Would you get rid of daylight saving time?

[Michie]

The clocks in the U.S. will be "falling back" on Sunday, Nov. 2, marking the end of daylight saving time for 2025. If you could decide, would you abandon it forever?

Many countries observe daylight saving time (DST), in which clocks get pushed ahead one hour in March to gain more hours of daylight in the spring and summer. In the U.S., all but two states, Hawaii and Arizona (except for Navajo Nation) observe DST and thus are preparing to make the switch back to standard time on Sunday Nov. 2.

Not everyone is happy with this routine change, however, with recent surveys showing that 54% of Americans and 42% of Britons want to scrap DST altogether.


The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) favors permanent standard timebecause it is better aligned with our circadian rhythm, the body's internal clock. Because light exposure regulates the circadian rhythm, a mismatch between our body clock and the environment can lead to problems such as reduced sleep, higher heart rate and blood pressure, and impaired immune function, AASM representatives wrote in a position statement.

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Would you get rid of daylight saving time?

The clocks in the U.S. will be "falling back" on Sunday, Nov. 2, marking the end of daylight saving time for 2025. If you could decide, would you abandon it forever?

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[d taylor]

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I would, but i would also keep the time that the clocks will soon change to.

 

[Tuur]

When I was a wee lad, I asked my father why there was Daylight Savings Time. He said so congressmen could play golf in the afternoons. That's as good an answer as any. Daylight savings time is sold as saving energy, but it doesn't. I used to keep up with the load curves (system demand each hour), and all it does is shift the curve by one hour. That's all. When the US had the dim idea to keep it all year long to save energy, not only was most children in the continental US going to school in the dark, but schools had more use of heat because it was colder for longer in the school day. That lesson has been forgotten, and some states already have it set that if Congress so approves, they'll stay on DST the entire year.

I say do away with it. My wife is of a different opinion, and when we go to standard time, she complains about it until we're back on DST.

 

[DragonFox91]

It's all play. You can't add or subtract an hour from the day. It's dark either way

 

[Servus]

This has come up twice a year every year of my adult life, and it remains the same. I'm not expecting it to change in my lifetime.