This weekend will be tough. Personally, I wish we had daylight savings year round. I like the extra daylight time at the end of the day. I don’t really care in the morning.
But didn’t this used to happen at the start of April? Why the move up?
I know one of the reasons for the change in the fall is so that little kids aren’t going to school in the morning in the dark. I much prefer daylight savings time.
We now live near the western edge of a timezone, which means that even though we are far enough north to expect pitch dark by 4 pm in December, it still is light at 5. Daylight savings time gives us extremely long, well-lit evenings from spring through fall.
I was thinking that there is variation as well. BB, where you are, I’m thinking the summer days are longer anyway. Where I live…not so much so.
I love daylight savings time for the shift of daylight to the evening hours.
I hate the shift to daylight savings time for the loss of an hour, but now that I’m retired, it’s not as bad.
I’m also annoyed by the statement we will have more daylight, because as mentioned up thread, we don’t have more, it’s just been shifted.
Right…it’s shifted. And I more daylight at the end of my day.
I want my hour back!
I can never keep straight the time difference with the relative in Arizona, since they don’t switch, and then there is the weird 1/2 hr timezone thing in parts of India. That makes no sense to me.
I like the extra light in the evening and it’s dark when I go to work no matter what 
Getting up tomorrow is going to suck though.
For 40+ years, Indiana had great time–never messed with clock changing; it was late light on summer nights. Thanks to very pushy Governor Mitch Daniels, we now play this game like the rest of the nation. He swore it would save billions of dollars, restore our economy, and now everyone would finally know what time it is in Indiana. So.Not. True–for each of them. The sun sets at 7:44 today…
Isn’t Indiana the weird state with 2 time zones anyway?
Yes obviously. It is probably nothing but a nuisance for much of the country. For those of us in the far north, however, having light later in the day makes a big difference in multiple ways.
saintfan–yes, but I was talking about the bulk of the state. No matter what happened in 95% of Indiana, the region around Chicago and areas around Cincinnati/Louisville followed their time. Thanks for making my point though…no one knows what time it is in Indiana! 
This is one of the best days of the year. Better than a birthday. Almost as good as the first day of vacation. Gleeful!!! Anything that gives extra daylight at the end of the day is glorious! I don’t get the body clock thing. Aren’t there days here and there in real life where you get an hour or two less of sleep and you still function? This is not a problem for me.
So if we live with this mythical “extra hour of daylight” for 2/3 of the year from March to November, wouldn’t it make sense to just leave the clock alone for the remaining 1/3?
My cats will be mystified in the morning tomorrow as to why their humans are not following the normal pattern. The cats are on autofeed, so they will get their chow at their usual time.
Bunsen, our cat is also on autofeed, I changed the autofeed clock last night and I guess she got her food earlier today.
I also would love to stay on one time only. It is easier however since the phone and computer change on their own. I would like the DST year round. The winter mornings are still dark for the kids going to school.
As far as general preferences, I hated it when it stayed light practically 24 hours when we were visiting Alaska.
On the other hand, it was frustrating to visit Berlin in December and see it get dark at 4pm.
I’m sure there are many people who want to do this, but since it’s technically inaccurate time it will never happen. Why not shift work hours from 8 - 4 instead of 9 - 5? Most people work some kind of flex time anyway.
One problem I remember is my kids would just start biking to and from school after winter and then the time change would happen and I wouldn’t let them anymore because it was so dark in the morning that it wasn’t safe. They would have to wait another month or so for the mornings to get lighter before they could bike again.
There was an act of Congress in the 90’s I believe that extended DST from March - November instead of April - October. It was full of BS language that it would save energy, blah, blah, blah. I have no idea why they truly cared but someone must have money off it.
The real reason is more viable practice and game hours for baseball teams 
It makes field scheduling WAY easier.
Speaking if baseball - a number of years ago I was in Huntingburg Indiana with the kid for a baseball tournament and the closest major(ish) metro news outlet was in a different time zone. That was a head scratcher.
The time change doesn’t bother me at all and now the clock in my car is telling the correct time!