How Much Daylight have YOU Saved?

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I just hate this twice-a-year whipsawing we get, it just drives me starkers!

It also gives us more traffic accidents, med screw-ups and general disgruntlement among the general population. And clock makers and clock shops go rabid! Ever try and reset a grandfather clock twice a year? How about 20 of them?

OK, so you get an hour more daylight at the end of the day in Summer-but to me it just ain’t worth it. it’s like cutting off one foot of a string and attacking it to the other side.

Just leave it alone! I come down on the side of Standard time year-round, as DST hasn’t been shown to really save anything! Mother Nature shouldn’t be goosed like this, and neither should we.

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What is this daylight savings of which you speak? Sounds like a foolish idea!

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I think it all depends on whether you are an early riser or someone who stays up late and consequently likes to then sleep late the next morning. Since I get up every day by no later then five in the morning and am asleep in bed by nine in the evening, I would prefer that they just do away with DST altogether and stay with standard time year round. I don’t care for waiting two hours or more for sunrise after getting up in the morning, nor having it still light out when I go to bed in the evening. But then there are a very great number of people who really like and need those hours of good daylight each day during the warmer months for the things they need to do around the home outside after getting home from work or school each day. So it depends if you’re an early riser or not. I think DST was designed for our increasingly urban and suburban American culture, as our country moved further away from the rural agricultural society. Today, half of the population of the USA lives in the 54 population centers that are equal to or larger than Tucson, Arizona.

 

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