Daylight Saving or Standard time, forever...no changes...what is your choice?

[tinfoilinfor2005]

I think I posted the wrong poll. People don't like being jerked around, so leave it at one or the other. But which one?

Please indicate (given a choice) which you would prefer...

Daylight Savings or Standard Time.

Basically this means that with DLS year around you would get more daylight hours in the evening and less in the morning, and with Standard time, you would get longer morning hours and less light in the evenings.

If you could pick one, and only one, which would you prefer?

[ruggerson]

1. Standard time

they should stop fucking with the clock. Period.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

7. My point. Even though I have a preference (I like the standard time)

I would much prefer if they picked one time, either time, and just left it at that.

[Chipper Chat]

9. Ditto.

I have this thing for sundials.

[papau]

31. My choice also n/t

n/t

[terrya]

43. Same here.

Standard Time and just fucking leave it alone.

[Skittles]

2. I work 12 hour shifts at night so I don't give a f***

no indeed

[quiet.american]

3. Standard. I hate Daylight Savings Time.n/t

[ends_dont_justify]

4. I'd prefer schedules being changed, not clocks

Let businesses or schools decide to push back or forward if they want to participate in that, but once it's a federal thing we have no choice in it.

[texastoast]

5. Standard

But it's just our labeling of the day in this culture, in this particular civilization. Does it really matter?

[feminazi]

6. daylight savings

i'm not a morning person. i could care less if it's dark at 7am.

[elifino]

8. DST?

Retired, do not watch the clock.

[DeepBlueC]

10. standard time

Actually I don't care which one but god I wish we could pick one and bloody stick with it. Probably standard time is the least disruptive. And I like the nighttime, baby.

[xultar]

11. DST is fuckin STOOPID. Standard time for me.

[Horse with no Name]

12. Eventually a diet of only DST

would screw up the calendar.
Obviously that wouldn't be a choice.

[XOKCowboy]

17. How?

How would keeping the time like it is right now "screw up the calendar"? I don't understand.

[Horse with no Name]

20. You can't take hours away

and not eventually screw up the days in the long term. Short term not so much.

[Miss Chybil]

13. We don't have DST in AZ. I like it that way. nt

[salin]

22. Many folks from Indiana, envy you

we just joined the DST gig this past year. I grew up without it in Indiana - lived in DST areas on both coasts before returning to NO dst observation - and have to say that I greatly prefer not having it. We envy you in AZ for holding on.

[Miss Chybil]

38. Problem is, my husband works help desk. When DST kicks in in the rest

of the country, he has to change his work hours. Poor guy.

[XOKCowboy]

14. I love seeing the sunrise and don't have kids so DST it is for me

Leave it like this forever. Gimme DST anytime.

[XOKCowboy]

18. One thing I do want is to pick a time and stick with it

This Spring Forward Fall Back stuff is bullshit.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

15. Daylight Savings In A Heartbeat.

Gooooooooooo sunlight!!!!!!!

[rasputin1952]

16. Standard time...DST makes no sense this day in age (if it ever did)...

all it does is mess w/people in so many ways and it accomplishes nothing, except aggravation and messes w/the rest of the world trying to keep w/in the boundaries of time. This was one fo Franklin's dud udeas, most of them made sense, this is just plain silly.

[salin]

19. Either - just stay with one.

I say this as one who grew up spending half the time on eastern time and half the time on central time - because we didn't change the clocks. In the intervening years I have lived on both coasts and in another part of the midwest, all places that observe DLST. I would guess that whether one prefers standard or savings time would depend upon where one is in a time zone (now that Indiana has adopted eastern time - we are on the far western edge - and it makes the light ... in the summer - be quite late.)

I spent a little time this past summer in a very northern part of Europe (after the first time in years that Indiana started switching times) where it never completely got dark. In early July it seemed like it was just after dusk for most of the night. After adjusting, and then returning to the late time of it getting dark here, it seemed like less of a big deal. Ala - I don't like it but, I can live with it.

[stevedeshazer]

21. Noon is noon. Midnight is midnight.

I'm a truck driver. This screws my system up for weeks.

Besides, if standard time is only four months long, how is it standard?

Daylight "saving" time sucks.

[BlackVelvet04]

23. Daylight savings time.

I'm not a morning person so I prefer more daylight in the evening.

[northofdenali]

24. Standard - although even if Alaska went to "standard"

we'd still be 2 hours ahead of normal in Fairbanks/Anchorage, 3 in the Aleutians and 2 in Juneau. The feds fucked with our time zones (had 4 at one time) back in the 70's and we "sprung forward" one year, stayed, then "sprung forward" the next year and stayed. So this year, "springing forward" puts us 3 hours "out of synch" with Mama Earth.

[Clark2008]

25. Daylight Savings Time

I like an extra hour of light after I get off work. I couldn't care less how dark it is on my way to work.

[dflprincess]

27. I'm with you

n/t

[fudge stripe cookays]

32. Yup.

Make it three. :D

[cmd]

26. Standard. n/t

[TahitiNut]

28. Local Time! Bring back sundials!

With GPS and modern electronics, we should have absolutely no problem with longitude-adjusting chronometers. I'm sick and tired of people ignoring the sun and people in New York City and CHicago getting more sunlight in the morning than us in Detroit.

Local Time rulez!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

29. Interesting article on the subject:

http://www.standardtime.com/

[lonestarnot]

30. We don't change time here, the clock does it.

:)

[RC]

33. Standard Time, the year around.

I don't reset any of my clocks. My computers stay on standard time. Same with my watch. In keeping with reality, I set my alarm clock one hour earlier.
Daylight saving Time may have made sense when Ben Franklin was still partying and candles were expensive, but not now.

[misanthrope]

34. Daylight Savings Time is a fraud...

...designed to do nothing more than manipulate and fleece consumers, just like most everything else in this society.

It's all explained in the NPR segment here: turn your clocks back and open up your wallets

There goes that seditious public radio bunch again, informing the citizenry, free of charge and without vulgar shilling.

[Ediacara]

35. Daylight savings time

I like it to be light out at 1030 pm in the summer.... But the switch is idiotic...

[1620rock]

36. Standard time year-round. n/t

[Ediacara]

37. I don't want the switch

I hate the switch, I just like the "feel" of DST, so essentially what I'm saying is that I'd want the Eastern Times Zone at GMT + 4 year round, rather than GMT + 5/GMT + 4.

[Raine]

39. Standard time...I hate Daylight "Savings". nt

[Raine]

40. Compromise...go forward or back ONE HALF HOUR

and leave it that way!

[sandnsea]

41. It's fine the way it is

I wouldn't want my kids walking to school in the dark in the winter and I like more daylight in the summer. Why do people have to whine about every blessed thing.

[area51]

42. standard time, no changes. (n/t)

[B Calm]

44. I love DST and my wife hates it. I can get more yard work done

through the week and have my weekends free for fishing.