Interesting read. Isn’t it time to just do away with US daylight savings and reduce the number of time zones?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...light-saving-solved-americas-clock-craziness/

 

I vote to just leave Daylight savings time in place year round.

 

To me it just means an hour more or a hour less of work twice a year. Unfortunately tonight will be an hour extra of work.

 

It's time to do away with the current system imo.

 

I've always wondered how to interpret the TV guide listings at 0200 on these nights.

 

@M.D. has it right. Leave Daylight savings in place year round. Saves time, money, energy, it's foolishness to go back and forth.

 

If you just keep standard time as others suggest, and perhaps have pacific and eastern and eliminate mountain and central, it should be just as fine imo.

 

Reminds me of a humorous letter.
http://grist.org/article/conspiracy-uncovered/

 

On a related note...why do add the extra day on leap year on Feb 29. Why not June 31? Would you rather have an extra day in winter or an extra day in summer?

 

Only in the Northern Hemisphere.

 

Personally, I think we should just get rid of time altogether. It’s an irritation. And then we could just admire our watches for what they are, without having to reset them every few days...

 

The problem with that is I wouldn’t have anything else to stress about +/- seconds every day, since I don’t play any timed competitive sport

 

Fair point. Tbough i hate that it's dark when I'm leaving work when it's standard time.

 

Our Queenslanders have had some issues with daylight savings

Fades curtains, upsets cows and even kills children.......

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/dlsinqld

 

It’s ‘daylight saving’ folks. No ‘s’ at the end.

 

Just sitting here in Arizona, where it's always Mountain Standard Time.

 

I personally don't like daylight saving, I am not a fan of a late rising late setting sun; I would happily standard time year round. As for daylight saving helping to synchronize America's clocks, that was done by adopting railroad time. The only problem that the uniform time act solved was to make the entire country begin and end daylight saving on the same date and to coerce everyone and every business into adopting it.