Poll: When it comes to daylight saving time, which do you prefer? / LJWorld.com

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Response		Percent	Votes
Neither; don’t mess with the time.		42%	775
Falling back.		35%	659
Springing forward.		22%	406
Total	1840

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kidscount (anonymous) says…

I like the daylight personally. really not a fan of it getting dark at 5 or 6 in the evening. Yuck!!!!!!!
October 30, 2009 at 12:23 a.m.
gccs14r (anonymous) says…

I'd rather stick with DST during the summer and then go forward in the fall to add daylight to the end of the day.
October 30, 2009 at 7 a.m.
snap_pop_no_crackle (anonymous) says…

Since we no longer have to hurry home to tend our vegetable gardens and help defeat the Kaiser, I say to heck with DST.
October 30, 2009 at 7:12 a.m.
BigPrune (anonymous) says…

We have met the Kaiser and he is us.
October 30, 2009 at 7:15 a.m.
mjwgoku (anonymous) says…

I prefer DST, but if I had my choice, just pick one and leave it alone.
October 30, 2009 at 8:10 a.m.
MrShades (anonymous) says…

Oh Prune,
You are on a Roll today
:-)
October 30, 2009 at 8:12 a.m.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…

I just want to make a withdrawl from the sunshine bank that we were depositing the daylight savings in.
October 30, 2009 at 8:33 a.m.
frankiej65 (anonymous) says…

The government would also have you believe that you can cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.
October 30, 2009 at 8:39 a.m.
monkey_c (anonymous) says…

That's funny Frankie.
October 30, 2009 at 9:02 a.m.
autie (anonymous) says…

as long as the sun comes up in the east in the morning and sets in the west in the evening, I really could care less. I'd say just do away with DST. It is a waste that accomplishes nothing. Except to confuse the masses twice a year.
October 30, 2009 at 9:06 a.m.
Cappy (anonymous) says…

I like DST in the Summer. I want to get off work at 5:00 knowing I'm going to have more gardening/biking/whatever time outdoors. You anti-DST people probably sit at your TV's or computers so you don't care. Get some sun!
I remember the experiment with year-round DST in the 70's. I walked to school in pitch black. No thanks. It doesn't confuse me.
October 30, 2009 at 9:20 a.m.
overthemoon (anonymous) says…

set time to the half hour in between and leave it there.
October 30, 2009 at 9:24 a.m.
overthemoon (anonymous) says…

Frankie

that was a political cartoon way back in the seventies during the energy moratorium. I always liked the analogy!
October 30, 2009 at 9:26 a.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

a happy medium would suit me but with all the gloomy days this month I wake up thinking it is 3am as it is so right now I just want some sun.
October 30, 2009 at 9:36 a.m.
sinkorswim (anonymous) says…

I'd love to have daylight 5:00am-8:00pm or so year round...if that were possible.

The switch twice a year is not big deal, doesn't bother me.
October 30, 2009 at 9:54 a.m.
honeychild (Mel Briscoe) says…

i think DST is pointless nowadays.
October 30, 2009 at 10:05 a.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

How about that post it here and it will come yippie the sun it is still in the sky and alive.
October 30, 2009 at 10:18 a.m.
BorderRat (anonymous) says…

Didn't have to mess with it in Arizona. All I had to remember was if we were on Mountain of Pacific Time.
October 30, 2009 at 11:04 a.m.
topekan7 (anonymous) says…

I prefer we stay on Central Standard Time (CST) year round. Daylight Saving Time makes no sense to me .... why would you want an extra hour of sunlight in the evenings in June, July, & August when temperatures can soar into the 90's with heat indices greater than 100? On those days I look forward to the sunset. Yet in Kansas on Central Daylight Time (CDT) the sun doesn't set before 9:30 pm in the 15 days before and after the summer solstice. In the words of Sting: "Bring on the Night ... I couldn't stand another hour of daylight." In the spring and fall, because of CDT, I end up going to work in the dark since the sunrise doesn't occur before 7:30-7:45am. And now that the Fall Back doesn't occur until November...I'll still be going to work in the dark after the change back to CST. I need the sun...and I want it in the morning...it helps with our circadian rhythym, sleep patterns, and the sun can be a vital component in waking us up!
October 30, 2009 at 11:15 a.m.
gr (anonymous) says…

What about global warming? Shouldn't we be saving daylight all year? Or is global warming a fading fad, now?
October 30, 2009 at 11:46 a.m.
somedude20 (anonymous) says…

extra sun, extra dark..hmmmmm just dont take away my time on earth
October 30, 2009 at 11:58 a.m.
mommaeffortx2 (anonymous) says…

who took my sunshine?
October 30, 2009 at 12:13 p.m.
tbaker (anonymous) says…

DST saves a bunch of energy.
October 30, 2009 at 12:25 p.m.
frankiej65 (anonymous) says…

Thank you for that scientific analysis Tbaker!!!
October 30, 2009 at 12:37 p.m.
BaxterC (anonymous) says…

This isn't star trek so stop messing with my time.
October 30, 2009 at 12:50 p.m.
begin60 (anonymous) says…

I revel in the extra hour of sleep, relaxation, work, or even procrastination in the fall--otherwise prefer longer days and more light in the evenings.
October 30, 2009 at 1:01 p.m.
gccs14r (anonymous) says…

The morning commute is going to be in the dark in winter no matter what, so might as well make it completely dark in the morning and have some useful light at the end of the workday. I hate that it gets dark at 4:30 p.m. at the end of December.
October 30, 2009 at 3:03 p.m.
spiff (anonymous) says…

Voting for springing forward is like applying for a certificate of terrible.
October 31, 2009 at 12:03 a.m.
Crossfire (anonymous) says…

Turning the the clocks up and back is one of the stupidest things that we do.
October 31, 2009 at 1:22 a.m.
tangential_reasoners_anonymous (anonymous) says…

( Sorry, but "daylight savings" doesn't yield enough interest to warrant a contribution. )
October 31, 2009 at 1:35 a.m.
Hoots (anonymous) says…

They did a study and found the number of car pedestrian accidents when we fall back incresses by a large margin. More daylight when the most people are milling around makes sense. I don't like the dark coming so early in the evening either.
October 31, 2009 at 6:57 a.m.
loosecaboose (anonymous) says…

All the years I worked nights I learned to hate Daylight savings time, it never got dark for my nap before going to work.
I really hated the nights of the time change, the railroad always jerked us around.
I'm retired, but I still hate it.
October 31, 2009 at 9:07 p.m.
beastshawnee (anonymous) says…

"They've" done studies. It costs us billions of dollars in lost productivity, missed work, car accidents, etc. The more organized and civilized humans are, the worse it gets for all of us. Next, line up for your id chip to be inserted in your arm. It will have all your money recorded on it. The government will control your movements with it, and can remove your money at will! Exciting.
November 1, 2009 at 7 a.m.
mr_right_wing (anonymous) says…

We are no longer the agriculturally based society we once were. Get rid of DST and send kids to school year-round (and they'll graduate earlier!)
November 1, 2009 at 4:55 p.m.
George_Braziller (anonymous) says…

It depends on the time of the year. I HAVE to have light in the morning to wake up. It has to be absolutely completely dark for me to be able to sleep.

I have never been able to take naps during the day (much to my mom's irritation when I was a kid.) My brain tells me that light = awake, dark = sleep. It's just the way I'm wired. If the sun came up at 2 a.m. I'd be awake. If it didn't come up until 11 a.m. that's when I'd wake up.
November 1, 2009 at 5:45 p.m.
gccs14r (anonymous) says…

You need to live at the equator, then. Me, I can sleep under almost any circumstances.
November 1, 2009 at 7:56 p.m.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says…

Anyway we can keep the moon from shining?
13 times a year, every 28 days, for 8 days.
It is like sunshine at night.
Include the parking lot lights, streetlights, security lights, think of the sleep we could foster, the energy we could save.
November 1, 2009 at 8:13 p.m.