General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you object to daylight time year around, and please read the finding how unhealthy it is
https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2025/November/PDF/permanent-standard-time-health-benefits-pdf.pdfResearch Shows Permanent Standard Time Is Healthier
Than Daylight Saving Time
Please let your rep know.
When Florida Scott suggested it he said that he heard from his constituents. Might be OK for Floridians but not for many of us in the north when sunrise will be at 9:00 am at the dead of winter. Also our summers are hot - expecting mid 90s this week - so many prefer to have their chores early in the morning. And having more daylight in the morning than sunset after 9:00.
(If you do support daylight saving year around please ignore this post.)
Coventina
(30,145 posts)Big thumbs down on permanent DS for us!
question everything
(52,738 posts)FHRRK1
(222 posts)Grew up in Phx, where we didn't have Day Light Saving and never understood the need. Understood that an extra hour of 100 degree plus isn't good.
Moved to CA and partially got why most states switch. School kids walking in the dark, sundown at 4:50 PM during rush hour. Understood the argument from farm States.
But now most seem minor, just stick with Std. Time, bit of an impact on certain area, farmers are plowing and seeding fields using GPS and headlights. With that, we should have terabytes of data on impact of accidents between Standard and Daylight time. (Understanding the days after the switch are likely the most variable) If it is wash, it seems silly not to make the switch.
sarisataka
(23,257 posts)My preference would be standard time but I think we can adjust.
Blues Heron
(9,215 posts)We do summer time for summer because theres more hours of light, then, we do winter time for winter because theres no point whatsoever in hustling out the door an hour early when its dark and cold out.
sarisataka
(23,257 posts)regardless of what our clocks say. A person's job says they have to be there at a certain time and it doesn't matter if it is light or dark; I have even seen farmers working at night by the lights on their vehicles.
Skittles
(173,949 posts)as someone who worked 12 hour night shifts for decades, I found the chronic whining about time change to be over-the-top ridiculous
pnwmom
(110,355 posts)Why is changing the clocks twice a year such a big deal?
People who are in favor of this don't consider the effects on people who live on the extremes. As far north as Seattle, the winter mornings are already dark. We don't need to add an extra hour of darkness.
sarisataka
(23,257 posts)Darkness lasts a long time on Minnesota winter days. The is why my preference would be for standard time.
I know however that there are going to be days I go to work when it is dark and when I head home it is also already dark.
pnwmom
(110,355 posts)it to be light at 4 am either.
LeftInTX
(35,222 posts)Only Mexico's border areas are on DST. They will really have a cow if it's 24/7. Likewise, Canada will likely swtich to all DST just so everything is synchronized with the US.
Most fo the world is getting away from it! We're regressing! Light gray is where they used to have it. Dark grey is where it never was.
![]()
Orange is DST in the southern hemisphere.
dweller
(29,062 posts)That should be fun
✌🏻
question everything
(52,738 posts)Wifes husband
(805 posts)Just pick a time and stay with it.
pnwmom
(110,355 posts)of adapting to an hour change?
Wifes husband
(805 posts)Changing clocks for an entire society is another.
I understand we can do it. We already in fact do it. Just stupid, that's all.
pnwmom
(110,355 posts)kids have to go to school in the dark and sun doesn't rise till almost 9.
That's what would happen here if we went on all year daylight savings time. .
dpibel
(4,055 posts)how could anyone doubt?
progressoid
(53,638 posts)he's hardly ever wrong.
pnwmom
(110,355 posts)across a time zone. No big deal.
Being here in Seattle, I don't like the idea of winter mornings even later than they are now.
ToxMarz
(3,238 posts)The problem is constantly changing it implying time is flawed and we are changing it because it is the problem.
We are the problem in constantly trying to bend time for our convenience and then the argument is just about who's convenience is most important.
SET TIME FREE!!!
progressoid
(53,638 posts)One of my faves is that he has decided that carbon dioxide will feed the bacteria in his gut and is blowing the gas up his bum regularly, one and a half liters at a time, claiming that it creates a force field around him.