# Daylight savings time, love it or hate it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 6, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635 "2002-07-06T15:49:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635/21 "2002-07-07T16:04:45Z")
HATE IT. Well, I hate the change, especially in the spring. Pick one, go with it, stop this infernal changing. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635/22 "2002-07-07T17:11:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rastahomie \* > Love it. > > 'Round here the sun sets around 4:30 in the winter. Therefore, the 9:30 summer sunsets make a nice contrast. \ \*\* rastahomie\*\* if you really are in Springfield, IL, the latest the sun sets there is 8:31 pm (local time) in summer, and will set at 4:37pm (local time) in winter. 😃 Source: [http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS\_OneDay.html](http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html) \ ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635/23 "2002-07-07T18:24:50Z")
In Indiana, we don’t observe Daylight Saving Time. Don’t ask me why… But, we seem to be doing just fine without it. We don’t have to remember when to Spring Forward and Fall Back, we don’t have terrible trouble driving home from work in the dark. Life just seems to work without all of the hullaballoo. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635/24 "2002-07-08T02:17:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ruby \* > In Indiana, we don’t observe Daylight Saving Time. Don’t ask me why… Actually, depending upon where you live in Indiana, you do … > [@](#): > > Indiana is one of three U.S. states which do not Spring ahead from “standard” to “daylight saving” time or Fall back from daylight to standard six months later. Arizona and Hawaii are the others. By State Law, most of Indiana is on Eastern Standard Time (EST) all year long. > > The statute creates three different time arrangements in the Hoosier State: > > - 77 counties (including state capital Indianapolis) are in the Eastern Time Zone but do not change to Daylight time in April; instead they remain on Standard Time all year long; > > - 10 counties – five near Chicago, IL, and five near Evansville, IN, are in the Central Time Zone and use both Central Standard and Central Daylight; > > - five other counties – two near Cincinnati, OH, and three near Louisville, KY – are in the Eastern Time Zone but use both Eastern Standard and Eastern Daylight. Source: [http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/f.html](http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/f.html) ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635/25 "2002-07-08T03:28:18Z")
DST is one of those weird relics of a bygone day that no one has ever come up with a reason for that satisfies me. (The fact that I live in Hawaii may have something to do with it.) “So no one has to drive on a dark road at 4:30.” Some drivers can handle the darkness, some can’t (I’ve never had any trouble). Regardless, I don’t see how a dark road at 4:30 is any more dangerous than a dark road at 8:30 or 9:30. I _have_ driven during those times on numerous occasions. And there always have been pedestrians, many of whom were not wearing bright reflective clothing. Just _be careful out there_; that should be good enough for most nighttime conditions. “So you don’t have to turn on lights in the morning; this saves a lot of energy.” Well, what about after sunset? Don’t tell me that everyone’s supposed to _go to sleep_ at 4:30? “So kids don’t have to walk home in the dark.” Oh, come on. How many schoolchildren do you know who actually walk to and from school? And if they do, they should be instructed on what to wear, where to walk, how to avoid trouble, etc.; adding something like low light conditions should be a snap. The dumbest part of this, IMHO, is the idea that anyone’s “saving” anything. You take an hour here, you have to give up an hour there. Unless you’re away from home from morning to night _every day of the week_, I just don’t see how this is practical. ---
**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635/26 "2002-07-08T05:09:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > **…I have never met a person who was even a little but put out by having to change the clocks, except maybe being late to work on the day the clocks get moved ahead. Good grief. “Terribly suffering?” I think you’re exaggerating more than a little here…** Sorry, that was a point and a joke at the same time. To rephrase, if it’s really that important that the sun should be up for the kids to go/come from school, or farmers to tend their crops, then the clocks should be regularly changed. I don’t think it is at all important, so I vote for no change at all. But for those of you who do think it’s critical, why wait so long? Why not change every month, to get the “full benefit” of the sun rising at the right time? Wait, you’re saying that’s ridiculous. Exactly my point. If it’s ridiculous to change the clock 12 times a year, it’s ridiculous to change it twice. ---
**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635/27 "2002-07-08T05:33:16Z")
…ok “probably ridiculous”… anyway, I still like the idea of clocks changing continuously…no jet lag effect, whatever. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635/28 "2002-07-08T13:39:33Z")
Remember back in 1973-4 when they _didn’t_ change the clocks? When I was sitting in homeroom, it was black outside So cool…and freaky… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daylight-savings-time-love-it-or-hate-it/117635.md?page=1)