Is daylight savings time needed? Do you like setting your clock back and forward twice a year?

I like maximizing the daylight hours. In that way, it makes sense to me.

I like it for the same reason as Marina. The clock thing is kind of a pain in that rear, but it was so much easier to wake up today with the sun already dawning than it will be later in the year (or was last week) with the sun nowhere in sight.

I think it’s obnoxious. The reason we continue to do it as a country is to save on energy costs and there’s never been a legitimate study that proves that energy costs go down directly because of daylight savings.

I was away for the weekend, at my girlfriend’s house. We remember to change all the clocks there Sunday morning. Sunday evening, I drove back home, turned my alarm clock on, and went to bed. Alarm went on, I showered and started going to work…. and realized I never set my own clocks back, and actually had another hour in which I could sleep, if I hadn’t alraedy woken myself up. Grrrr.

I love daylight savings time, and wish we could have it year around. I prefer my daylight at the end of the work day, not in the beginning. I don’t mind coming to work in the dark, but I do much prefer going home in the light. I’m glad DST was extended this year.

seeing as how we just rolled back an hour. I will now be spending more on electricity. How does this save anything? It gets dark at 5pm? I hate it.

I agree with judochop. I now have to have my lights on do do anything at around 5:00PM.

I agree with you guys. That’s just the governmental reasoning behind it.

judochop, we rolled back because DST just ended. Now the clocks are the way they’re supposed to be. For the entire summer daylight was beginning and ending later. That’s what it bought you. “getting dark at 5pm” is the way the normal time system is supposed to be.

You’re not opposed to Daylight Saving Time. You’re in favor of extending it to never end…

Either way, deciding at the last minute that we’re going to have an extra DST doesn’t really let me write programs which can keep accurate time.

Move to Arizona.

(Isn’t that the state the doesn’t participate?)

Yep. No DST in AZ. Consider us evolved.

I HATE this time change. Every year I get very grumpy during this time. I still wake up at the same time. I can’t sleep the extra hour. I hate it getting dark at five o’clock!!

I was talking to someone about DST yesterday and they told me in spring when we go ahead an hour we are going to stick to that time, and not change the time after that. Any truth to this?

@uberbatman, I can only hope, I can only hope. This is something my wife and I have been wishing for since we met.

I live where there was no daylight savings time. South Bend, Indiana.
Had no problem with it. Unless you had to work in Michigan. That could be a bitch.