Do you think that daylight savings time is really necessary?

Question

I think it really messes up the body's biological clock for sleeping.

Actually, it is ending November 4th whenn clocks fall back. Pretty soon we will be right back where we started.

Answer 1

No, it is not. It is a hot topic for me. This was created by greedy department store owners who wanted customers to have long time to shop in the daytime.

It messes my biological clock up too. I am still living in Central Standard Time even though it is DST. If you know of a way to get it stopped, I wish you would share. It is awful for children too. They have to go to bed when the sun is still up. We spend six months trying to adjust to an unnecessary situation. I have heard some of the dumbest reasons for this ever. An example: It allows farmers to get to the field sooner. That is stupid. The farmer gets up at daylight or earlier anyway. Changing a digit on a clock doesn't change that.

It is a political thing, done for monetary gain and for no other reason. It needs to stop.

There, I will remove myself from the soapbox now.

Answer 2

It's not necessary, and I hate it too. If you want to start work at 8 am instead of 9 am, that's fine. But do it year round, keep the clocks the same, and start work when the clocks say 8 am. There's no need to only do it half the year. And there's no need to start work at 8 am but keep calling it 9 am. That's just dumb.

Answer 3

Daylight saving time was a fluke of someones imagination. Somebody's 15 minutes of glory that turned "gory" for everybody else.
I agree, Indiana would be a good place to go, it's where I'm from. If anybody wants to go with me, just tag along and we'll get rid of this. Let's reset the circadian clocks.

Or, as I've heard others say....it's just a waste of time!!!!!!!

Answer 4

I think Benjamin Franklin proposed it first. I like light in the evening. One year we didn't change...probably during the first energy crises. I think we should go up another hour, then leave them. That way it would be light until 10 PM in the summer, and 5 or so in the winter. I don't mind it dark one direction to work, but not both!!

Answer 5

My daughter hates its it because her son needs to get to sleep at 7PM, on schooldays, but it's still light, and so he lies their shooting rubber bands, all over the room. Aso the day you chang over, you are all messed up and tired for about a week.

Try living in England. In the summer, it is still light at 10PM. That's in summer.

I don't think daylight saving is good. And I agree, it does mess with our biological time clock. We don't have it in our State. Thankfully.

Answer 6

Gosh, I actually like daylight savings time and wish we had it all year round. It's so hard to get anything done when it ends in Oct and it gets dark so early. If you have to travel it doesn't give you much time. It's good for me.

edit: Yeah, it is Nov. 4, thanks for the correction.

Answer 7

I think it's great while it lasts. Then it ends and winter is crashing in upon us in one fell swoop. One day it's nice and sunny and the next it's dark and dreary. And cold.

FYI, Daylight Saving Time was first proposed prior to WWII.

Answer 8

It was originally started so farmers, way back when) could have more day light to get their crops in, but with the new technology & heavy duty lights on the tractors, there is no need for day light savings.
I dislike it also.

Answer 9

that does sound effective even even with the shown fact that it may cut back to rubble my inner clock if it have been given replaced infact we'd all be snarled. i individually like spring daylight hours it has extra like interior the afternoon.

Answer 10

You can get out and feed cattle sooner, but, it's colder and I'm sure they wouldn't mind waiting an extra hour. I think it's silly. Then were all hemmed up at 5:30 p.m. eating.