saturday night if it means the days will be longer again.

[Diana in OR]

YES!!! It drives me nuts! Dh leaves for D.C. (from the West Coast) next Saturday. That means he will have to adjust to being 4 hours ahead. He is only there for a few days, so I think it will not be fun for him.

[Old Dominion Heather]

Yes. Yes. Yes... Ditch standard time and keep Daylight Standard year round. Standard time is so depressing.

[Karin]

I'm with you. I think they should take one time and stick with it. Preferably the one that keeps it dark longer in the morning:)

[JeanM]

I agree too. Changing times always messes up both of my dc.

Jean

[Excelsior! Academy]

Yes! Enough said.

[Sandy in Indy]

One of the great joys in moving back to Indiana was no more changing of the clocks...until last year when dst was instituted. Yuck...can I say it again? YUCK!

[Robin Hood]

I don't care for dst at all, but then again, when it comes time to go back to standard time, I don't like standard time. I just like it where I'm at.