So…DST doesn’t end until November 5. It began the second week of March. That means it’s almost 8 months long…right?
And EST will be from November to March…only 4 months or so. I guess those are some of the short days in the year.
But really…8 months of DST? Why not just have it year round?? I know that’s been tried…but really…
There is no logical reason for DST. It should be done away with once and for all.
We should just end this.
I hate when it gets dark early. I don’t want to eliminate DST, I want it all year.
If we go to all of one or the other, I strongly strongly strongly vote for all DST. (That said, my first choice is to keep it as it is and just grumble a bit for a day or two after the clocks change).
I really hate the thought of it getting light out at 4:30 am in the summer.
Let me amend what I said: there is no need to change. I don’t care which one we pick.
In the US, it’s been that way for over a decade.
If you live in AZ or HI, you do already. And states can always opt out of DST.
Back home, the EU recently announced that it was ending DST in 2019, leaving it up to member nations to decide whether to stay on summer-time or winter-time year-round. Hopefully, they’ll all choose the same one or that will bring up another logistical mess.
I don’t want DST all year long - it wouldn’t be daylight until 8:30 am where I live.
I don’t want standard time all year long - it would be daylight at 4:30 am in the summer, and get dark by 8 pm. We would miss a whole hour of outdoor daylight fun in the evening.
But March is too early to switch to DST.
I’d much rather have the extra hour of light at the end of the day all year. I understand changing for light in the morning for kids who have to walk to school or to a bus stop - that’s about it.
Mentally, I would think the majority of the country who functions first shift would benefit from NOT coming home in the dark.
We need to stop the shifting, it is very disruptive and bad for your health too.
Whichever way, we will get used to the new system. I prefer standard time because it is astronomically correct (noon at 12PM, etc.), but I understand the other. We could stick with standard time and shift work hours earlier. AZ and HI seem to survive.
Indiana survived just fine without changing, for decades. Political steamrolling brought DST. We were promised bazillions of new dollars in the economy. Everyone in the country would now know what time it is in IN. Nope…neither happened…at all…People do a double-take when told we are the same time as New York.
Having said that, early darkness is killing me. I dread it getting any worse in a few weeks. I thought we had it good before. Didn’t stay light until 10 pm in summer; didn’t get dark at 5 in winter.
Florida voters approved a provision for year round DST, it was signed by the governor and is sitting in Congress. I guess it needs Congressional approval. It has been sitting in several subcommittees for most of the summer!
I vote to keep DST. I hate it when the time changes and it is dark at 5 pm when I head home from work.
As someone who lives in a state that has no DST, I find it confusing to have to remember what places are ON vs OFF DST or non DST. The time difference has made me miss some meetings/conferences. I really don’t like it to be added and taken away.
The closer you live to the equator, the less sense it makes to switch on and off DST. Try looking up the difference in the length of daylight hours between June 21st and December 21st of Portland, Maine vs. Miami, Florida on
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/portland-me
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/miami
I do get that days are shorter and the winter and nights are longer. I think most folks get that, but the fact remains that it IS confusing as heck to remember whether folks are ON or OFF DST and which places participate in DST and which don’t. If folks would adjust their work/clocks to what the seasons do, that would be nice, but the current system with some states and places opting in and others out IS confusing!
I thought Arizona and Hawaii were the only states that didn’t observe DST. I could be wrong. I just use the clock app on my phone for any place I’m visiting or have kids living so I can keep the times straight. When you have a kid who lives in another country that switches on different weekends than we do, it’s imperative. For me anyway.
It could end alittle earlier imo. I have a better understanding now of why it came about now that one of mine is in the nursery/horticulture/growing business. With DST his field teams are able to work maximum hours with daylight early so they can start shifts by 7 am and work into the evening during peak growing seasons but they can certainly end it in October in Michigan since the bulk of the outdoor season is pretty much over and the seasonal labor is almost completely wrapped up I am hearing.
I want them to switch it so we have daylight from 7:00 am til 9:00 pm year round. Can we do that please?
^^^I think there are some people who actually believe that can be done. LOL