DST, keep it? or junk it?

[Admin]

So I am not a very big fan of Daylight Savings time. Living where I do, it stays light until 11 pm, which is useless to me and quite honestly to most, as most are done doing outside stuff by around 9:30-10.

So I am wondering how others feel about the time change.

Keep it, or dump it?

-John

 

[Cirrus_Driver]

I agree 100% - never have understood it, and never will. Just leave it the way it is. Just another of lifes disruptions.

 

[Skylar]

I hate it. Dump it!

 

[timo]

living there I understand no one wants it light until 11:00pm.
living where I do I don't care if the sun comes up at 6:00 or 7:00am but it sure is nice having an extra hour of day light in the evening during spring. so put me down for don't mind it.

So I am not a very big fan of Daylight Savings time. Living where I do, it stays light until 11 pm, which is useless to me and quite honestly to most, as most are done doing outside stuff by around 9:30

 

[jedoyle]

I'm in the same boat as TIMO. It is nice having an extra hour after work to do stuff outside. FYI - the latest it stays light out here in Iowa is 9:15 ish in June.
With all that said, I would be in favor of leaving things on daylight all year round. In other words, don't fall back in November. I say that because in January it is dark outside when I leave work @ 5 pm which is depressing. Jim

 

[ibendwire]

Where I live I like it. I live on the eastern most part of CST so even in summer it is getting dark by 9pm. If I lived where you do John, I would be in total agreement with you. I find it kind of odd that the UP is mostly EST. I would definitely hate having it still be light out past 10pm.

 

[srt20]

Do to my location I love dst. If it was light to 11pm I might feel differently too.

 

[eagle1]

Better idea.........annex the UP to Wisconsin....put it all on central time........ohh, and only 1 trail sticker. . Your welcome. Lol

 

[indy_500]

I really hated it when in the past 5 days, I went from Pacific, to mountain, to central, to daylight LOSING time.

 

[whitedust]

living there I understand no one wants it light until 11:00pm.
living where I do I don't care if the sun comes up at 6:00 or 7:00am but it sure is nice having an extra hour of day light in the evening during spring. so put me down for don't mind it.

So I am not a very big fan of Daylight Savings time. Living where I do, it stays light until 11 pm, which is useless to me and quite honestly to most, as most are done doing outside stuff by around 9:30

Agree with Timo the problem I have with the UP is ditch the EST and all will be well, imo, what a pain driving 30 miles into UP with time change!

 

[durphee]

I could do without it but it does actually benefit me in that during the summer I live in northern Wisconsin and get to utilize the "longer" daylight hours. But, 11 PM is just too late!

 

[mezz]

It needs to go away & the sooner the better, at least for Michigan as a whole. I don't need & don't like dusk at 11p. If I want to cut my grass at night, I have headlights on the rider for a reason.-Mezz

 

[chunk06]

I know my 3 year old doesn't like it Had to wake her up this morning which is not fun.

 

[rp7x]

no lites on my saw so I like

 

[skiroule]

I'm sort of a night owl so I like the additional daylight in the evening. The eastern time zone boundary in U.P. has always seemed geographically illogical, kind of like entering the "mountain" time zone driving through North Dakota.

If you lived in Phoenix you could avoid the whole issue (for now anyway). Think that is your solution John.

 

[HardwaterHoosier]

Indiana switched to daylight savings time 3-4 years ago. The argument was business will make more money from people staying out later, and everyone will save on utility costs. (In reality it was a political favor to donors to the Mitch Daniels campaign)

That didn't make sense then and it still doesn't. Our county actually lost an hour going to the savings time. Now there are more school bus related accidents with the bus's on the road way before sunrise.

 

[Wyelde]

I would just like to see them move it forward a few weeks so I don't have to get up in the dark

 

[chords]

Still the same amount of daylight. Wheres the saving part ? Lets split the difference by turning the clock back 1/2 hr and all will be good.

 

[frnash]

I've disliked DST (Daylight Shifting Time, no "saving" happening there!) ever since my elementary school years. Damn stupidest thing that was ever invented!
In fact, as a "mathemagician" and pilot, I'd almost see some merit in simply using GMT/UTC worldwide, screw both DST and "local time zones"!

… Better idea.........annex the UP to Wisconsin....put it all on central time........ohh, and only 1 trail sticker. . Your welcome. Lol

Annex Wisconsin???? "Hey, waitaminnit!," said Frank, donning his Yooper (Stormy Kromer) hat: Ya gotta draw the line somewhere!

I could go along with da UP seceding from "Troll-land", as the oft proposed (click →) State of Superior (but excluding any bits of "Troll-land"!), just keep the WI/UPMI state line where it is! See also: from WLUC, Upper Michigan’s News Source, Tuesday May 12, 2012: (click →) "The U.P. a state of its own?".

… the problem I have with the UP is ditch the EST and all will be well, imo, what a pain driving 30 miles into UP with time change!

Moving da UP into CST would work, particularly as da UP has a stronger economic connection to other states in that time zone, much like Arizona's economic connection to California — it's great having the same time in CA & AZ when CA switches to DST and AZ does not. But in spite of losing that convenience, I still say: "Dump DST altogether!"

I'm sort of a night owl so I like the additional daylight in the evening. The eastern time zone boundary in U.P. has always seemed geographically illogical, kind of like entering the "mountain" time zone driving through North Dakota.

I have always been a night owl myself, but not in favor of the additional daylight in the evening, that just makes my "night owl" syndrome that much worse.

If you lived in Phoenix you could avoid the whole issue (for now anyway). Think that is your solution John.

Well there ya go! Problem solved! Oh, you want snow? Well there's always Flagstaff!

 

[whitedust]

Anybody know the reasoning for EST for the UP? I know if UP county touches Superior they are on ETS. To me makes no sense & entire UP should be on CST same as all of WI.