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Daylight Saving Time: Make it permanent?

   March 20, 2022  44 Comments on Daylight Saving Time: Make it permanent?

ABC News’ Will Ganss has details on the new effort in Washington to stop changing the clocks.

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44 thoughts on “Daylight Saving Time: Make it permanent?”

  2. Nooooo keep Standard Time…this country already lives to work, not work to live, and has a strange obsession with the rush rush…why do I have a feeling this has more to do with money/business than the government caring about our safety. If I could move to Arizona I would. Yes, please get rid of changing the clocks but do so in favor of our health/sleep.

  6. Year-round DST would be a disastrous mistake. While it would bring relief to all the time changes, it would make the mornings a lot darker during winter, making it hard to get up early. In addition, it would make morning commutes a lot more dangerous with more car crashes, more pedestrian fatalities and injuries, fatigued drivers, and more hospital admissions. We have a standard time for a reason. We have an AM and a PM for a reason. AM stands for Ante Meridiem; PM stands for Post Meridiem. Why do you suppose that is? It is because Meridiem is the time at which the sun reaches its highest point in the sky before descending. When you say that it is 12:45 pm, you are effectively saying that the sun is now on its descent towards the horizon, when the truth is that the sun still has a ways to go before it reaches its culmination. It is what explains the need for lighter mornings and darker evenings. Therefore, I would say, not only do we need to adopt Standard Time year-round, and not the synthetic Daylight Time, we also need to adjust some of the time zones in various places, so that they are on a standard time that is more geographically suited (i.e.: Michigan and Indiana should be on Central Time, and not Eastern Time). Most of Alaska's clocks should also be set back by at least an hour, and in some places, even by two hours. Having the sun rise in that state just after 12 noon, but then not setting until 3 or 4 in the afternoon is not natural or normal; it is deformed. Saying that it is the land of the midnight sun when the sun is going to set for several hours after midnight is also misleading. For this reason, and many others, it is time to stop this DST madness and stick to the time that benefits us all – High Noon Standard Time.

  24. The way Congress is supposed to work is that a PROPER DEBATE happens before they cast their votes.
    If only one side of the story gets told, then you will end up making BAD DECISIONS.

    No one has presented the primary argument explaining the actual reason WHY the SpringFwd-FallBack shift makes perfect sense. It is summarized in this single chart which is presented in the Wikipedia article on the
    Analysis of Daylight Saving Time

    Here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpringFwd-FallBack.png

    It all boils down to simply this:
    What would it be like if we had no clocks?
    People would simply wake up with the sunrise.

    SpringFwd-FallBack gets us closer to that ideal.
    As this chart explains, what it should really be called is not "Daylight Savings Time", but by a term which much better describes its actual purpose:

    NATURALLY ADJUSTED CLOCK TIME

    Congress, if you vote on an issue BEFORE striving to fully understand it first, then you are failing at your job.

  25. The purpose for moving time an hour back during the winter season in the northern hemisphere is because daylight becomes shorter due to the earth's northern hemisphere titling away from the sun . In winter the sun rises late and sets early , so to give an extra hour of waking daylight the clock is moved an hour back .

    For example : if the sunrises in winter at 6am and if the majority of people start their day at 5am , then when they wake up it will still be dark , but if they move the clock an hour back then when they wake up at 5am the sun would have risen because actually it would be 6am even though the clock reads 5am .
    The drawback with this time trick is that it throws off people sleep patterns because regardless what the clock reads , the body's internal clock knows that it is not the usual time that it wakes up . It takes some time for the body to adjust to the new sleep pattern .

  27. I agree with Senator Rubio that switching back and forth is nuts. But his solution is exactly the wrong one. It is standard time that should be made permanent. In January 1974 year-round DST was tried and failed because during those shortest winter days kids were walking to school in the dark.

  28. Yes, we should get rid of changing the clocks. But we should settle on year-round standard time and not year-round daylight savings time. I remember the year in the early '70s when we did not set the clocks back in the fall because of the oil crisis and the mistaken belief that daylight savings time saves money. It meant that kids had to wait for the school bus in the dark in midwinter. That was not safe, and it wouldn't have happened if daylight savings time had never been instituted. There's a reason why they call it standard time. It's the way clocks were kept before daylight savings time was thought up.

  31. I'm for splitting the difference. It would be easiest for our bodies to transition.

    And while we're at it. I suggest that America gets with the rest of the globe and use the Metric system.

  34. I was a kid in the 1970s when president Nixon tried DST for two years. We walked to school in complete darkness during DST. In Winter the earth rotation is more away from the sun. Winter has longer hours of darkness than Summer with or without DST. It will still get dark in Winter at 6pm anyway. It is only one hour longer of sunlight in Winter. Wow big change. I love getting a hour longer sleep in Winter. Summer the earth rotation is more toward the sun getting longer days. DST will not have the same effect in Winter months, as in the Summer. Just an hour longer that's it. It probably will fail again being made law. Just leave it be. Wow two times of year to change clocks back or forwards is so much energy for some. DST it still will be dark in Winter when kids go to school. They need to start schools at 9am instead if 8am.

  35. Already was tried in the 1970s when Nixon was president. We walked to school in darkness though it stayed lighter in the Winter only one extra hour. There wasn't that much child kidnappings back then. We walked with other kids. Many came to not liking DST back then. Then they changed it back to Fall back an hour in Winter and Spring Forwards an hour in Spring. I don't know about most people but I love sleeping in an hour longer in the Winter anyway. Not like most people going to go outside in the cold Winter months anyway. Not much where I live during Winter. Just start schools at 9am instead of 8am like most start.

  37. If people want to wake up early or late and different times of the year, they should change their businesses and institutions, not the clocks. Standard time is what we really should stay with not DST.

  40. This all has nothing to do with daylight or energy. This is a battle over peoples sleep preferences, and people wanting to impose what they prefer on other people. I have no issue with people wanting to wake up early. Just don't falsify the time in order to do it. Make business open early, make schools open early. Do what ever you want, you early morning lovers, just don't cheat by changing the time. What happens when people want the same thing in 100 years? Are they going to take away another hour? Can we then take away five hours? Why not ten? Does time even matter, according to this bill? Shouldn't measurements be measurements, not schemes to sneakily make everyone operate on our schedule? What if I wanted my home to be closer to my work? Should I make a mile a longer distance to achieve this? That would mean there are less miles in my commute, right? No, it's all wrong, and this is all madness! Measurement systems should not be played with like this! Why are people serious about permanent DST??? I say get rid of DST, and then the problem is solved. If people want to work early, then schedule your stuff early, weirdos!!!

  41. It's about time. One can easily gauge a person's basic intelligence on whether they support all the clock switching or not. No one with a shred of real intellect supports such asinine nonsense. This is a long time coming, and I'm ashamed that I lived this long with the world being idiotic enough to subscribe to that routine. I knew it was bad from childhood without anyone having to tell me. This may not gauge if a person is truly smart, but if they fail this one, you can write the person off as hopelessly stupid. I am still cross it took this long. How many people have died for this ridiculous routine?

  42. Our politicians have always tried to do away with daylight saving time for so many years now. It's been up for vote and it always fails. It was always reinstated in the 60s which means there was a period in our history that we did not have daylight saving time. If it does pass, will it stick? Will it just get reinstated some years down the line like it has before?

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