Comments about ‘Time to ditch biannual daylight saving switch?’

Does anybody really care?

About Tiiiiiiiime.

Good. Finally. I hope the effort to take Utah out of 'daylight savings time' goes through and that other states will follow suit. Changing clocks twice a year is an unnecessary confusion and time waster.

I'm all for the "fall back" day to continue...:)

What does the general populace think of this? Why are our legislators worrying about this? Are there not more important issues to be debating in our legislative sessions?

When I lived in New Mexico and worked with people from Arizona, it was a pain to remember the time changes. But will that affect us here?

Interested to hear what other people think.

Are they planning to include the public in on the discussion? Frankly I am not a morning person and wouldn't welcome an hour less daylight in the afternoons in the winter because some congressman likes to wake up early and can't figure out how to move his clock back and forth an hour. Hope his definition of "we" is more expansive than "I."

I.m in favor of staying the same all year. I don't care whether its daylight or standard time. Just no switching. Let's go for it.

It's time to leave it alone. Stop changing time. My satalite set clocks still change on the wrong date since they messed with that. Let's set it either way and leave it.

This lawmaker needs to refigure...

"Yes, a change could mean that the sun would set in the winter around 4 p.m. "But it would be daylight" when Utahns got going in the morning, he said."

This is wrong, unless he wants to move to Central Time. If we pick Mountain Standard Time and stuck with it for 12 months, the sun would set exactly at the same time it does in the winter now. We're on MST all winter as it is. We would be on the same time as Arizona all year round.

If we chose Mountain Daylight Time (essentially the same as Pacific Standard Time) and stuck with it, the sun would set an hour LATER in the Winter than it does now (closer to 6 pm than 5 pm). However, the sun wouldn't rise until 9 am or later in December and January. So the ski resorts would actually have to stay open an hour later and open an hour LATER, not earlier. In this case, we would be an hour BEHIND Arizona, all year round.

Neat idea, either way, but get the facts straight.

the best idea to come from a repulican in utah in years. there is no time but what we make up with our clocks and that was based on the sunlight in a normal day. high noon the sun straight up in the sky. it has been found bad for health to do daylight savings time. it upsets peoples internal clock.only people that get up late and get off work late like it. it waste more energy now that it is longer and cost everyone more in heating lighting and air conditioning because in the summer people go in doors to stay out of the heat and in the summer the days are already longer and we have one extra day of light.

With pushing back standard time to November, it is sad to see the increase of kids getting run over on the way to school during that time. As far as the saving in electricity that was promised, so far the data shows no change.

We'll need the extra daylight to hunt wolves.

wants standard time. Put it to a vote and it will go through. Arizona is smart.

this is not a change without consequences. For me, the hour of daylight after work is much more valuable.

Cite your sources please.

I would think the majority of people get more done in the daylight. So I would hope for more daylight. Whatever would get me that, I would be okay with.

Daylight savings is perhaps the dumbest idea of all time!

Daylight savings time is just annoying. I say we just stick with MST all year long. We'll be on the same schedule as Arizona all year. the time has come to end daylight savings time.

He asks - "How many of us are spending time outside in the winter?" I am. So are lots of people I know. Do not assume that because you are a sedentary slug the rest of us are. I think the current system works well. I do not have to wake up in pitch black darknes for too much of the winter and I get the extra hours of daylight after work in the summer.

It's pretty clear that this legislator doesn't know how the system works. In the summer (Savings Time) an hour from the morning is moved to the evening. If we stayed on Savings Time all year it would be light later in the evening. It would not get dark earlier, as this Lawmaker suggests. No skiers would need to be "shooed" regerdless of the decision made.

On Standard Time (it's Standard Time now), on the Winter Solstice the sun rises at 7:48 and sets at 5:03. If we stuck with Savings Time all year those times would be an hour later, 8:48 and 6:03 respectively. The kids would go to school in the dark, but you'd drive home in the light. In the summer, when we're on Savings Time, the sun rises at 5:56 and sets at 9:02. If we stuck with Standard Time all year the sun would rise at 4:56 and set at 8:02. Personally, I like Savings Time much better. I already go to work in the dark. It would be nice to have a little extra light in the evening to get things done.

After asking my fellow workers - they are split down the middle - some like it, some don't. Put it to the vote of the people.

Im not a morning person either!
And when the time changes again Im really not rested enough just keep it the same)