A sign of the time, indeed.

In what way do you suggest it "works"? There are many who suggest that the purported "energy savings" of DST are a sham. This writer is only one of many:

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=5185
or: http://www.standardtime.com/

I suspect that the issue with many who dislike DST stems from believing the studies that basically allege the government is "lying" about saving energy,. and thus must have some other nefarious purpose in mind..... as in "look, just admit that you like the sunlight better, so you can keep the kids out of your hair for another hour in the summer!"

It's not really an issue for me; in general, I benefit from DST. But my wife and her family, who hail from Arizona, hate it.

The idea of standardized time is a private-sector one anyway; it's so we can all agree on when a train arrives when it isn't traveling in an exact North-to-South line. After that first step, the idea of monkeying with an hour here or there is small potatoes.

In what way does it work? Isn't that simply a matter of your point of view? I hate having it dark again when I wake up.

p.s. (Feel free to erase this part of the comment before publishing because I hate nitpickers, too) It's Daylight Saving Time.

I'm glad it works for you, but it doesn't work for us in the agricultural sector at all.
For example:
We have to wait for the dew to lighten before harvesting ground corps, regardless what hour it is. After harvesting all day, it would be great to get a run in to market like we can on some late fall crops, but no. It turned 5 o'clock an hour earlier and the market (silo, mill, etc) is closed, thus shortening our day. And if we have hired laborers, we have to have them get there an hour later ( which is an hour less pay) lest they stand around idle waiting for the fields to dry. But no, the UFW or FLOC would never allow that to happen!

I'm with Dragon Lady. Getting up in the dark is the pits, and since I have to turn lights on, where are the energy savings? Last week it was light when I got up, and light when I got home from work. This week, I'm getting up in the dark, and the extra hour of light in the evening doesn't mean a whole lot. Making the change a few weeks later would make more sense all around.

Regardless of whether the clock is moved forward or back parents and kids are still leaving home in the morning in the dark. So let's eliminate the games and just decide whether to have DST year round or not. The negatives of changing the clock twice a year have been proven to be real and far outweigh any benefits of "saving" daylight, whether it be at one end of the day or the other.

Paul Harvey said it best: We're lemmings, running off the cliff twice a year.

Hi all,
I'm glad it works for you, but it doesn't work for us in the agricultural sector at all.
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