Do you feel more "right" on DST or off it, and why?

[dixiegrrrrl]

I like it better this way. Gives me another "extra" hour of staying up late, in a way.

Can't actually remember now what "real" time scheudle was, it has been observed nationally, more or less, since 1966.

[House of Roberts]

1. I prefer DST.

I work second shift. Five days a week I get up in the daylight, go to work in the daylight, and go home in the dark, anyway, but on weekends and holidays I like the extra hour of daylight to get more done.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I like the change back and forth.

I do think DST is too long. It should start no sooner than April 1 and and in October. I do like having daylight last longer into the evening during the summer, and having the sun rise time earlier in the winter. Year round DST is a bad idea in my opinion.

With or without DST the sunrise and sunset times progress over the course of the year. Big deal. Likewise, the actual change is like crossing one time zone. One. Yeah, there is a bit of an adjustment but for me within about three days the new sunrise/sunset times feel right.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Didja know...

The pros and cons of DST go back to mid-1880s, when it was first introduced because of the need of railroads to have consistent time tables.

Since then, locally and nationally, it has been an on and off law. Wasn't till the use of "War Time" in WW2 that people became more accepting of it, even tho it had been used in WW1 also.
Which is why most of us have never known what the "real" time was, back in the day.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. It's not DST that the railroads came up with, it was uniform times and time zones.

Back in the day each and every town set its clocks locally, making reliable train schedules nearly impossible. Naturally there was vociferous opposition to the uniform time.

The very first DST was in Germany in 1916. The first DST in the U.S. was in 1918.

I'm old enough to recall the inconsistent DST stuff in the 1960s, which no doubt played havoc with train and plane schedules.

I do really wish we'd go back to the six months only of DST. I honestly think that at the root of some of the objections to it is how long it lasts.

Oh, and I was living in Arizona the one year that state did DST. It is simply too freaking hot all summer to even think about the sun staying up later.

[kimbutgar]

3. I have always loved sleeping in an hour later

I do better on DST in the fall.

[area51]

4. I'd rather stay in DST all year.

Either way, we need to stop vacillating back and forth and pick either CST or CDT.

[NJCher]

5. As a gardener

That extra daylight is essential to getting things done.

Cher

[rurallib]

8. My preference is standard time. If it has to change it should be tied to the school year

with DST during the summer from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

The reason we got this ridiculously long DST now is because of the barbecue industry and the candy industry.
Early DST for evening barbecuing in MARCH and keeping DST so candy companies can sell more Halloween treats.

Like everything else that congress touches, this comes about through bribes - I mean campaign contributions.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. We could switch to Greenwich Mean Time

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like the airlines. All internal schedules for an airline are on GMT, even though the schedules published for passengers are on local time. The country of Iceland also operates on GMT, and it doesn't use DST. Maybe that's because it's light all summer and dark all winter and changing just an hour wouldn't make much difference.

[NightWatcher]

10. I started my 12 hour shift in the dark at 6am

It was dark again by 6pm. Yesterday took for freakin ever to finish.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. I like DST, wish we stayed on it all year.

I don't mind going to work in the dark, but I hate leaving work and it's already dark.

This, of course, referring back to when I still worked. Now that I'm retired, I have no reason to prefer DST, but I do.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Oh! I thought DST was a drug I haven't heard of!

Never mind!

[RobinA]

13. DST

all year would suit me fine. Sure, it’s dark in the morning, but morning sucks anyway. With Standard Time they take perfectly good evening and make it suck because it’s dark. So then I hate morning because it’s morning, and can’t count on evening energy because it’s dark.