Permanent Standard vs. Daylight Savings Time Poll

[ajg617]

Polls being put out by our Congressional representatives on whether individuals would prefer permanent Standard Time or permanent Daylight Savings Time. I've survived the 1973-1974 experiment on permanent DST - gave me an extra hour to play golf end of day but still had to get on line in the dark to get gas every morning. Proponents of both are all over the map on this. Curious how others feel.

DST became standardized at 6 months in 1966, grew to 7 months in 1986, and 8 months in 2007. I think I would have different opinions depending upon whether I lived in the eastern or western portions of a time zone.

Interesting web site to play around with here https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/boston

[jkwilson]

The problem is when time zones are so large. I live nearly on the Illinois border and our daylight and dark times are hours different from yours while we are both on the same time zone. We tried central time one year and it was terrible. It got dark before I got off work in the winter.

[ajg617]

The problem is when time zones are so large. I live nearly on the Illinois border and our daylight and dark times are hours different from yours while we are both on the same time zone. We tried central time one year and it was terrible. It got dark before I got off work in the winter.

Exactly true. Here in NH, if we go back to Standard Time, the skies will start getting light around 3am and sunrise will be 4am in the summer.

[traveldawg]

I prefer the time changes.... The daylight gets me up in the mornings.

[uwskier]

We don't bother with DST here in Arizona and it's awesome. Sunrise does come a bit late in the winter months but I'd hate for it to be sunny at 4 am in late June.

[masterdrago]

Never cared for these changes. Prefer all to be on GMT (Universal Time). If we are unable to use UT, and I wrote my congressman about this, my take comes from Guy Ottwell at Cosmic Reflections:

https://www.universalworkshop.com/clock-shifting-times/

A clock face is just a set on numbers. Why would I care if it said 13:00 when I got up and ate breakfast.

[masterdrago]

Or try using Consensus Time:

[AZMike]

We don't bother with DST here in Arizona and it's awesome. Sunrise does come a bit late in the winter months but I'd hate for it to be sunny at 4 am in late June.

We love it also. I used to live in NJ and hated the twice annual clock change. As far as which I would have preferred (Standard or DST), it didn't really matter to me. I would have had them just pick one and stay with it.

[Hoopy Frood]

We don't bother with DST here in Arizona and it's awesome. Sunrise does come a bit late in the winter months but I'd hate for it to be sunny at 4 am in late June.

Uh, it's going to be closer to sunrise at 4:00 am than if you were on DST. Sun rises earlier, and sets earlier than on DST. So I'm not sure what your point is.

Personally I prefer the daylight in the latter part of the day than in the earliest part when I'm not even awake. Daylight at 9:00 PM is great, daylight at 6:00 AM, not so much.

[WB1891]

I think Arizona has it right, use standard time all year long. In the early 20th century, many jobs depended on sunlight so DST made some sense. But, today, we have lights that make this a non-issue. However, DST in the morning means darkness when driving to work or school. If we kept standard time, yes it seems to get dark earlier in the evening, but it is still light around 9 hours most days in the mid-latitudes. If asked for my vote, I would vote for keeping standard time all year long.