# Annual Daylight Savings Time Poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 13, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398 "2010-03-13T22:18:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/61 "2010-03-16T18:05:59Z")
I hate it. I hate changing so many clocks, which have too many quirks in how they are set. I hate finding clocks for weeks afterwards that got forgotten. I hate that so many products with microprocessors and displays throw a clock function into the mix, like some kind of free benefit, because now I have a half dozen clocks in the kitchen to remember how to adjust. Most of all I hate all the clocks that automatically adjust for DST, but at the wrong time of year, because not only do we not keep clocks the same, we also don’t keep the rule for making them not the same the same. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/62 "2010-03-16T18:57:41Z")
I voted ‘all year long’ but I am usually in the minority. I have very few manually set clocks but I always forget at least one of them. This year I forgot the coffeemaker clock and had to manually press the ‘Brew’ button. When I thought about it, I realized that I had also forgotten the thermostat. When I went to change it, I found that I had forgotten it LAST year, so it was correct. Heh heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/63 "2010-03-17T01:33:34Z")
I’d like for it not to get dark at 4 p.m. in December. Just before Christmas I was working 7:30-5 and only saw the sun on the drive into work and during my two 15 minute breaks - and I do mean that literally, since there are no windows in my area of our building. That ain’t right. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/64 "2010-03-17T02:20:05Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > Pick a time and keep it year round. It’s always 5 o’clock- \*everywhere, all the time. \*😛 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/65 "2010-03-17T09:39:35Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Let’s split the difference. Move all the clocks back 30 minutes in the fall and keep them there all the time. Can I get a ‘hallelujah’? ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/66 "2010-03-17T13:15:14Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I’d like for it not to get dark at 4 p.m. in December. Just before Christmas I was working 7:30-5 and only saw the sun on the drive into work and during my two 15 minute breaks - and I do mean that literally, since there are no windows in my area of our building. That ain’t right. You prefer Daylight Saving Time. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/67 "2010-03-17T13:27:58Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Kids waiting at 7am for a bus in the dark. > > And the further south you get the less effect DST has That’s weird – I would have thought the opposite was true. I.e., if you live way up north, it still gets dark really early in the winter and stays light really late in the summer, DST or no DST. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/68 "2010-03-18T00:40:54Z")
I like the fall time change. Hate the spring time change. If we could, like, just “fall back” a couple of times a year, that would be good. Hey a girl can dream! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/69 "2010-03-18T20:40:52Z")
I answered, “Yes, but it should start later like it used to.” But there have been two or three different “used to” dates. For decades, DST began the last weekend in April, then it moved to the first weekend of April, which I was all for. Then (I believe) they briefly moved it to the last weekend in March, before moving it to the second weekend in March, where it is now. The second weekend in March is simply too early. The last weekend in March or first weekend in April would be soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398/70 "2010-03-19T16:03:03Z")
Other: I think we should use daylight savings time to try and make Winter days seem longer. I think it might help with the rash of Seasonal Affective Disorder I see. Too little sunshine when you’re not stuck on the job and are able to enjoy it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/annual-daylight-savings-time-poll/532398.md?page=3)