Do you like Daylight Saving Time?

I really like Daylight Saving Time. In January 1974 the 8:25 sunrise did not bother me at all. The hour of Daylight in the morning really serves no purpose. In South Florida it makes it hotter faster. In the evening I could do more with the hour of sunlight. In order to be fair each state should be required to put it to a referendum either Standard or Daylight time. The one that wins should be the year round time. My vote is for Daylight Saving (no S at the end) Time year round.

Do NOT like it! I didn't mind it years ago when it was just for summertime--beginning with Memorial(Decoration)Day and ending with Labor Day,but it is upsetting to have it continue all year.

I found it harder to get the kids to bed on DST. They didn't like going to bed when the sun was up. I, personally, like ST. Just my own personal preference.

Day light --It is what it is, no matter where you align your clock. Only human activity changes. I still believe the only people who benefit are golfers...and the farmer still works from sun up to sun down. Stop messing with our natural rhythms!

I would prefer if we just stayed on Standard time and didn't spring forward or fall back.

We should be leaving the clocks alone. Our body times gradually adjust to changing light both in the mornings and evenings. The slow change allows an internal adjustment the supports better sleep and waking. Sudden shifts in the clock time shock the body and it takes many people a long, long time to readjust. Many natural health practitioners observe that there appears to be a relationship between the onset of flu season and the changing of the clocks. There is no need to put us all through an added challenge each Fall and Spring. Any savings in electrical use are offset by this extra burden on our bodies.

As a retired electrical engineer, I have decades of experience relative to how energy is used and how to make that use more efficient. I can tell you with certainty that daylight saving time does not save energy, it is in fact, wasting it. It was especially stupid for Congress to expand the period that daylight savings time is in effect because in the early spring and late fall; any energy that may be saved in the evening is offset by extra energy required in the morning.

In the 1930s when daylight savings time began, the majority of electrical use in the average home or building was for lighting, so there was a significant energy savings by shortening the amount of time that lights were needed; however, today only about 10 to 15 percent of electricity is used for lightening. What we have now that we didn’t have in the 1930s is air conditioning, and the energy needed to run an air conditioning system accounts for over half if the electricity use in the average home.

When I leave home for several hours or more in the summer, I turn my thermostat up several degrees to reduce the amount of time the air conditioning system runs while I’m gone, and I am sure that many people do this when they leave to go to work all day. Remember that heat moves from an area of higher temperature (outside in the Summer) to an area of lower temperature (inside in the Summer) at a rate that is equal to the square of the difference in the temperature between the two places, so just a few degrees higher on the thermostat can make a significant difference.

So, now we come home for the evening and turn the thermostat back down to a comfortable level, and because of daylight saving time the air conditioning system has to run harder than it would if we came home an hour closer to sunset. The extra energy used by the air conditioning system in that one hour may very well be more than what it takes to run the lights all day.

A friend in Bodo, Norway, right on the Arctic Circle, shared a news item from Russia last week. Russian government will go to DST year-around. Here in Northeast MN it is already low light at 8 AM and 5 PM. Mid-November to mid-January DST makes little difference in energy consumption or lifestyle.

We should just be on standard time. Time is not saved, the length of the day does not change, and with many kids being driven to school by parents, the last reason for keeping it: 'don't have the kids walking to school in the dark' starts to sound lame.

I hate it but if it HAS to be changed it should be in the winter. That way the sun would be going down closer to the same time year round.

Driving to and from work in the dark stinks

The Amish don't observe Daylight Savings time

it doesnt matter what we like or what we dont,,,we dont have anything to do with what they decide to do cause they do just what they want to do.i dont like springing forward cause it makes the days longer and hotter in the summer time for us texans and a lot of other ppl,that means higher utility bills,i like to fall back and leave it like that but our opinions do not count and never will,lets face it its what other ppl want not us .

I HAVE ALWAYS SAID AND WILL CONTINUE TO SAY IT.

I don't care whether we use DST. time or MST. just use one or the other and stop this foolish clock change

If we had flexible hours, like farmers, we would start our day earlier in the summer. No need to adjust the clock.

If we could put all the daylight we save in the bank.....
then it would be positive!

I've always heard it was started by government officials so that they would have more time to go golfing after work in the summertime.

The only thing we're really changing are the clocks.

I'm sorry everyone but, Daylight Savings Time is a myth. Doesn't save anything, doesn't make more or less daylight. Please stop telling me what time it is.

I guess one has to be old enough to recall that DST was so that people could work in their Victory Gardens during The War. Come on!

Absolutely hate it. Leave Standard time alone. not necessary. One of the worst ideas ever.

I like the idea of a daylight savings time. I just don't see why it can't be implemented all year round. It would certainly help the economy at a time when we need all the help we can get.

Twice a year, the government messes up my body clock with this practice. STOP IT!

I do not mind either one just leave it one way or the other.

We have put up with this silly idea long enough and it is long past time to end it.

I love it and for all you sissy lala's get a life and get over it, because there is more time than life. Just be grateful that you are here!

Absolutely stinks. Ben Franklin was a smart guy with one really bad idea. I wish we could somehow change this idiotic ritual.

Absolutely stinks. Ben Franklin was a smart guy with one really bad idea. I wish we could somehow change this idiotic ritual.

Think of the poor kids who have to get up in the dark and go to school in the dark! Get real !!

Move the time ahead 1/2 hour in the Spring and leave it permanently. No more adjusting to the new time twice a year.

In modern society, there is no need for daylight savings time. Businesses are staying open longer, many 24 hours. Traffic is just as busy in the dark as it is in the light. The only thing daylight savings time does, is to mess up the body's natural sleep rhythm.

Let's stop with the time switching. The spring change is the worst.

Many entities (hospitals, police/firemen, some grocery & drug stores are 24/7 Those companies and schools which benefit from DST can simply switch to "summer" hours as needed. Then it doesn't have to affect EVERYONE.

Leave the stadard time. We are an 24 hours society. We no longer need the daylight saving time. Farmers has all the modern machinary now, the tractors and combines has all the bells and whistles on them now. Headlights to see in the dark, heat for the cold and air for the heat. Lots of stores stay open 24/7 now, so what is the reason for leaping ahead is the spring and summer. Stores doesn't change their time except for the holiday to make more money for the big wheels.

Never have liked it because it disrupts "normal" schedules--especially when one has children and/or pets. Choose one, already--daylight or standard.

Choose D.S.T. or S.T. and leave it there FOREVER.