Going back to Standard Time

We also have it,I don't see any sense in it.Most of us forget until the next change anyway.I just does not make sense as our waking hrs. are darker to begin with why change the time too..... Time is time as long as its right,I guess I will keep switching the clocks .Don't think hb's boss would be to happy with me not doing so.

Yes, I understand how it works - spring forward in spring, fall back in fall. I guess historically it was important to make most use of the daylight available. But I am not sure how relevant it really still is. I for one always forget it. If they wouldn't mention it every 5 minutes on the radio I'd never remember changing the clocks...

we dont have it in AZ and its one of the VERY FEW things i like about AZ. i grew up and lived for years in ohio and spent a couple in florida. i hated the old spring forward/fall back crap every year.

Yes, we have it here. I think it's totally irrelevant to most lifestyles today and causes more problems than it solves. If it wasn't for my computer and cellphone, I'd never remember to reset the clocks. Daylight Savings Time can't create more daylight hours, so all you can do is take them off one end of the day and add them to the other. Most of us work in artificial light during the winter anyway and those who don't are farmers and the like, who have the freedom to work an hour later or earlier.

Hi Dorann. I wish they would leave it as it was orignally, as when I was young. The shift seems to play havoc with "natural body rhythms" and sleep each time they make the shift.

I'm aware of why they do it, but ugh! Leave it alone already.

Karen

Oh man, I for one hate day light savings with a strong passion. First off no body should be able to mess with the time, and secondly it seems to do way more harm than any good in my opinion. Not only is it horribly frustrating to no end it also screws up everybody's sleep pattern which is not at all good. Not only that but I've heard it actually ends up costing a lot of money for people not sure if thats true or not but I wouldn't be surprised if it was because it seems like the more inefficient something is the more we, or should I say those in power want to keep it. Most of the world doesn't or at least stopped doing the whole day light savings time so I wish we could too, because it's long over due. I agree with you dorannmwin but that always seems to be the problem....nobody ever bands together they just keep going along with the flow no matter what. It would be great if we all just left our clocks alone but I really don't ever see that happening especially any time in the near future. To make matters worse, the genius known as George W. Bush screwed with daylight savings time even further when he was president and I have several clocks and other appliances in my house including my computer that automatically set the time to correspond with day light savings but since Mr. Bush messed with I have to reset the time and then when the now official daylight savings happens I have to then again reset the time. So now I end up having to change the time on my stuff twice which is a real pain in the butt really.

Yes, we do have day light savings time here. I find it to be a hassle because I have a lot of clocks in my home I have to change. I guess the only advantage is that I get an extra hour of sleep. I just wind up waking up an hour earlier. lol.

Personally I wish they would just leave the clocks alone. Set it to daylight savings time because there are certain advantages to it and just leave it there all year round, apparently it would save a lot of energy as well and save everybody the hassle of this constant forward and back nonsense.

The time of 12 noon was set when the sun was directly overhead so that there would be equal to a light before noon as afternoon and this may have made sense in agricultural society when it was first proposed. Then in the industrial era when daylight savings time was proposed it made sense as well, in order to have more daylight at the end of the day.

However in our post-agricultural, postindustrial society where many things are operated 24 hours a day that no longer applies, and we should update our time keeping schedules to reflect this. The constant moving of our clocks is unnecessary and should be abandoned.

I am with you that the clocks should be left alone. Maybe we could join forces, even starts own country where the clocks are left alone.

See my discussion about using a daylight savings day instead.
http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1774347.aspx

Actually the first and last time my country implemented Day Light Saving Time was when I was still in grade six I think that was more than 20 years ago. But I remember that I was very excited during those times because the delight of being so early in school and early at home were so great, just I imagine I was already at home at 2:00pm!

Honestly, I always wished that the Philippine government will implement day light saving time again because it can really save energy, effort, money and time. This program is beneficial. I would be too glad to be at home very early.

I live in NC and we have it too. I like it since it will make it lighter when the kids go out for the school bus. I guess we just follow along like everyone else.