Comments about ‘Letter: Daylight saving time needs to be abolished’

No Daylight saving is GREAT.
The only tweak should be to make the Spring changeover on Friday night so we get the extra day to adjust to losing the hour.

I agree with the letter writer!

But I like daylight savings. How about just doing it year-round?

The problem is with the twice-yearly transition. Personally, I prefer year-round daylight savings time.

No, let's keep daylight time and never change back

I vote for standard time all year long.

Why go back to standard time for 4 months. It is dark when I get up and when I go to bed. Makes no difference.

In June it is darkest from 10pm to 6am, on daylight savings. That works great! Who cares if high noon is at 1:25?

Leave it on Daylight savings is my vote. No adjustment hangovers.

Standard or saving, let's pick one and leave it.

ALL industrialized nations observe day-light savings.

Only poor, backward, 3rd world countries - most along the equator were dayling is mostly constant year round - do not.

Some people [mostly Conservatives] just don't like change of any kind - including something as simple as a clock.

China, Russia, Japan, India, Argentina, most of Australia and even parts of Canada and the US do NOT use Daylight savings

The reasoning for DST - saving energy - is no longer valid: More energy is now spent on air conditioning during the extra sunlight than lighting during the darkness

LDS Lib,

How sad you try to partisanize daylight savings. Funny too. Do you realize how many of you liberal buddies have voted to pick and stick with a time?

But hey, every opportunity to exhibit your hate for conservatives. Way to make all your posts meaningless.

I rend my clothes for you.

Counter Intelligence
Salt Lake City, UT
China, Russia, Japan, India, Argentina, most of Australia and even parts of Canada and the US do NOT use Daylight savings

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Nice cherry picking to suit your agenda CI.

Would you like me to list all the countries the DO use Day-light savings? [I have a limit of 200.]

And as for China (a Communist country), Russia (formerly Communist country), India, Argentina, and parts of Australia and Canada 9Socialist Countries)...

I thought you all hated all things Communist and Socialist, that would include their time-keeping as well.

Look - the point is this, I'm sorry you don't like change.
I'm sorry you don't like shifting your body clock an hour.

Complain to the businessmen and construction workers who rely on that Daylight and the lower temperatures of the morning hours while working in the heat of the day.
They are the one's who need it, it's not a matter of just for YOUR sake of convience or evening golf games.

BTW - I lived in Arizona for a while.
I remember not having Daylight-savings.

They had to change all their other laws regarding construction and other loud noises - like not disturbing the neighbors for mowing your lawn before 8:00 a.m. to you can't mow your lawn and disturbing the neighbors before 6:00 a.m. in the morning.

Either way - you are still going to find something to complain about.

Ordinarily I'd consider this a non-issue, but seeing as how we had at least a couple incidents of students being struck by cars last month, even in crosswalks, because it was still dark when they went to school in the morning, perhaps there should be further consideration.

Or at least put in a bunch more lights on school walking routes.

Ben Franklin's original reason for daylight savings time is still valid. It reduces the amount of time that artificial lighting is needed in the summer-- for most people.

By the way, he was interested in reducing candle consumption.

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks "get their knickers in a twist" twice a year over such an inconsequential thing as adjusting a clock.

Keep the status quo, adopt "daylight time" year-round, eliminate daylight time altogether -- whatever. My personal preference would be to keep the status quo, because I like the extra daylight later in the evenings in the summer and the relatively earlier daylight in the mornings in the summer, but it honestly really isn't that big of a deal.

To paraphrase LDS Liberal, it's always *something* with some folks . . .

LDS Liberal,
Your comments lead me to suspect that you are neither. DST is not a partisan issue. Your obsession with politics and stereotyping is gradually destroying my will to live. Please get out more.

"I'm sorry you don't like shifting your body clock an hour"

No you are not - you are just patronizing and partisan
Why should I have to adjust for some artificial construct that does NOT reflect reality or save energy

AND when I lived in the desert - constrution workers went at early in the morning regardless of DST - it was the sun/reality, not the phony time, that mattered

"and the relatively earlier daylight in the mornings in the summer" should be, "and the relatively earlier daylight in the mornings in the *winter*" . . . otherwise, I stand by what I said.

If 50 states are on standard time now and the legislature abolishes daylight saving time, then come March it will be 47 states on DST and 3 on standard time, putting us out of step with most of the country most of the year. I don't see that as a gain.

And, for those who propose daylight saving time year-round, I would love it, too. However, under the Federal law that establishes DST, it's not an option. Perhaps it should be, but until then, it's not up to states to pick that option.

When and if the time comes that considerably more than one-twenty-fifth of the states have decided that daylight saving time is not in their best interest, then perhaps it will be time for Utah to follow. (Currently it's not particularly fashionable to follow Arizona's lead on things, and I hardly think that anyone would follow Utah's lead if we abolished DST.) Until then, I'd rather not have my state branded as an "exception."