You Would Be Much Happier On Permanent Daylight Saving Time

Daylight saving time happens at 2 a.m. on March 10 this year. It’s that yearly ritual where we spring forward and lose an hour of sleep so we can gain an hour of daylight in the evenings. Researchers say that extra hour of sunshine saves lives on the roadways, reduces crime, increases leisure activity and may save a little electricity.

There are two bills in the Washington State legislature that would make daylight saving time year-round. In California, voters passed a measure in November that would allow the legislature to make DST year-round there. A similar effort is also underway in Oregon.

The revolt against falling back and springing forward is not limited to the West: A bill that would keep Florida on daylight saving time passed the state legislature and is awaiting congressional approval, and farmers in Massachusetts two years ago pushed that state to explore moving to the Atlantic time zone.

Anxiety about daylight saving time is new. Implemented first during World War One as a means of saving energy, and then revived during World War Two, daylight saving time wasn’t widely adopted until the late 1960s. Since then only Arizona and Hawaii have opted out of the change.

But western states are now poised to make the biggest impact in this debate. California, Oregon, and Washington make up a large and symbolic clump of the U.S., and although none of the states have made it all the way through the congressional process to make daylight saving year round, there is new consensus that they should.

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[VICENews]

There are two bills in the Washington State legislature that would make daylight saving time year-round.

[hfredydl]

I don’t care whether it’s standard or savings time just stop with the time changes as it wrecks my internal clock to no end

[Nekminute]

We'd be much happier if we threw out time alltogether

[marco]

I have more use for an extra hour of sunlight in the evening than in the morning.

[adobo]

Yes, let's keep it year round. I get pissed off when the sun goes down so early during the winter.

[angryatarinerd]

pls let it happen just let it be one time all year round

[TrogdorBurninor]

Or we could go on standard time and then just *adjust* by making 9-5 jobs into 8-4 jobs. Artificially changing our clocks so that businesses will treat us better is not a resilient solution and never was.

[sandyxloredo]

Honestly I just hate losing a hour a sleep

[paininmyneck]

I've lived in AZ. now for a dozen years and LOVE not having to deal with DST.

[samlair]

I’m a retired public school teacher.
I remember the drop in student energy and morale that came with ‘spring forward’. It set the tone for the remainder of the school year.
Search:
‘legislative action stop daylight savings time’

[Honk]

I'd be happier with a good paying job with insurance.

[JonSmith-hkbq]

Standard all year around. They tried Daylight Savings year-round in the 70s and it was a bust. It sounds nice until it's still nighttime at 8:30am. It sounds good to have an extra hour of daylight in the evening until it's still pitch black at night when you're sending your six-year-old to the school bus in the morning in the middle of winter. Switching to Standard would cause zero trouble as daytime hours expand in the summer months anyway. There's a reason why it stayed Standard during the winter time when there was the least amount of daylight, it's because it works better in the months where you actually do have to conserve daylight.

[RatzBuddie]

It's pretty well noted the effects of changing the time back and forth, so naturally some people want to stay in one timeset. The confusing and irritating part is that TIME DOESN'T WORK LIKE A CLOCK. It's not as simple as "We want to be in the same time zone as the state next to us, so it shall be"

[ocsrc]

They need to move it forward 2 hours and leave it there forever

I don't need the sun coming up at 4 am

[SelimxBradley]

Don't tell me when I'd be happier.

[GSHAPIROY]

No one mentioned that the latest sunrise here in Cleveland, OH, is 7:53 AM, and with DST all year round, that would bring it to 8:53 AM. That's just too late. People will be arriving at work with little light, and getting to school in absolute darkness.

[AnaKosta]

0:18 Late risers (a minority) find permanent DST a good idea, but it is a TERRIBLE idea for early risers (the majority of workers). Therefore permanent STANDARD/WINTER TIME is the one that should be permanent. Otherwise, one would have to rise in the dark during the fall/winter/early spring period.

[andreshernandez]

The crime argument makes no sense. Criminals are not cinderella. Their car doesn't turn back to a pumpkin at 12.

[chewangia]

This is why AZ is best state. We do things right

[evandh]

Calandrillo was my contracts professor in law school. Hands down one of my favorite teachers ever.