Should Daylight Savings Time be ended?

Yes! I absolutely hate it. Let the days get longer and shorter naturally. And they do it earlier now in March when it used to be April. :mad:
 

Lee said:
Anyone that has a pet hates the time change with a passion. Dogs and cats know the time for the last six months and want to continue to be fed, walked at that time year round.

The fall switch is the worst I think.
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This is real. I can't free feed my cats and they go nuts with the time change in the fall. I feed them early in 15 minute daily increments to try and adjust them.

Plus I feed the ferals at work and on days I work, I'm out there with a flashlight in the morning when it's still dark.
 
It all depends where you live I suggest!

They tried it in Scotland many years ago and had
to change the clocks, children were having to walk
to school in the dark.

Of course now-a-days the mothers either walk or drive
their children to school, but it would be dark o'clock till
mid morning, I think.

Mike.
 
It might be more of a problem in Scotland, which is pretty far north and has more dramatic changes in light/dark according to the season.
 
raybar said:
Standard Time, please, so that our time keeping is in sync with reality. That is, it should be 12:00 noon when the sun is at its highest point in the sky in the center of each time zone.
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Absolutely, well said! Just as Mother Nature (or Father God) intended. DST is just one example of how the human animal species tries to artificialize the world we live in.
 
Do most people realize that most of the year is spent in DST.

Daylight Saving time 2021 ended Nov 7th and resumes March 13 2022. We only spend 4 months and one week in Standard time.
 
DS was started in 1918 as a WWI measure. And it doesn't make sense, anymore. People in the depths of winter can go shopping after sunset. They no longer have huddle by candle light. Plus there's no discernable difference in the localities that observe DS, and those that don't. So why needlessly change clocks twice a year?
BTW, you're using a computer, I think you could program it to remind you to change your batteries.
 
Sunny said:
Should Daylight Savings Time be ended?
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I think so, it doesn't make much sense but can get confusing.

If you want an extra hour of afternoon sunlight why not just get up an hour earlier?

Apparently some are pushing for permanent daylight saving time, that makes even less sense. How would permanent Daylight Saving Time affect you? https://www.cnn.com/interactive/permanent-daylight-saving-time-impact-wellness/index.html
Mr. Ed said:
Ending daylight savings time will cause the world to end.
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A risk I hadn't considered...
 
fuzzybuddy said:
DS was started in 1918 as a WWI measure.
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Even older than that, Ben Franklin promoted something like it as a way to conserve candles. From Wikipedia:

Ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than DST does, often dividing daylight into 12 hours regardless of daytime, so that each daylight hour became progressively longer during spring and shorter during autumn. For example, the Romans kept time with water clocks that had different scales for different months of the year; at Rome's latitude, the third hour from sunrise (hora tertia) started at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes. From the 14th century onward, equal-length civil hours supplanted unequal ones, so civil time no longer varied by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as monasteries of Mount Athos and in Jewish ceremonies.

Benjamin Franklin published the proverb "early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," and published a letter in the Journal de Paris during his time as an American envoy to France (1776ā€“1785) suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST; 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this changed as rail transport and communication networks required a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.

In 1810, the Spanish National Assembly Cortes of CƔdiz issued a regulation that moved certain meeting times forward by one hour from 1 May to 30 September in recognition of seasonal changes, but it did not change the clocks. It also acknowledged that private businesses were in the practice of changing their opening hours to suit daylight conditions, but they did so of their own volition.

New Zealand entomologist George Hudson first proposed modern DST. His shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects and led him to value after-hours daylight. In 1895, he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift, and considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch; he followed up with an 1898 paper. Many publications credit the DST proposal to prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett, who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride when he observed how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day. Willett also was an avid golfer who disliked cutting short his round at dusk. His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, and he published the proposal two years later. Liberal Party member of parliament Robert Pearce took up the proposal, introducing the first Daylight Saving Bill to the British House of Commons on 12 February 1908. A select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearce's bill did not become law and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915.


DST was first implemented in the United States to conserve energy during World War I. (poster by United Cigar Stores)
Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, was the first city in the world to enact DST, on 1 July 1908. This was followed by Orillia, Ontario, introduced by William Sword Frost while mayor from 1911 to 1912. The first states to adopt DST (German: Sommerzeit) nationally were those of the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary commencing 30 April 1916, as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year, and the United States adopted daylight saving in 1918. Most jurisdictions abandoned DST in the years after the war ended in 1918, with exceptions including Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, and the United States. It became common during World War II (some countries adopted double summer time), and was widely adopted in America and Europe from the 1970s as a result of the 1970s energy crisis. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.
 
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Lee said:
Anyone that has a pet hates the time change with a passion. Dogs and cats know the time for the last six months and want to continue to be fed, walked at that time year round.

The fall switch is the worst I think.
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I know what you mean, fortunately our very vocal female French poodle held her "I'm wanna go potty and get fed" high pitched whine in abeyance until we got up.
 
Yes, DST should be ended, but only in favor of standard time the whole year. DST is just not normal, the chronobiologists say it is comparable to a light jet lag. It is unhealthy. But, as already stated in another thread, the politicians follow the leisure industry and are not interested in the health of people.
 
I got a new phone last month and forgot to go into the settings to change it to Arizona time zone. I usually "sleep in" until 7am on the weekends so this morning when I woke up and saw on my phone that it was 7 am I got out of bed to make my coffee. My kitchen clock said it was 6:01 am. My phone still thought I was still on Mountain Time Zone. So yes, Daylight Savings Time should end so this does not happen to me again šŸ¤Ŗ
 
Remy said:
This is real. I can't free feed my cats and they go nuts with the time change in the fall. I feed them early in 15 minute daily increments to try and adjust them.

Plus I feed the ferals at work and on days I work, I'm out there with a flashlight in the morning when it's still dark.
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Ha. Right. We think we have it bad. . Our pets are surprisingly accurate with time and this messes with their daily routine . They canā€™t figure out why we have changed everything. Our cat let out a disapproved extra loud meow this early morning. My husband yelled at her. I laughed.
 
George1959 said:
Yes, DST should be ended, but only in favor of standard time the whole year.
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Maybe the whole world should be on a single time. It would end a lot of confusion trying to figure out what time it is somewhere.

And I'd be just as happy getting up at noon, if it was early in the morning my time. We'd get used to it. China does something like that, even though the country spans 5 time zones geographically they are all on the same time https://www.travelchinaguide.com/es...s five time,of the Universal Time Coordinated.
 
During the energy crisis (1973), Congress enacted permanent DST in the US. Although Americans overwhelmingly supported the idea, when we were confronted with waking up in the pitch dark and having children wait at bus stops in the dark, we started to see it differently.

Due to overwhelming public dissatisfaction with very dark winter mornings, the law was repealed in less than a year.
 

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