Fall back this weekend

[joeyboy]

It's really nice to have an alarm clock that automatically resets itself at this time of year!  

And of course, an extra hour of sleep is really nice as well.

[Kirsten Vaccaro]

I hate daylight saving time too.

[katrinka_ohio]

Me, four. Keep the clock the same all year 'round.

When I was young, Ohio would change the time, but Michigan wouldn't, so I could watch two TV shows that I normally couldn't, because they were aired during the same hour.  That was many years ago and long before the advent of the VCR.

[Ccook]

I hate daylight saving time too.

I hear Arizona's a nice place. They don't observe DST.

[TPIRSteven]

The reason why Arizona doesn't observe DST is because they are at the western edge of the Mountain Time Zone, and so the sun already rises and sets late there.  Sometimes I wish other states on the western edges of their respective time zones would do the same, because they really don't need it.

Places on the eastern edge of their respective time zone do need daylight savings time, because otherwise the sun would rise at 4:30 AM in the summer, which is way too early.

[someguy23475]

Add me to the anti-DST group. Don't mess with nature. If the sun is supposed to rise at 5AM in the Summer, then so be it.

[jwatson2973]

I'm just as sick of DST as anyone else here.

[Punchboard91]

I enjoy it when I get the extra hour, but despise it when I lose the hour. 

[Todd]

I enjoy it when I get the extra hour, but despise it when I lose the hour. 

Same. Such a love/hate relationship.

[tadixon757]

Here's my take on DST: if it has to stay, I'd like to see it go back to starting on the first Sunday in April and ending on the last Sunday in October.

[hyhybt]

Given the choice, I'd stay on DST year-round; I don't mind it being dark later in the morning nearly so much as it getting dark in the afternoon. But since that wouldn't work for those further north: if we're going to bother switching to standard time, can't we at least do it *before* Halloween? It's just wrong to make kids trick-or-treat with the sun still up.

[UltraPrice]

I will definitely enjoy this.  I've been sick and I can use the extra hour of sleep.

[tadixon757]

if we're going to bother switching to standard time, can't we at least do it *before* Halloween? It's just wrong to make kids trick-or-treat with the sun still up.

Which is *exactly* why I think DST should never have been extended in the first place, and should go back to starting on the first Sunday in April and ending on the last Sunday in October, as I said in my last post in this thread. When I was in the 12-and-under crowd and Halloween rolled around, I *always* got to start my trick-or-treating with the sun down, and if I ever have kids of my own, I want them to be able to do likewise.

[wpghi5]

As much I hate it I did indeed set my clocks in my house back one hour before I went to bed.

[blackwood]

kitch, me too. I hate this daylight savings time. I can't wait for spring.

Same for me.  At least most of us will get that hour of sleep that we have been missing.