Speaking of daylight savings time...Do you vote yes or no for it.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

Poll question: Speaking of daylight savings time...Do you vote yes or no for it.

Personally I hate it, both in the spring and in the fall. I like a longer evening in the summer months, but honestly, I would rather just have the same time throughout the year.

What do you think?

[saltpoint]

1. Sundials.

That's where it's at.

Sundials.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. To paraphrase Bob Marley

One Love
One Heart
One TIME
Let's get together and feel all right

[IndyOp]

3. Indiana just went on daylight savings time about a year ago...

The only benefit is that the Republican Governor who desperately wanted daylight savings time is now HATED - and that helped Indiana turn three GOP Congressmembers into three Dems.

;-)

[DKRC]

10. That's the only good thing I've ever heard to come of it!

:toast:
INDIANA
:toast:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

4. I hate leaving work in the winter and it's pitch dark at 5:30

I love it.

[bbinacan]

13. I love it too and

GO HEELS! ACC CHAMPS!

[MADem]

5. Getting that extra hour is great, losing that hour of sleep stinks.

Why not leave it so we always get that long summer evening, that would work for me.

[Warpy]

11. Parents complain bitterly that making it an hour later in the AM

means their kids will have to wait for the school bus in the dark for about 3 months. They've got a point, although I don't see why schools can't start an hour later to make up for it.

Back in Boston, getting to work at 7:30 and not getting home until 5:00 meant getting going and coming home were both done in darkness, with all the daylight hours spent indoors. That was depressing.

I'd love DST all year.

[MADem]

19. Nowadays, the way school buses charge in some towns (five hundred bucks a year)

parents are driving kids to school anyway. And some schools in some districts DO start later, because kids need more sleep, so they say.

As someone who worked in Boston with a report time of 0730 (but had to be there earlier as I was the boss) and who often enough didn't get home until about an hour before the Tonight Show started, I know whatcha mean.

Light is good. Long live light!!

[Warpy]

20. Right, it's a mild inconvenience to people in lower latitudes

but it became a necessity when I was living up north. There I could get starved for daylight very easily.

I eventually found a night job and would get up at noon every day and go out for some sunlight for a couple of hours. That made a tremendous difference.

However, there was the problem of the 5:00 awakening. I was never sure if it was AM or PM.

[Uben]

6. I love it

I wait for it every year. I just finished a game of disc golf this evening, and there's still dayllight to barbecue and have drinks on the patio!

[Colobo]

7. Coming from a place where it is not done

I have to say I hate it. I don't even see the point of it.

[etherealtruth]

8. DESPISE the time changes ...

Pick a time, any time ...and stick to it!

Did I mention I despise the time changes?

[unblock]

9. i like it so much, i think we should have it year-round!

no, seriously! just change the east coast to central standard time year-round, etc.....

[ends_dont_justify]

12. I think...

It would be a fun concept had it not effected people trying to do school/work/important worldly things. It seems more like something a kid might do for fun, or an adult that indulges in child-like things. It doesn't seem important for the business world, I can only imagine the day the clocks change is a mess for many businesses and employees showing up late.

As also mentioned kids standing out in perfect darkness by the edge of the road doesn't strike me as beneficial either.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

14. I guess a lot of people love it.

Fortunately my boss is forgiving (I'm married to him) when my butt is dragging out of bed an hour earlier, and I barely get into the office in time. I don't like the time change. But I do like seeing the shorter nights, more grill time, more play time...

But that is probably because once the other time change comes, hubby can't keep his eyes open past Spongebob Squarepants. Twenty mint utes after the local news he is snoring.

I think this is just an attempt to separate the night people from the day people, and that is ok. Just as long as I know that fall is just around the corner. :)

[BuyingThyme]

15. I say we get off the number system.

Maybe we can come up with 12 (or 24) different animals to express time.

I think a rooster should be 6AM. Maybe a snake for midday. A bat at midnight.

[dpbrown]

16. Business hates the idea of people having time to enjoy their mornings

So the corporate government takes away the morning hours from people, plunging the morning into darkness to ensure that you will never be able to sit and watch the birds or dig in your garden in the morning when you're fresh. The only time you'll have is night-time, when you've already given your best to your corporate overseer.

A government that hates morning is a bad government.

It's either get up in the dark and go to bed in the light, or stay up and subject yourself to the "prime time" media circus when you really could be sleeping.

[-..__...]

17. Setting the clock ahead 1 hour isn't enough.

Daylight Savings Time should be advanced 2 hours and leave it at that.

:bounce:

[El Supremo]

18. My body does not like to get up before the sun. n/m

Standard Time - please.

[cwydro]

21. I hate the dark mornings

since I'm an early riser. I like the long evenings, but I really just wish they would pick ONE or the OTHER and stay with it. This changing twice a year is just stupid. Totally throws my internal clock off and I'm one of those people who doesn't even need an alarm clock, so it really messes with me.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. Well, for this Mainer, it's been hard getting up in the dark but, this week we ate supper and it is

still light out. So, it's mostly been a good thing. (Except for the kids having trouble adjusting their internal clock. But they always adapt within a few days.)