Goodbye to standard time

[CB3UK]

Sign me up for permanent DST. Most people would prefer extra daylight after work.

As for the tired *** kids argument, most kids would rather have extra play time with their friends after school and couldn't care less about having to wait for the bus in the dark early in the morning. Most mornings in the winter it's either dark or the sun is coming up when I go in to work and the kids on my street are waiting anyway. It's just helicopter parent nonsense. The kids don't care. They aren't going to start playing in morning traffic because the sun isnt up yet.

 

[KyKevin]

Honestly that makes more sense than anything. I don’t need 5:30AM to 9:45PM daylight in the summer and 9AM to 4:30PM light in the winter. Just totally ridiculous extremes that completely throw your body off

It even throws the dog off

 

[Nightwish]

It probably won't even pass but I'd be for it just so adults can stop whining twice a year about it. You lose an hour, you gain an hour. That's it. People gotta pretend an hour really affects them and it takes days to get used to it. I've never bought that and will never buy that lol. No, I don't believe if you lost 2am to 3am that you're really really tired the following day or still feeling the loss of that hour on Monday at work. It's an hour. You're not recovering from a two day drug binge.

 

[CameronCat22]

It probably won't even pass but I'd be for it just so adults can stop whining twice a year about it. You lose an hour, you gain an hour. That's it. People gotta pretend an hour really affects them and it takes days to get used to it. I've never bought that and will never buy that lol. No, I don't believe if you lost 2am to 3am that you're really really tired the following day or still feeling the loss of that hour on Monday at work. It's an hour. You're not recovering from a two day drug binge.

That’s not it, people suffer from sleep disruptions, are groggy, lose concentration, have more accidents, more heart issues, and suffer from seasonal depression. It may be a small rise in some of these issues, but that’s something. Daylight savings time isn’t needed and causes more problems than it’s worth.

 

[BBallin23]

Nope doesn’t need to and won’t change.

 

[mhs1964]

I hate it being dark at 5:30 more.

Agree to disagree. Yes, it gets dark about 5:30 here in Louisville from mid December to mid January. So if we kept DST it would go to 6:30. What can you do that time of year outside With that extra hour? I’m personally inside or headed to Florida. When I worked I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark so wouldn’t have made a difference. Now that I’m retired I still get up between six and seven and would value the daylight as the sun rises, my personal favorite time of the day. Even when I worked I would have accomplished nothing of significance with that extra hour in the evening. Probably would have enjoyed it on I64 and I71 heading home.

 

[Nightwish]

That’s not it, people suffer from sleep disruptions, are groggy, lose concentration, have more accidents, more heart issues, and suffer from seasonal depression. It may be a small rise in some of these issues, but that’s something. Daylight savings time isn’t needed and causes more problems than it’s worth.

It also caused the ghosts to escape from the ghost vault in the original Ghostbusters and it's to blame for the terrible alternate reality in Back to the Future Part II when Hill Valley was one giant biker gang convention/casino.

It's an hour in the middle of the night on a random Saturday night. I'll give you that you may still feel a little tired if you have to wake up really early the following morning for work or church but I'm not subscribing to the belief that losing or gaining an hour causes this much trauma that lasts for days. Anyway, the country tried this decades ago and it was switched back because people didn't like the result they thought they wanted.

 

[exo6desmo]

It also caused the ghosts to escape from the ghost vault in the original Ghostbusters and it's to blame for the terrible alternate reality in Back to the Future Part II when Hill Valley was one giant biker gang convention/casino.

It's an hour in the middle of the night on a random Saturday night. I'll give you that you may still feel a little tired if you have to wake up really early the following morning for work or church but I'm not subscribing to the belief that losing or gaining an hour causes this much trauma that lasts for days. Anyway, the country tried this decades ago and it was switched back because people didn't like the result they thought they wanted.

If you had to get up at 4am for work, you might make a difference. Big difference when you roll that clock forward that first month or two. But the kids the kids or golf or something. Again, it's all the same amount of daylight. Whichever way the majority wants it but quit ******* with it.

 

[ala_kat2]

I feel like everyone would be happier with more daylight after work, not before. Who cares if it’s dark in the morning, you can’t enjoy it anyways.

School kids would be waiting for buses in the dark. That’s a big consideration for many.

 

[BBNinSCar]

School kids would be waiting for buses in the dark. That’s a big consideration for many.

This is the biggest reason not to. It is less safe for school kids in the dark at bus stops.

 

[BBNinSCar]

It is not always better to have late daylight hours.
Early to bed is a key healthy habit and it’s hard to get a rhythm of sunset and 1-2 hours of night every day on our summer schedule.