How do people feel about the change in Daylight savings time?

[liontamer]

For me personally, my life has never fit a standard 9-5 pattern, so daylight savings time has never been more than a nuisance. Is anybody out there positively affected by the change?

[napi21]

1. No. It's just a PIA! The only good thing is, it reminds me to change

the battery in my smoke alarm!

[liontamer]

15. that is a good thing.

:)

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. I know it is to be a month longer,

but I don't know what month. Will they start it up the first of March instead of the first of April? Or will it extend to the end of November instead of October like it is now? If it is March, I'd like it, as I've always felt it was needed in March. In November, the days are so short, it wouldn't make that much of a difference.

[napi21]

4. Supposed to add 3 weeks to the end and one week to the beginning.

That would make it end in Nov.

[gizmo1979]

3. More daylight

yeah.

[liontamer]

5. how does it work that you actually get more daylight

do you tend to miss a lot of daylight in the morning or in the evening?

[gizmo1979]

7. At least it won't be dark at 5:00 at night.

[liontamer]

11. won't it though?

[gizmo1979]

20. If the clocks don't fall back.Right?

[goclark]

6. Yea!

I can not drive when it even starts to get dark.

Hope I'm right- I'll be able to have more daylight until November instead of October!!!! YES!

[liontamer]

16. So it does help some people

oh well. I guess it doesn't really matter to me, it just seems like a waste of time

[Yogi]

8. I'm not sure but,

I think it will stay darker longer in the morning. (If I'm thinking right.) That will be bad for me being a school bus driver picking up students in the dark won't be much fun.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Yes

This is my only problem with it.

Does anyone know if Arizona will finally go on daylight savings time now?

[jus_the_facts]

9. It's asinine....

:eyes:

[hickman1937]

10. Who's dumass idea was this?

Doesn't it defeat the original purpose which, if memory serves, was for kids not to be walking to the bus or school in the dark?

[liontamer]

12. the original purpose is energy conservation

Somehow dst keeps us from turning on lights, but as someone who sits in a windowless office all day, I don't see how.

[hickman1937]

19. Oh ya, your right.

Kids in the dark was a selling point. I say bundle all primary residential homes in a state into one competing entity against individual corporations. Watch prices fall.

[Blue Gardener]

13. Bunch of Crap

But I think the whole idea of changing your clocks back and forth twice a year is absurd. Just keep it one way or the other. It's just too much of a pain in the ass.
I've often wondered how much productivity is lost because it takes a week or two to get your sleep schedule back in sync. Someone should do a study.

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. Horrible. I loathe daylight saving time as it is. (n/t)

[sniffa]

18. i Love it

i'LL be abLe to harvest my crops Later in the season now.

[hyphenate]

21. I don't care one way or another

A few extra weeks either direction doesn't make that much of a difference. Although, in some ways, having a little extra light at night helps to some degree. But when you have SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), it doesn't really matter--it's the actual hours of light versus dark that counts.

[morningglory]

22. I am 59 and I frikken hate the going back and forth. Wish they would

pick a time and stick with it. Wish the northerners who only get 4 hours of daylight in the winter anyway, would quit griping and change the school hours to 10am-2pm in the winter or have school in the summer, so the kids don't have to stand out in the dark to catch a bus. Here in frosty Florida, after Daylight savings really gets going, it is too hot to think or cook supper till 9pm. Just my 2c.