+1 Brazillion (and I’m getting in line behind** TruCelt**). I absolutlely, positively, hate it with a passion.
It saves energy, or gives people extra time to shop after work, or something…
Move the clocks 30 minutes, and then never touch them again.
What’s that? Upset that the US would be, say, 6 and a half hours behind Europe? What are you some kind of pansy that you can’t deal with the extra 30 minutes of time difference? THEN HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE SIX HOURS!?!
So it looks like we’re all in agreement that we should keep one time all year round.
So let’s compromise. Move the clock half an hour, and then LEAVE IT THERE!!!
ETA: OK, so I’m not the first to come up with this idea. So sue me.
I’m not a great fan. I’d much rather have my extra hour of daylight in the morning. I dislike having to get up in the dark at this time of the year, but then have to come home from work in the heat of the late afternoon.
Thankfully we have only three weeks of it left. It goes for far too long anyway. It’s just ridiculous to have the “adjusted” time in place for more than half of the year.
Either get rid of it or keep it year round, I don’t care I just hate changing my clocks.
Here in Seattle, in the heart of winter, I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. In the summer, I go to work when it’s light out and come home when it’s light out. I’m not sure which is the “standard” time and which is the “daylight” time. So, I don’t know if we’re entering “regular” time or leaving it. I’d prefer whichever gives us more sun light in the evening, and leaving it there.
I know I’m gonna sound a little radical here but I think we should not only get rid of the unnecessary and burdensome Daylight Savings debacle, but also throw out time zones along with it. And good riddance to both.
Why is it so important for people to have the sun at its highest point at exactly 12 PM? Who cares?
Not me, that’s who.
Get rid of time zones?! :eek:
As for DST, I dunno. I’m not sure that sane people should be living as far north as Britain, so how they cope even further north is beyond me. I hate the sun streaming through the windows early on summer mornings, and it still being light out if I want an “early” night. Conversely, I used to hate the fact that in the middle of winter I would only see any daylight on workdays during my lunch break. Bleargh!
There’s talk here in the UK by the government about switching to Double Summer Time. The problem with this, as with all debate about changing the clocks, is that the UK is mostly aligned north/south, rather than east/west, so what works well in the south tends to work badly in the north (and vice versa). No idea what they think about it in Northern Ireland. Irish time did used to be a bit behind British time, but that’s never going to happen again.
If they could find a way to change the clocks so it was permanently spring/autumn, though… 
Give me a proper climate, where the sun doesn’t wander all over the flipping clock, regardless of what other changes we make!
Let’s just pick a time and stick with it. This changing of clocks is a pain in the patoot! Plus it screws up my dog’s feeding times.
I love it and now that I live in Arizona, I don’t observe it. My work schedule shifts because New York does and I work with the financial markets. I answered early bird in the other poll about my sleep schedule. I’m always happy to get up earlier and to have sunlight when I leave work.
DST should be nuked from orbit. The idea is a vile abomination.
China is bigger than the USA and it only uses one time zone. It used to have five time zones
Alaska used to span four time zones, now it’s only two
I’m not saying that it’s a good thing, but it had been done
I’ve heard that in western China they use an unofficial time zone, because the local time is so far out from the official clock (which I think is based on Beijing time).
ETA:
In fact, this is referenced in the article you linked to!
I hate it. Get rid of it.
I can’t get very worked up about it. Maybe that’s because I live in 2011 where all of my clocks except for one change themselves.
I’m a morning person, but that has nothing to do with whether or not the sun has risen. I like having the extra daylight in the warm summer evenings.
I don’t understand it for a minute. It seems like some plot to drive ourselves crazy by never having a stable clock–whatever time we SAY it is, it;s always the same fucking time, ain’t it?
I hate changing clocks. I’m with everyone who votes for one time that we can stick with.
But if I had to choose, I’d pick DST. I couldn’t care less about the amount of daylight during my morning commute, but leaving work in the dark is depressing to me.
I just had to change exactly one clock: my alarm clock. The only other clocks are my cell phone, computer, and cable box, and they all fix themselves. I hate losing the hour of sleep but the sun going down later is worth it.
I’m telling you, it’s the clockmakers…