If I gave my kids a bedtime before they were sleepy they would just writhe around in bed for hours. No fun for me or them. I trusted them to go to sleep when they were sleepy. And no freaking way I could tell my 18 yr old who is still at home what time to go to bed.
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Iâm all for it. I donât need the sun to be out when I go to work, but I sure want some sunshine left when I clock out.
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Agree, should not be permanent.
No rush in the House to consider the bill.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/598827-daylight-savings-change-faces-trouble-in-house
Iâm not surprised. I think it was passed very quickly and then people started to look at the drawbacks and consider things like sleep disruption.
Why are we spending time on this. If itâs not broke donât fix it. Iâve been changing clocks my whole life and it doesnât bother me. Like everything else in this country we are divided by who wants DST, Standard time or no change. No change makes the most sense to me but I am 110% DST if they do change it. We have many more important things to work on than this non-issue.
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Because many think itâs broke.
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And many will think itâs broke once itâs âfixedâ
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I keep seeing people refer to it as âDaylight Savings Time.â The correct term is âDaylight Saving Time.â
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Those of us from Europe call it what it is - Summer Time. 
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March until November is more than just summer, though!
Itâs basically April through October there, as clocks change the last Sunday in March and October. They donât follow the US calendar.
And yes, itâs not entirely accurate, but neither is the US definition of summer as being the period between Memorial and Labor Days. And not like DST is entirely accurate.
Many others will be rejoicing if it happens.
Now Iâm back to wondering if there are current polls outâŠ
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Monmouth has one adn also describes other recent pollos. 538 references a YouGov poll but I question how representative that one is.
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Monmouthâs poll has 44% preferring DST all year.
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AP Poll shows 43% prefer to keep Standard Time year-round.
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CBS Poll shows that 41% folks want to keep changing clocks.
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Iâm wondering if we could even make standard savings time (is that what itâs called when those of us turn our clocks Nov - March?) to squeak out a couple more weeks each side of the calendar like switch 2 weeks later in November and switch 2 weeks earlier in the March time - would that make any more difference in peopleâs lives (for those who want a permanent DST)
Methinks that the polling of one, two, or three of these organizations is a bit off!
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Daylight savings time was extended in 1987 and again in 2007. It is currently very close to 8 months long. I imagine extending it more is an option. Interestingly several states have voted to be on DST year round but until the current federal laws are changed that canât happen.
I personally like the DST daylight pattern of sunshine later in the day. I donât currently like it getting dark at my house at 5pm in December. I would like it better if it got dark at 6pm in December. I am not that affected by it being dark in the morning. I currently go to work early so most days it is dark on my drive. My kids currently go to school quite a bit in the dark as their school starts early.
Obviously we all have a different take on this.
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And you live in a nice medium latitude. Try living in MN, where in the winter it gets dark at 4:30, and if they leave in permanent DST, that will move to 5:30 but it will be pretty dark until almost 9 am . I would have been at work ALL of those hours.
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Doesnât this mean most kids are already going to school in the dark (assuming 8am before it gets light)? Thatâs the way it was where I grew up. I definitely preferred when it stayed light to 5:30pm that year.
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Yesterday I took a bus that is 30 minutes later than my normal bus. I walk almost a mile to the nearest bus stop. Sun, glorious sun at 7:50 that is not yet all the way up at 7:20 (since we switched to DST) and it was about 7 degrees warmer than it was at 7:20.
I not only donât want DST all the time, Iâd like to go back to the switch at the end of March, not the beginning. I was just getting to walk in the daylight when the switch happened and I was back to the dark, back to the cold. The sun really warms things up. If they made the switch 3 weeks later, it would be better for me, and itâs all about ME.