What do you think about daylight savings time?

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My mom's biological clock doesn't get used to the new time till rite before it changes again

I basically try to think of the time change as if I"m moving into an adjacent time zone, and since I used to travel a LOT, that makes it easier for me. I deal with it as best I can by setting my clocks either forward or back in the evening on the Friday - around dinnertime. Which gives me Friday night and all day Saturday to get used to it. Then on Sunday it's not such a jolt and on Monday I usually manage to get moving on time.

The biggest problem with this approach is that I have to remember that I'm in a different time zone from everyone else on Saturday, but I worked with people in lots of different time zones all the time, so that isn't *too* hard. I've been doing this now for maybe 15 years, and it really has made a difference on the first Monday after the time change. There's a big spike in road accidents (and probably other kinds too) on the first Monday of DST. I sometimes wonder if some people wait until Sunday night to reset their clocks. It really is less stressful to do it late on Friday - at least for me - YMMV.

(Edit in: this isn't an opinion. It's the lowest-impact method of dealing with it that I've been able to figure out.)

Last edited by Esmerelda Weatherwax on 23 Mar 2018, 11:22 am, edited 1 time in total.

Should be abolished. Far north on the globe, it should be set to wintertime and left there so we get maximum solar hours during the winter. During the summer, it does not matter since the sun doesn't set.

It gets dark at 5pm between November and December. Way too early. When I go grocery shopping after work it's already dark

Summer, it's light 6 am to 8:30pm. Way too many hours.

Hate daylight savings time

It's always the same thing every year. Everyone complains about it, we hear nothing but all the problems it causes, and then nobody does a single thing about it. And I will very likely have to put up with it until the day I stop living.

After we went grocery shopping my mother spent most of our trip back to my apartment complaining about. But like I told her, nobody does anything about it in spite of all the complaining. The only thing that changes is our clocks.

Very good point. A few years ago there was a bill in congress to stop the changing of clocks. I think the bill passed one branch of congress but stalled in committee of the other branch; no wonder they're called Congress instead of Progress Those of us living in the US need to contact our congress members & perhaps our next president; then cross our fingers & toes, pick a 4 leaf clover, pry a horseshoe off a horse, get rabbit foot, then chant a throw someone into a vulcano, & then die from holding our breaths

I am against Daylight Savings Time.

Completely indifferent to it

I think the clocks should stay the same, but as far as things I'm concerned about it's not anywhere near the top of the list.

It's dumb and its a testament to how hard it is to get humans to change anything whether it benefits them or not. It should be consigned to the bin of history but as lostonearth35 observes, it persists apparently because we've done it forever and that's a good enough reason to keep doing it.

It's one of the reasons I think humanity isn't up to the challenges of something like climate change. We can't get rid of daylight savings, what chance have we of tackling anything important?

Well said. Stopping the canging of the clocks is one of the very rare non-partisan issues by most voters as well as politicians. However the politicians are so focused on butting heads of their opposing political party that they refuse to work together to accomplish something that most of their voters want

I still hate it after all these years since I've last posted in this thread.

I'm against it.

I don't believe it saves much energy at all. A better way would be to selectively abandon the more wasteful aspects of consumerism.

There are several health risks to changing the clocks, and some of them particularly affect older people such as myself. Society has no right to do that to me without my consent, which I haven't given.

It's said to boost retail, entertainment, and tourism. I've got all the commercialisation I need and I don't think more would make the world any better. Especially those 3 sectors.

It's been abandoned in some countries, and AFAIK not adopted in any recently, except Chile which changed its mind a few years later. So I think it's on its way out, and we may as well put it out of its misery. I'm not sure why governments are so slow to do that. Maybe they're too into promoting commercialisation.

I don't like it much at all, but the worst is having to switch back and forth.

Back in 1974, we tried just going to one time all year. At first, there was a lot of support for it, but once people started to live it, it became so hated that they repealed it for the next year.

What I really want, though, is to go to local solar time. Do away with time zones entirely. Noon should be when the sun is at its zenith, not one second earlier or later.

In the old days, this did cause issues with things like train schedules, but we have progressed greatly since then. With our modern electronics, we could easily have watches, cell phones, laptops, or whatever automagically calculate the correct solar time based on our GPS positions. With streaming tv, we can time shift our viewing (I hardly ever even watch tv) to when it is comfortable for us and we don't need to worry about tv schedules.

Let's go back to local time and eliminate time zones once and for all. They are entirely unnecessary in this modern world.

I hate it, I like daylight savings better in the spring.

The bitching and moaning is twice a year, people move on to complaining about other things.

What this thread has in common with every other discussion about this topic is that while most don’t like it the way it is there is not only no agreement on what should replace it what but the replacements proposed widely vary because of personal preference, circumstance and location. Sunrise and Sunset on the same day varies a lot depending on where you live.

If you are a politician why would you propose a change that will be disliked by most? Dealing with whatever letters, texts, emails and maybe a question from a reporter for a few days a year is much less of a problem.




I remember that well. I walked to high school and having to cross a busy intersection in the dark with both me and most of the drivers half-asleep was downright scary. Scary enough that a half century later I still vividly recall it.