If I have to choose (I prefer the half hour change) I would choose Standard time

Not sure. I kind of like evening to be dark when its cold. Since im retired, i can get up any time . The time change always takes me a few days to adjust. I dont like driving at night, so i guess Daylight Saving ( no s, thank you) is my choice.

I can understand why people who have jobs working normal daytime hours like Daylight Saving time, but my body seems to run on Standard Time. I have never fully adjusted to the Daylight Saving hours. So naturally I would like for it to stay on Standard Time.

Rusty

Being a teacher, I hate to see littles walking or arriving at school in the dark. I vote standard

I remember in the 70s, they got rid of it for a year. It was very strange having the "car boys" revving their cars in the dark before school!

Neither. I don't mind changing twice a year. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine strongly recommends Standard Time over Daylight Saving Time, by the way.

I want year round Daylight Saving time.

I would prefer Daylight Saving Time, but not that important to me....I don't have to be on a schedule and can adapt.

If I can only choose one it was DST. But I am fine with the changing twice a year. I do think we are changing it a bit early. Let's wait at least until actual Spring to spring forward and Fall to fall back. I love the longer daylight days in warm weather.

Selfishly, standard time. We run in the trails starting at 7:30 and if we switch to savings year-round sunrise for us in mid-November and December/January won't be until either side of 9:00 which is also our rainiest time. It will be a miserable three months for us. .It will still be dark by 5:00

I wish we would split the difference as well. However I did read about the standard time being the better of the two for our circadian rhythm. This is from the Washington post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/03/16/daylight-saving-bill-health-effects/

I don't care! Just pick one, and stick with it!

I would choose standard but I care more about just picking one and sticking to it!! The change twice a year I want to end.

I just want to stop this switching every 6 months! Please! If there is one thing that government could do, do this!

I would like it to stay lighter longer. I don't care about mornings. All I'm doing is working.

It would have to be standard time for me because up North, it would not get light in the Winter time until 9 am or even maybe later on those very short days. I remember loving DST years ago when I was a kid but now that I'm an adult and have to do adult things, DST would not be practical at all, especially for the far Northern states where the sun is so far south in the winter it hardly even gets full daylight in the winter...UGH!

I definitely prefer standard time. We are early morning people, and especially in the summer, we need to get our daily walk started early--before it heats up.

I lived in Alaska for many years--daylight saving time was always such a joke. We needed it in the winter, not summer!

I prefer standard time, but I more prefer no time change. It's hard for me waking up in the dark.

I would prefer standard.

This Vox article covers it in an easy-to-understand way.

Here are a couple of images from the article. While we all have different needs and schedules, I think their definitiion of ”reasonable sunrise and sunset times” is pretty applicable.

(in the first map, I’m curious about the little square in AZ. Perhaps that is a reservation that does go on DST, when AZ does not?)

Standard time because we get up early, 6AM, and would rather have it light in the morning than the evening. It is so hard to get up in the morning when it is dark outside.

set it and forget it ... i'll want what nobody else wants

DST for me! I like it brighter longer. I always feel rushed for some reason, when it gets dark earlier.

Will all states vote on having DST all the time or Standard all the time. Will some states keep the change from standard to DST in the spring?

So some states will be DST all the time, some states will be Standard all the time and some states will be changing clocks twice a year.

Will all businesses and travelers and people communicating with people in other states be able to adjust to all the confusion when all states will be on different times.

Right now, just Arizona and Hawaii are on standard all the time.

If they change, I hope it"s standard time all the time for everyone, but I would rather keeps things as they are.

I voted for DST because I love long summer evenings, but regardless I'd be very happy if we pick either/or and stick with it year round.

i am fine with the way it is. not that i like switching clocks and all, but it would way too dark in the morning in the winter, here in the mid-atlantic.

so if i had to choose, ST

Karenseb, I think with Hawaii being so far south, standard vs DST doesn’t make much difference.

Just pick one time, I don't care which. Where we live, winter time we have less than 4 hours of daylight, and summer we don't actually get dark, just twilight and sunlight, so it doesn't really matter!

Has anyone heard whether Canada and Mexico are thinking about doing the same? Currently Canada switches on the same date as the US in fall and spring. Mexico changes over a few weeks later in the spring and a week earlier in the fall compared to the US and CA. I believe border towns in Mexico switch over on the same dates as the US. At least Nuevo Laredo, Juarez, and Matamoros do, not sure about others.

Interesting article, has some info on other countries although I'm not sure how up to date it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

In BC we are set to stay on Daylight Savings as soon as Washington, Oregon and California do it. They, of course have to wait for Congress. In Canada the provinces choose and heck, in BC we have some areas that never change their time, they stay on standard time. .

The above linked Washington Post article led to the statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and from there to the agenda of the Senate hearing that was held. I was amused that the three witnesses were 1) A law school professor, 2) A sleep medicine researcher/practitioner in academia (who I'm sure is an expert in the field) and 3) the VP, Government Relations of the National Association of Convenience Stores.

Many seem to have a horse in this race. The medical arguments seem particularly arbitrary. For those living where the time zone boundary is on land, can the medical profession demonstrate that living on one side of the line is healthier than living on the other? How about east/west within the same zone? Is it healthier to live nearer to the eastern edge of a time zone or nearer to the western edge? Or, is being in the middle best?

These things often seems to come down to political and economic motivation or, for whatever reasons, personal preferences. I appreciate the difference in consequences between northern and southern locations within a given time zone. Maybe the answer is to repeal the Federal law and put each state to work to enact whatever rule (permanent this, permanent that, or status quo) gets the majority of support.

A patchwork quilt would be awkward (which I think was some of the justification of a federal law) but let people have what they want.

I would like it to be Standard Time all the time. I dislike the change.... a lot. There's nothing wrong with things being as they should be.

What's your source or reference point for "things being as they should be?" Time is whatever it's decided to be, isn't it?

Half of Spain and all of Portugal are west of the inhabited parts of the UK. Yet the UK is one hour behind. What is "as it should be" in this situation?

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/

bpath omitted one important image from the Vox article:

What I find interesting is to me this looks like the worst scenario, yet it’s the one that the article is pushing. And, admittedly, the one I’d prefer.

My preference for all DT is because it covers the most waking hours for the most people. But most evenly spread seems to be the existing system. Which makes sense because “it” makes sense.

I really don’t get why it’s such a big deal to go to bed an hour early once a year. Or prep for two days if the adjustment is difficult for you. My suspicion is that 90% of the complaining is power of suggestion, we wouldn’t think much of it if those around us (and in the media) weren’t complaining. Kind of like how masks are intolerable in one school and no big deal in another.

Has nothing to do with the actual day of time change. I simply prefer a lighter morning. Couldn't care less if it gets dark at 5:30 in the winter months.

Elmer, time is somewhat dicated by the sun, but Time itself is a human-construct.

The original national clocks were set by the railroad so people knew when to catch a train..

The question was asked, and I gave my opinion. You have yours and I have mine.

Definitely standard.

I dont care, pick one and be done for crying out loud. It doesn’t alter the number of hours in a day, it’s still 24 hours. Unless you’re talking switching so that typical daytime activities suddenly are now overnight activities-it’s really not that big of a deal. The sun comes up and sets regardless. I assume not every country follows this whole spring forward fall back nonsense, and I’m going to venture to say they’re able to cope.

It doesn't matter to me: either way the day is still 24 hours long.

Countries that observe daylight saving time.

Hmm, I saw a Wikipedia map showing that Russia does not observe DST.

In a letter to the editor in today's Chicago Tribune, a reader commented that Americans hated the two years of 'permanent' DST in the 1970's so much that only 16 members of the House voted against the measure repealing it. That's pretty massive evidence. Has anything changed in the way we feel about our schedules since 1974?

If we must choose, I'd prefer Standard Time.

Standard time. I live at a northern latitude. Our foray into DST in winter resulted in an increase in traffic accidents involving children in the morning. Drivers didn't see them because it was even darker than winter mornings on standard time.

I don't cope well with time changes. It takes about 3 weeks for me to fully adjust to "spring forward."

I wouldn’t even care, just stop changint twice a year,