When do clocks spring ahead

It disrupts sleep, and it's been proven that people have a hard time adjusting to the change in the spring, causing accidents and even health problems due to sleep deprivation.

It serves no purpose except to disrupt the lives of every person in this country. Who is the government to disrupt my natural internal clock which all animals follow? Standard is our natural time and messing with that messes with my system, my personal system! My body belongs to me, not to a government. Consider the effect on the elderly, babies, children, families where both parents work, the mentally ill etc.

Consider the effect on child neglect issues and domestic violence. Much money is spent to address these issues. Leave them alone. Stop it, there is no need for it any longer, leave it so we have a little more light in the winter afternoons, and longer summer evenings Every year twice for a week my system is messed up until it adjusts. This is not something we need if we ever did.

Leaving it DST all the time makes most sense to me, since "standard" isn't even five months anymore. After all "standard transmission" is now called "manual", since automatic is the most common in vehicles. Or, keep it Standard year round since that's best for our bodies. We have more efficient devices and lighting now than in the 's. Time change sucks, each direction. We should leave the clocks alone and follow the sun.

We should follow the cows, the chickens, the huskies, the lyons, the tigers, and every living things that is around. Who are we to disrupt their daily life cycle? We should learn from them and leave as naturally as possible.

Let's follow the sun and the moon instead of the clock and all electronic devices. This ridiculous law needs to be repealed. The native Americans said it best: Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.

I wish DST was year round. Hate seeing it get dark at 4 in the afternoon during the winter. Love the light later.. Who wants it getting dark at 8 in the middle of summer? I think DST is awful. Time doesn't change. Silly people change time. It makes everyone feel bad.

I am always glad when clocks go back to REAL time. I personally cannot stand DST! I absolutely hate driving home from work in the dark. Please stay with standard time! I think DST is ridiculous and we should do away with it. Personally I'm tired of always changing the time for this. Keep the DST and don't change it again. That's not natural. Why are we always messing with nature? Standard time is the best. It suits our natural rhythm the best. Switching back n forth is not healthy for anyone.

Leave it at Standard time the way it should be. The other is artificial!!!! Unfortunately, even this article continued to mistakenly encourage the idea that Daylight Saving Time gave extra hours of daylight.

There are exactly the same hours of light, only the clocks have changed, not the daylight. I do not like the change and rarely run into anyone who does! For those who like the concept let them simple wake an hour earlier to go to work and leave the rest of us alone with a consistent time.

The total day length is the same, of course. But, they will have one less hour or one more hour of daylight at the start of each day. We hope this helps clarify. Skip to main content. Indiana did not vote to observe DST until April Most of us get out of bed after the sun has risen and gone to bed after it has set. But what if the sun rose and set later? Later sunsets cause people to get out and do more in the evenings.

Some argue that this results in an increase in our gasoline consumption as we drive around more during the lighter evenings. Food for thought! How you feel about Daylight Saving Time probably depends on whether you are an early riser or a night owl. That point was eloquently made in this old joke:. Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.

However, in the spring, adding an hour of daylight onto the end of the day, after most of us have gotten out of work, can feel like a gift after a long winter of dark evenings. As the warmer spring weather arrives, nothing could be nicer than having more time in the evening to enjoy it!

Try these tips to help you adjust to the time change. However, Franklin seemed to understand the point of view of the Native American in the joke, above. Rather than changing the clocks, he simply advised us to change our schedules to better align with nature. Since Daylight Saving Time was introduced, lawmakers have, on occasion, seen fit to fiddle with it.

This happened in the 70s, during the oil crisis, and again several years ago. Indiana said it was for making more money. Really a joke for the politicians. I refer to later daylight hours as golfers time. Others also have bills pending in state legislatures. A pair of provinces in Canada — Saskatchewan and Yukon have adopted permanent daylight saving.

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