I prefer using the sun to tell us the time, not some political mumbo-jumbo!

Daylight Saving Time makes sense to companies. In the winter (Daylight Wasting time), you start later, when it's warmer, and it doesn't take as much to heat the building for the usual 8 hour day. In the summer, you start earlier, when it's cooler, and the AC comes on later in the workday. When the workers go home in the early afternoon, they pay for the extra AC to cool their houses, or in the winter, pay for the extra heat as they're home when it's fractionally colder. Good for business, bad for employees(asterisk). I'd have thought the Dems would have seen this and eliminated it long ago, but then, they're not known for using logic.

(asterisk) Of course if you keep homes and offices at 68 all day its a moot point.

Definitely tired of it. It is not natural to keep switching our times. I don't see the specific benefit of switching back and forth.

Power power power. It seems you are right. Somehow this went to Congress my birth year, as well.

Would be magical to have the states throw such a federal overreach out.

OK, we have one vote for observing DST throughout the land--or shifting our time-zone designators so that we begin with Atlantic Time in New York and Mountain Time in Ellay, San Fran, etc.

Raising BOTH hands!! YES~

I think the result would be even worse. There would now be at least 8 time zones to deal with, and the "minute" hand, which is currently the same across all time zones, would no longer be consistent. This might not have mattered as much in the 19th Century when most transactions were in-person and local, but it would be a major problem if introduced today.

If we are going to kill it one way or the other, why dont we just pin the time of sunrise to 0700, or whenever, and then just have a micro time change every day, and not a huge jump twice a year. Or even better, how bout if there is someone who needs it to be some certain amount of light when they are doing something, let them get up whenever they want, and lets just stop messing with the damn clocks.

Thanks for the clarification, S-W. :^)

That depends on how many of the businesses and institutions in hot climates would "implement DST anyway" by changing their schedules twice a year.

But I expect energy cost would be one of the major factors in that decision, so there would be a net saving under no change.

It's in US Dept of Transportation regulations. Changing it would involve their rule making process, and would be about as contentious as net neutrality. I'm not sure if the change would go through, but it wouldn't hurt to try.

It says a lot, mostly bad, about the evolution of power structures that when standard time was created, it was created by the railroad industry, and the federal government delayed adopting it until a decade after everyone else.

I have said for at least 10 years that if at the next scheduled change just make it for 30 minutes and KEEP it there. Years down the road nobody would care any more Both sides would have plus and minus reactions.
HOWEVER....the dummycrats would find some way to contribute it to so called global warming.

I would love it it would be discontinued. As exceller pointed out, it has outlived its usualfulness. It is archaic and I am all for returning to the regular time all year long.

Twice a year, the country goes through this 'screw-up-everyone's-internal-clocks' and it affects health for many, not to mention how difficult it is on parents trying to get their children to bed at a decent hour (especially during the summer months).

I noticed a daylight-savings-time shift every year where I worked. People came in later often at the last minute because it was light out up until the minute we were to close.

I'd vote to change it, no matter who suggested it.

Do away with it, entirely. The earth is divided up into 24 time zones and ours would always be 1 off from everyone else.
I frequently utilize Greenwich Mean Time and a simple glance at a time zone map is all I need to determine GMT from local time.
If it's really a problem for so many people...why not simply change work hours?

Yes, It should be set the way the people want it. Perhaps it will take some art to changer it, like this fantastic piece of art of the border wall: https://youtu.be/xKYEE1-U_tc

Without the change it would start to run earlier in the day, trade-off.

All year would be preferable to change rather than opting out completely. Caveat: one bitter cold snowy winter in the late 70's it was tried, the problem it was dark when people were going to work and almost as dark when they got home because the day was so short. In summer it is nice to be able to do things out doors until nearly ten in the evening without needing lights, without the change up to three hours of daylight is lost on most people when the sun is up at five in the morning. Neither option, all year or not at all, really works for me, KEEP IT!

All right, how's this: split every time zone straight down the middle, and advance all times in the "eastern half" of each current time zone one half-hour forward. So, for instance, Los Angeles could still keep the current Pacific Standard Time, but Las Vegas could keep PST+30. Then the sun would rise no earlier than 4:53 a.m. even on the Summer Solstice.

Here in Las Vegas, the sun would rise as early as 4:23am if we remained on "winter time" in the summer. No thanks!!

That's most of Arizona. The Navajo Nation does observe DST, while segments of the Hopi Nation inside the Navajo Nation do not. I've traveled/stayed in that region, and it can get tricky when traversing many time zone jumps back and forth while traveling short distances in one direction.

I like the time we are on now. If we leave it like this, awesome! Changing is completely stupid.

Since this was an executive order, it can be dumped without Congressional action. Just dump it!

I absolutely hat it. Let's stick to one time or the other, but stop changing. Sick of changing all the clocks in the house and cars.Is it true it originally was set up to make golfers happy?

Not to be pedantic or anything, though it's Daylight Saving Time. Not "savings".

S

Thanks.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. It could explain why Arizona keeps standard time year-round, by the way--or at least why few people were ready to fight to go with DST.

I gather, then, that the energy budget would be diminished with a return to standard time in the summer.