[touron]

It's 9:20AM, or it is 8:20AM? Should Daylight Savings Time be abolished?

[grannyhiker]

I'd rather have us stay on Daylight time year around. Of course, that option isn't in the poll. DST is actually closer to "sun time" here because we're in the eastern part of the Pacific Time Zone. I like that extra daylight in the evening, but I HATE changing clocks! Whatever we do, let's get rid of the time change.

[Jake Neiffer]

Maybe we should just make it simple and all go to 1 time zone like China. http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/11/china-only-has-one-time-zone-and-thats-a-problem/281136/

[IanB]

[Chief Joseph]

daylight-savings

[IanB]

No one said it was a longer blanket - just better positioned.

[wildernessed]

[contour5]

I'd like to see permanent daylight savings time combined with later start times for work in the winter months, plus a reduced work week with higher wages; sort of like the 6 hour workdays currently being introduced in Sweden. More likely we'll continue transitioning to the "karoshi" system where people frequently overwork themselves to death.

[North Cascades]

Whether it is daylight savings or not, I wish we could just pick one and stick with it.

[Chief Joseph]

humans want to meddle with everything, usually with bad results.

[Pyrites]

Humans are quite free to fool with time measured in hours as it as artificial construct for our own convenience. When I had kids playing spring sports I loved daylight savings time. No more ball practices stretched into the gloom trying to get ten more minutes. For this alone I think it is worth it. Besides twice a year it gives people something to talk about besides the weather.

[Dalekz]

Those of you wanting to stay on Pacific STD time, do you really want to wake to a sunrise of 4:10 AM in June and july? Keep daylight saving time all year!! http://www.pacificsciencecenter.org/sunrise.html

[puzzlr]

I used to work as a programmer for systems that had to account for DST. The worst was when congress made a decision to change the date of the start/stop time with very little lead time. It required a lot of extra work to make sure that thousands of systems were updated with the new timetable because of course it doesn't follow a regular pattern.

[NacMacFeegle]

Get rid of it, it's completely outdated and all it does now is screw with our schedules twice a year!

[IanB]

It's funny how the abolish crowd is always worked up after the spring forward - but nobody seems to complain about sleeping in the extra hour in the fall. You'd think that one hour's lost sleep was going to bring about the fall of western civilization. (Or you could have just gone to bed an hour earlier last night.)