From the article: Daylight Saving Time (Also Known as Daylight Savings Time)
What is your most interesting Daylight Saving Time experience? Were you an hour late or an hour early somewhere? Did you not realize that the clocks had fallen back or sprung forward? When were you confused most about Daylight Saving Time? Share Your Experience
I must be a moron, too!
- Guests were to arrive one April Sunday afternoon at 1:00pm. We were surprised when they showed up at noon as we were leaving to go to the grocery store. Their kids couldn't find the programs they wanted to watch on our TV. It wasn't until several hours later that we found out we had forgotten Daylight Saving Time had started, and of course, we were an hour behind our guests and our clocks didn't match up with the TV schedule!
- —bethie321
Need year-round DST
- Make DST the new standard time, and do it year round. I'd rather have the extra hour in the evening and never see it turn dark right at the end of a workday.
- —Guest John
laughing
- I think what most of the people writing here should do with that extra hour is go back to school and learn how to spell and use proper grammer. And some of these ideas about why we should or shouldn't change the clocks are absolutely hilarious. What a bunch of morons.
- —Guest funny
i dont realy care..
- i wont affect me anyway.. i've been working as a nightshift nurse for a year now.
- —Guest who's back?
equitable
- DST robs morning light to tack it onto the end of the day, leaving us early risers plunged back into darkness. Could we just measure hours of light before and after 12 pm and set the clocks like that once and for all? Then morning and evening people would have to call it even. People on this site seem amazed at the ferocity of opinions expressed. Don't be surprised...we are creatures of habit and giving up morning light means giving up a workout, a dog walk, cool temperature gardening....now for WAY more than half the year. That hits home...no wonder we're all furious. Split the light equally to before and after noon and call it done.
- —swimdew
Nosense!
- Never a serious study has confirmed the supposed saving in energy consumption using summer time. In fact, some shower higer consumption due to use of air conditioning and more car riding. Current electricity consumption, lighting is a very small part and continue decreasing. Hassle, health & psychic problem overweight greatly supposed benefits. Stop this insanity!!
- —Guest A Reyanldos
Something important
- Maybe all of you good folks should spend more time talking about our failed country leadership, about why they cant manage our money, about why they cant manage emergency responses, about why they spend time on rediculous things like gun control and abortion while people suffer from unemployment and corporate greed. Please, lets talk about something important. Don't waste your time here, get involved good citizens!
- —Guest gwk
YEAR ROUND DST
- with the rising cost of crude oil and gas, I suggest to have DST year round..it makes more sense, the daylight is beneficial for many things including the economy...most people come home from work in Standard time and after dinner sit and watch TV and become lazy and dormant, if it were to remain as longer days in the winter, people would be more apt to go out and get involved in other activities...they would be going and spending money after work, instead of becoming couch potatoes...we would use less energy etc. and with all the talk about "GREEN", WHY HASN'T THIS BEEN PUT INTO ACTION ALREADY...I SAY DST 12 MONTHS A YEAR WE DID THAT ONCE BACK IN ONE OF THE OTHER ADMINISTRATIONS WHEN ENERGY WAS AN ISSUE, BEING MORE OF AN ISSUE NOWADAYS , WHY NOT ENFORCE IT NOW !!!
- —Guest SUNLIGHT
DST Year Round!
- We should just do away with standard time and enact DST year round. Everyone who is against having DST year round is stating that ST is good for their children who have to walk to school in the morning. Well, why don't we keep DST year round and just change the school hours when necessary so that the kids are not walking to school in the dark? Why inconvenience us all so that your kids do not have to get up too early in the morning when it is dark outside? Keep DST year round and let the schools decide how to handle their hours. It is not that difficult! Plenty of businesses change their hours from Summer to Winter with no problems. There ARE other people on this planet besides your kids...
- —Guest Why inconvenience us all?
Stop
- Why change the clocks? Why not just change work hours. If the afternoon light is important lets work 8 to 4 instead of 9 to 5. Changing the clock does not get you more daylight. If you want more daylight get up at dawn. Changing the clock upsets my natural solar rhythms, I'm a biologist and conduct surveys based on sunrise and sunset times. I get frustrated when the clocks change. Let's change the times we do things, rather than the clocks.
- —Guest Jason
i dont get it
- How can such a simple concept be so darn confusing? I mean really? Are we that dense and rigid that we can't deal with that kind of change 2 days a year? >mfw people complain about everything
- —Guest WHY
Keep it at DST
- A state bordering the leading edge of the time zones to the west experiences darkness in late afternoon. For example, part of Tennessee, Alabama and the Florida panhandle encounters central time zone darkness at approximately 5p.m. during December. Evening rush hour is in the dark, leaving no daylight time to enjoy after a day at work. Instead of voting to abolish daylight savings time, I would vote to rid ourselves of standard time.
- —Guest DSTalways
DST is good!
- I personally enjoy the idea of daylight savings. I'm a female college student who often has class that lasts until 5 or 6 in the evening. I walk to school because parking is impossible (not to mention the health and environmental benefits of walking instead of driving). It is much safer for a 22 year old female to walk home in the daylight than the dark. This is also true for many other people commuting between home and work/school. Most clocks now days change the time themselves, and if a person is too lazy to change their clock by an hour than we have bigger problems than an extra hour of daylight.
- —Guest Student
Let there be light!
- Clearly I'm bucking the SURPRISING trend among the responses to this, but I say we need to permanently advance the clock 2 hours from sun time and leave it that way all year. This was done in Russia from WW II until the soviet union collapsed. I really dislike it when we go off of DST in the fall (depressing) and really like it when we go back on in the spring (hopeful). I would much rather go to work or school in the dark than to return home in the dark. I think if this were done most people would find that they would like that just fine, too!
- —Western_Sage
Calculating the Real Costs
- People have natural circadian rhythms that are disrupted by the changes forward and back by a mere one hour. Check out the road accident statistics around the DST change-over--there's the real COST: time, vehicles and lives. Kids walking home from school under the sun in the hottest part of the day--there's the real COST: skin cancer. Failing to sleep because it's too hot when you're trying to go to bed--there's the real COST: sleep deprivation and/or extra air-con expense. Times recorded WITHOUT the DST marker--you have to go on a massive record check to find out if DST was active in that time zone/country or not to establish the correct chronological order of events.
- —Guest : Disruptive Suffering Time
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