Daylight savings time

Actually the farmers were quite content to have the sun at its highest point at 12 noon so the daylight was equally divided into the morning and the afternoon. It was industrialized society in the 20th century that introduced daylight savings time so the factories had more natural daylight in the afternoon/evening. In our post agricultural, post industrial society we no longer need daylight savings time but continue to slavishly go through this unnecessary ritual twice a year. I would propose that the clocks be turned ahead one hour and left there all year long so that we would have perpetual daylight time. As far as the return to standard time, it gives more light in the morning so the kids that have to travel to school in the morning and it is still dark out is more the result of shortening days than moving the clocks. The solution is quite simple, start school an hour later when it is lighter for the winter months. Doh!

Daylight savings time is great. It gives me an extra hour of sleep.

i also have daylight savings time here unfortunately... and i can't avoid it as well... now it is summer time here and we have to move forward our clock by one hour... so we are losing an hour sleep and even at 9.00 pm, the sun is still shining brightly... it feels very weird when that happens though because i feel that it is still in the evening when it is actually already at night... during winter, it gets dark really quick as we are gaining an extra hour and i can really relate to what you are saying... even me as a woman is afraid to walk by myself in dark... it will be very dangerous for small children and hopefully your son will be safe... take care and have a nice day...

I totally agree with you! I am very much against daylight savings time. I think it is so unnecessary! All it does is confuse people! I used to work at a movie theater, and every time the time changed people would show up at the wrong time for the movie and then argue with me that daylight savings time starts next week or tell me that "my watch says it's this time therefore it is this time." Whenever I had to work and the time changed, I knew I'd get yelled at that day. Also, daylight savings time kills birds. Wildlife Rehabilitation Facilities get more injured birds in when daylight savings time ends and begins than any other time of the year. A rehabilitator explained to me that birds get used to traffic patterns and hunt for food during times when there is less traffic. When the time changes, the birds don't know it and are more likely to get hit by cars.

Hey Cindy! I live in FL too and my daughter's grandmother and I were just talking about this. This morning sunrise was about 7:15 AM which means tomorrow it will be 8:15 AM, so my daughter will be in school for 30 minutes before the sun comes up. And she's only in 1st grade. I don't let her walk to school as it is, just for the reasons you stated. Yet each morning I see the same little kids walking to school. On Monday they'll be walking in the dark. Many of these children can't be much older than 6 or 7 and some walk by themselves. Don't these parents read the papers and watch the news? The strange thing is, most people don't have to be to work until 8 or 9. I don't understand why they can't take a few minutes out of their morning to drive their children. One of the moms down the street asked if I wouldn't mind taking her daughter on rainy mornings. I told her I didn't mind taking her ANY morning. She doesn't work and they only have one car. I was happy she asked and we pick up her daughter in the morning on the way. I'm going anyway and I don't have to go out of my way at all. I can't believe that your town believes that crossing a 5 lane highway is a safe route for children to walk to school. These idiots who make these stupid rules need to get out there and cross that highway. I will be thinking of your son on Monday morning and will offer up a prayer for his safety. I wish I could pick him up too!

I would just like to stay on one time year around, forget switching back and forth.

I think safety is the best important ,so I think you should take him to go to scholl everyday.To a child ,it must.

Daylight savings time must benefit somebody or the government would stop it. I surely don't know who it benefits. It seems to me that it's the most absurd BS I've heard in a long time. It upsets your body's natural rhythm. People are not as alert when the time first changes, they are more prone to disease and accidents. It just goes against nature.

I still think the daylight savings still helps farmers around the world, doesn't it? But you're right, it creates some complications for us who live in the city. It's a good thing we don't have it in my country anymore. When I was in Toronto we had to observe the change of time and it made me confused. But it's only a few hours worth of adjustment so it should be okay. I'll get used to it after a week.

Till now I finally understod what your daylight savings time mean. I am a Chinese, we have a similar method with yours. That is change the time on schedule. For example, in the summer we go to school at 3:00pm and in winter it is 2:30. You do not have to change you watch and adjust the time change. But there is one question that make you feel the winter day is so short.