End Daylight Savings Time Changes

[beth_leonard]

We the people petition the Obama Administration to:
End Daylight Savings Time Changes.

Click here to sign the Whitehouse.gov petition. It needs 150 signatures to become public, and 25,000 signatures by April 13th, 2012 to get an official response. You will need to create an account if you do not already have one

Comments

[steuard]

Regarding the choice between "always standard time" vs. "always daylight time", I've been quite surprised to hear people advocating the latter. I don't know about other regions, but if "always daylight time" were instituted where I live, even at 8am it would still be too dark to see the horizon for several weeks of the year. My first class would begin while it was still too dark to clearly distinguish everyday objects outside. That just seems crazy to me: it's already hard enough to get my students out of bed. :) What is the argument for sticking with daylight time rather than standard time?

[zathrus]

I also would prefer to stick with standard time, although that would mean it would get light rediculously early in the summer. But I have signed and publicized the petition because I'd rather get this topic under serious discussion first and then bring up the "Which should we stick with?" question.

Newt

[beth_leonard]

Replied extensively to steuard's post. For some reason I can't find the e-mail with your address to see when your daylight is, but you can look it up at weather.com

--Beth

[beth_leonard]

Mostly it's about when would I like the extra dark in winter, and the extra light in summer. I tend to do the same things in the morning indoors, regardless of whether there is darkness or daylight, but in the evenings, the activities I choose vary quite a bit based on the amount of light, and I like the daylight-focused activities better than the "it's dark outside ALREADY?!?" activities

[ricevermicelli]

Without the time change, it would stay dark until nine-ish on winter mornings here too. I'm already having trouble getting the kids out of bed at 6:30, as they argue (correctly) that it's *dark*. On the other end of the year, without the change to summer time (sorry, I can never keep track of which is which), we'd hit sunrise at 3:30 in the morning, and the cooler part of the day would be thoroughly burned off by the time most people get up.

[robszewczyk]

The time change in itself is easy; the problem is that the rules around it have gotten so incredibly complex. it seems to me that the time zone issue is largely a product of there being not ENOUGH government. It is totally crazy that Arizona is able to not observe something, it just makes it more confusing to everyone. Then you have a similar situation on an international scale, when different people adjust the clock on different days. MORE consistency!