GailG

OK!! You're a genius! That makes so much sense.

katykwilt

I hate it, too. When it was initiated, it was to allow folks who work in the day to have more daylight in the evenings. Seems as though in the past stores were only open until 5 p.m. Can you imagine? Wonder what the excuse for messing with Mother Nature and all our biological clocks is now -- other than something else the bureaucrats can do w/o a vote from congress?

Psychomomquilter

the word conspiracy comes to mind!! just to confuse us more is all. yeah Suzy the guy should have been shot. I guess that was FDR(?) not sure on that one though.

nativetexan

long ago i heard it was for kids of farmers. then factory workers, etc. There is no one reason. someone somewhere thought this up long ago and it's still here. some things need to be stopped and this is one.
oh well, the whole world is spinning to this tune. so it's not just us.

Marge L.

They seem to be making it longer every year. Don't mind it really but do wish they'd leave well enough along. I really can't see muh sense in it. It's all psychological. If they want to change things, Just go to work an hour earlier. That is what is happening anyway, but just because the clock says this or that is all it amounts to.

Marge L.

They seem to be making it longer every year. Don't mind it really but do wish they'd leave well enough alone I really can't see much sense in it. It's all psychological. If they want to change things, just go to work an hour earlier. That is what is happening anyway, but just because the clock says this or that is all it amounts to.

kwilter

DST was enacted by CONGRESS and should be cancelled! However, I did say "Congress" and don't we know how quickly (!) Congress moves on anything!

Sandra in Minnesota

I would like to go back to "normal".....whatever that is!

noveltyjunkie

They went without it in Ireland one year as an ecperiment and several children were knocked down, some killed, by cars because they had to walk to school in the dark along country roads. Daylight saving is vital in places which are far from the equator, because the useful part of the day does not stay in the middle.

I can see that it does not make much sense to people who live closer to the equator though. personally, the only problem I have with it is not knowing when it is happening. I think lots of places try to put it on a holiday weekend, which may account for the regional variations.

carrieg

My Michigan congressman Upton changed the timing of it a couple years ago. Sorry about that! I think it was Ben Franklin who originally came up with it here.

It used to be April & OCtober, now it is March & November. I like it, but I live on the western edge of our time zone, so the sun sets later here than in the northeast. So it is light here until 5, where in Chicago, being on the sunrise side of that zone, it gets dark at 4:00.