Let’s stay on Daylight Saving Time permanently. Daylight saving time, also referred to as daylight saving, daylight savings time, daylight time, or summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.
Standard time is the local time in a region when daylight saving time (DST) is not in use. In the United States, the transition from DST to standard time is when clocks are moved back one hour, known as “falling back”.
In the winter months, we revert to standard time which makes our days shorter.
Daylight Saving Time belongs to States; it is not a federal issue. Also, it’s probably more natural to keep noon (12 pm) when the sun is at its highest, which means canceling DST. However, as long as the government agrees to stop switching clocks back and force twice a year, deciding whether to stay on DST or standard time is easy.
Its been proven to cause issues with switching. Both in work, and in mental health. It’s also causing more accidents to happen. No need to constantly switch between. I fully agree abolish it federally so all states comply with a set time.
in GA we voted 2 years ago to stay on summer time. But whichever time they STAY on is fine with me. Can anyone explain the benefits of jumping forward and falling backwards? lots more accidents shortly after the change, lots of people missing appointments because forgotten to change… let us once and for all quit the jump!
First, Standard Time does not make the days shorter. The number of daylight hours will not change if we remain permanently on Daylight Saving Time. What will happen is that the daylight hours will begin later. For example, today on Standard Time the sunrise was at 7:12 am (where I live). Were we on Daylight Saving Time that same sunrise would have been at 8:12 am. Essentially, you are trading longer morning darkness for longer evening light. Furthermore, one of the critical issues concerns children going to school in the dark, which is a possibility if we remain on DST.
It runs a similar risk of Y2K, of breaking old or bad code in places. Even if you adjust the current timestamp code to account for the switch, it still adds complications to old database entries, which would still have been under DST from certain areas. I suspect that this modern Y2K-style concern is one of the main reasons it loses momentum when discussed - that and similar systemic problems with suddenly switching something like that in the modern era.
If we are going to go through the headache of a switch, my vote is to go all the way to GMT time. It would be nice not to have to deal with timezones and time changes at all, and we all could just agree what time it is.
It started to help farmers have more time in the fields. It is so outdated because farmers have lights on their equipment to help them see when it is dark.
All this talk about what to do to make our days longer. The real thing that would make our days longer would be shorter work and school hours. A 32 hour work week would give us more time.