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@Sweetgum and @bhs1978 Obviously, I was simply stating my personal preferences. Just as you were.
I would prefer to leave it as is, but if I had to choose, I would choose Standard.
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I canât believe they are wasting their time on this.
Well, I made an educated guess (school start times, morning news shows and drive times, evening news at 11pm) and then I verified with some CDC data and other data points. I will post some links. I think I was pretty close on my guess. What I found said the mean wake up time was between 6-7am (one source said 6:30 was the most common time, others said 6:45 or 7) and the CDC said the average American gets pretty close to 7 hrs sleep (some areas slightly less and some areas slightly more). So the math means that most people who get up at 6-6:30 go to bed around 11-11:30. I got tired of going down the rabbit hole, but Iâm sure somewhere out there is an average time that Americans wake up.
Right. I know some other early to bedders and early to risers. To each their own. I really wouldnât mind Standard time all year round either. I just wish they would pick one, but I think it seems unlikely that they will pick Standard if we are already on Daylight 8 months of the year. I do like Daylight Savings Time, but I am a night owl and preferred later sleeper. My ideal bedtime is after midnight and I would love to sleep to 8:30 or 9, but that doesnât happen. I am usually cruising on 7hrs sleep but feel so much better if I can get 8 hrs.
It will be interesting to see if they actually do this.
Sure do. I was delighted then and sorry when we reverted back to changing the time twice a year.
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Itâs currently 7:10 pm and I am sitting at my dining room table in mid-March in SE PA, watching all kinds of activity outside. Couples walking, kids riding their bikes, neighbor puttering in his garden. Lots of dog walking. All after work/after-dinner activities that are now available to them because we just switched to DST and the cold weather is moving out. It is such a mood boost! Standard time is a big NO for me. I would rather switch 2x a year than go to standard time all the time!!
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Believe it would be daylight savings time all the time.
My circle of friends/family is all in favor of DST year round. Does anyone know if there have been wider polls? Obviously, I havenât googled. I just got on the computer after being out until dark, then eating supper. 70 degrees today, more light in the evening, everything turning green and flowers out, I love it!
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it wasnât all that popular in the 70âs. (perhaps that was due to the fact that the energy savings never materialized â which anyone with common sense could have told the feds)
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As usual it depends on the poll
And I would choose the same as you (also an early-to-bed, early-to-rise person). So for our health it would be better for permanent Standard, AND when permanent DST was tried in the 70s it was discontinued.
Where I am, kids go to school in the dark because no one cares (or, not enough people care) if itâs healthier for students to have a later start time. There are competing interests for that later start time that win out every time itâs up for discussion.
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We went to DST âpermanentlyâ for one year 50 years ago. Our lives, routines and lifestyles have probably changed a lot for all ages in 50 years that I donât think we should default to "that one time it didnât work out. "
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I just quickly googled and came up with this poll from last Nov. Seems other polls are ongoing? As of last Nov, many of us are in the majority AND (BIG NOTE HERE) political party didnât significantly change the numbers. The US CAN be united about something. Thatâs a story in itself I think.
DST also beat Standard Time for all age groups.
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I hope permanent DST passes. Iâm fine with dark mornings but I hate it when the sun sets at 4:15 in the winter.
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I literally get sick to my stomach thinking about staying on Standard time all year. My mental health would suffer greatly. Either DST permanently or continue changing clocks. Changing clocks never bothered me at all.
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Iâve found out that I must be one of the only people who kinda liked the spring forward and fall back. Spring forward meant spring was coming even when there was no sign of spring. I liked when fall back was right before Halloween, I thought that trick or treating was better in the dark. I didnât even mind the approximately 5 minutes a season that it took to change the clocks.
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The only time I liked the fall back change was when my Girl Scout troop made it a tradition to go camping that weekend and it was great to have that extra hour.
Iâd despise staying on Standard time year round too. I love the long daylight hours of summer nights and canât stand the extra short ones of winter. Staying on Standard time would lessen what I love and increase what I donât.
Part of the reason I didnât care for living in the south year round was the âshortâ days of summer. Having daylight longer in the winter is a plus though - hence - one more reason besides the temperature for our long winter trips heading south.
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How will some people remember to change the batteries in their smoke detectors twice a year if we donât spring forward and backwardâ:rofl:
Honestly, once the decision is made, I will adjust to whatever it isâŠand look forward to NOT having to adjust twice a year.
Funny anecdoteâŠI went to a sleep away camp when I was a kid. They actually did an additional hour of spring forward so they would have lots of daylight hours in the evening. This camp was sort of near Youngstown Ohio, and for a lot of years, I thought Youngstown was in a different time zone than Clevelandđ€Šđ»ââïž
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