Trump to cancel Daylight Savings Time!

You are aware that the Sun rises at about 5am in the Summer?

Daylight Saving Time (DST) = Spring Forward = Summer time... right? Yeah, I prefer that one.

I leave for work at 5 am, so yes, I am aware. For typical 9-5'ers its nice that they have 4-5 months of light for their entire run. I like daylight more in the winter, when those guys are running in the dark. The fact remains I and most others would benefit more from it getting late an hour later in Nov-early March. Just leave us on DST year round and we have both.

Those running at 5 am are running in the dark in the winter whether we have DST or not. Some small percentage of people who start runs around 630-7 am are the only ones who benefit from the standard time switch.

This would not be the first time I have posted in error...but if you check out the link in my post, I would argue that we are both right. The wording of the bill makes the change of clocks necessary when we observe DST permanent, but that, in turn, ends the most annoying aspect of it, effectively ending it.

My claim that DST is universally despised in America is a tad overstated. It's about 54-40 in this poll:

news.gallup.com

More Than Half in U.S. Want Daylight Saving Time Sunsetted

Mary Claire Evans and Jeffrey M. Jones

Most Americans now oppose daylight saving time, with support dropping sharply since 1999. Almost half prefer year-round standard time.

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That poll does not reflect opinions on the "spring-forward, fall-back" (we set our clocks one hour forward in the US during the spring and one hour back in the fall), but this news article suggests that 3 out of 4 Americans hate it:

yahoo.com

Trump: Year-round daylight saving time a '50-50 issue,' but new poll suggests more support

@YahooNews

A new Stetson poll shows 75% of Americans support an end to the practice of changing clocks every November and March.

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It's always amazing to me that people want to tweak DST just because of their kid's school schedule ("waiting for the bus in the dark"). How about the school just changes its schedule to match parent requests and leaves the rest of us alone?

Of course, I lived through Indiana deciding to go on DST back in 2006, when we previously did not observe it. The result of that was people griping about whether we should remain in the Eastern timezone or move to Central. It never ends.

You do realize that you're fishing for some kind of poll that supports your original misinterpretation of the article you posted. But what you're actually putting up is that people don't like switching back and forth. Most would prefer DST year round.

Part of the confusion is that most Americans are scientifically and geographically illiterate. You see that on this message board every day. Maroons! Where you live longitudinally on the map, and how far east or west within your own time zone dramatically distorts how you perceive time/daylight in your daily life. Your 7:30 isn't the same as your neighbor in another state. Indiana attempted to address that by splitting the states time zones, but who do they think they're kidding? The difference between Boston and Western Indiana is huge. So is the difference between Long Island and Buffalo.

"The Stetson survey showed by a more than 2-to-1 margin, supporters of a change from the current system said they preferred a year-round daylight saving time, with later sunrises and sunsets, to standard time."