# Daylight Saving Time Ends **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2015, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321 "2015-11-01T07:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321/41 "2015-11-03T01:03:16Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > Where I live, not changing the clocks would either mean sunrise at 4:40AM in the summer or 8:50AM in the winter. Personally, I’m all for it. Dude has a point here. We should organize our time zones and Saving Times by zones of latitude instead of zones of longitude. **BigT** has a point too, a few posts up. If the whole idea of Daylight Saving Time is to give us some extra sun in the evening, then why in the world are we doing this in the _summer_ when we’ve already got long days? We should be doing Daylight Saving Time in the _winter_ when we could really appreciate that extra hour of light in the evening. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321/42 "2015-11-03T06:07:57Z")
Fuck this non-sense! Pick a time and stick to it! I have to change the clocks in 15 fucking cars! Do you have any idea how long that takes? ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321/43 "2015-11-03T07:18:58Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Fuck this non-sense! Pick a time and stick to it! I have to change the clocks in 15 fucking cars! Do you have any idea how long that takes? An hour? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321/44 "2015-11-03T21:11:37Z")
> [@Gedd](#): > > Your body has [several functions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm#/media/File:Biological_clock_human.svg)besides sleep that are based on the light-dark cycle. Suddenly changing everything an hour can throw off your circadian rhythm. Yep. Two days every year I get up to do my circadian dance, and just can’t. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321/45 "2015-11-03T21:19:53Z")
> [@Ximenean](#): > > What I want to know is, when do we get to spend all this daylight we’ve been saving? I’m old enough now that I must be owed weeks of daylight, plus interest at say one minute per day, which I feel is reasonable. I would like to withdraw some of it to be used in January, but I don’t know where you apply. me too ! > [@BigT](#): > > I’d actually prefer an inverted system. I’d want to “save” daylight in the evening, so that we don’t wind up with darkness at 5pm in the winter. I’m okay with it getting dark at 8pm in the summer. yeah maybe then it will cool off sooner…those hot summer evenings with the humidity are killers! > [@Mithras](#): > > Time zones are so large that relative to the sun, noon doesn’t frequently mean “true noon” even on standard time. For example, today true noon in Bangor, Maine is about 11:20 and in Lansign, Michigan it’s 12:20. I hope you dont live in Lansign Michigan…not spelling it correctly will get you booted into Ohio and you know what they say about Ohio… > [@Clothahump](#): > > We need to go onto Daylight Wasting Time and stay there. SO true! > [@Mudshark](#): > > I look forward to it getting dark earlier. One of the best parts of daylight savings time ending. I like it too, when my son was much younger in his childhood, the early darkness got him in the house sooner and into the tub and therefore, into his bed for the rest of the night! > [@](#): > > no use setting the correct time because either a storm comes thru and shuts down the power or the husband is always working on different electrical situations… 😃 Now its only 15 minutes off. I just use it for seeing the time when I am up visiting the porcelain throne, no alarms are endangered of the morning smash on the top for the snooze…:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321/46 "2015-11-04T05:38:50Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Fuck this non-sense! Pick a time and stick to it! I have to change the clocks in 15 fucking cars! Do you have any idea how long that takes? I don’t change the clock in my car. Although I suppose if you have 15 to do, it’s probably not an option for you. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321/47 "2015-11-04T06:08:54Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > **BigT** has a point too, a few posts up. If the whole idea of Daylight Saving Time is to give us some extra sun in the evening, then why in the world are we doing this in the _summer_ when we’ve already got long days? We should be doing Daylight Saving Time in the _winter_ when we could really appreciate that extra hour of light in the evening. Do this, and the sun won’t be rising in the morning in wintertime until quite late. Here in Chicago, year-round DST would put sunrise at around 8:15am in late December (around the winter solstice); in Minneapolis, the sun wouldn’t rise until nearly 9am. When I was a kid (around 1974), the US government instituted year-round DST for a year or two, hoping that it would result in some energy savings (this was during the first big oil crisis). One of the things that people complained the most about was kids having to go to school in the dark. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-saving-time-ends/736321.md?page=2)