Daylight Savings Time too early in the year?

yeah, I really don’t see the purpose of daylight savings. However, I’m very happy that it only lasts 4 months now. More daylight in a day is good thing for me!

DST actually runs from March to November now thanks to our elustrious President who signed the legislation.
Personally, it’s not in my top 5. I also see a lot of businesses here in MD who’s outdoor lights in the parking lot never get reprogrammed and so they come on at around 5 year round. Where’s the energy savings there?

It doesn’t bother me at all. I dont understand why people do make a big deal out of it. Its only 1 hour.

@babirurtle, you obviously haven’t had to deal with the various cockups that come about from arbitrary time changes. Not to mention all the congressional time, effort, and money wasted, all to no real benefit.

I’m all about goin’ with the flow… but how has DST actually helped anybody do anything better?

It’s definitely been throwing me off, especially when trying to coordinate with my colleagues in the UK. Is the US the only coytry to move up their DST?

The south-eastern states of Australia have extended their DST too. This year we end DST (DST happens in summer, remember, so being in the Southern Hemisphere, we’re just about to go back to non-DST) next week instead of a few days ago, and we will start DST something like a week or so early.

If you think it’s hard co-ordinating, from the US, with people in the UK, try co-ordinating with another country in another hemisphere. When, say, the UK have DST, we in Australia don’t. And when we have DST, the UK don’t. So despite us being UTC+10 standard timezone, the time in London (UTC) is either 11 hours behind or 9 hours behind.

But nonetheless I think DST is great, I like long evenings.