Daylight Savings Time---yes or no?

[Larry Caldwell]

It's a dang goverment thing so I ignore it. Sundial in de yard is right all day long.

Whole standard time thing got started by railroads and we know how honest dey are. Railroads usta stay on Railroad time all year and ignore goverment saving time.

Maybe it was one of dem lets see how many we can get runnin around behind masks experiments in earlier time.

It's a railroad thing. Time zones were established to solve railroad scheduling problems. Before that, everybody used local time. Nowadays, time zones are a TV network thing. You are, of course, free to set your clocks to any time you want.

 

[lman]

I remember the good old days when we did not have daylight losing time. I never heard any complaints about not having it, but the government insisted that we needed it to benefit financially. I never saw any benefit to the time changes, hopefully somebody else did.

 

[dragoneggs]

I can't say it really matters to me, but if I had to pick between the two, I would prefer DST all year. I really like the later daylight in the summer here in the north when the evening temps are more tolerable for outside activities.

 

[Oldpath05]

I like the time change it gives us something to complain about, imagine a world with no complaining....... The best gov benefit I get is extra hour of sleep yahooo!!!! Its the only way I can stand another hour in 2020....

 

[ovrszd]

Every year is what we make of it.

 

[lman]

I can't say it really matters to me, but if I had to pick between the two, I would prefer DST all year. I really like the later daylight in the summer here in the north when the evening temps are more tolerable for outside activities.

I guess I go to bed earlier than you. Harder to get to sleep when it's still light. Here there's still daylight at 9:30 or 10:00. I would like some daylight in the morning at work.

 

[sixdogs]

Back 5 or more decades ago, local times were a patchwork of confusion. In places like Ohio or Indiana you could drive to the next town and get there an hour early. Then drive two miles to the next town and be back to the time zone you started in. It was pretty exciting for a kid but adults were sure unhappy. There's still some of that with "fast" time and "slow" time.

 

[dragoneggs]

I guess I go to bed earlier than you. Harder to get to sleep when it's still light. Here there's still daylight at 9:30 or 10:00. I would like some daylight in the morning at work.

And I suppose it depends on whether you work outside or in. I would rather my 'free' hours to be in the daylight.

 

[mpham]

As long as they pick one and stick with it! Screw changing it all the time.

 

[BRMyers]

I'm for keeping the time the same year around.