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Poll: Daylight Savings Time Tomorrow: Keep it? Dump it? change it?

What to do with Daylight Savings Time?

  • Keep it as is

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • Go all year with Daylight Savings Time (move forward one hour)

    Votes: 15 62.5%

  • Go all year with Standard Time (keep what we got)

    Votes: 5 20.8%
  • Total voters
    24
I like the time change. I like the extra daylight in the evening in the summer to finish yard work after work, and like not having sunrise at 9AM in December. It works for me.
I’m sure if we switched to one or the other, many will still not be happy.
 
For some reason I can’t fathom, the price of gasoline, the price of eggs and whether we should have daylight saving time or not seem to grab people.

And yes, a sizable portion of the population will complain no matter what.

It’s the offseason. I should count my blessings. We could be debating football uniforms with shiny red pants, white helmets, multiple permutations of helmets like Oregon, or black shoes and mid-calf socks.
 
The time zones in this country are stupidly too big. Frankly, we should go back to each local area observing their local solar time.

The fact that when it is now 7am here in Montgomery, the sun barley coming up, it is also 7am in Lubbock, TX, which is 900+ miles away, is stupid. Sunrise happens an hour later in Lubbock. If the difference in sunrise is an hour or more between each end of a time zone, it should be split up again.
 
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Frankly, Alabama should be in the Eastern Time Zone. Where I work in east Alabama, it's already dark when I get off work at 4:30 PM from Thanksgiving until mid-February. That's just wrong. Outdoor projects basically have to be put on hold until the spring because my kids' extracurriculars take up Saturdays.
 
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Toddrn said:
If daylight saving time was implemented year-round, parts of the northern United States, particularly in states like North Dakota, Montana, and Michigan, would experience sunrises after 10am during the winter months,
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Want matter to the farmers. They work Dawn to Dusk.
 
Going standard time year round would benefit Bama fans. When the first game of the season kicks off at 6:00 PM, sunset will be an hour closer. Something to think about when the temperature in the stands is 95F.
 
BamaFanatJSU said:
Frankly, Alabama should be in the Eastern Time Zone. Where I work in east Alabama, it's already dark when I get off work at 4:30 PM from Thanksgiving until mid-February. That's just wrong. Outdoor projects basically have to be put on hold until the spring because my kids' extracurriculars take up Saturdays.
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Florida and Tennessee are in 2 different time zones. It makes no sense at all. These states should be in one time zone. I believe there was talk about putting all of Florida in the Eastern time zone, but don't think it ever got further than just talk
 
DzynKingRTR said:
Florida and Tennessee are in 2 different time zones. It makes no sense at all. These states should be in one time zone. I believe there was talk about putting all of Florida in the Eastern time zone, but don't think it ever got further than just talk
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If the Florida panhandle moves to Eastern time, then there's no reason that Alabama should remain on Central.

To be honest, the fact that you can get in the car in Heflin, AL and drive due west on I-20 until it terminates in Kent, TX (which is nearly 1200 miles and 18 hours of driving) and never leave Central Time is confounding to me.
 
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BamaFanatJSU said:
To be honest, the fact that you can get in the car in Heflin, AL and drive due west on I-20 until it terminates in Kent, TX (which is nearly 1200 miles and 18 hours of driving) and never leave Central Time is confounding to me.
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And just to add to the absurdity of our national time zone structure, another 700 miles and 10 hours of driving west from Kent, TX will put you into southern California and two time zones away. How much sense does that make?
 
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