Biannual Time Change poll

[DoryGirl1963]

HATE the time changes. Both my husband & I are very bad chronic insomniacs, so any change to our sleep schedules throws off us off for weeks - wish they'd just pick one or the other & stick with it...being brain dead & exhausted for 4-6 weeks twice a year really stinks

 

[fla4fun]

It was worse for me when I worked weekends. Dealing with the spring time change when I had to be at work at 5:30am was tough. It takes me a couple weeks to get used to the spring change and about a week to get used to the fall change. I would rather just stick with one or the other, but not picky as to which one they pick.

Florida legislators passed a bill to change to DST year round in 2018, but we are still waiting for Congressional approval. Maybe one day we won’t have to do the switch anymore here.

 

[CynBeth]

I wish a time would be picked so we do not have to change twice a year.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

I don't like it the time changes at all. My Dad really struggles with it, though. He has insomnia and time changes really mess him up.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I would be awful if I had to change time zones frequently for work travel. As it is, I adapt rather than adjust: In winter, I go to bed at 9:00 and wake up at 5:00, in summer, I go to bed at 10:00 and wake up at 6:00.

I would have voted for "stay on saving all year" (because it puts me closer to most people's "normal") except that my poor DS is the opposite. - As a night owl he struggles to get up early when we're on DST.

 

[mrodgers]

I like the changes. They have pros and cons but in a place where winter is looooog and daaaark, the fall change is especially welcome.

Seems to me you have your thoughts wrong, or your thoughts are way weird to me. Winter time change means I go to work in the dark and by the time I get home it's dark and it's only mid afternoon that I get off work. The time change makes the day even "shorter" than what you are stating as "looooog and daaaark."

Go to daylight savings in the spring and leave it.

People on the news act like the time change is the end times. Jeez. Everybody adjusts within a few days.

Nearly everyone around me acts like the time change is the end times, not just the news.

 

[tvguy]

Makes no difference to me. Never thought it was a deal....let alone a big deal.

 

[LuvOrlando]

LOVE the 4th option!

 

[RUDisney]

IMO, the best solution would be to change the time by 30 minutes... in the middle and leave it there. That way it wouldn't be so dark/light in the morning or so dark/light at night as the seasons are changing.

 

[georgina]

I think twice yearly changes are unnecessary. Prefer longer evenings in the summer so voted DST all year.

 

[slo]

I’m not a fan of changing the time
I would love to spring the clock up this weekend and then never touch the clock again.

 

[loves to dive]

While it's not a huge deal to me, I do wish they would just pick a time and leave it alone. I don't really care which one.

 

[sksjasams]

I voted to keep things the same. If I were to choose one, I would choose standard time all the time. I really don’t mind it getting dark early and not a fan of going to bed when it’s still light out.

 

[brockash]

I just wish it were light out from about 5am-10pm every day lol...not a fan of the dark at all.

 

[Disneylover99]

Spring forward. Fall back.
Seems perfect to me.

 

[SirDuff]

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-interesting.html

Thanks. Some of those I knew but had forgotten about. But, things like Australia having some many little time zone areas, I hadn’t realised.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Pick something and stick with it!

 

[_19disnA]

Never found it accomplished anything and just annoying to go around the house to change everything that tells time. In the Summer there are more daylight hours, fewer in the Winter, playing games with the time won't ever change that.

 

[JLTraveling]

Another insomniac here wishing they would pick something and stick with it. I hate feeling groggy for a week twice a year.

 

[kdonnel]

Until listening to a podcast yesterday, I didn't realize that the US already tried year round DST from 1973-1975 and at the time the majority of people ended up hating it.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-daylight-saving-time-hazardous-to-your-health/

Medical science says if we are to pick a time, we should pick standard time, not DST.

I also didn't realize that the studies featured by the media years ago showing an increase in heart attacks associated with the spring time change have been shown to not be true.