Last night those of us in new zealand put our clocks back 1 hour because of daylight savings. Now I am tired and asking myself the same question I do every time the clocks get changes "Does daylight savings have any purpose anymore ?"

I don't really care if about the reasons that daylight savings was implemented unless they still have some morden relevence.

I see no reason for it to continue.

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Of course it does. It helps us stay sane when we would otherwise be getting up in pitch blackness and going to bed in the daytime.

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Well around here in deep summer, the sun goes down past 11pm and comes up a bit after 4am (false dawn, anyway.) In the deep winter, it's 8am to 4pm.

That's with the time shifting.

Probably doesn't matter much at my latitude.

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Could you please explain your pst more ?

I don't matter to me... 'Cause I use UTC! \/

Saskatchewan doesn't do the "Daylight Savings" thingie. \/

It reduces the risk associated with children going to school in the dark . . .

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In "This Other Eden"(book set in the futer), people get up at night and sleep in the day so they can avoid UV radiation..

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u missed out the option 'i dont mind it'

i dont have much problem with daylight savings. if anything i think we should keep our summer day light savings all year.. make us GMT+13 all year round.

Here in the UK we change from GMT to Summer Time next week and it annoys me to have to go round the house resetting all the clocks. Just leave the thing on GMT and stop messing around with it! I don't think a 1 hour change in time would make any difference in accident rates for schoolchildren etc. (if they can't walk to school safely in the dark they shouldn't be allowed out on their own anyway)

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I would not mind if it went away, but it does seem to have at least several advantages going for it today.

This site has quite a bit of information including history.

Since I reset clocks on thermostats everyday, another few clocks twice a year doesn't bug.

Abolished - adjust the day by 1/2 hour and leave it

Daylight saving. No "s" at the end.

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I don't care if anyone else uses it, but I can't wait till we "spring ahead' in a couple of weeks. Can't get out riding my bike after work until then.

If it weren't for daylight saving, I wouldn't get to see my kids while it was light except for the weekends. I look forward to it every year and I regret when it passes.

I vote we extend it so that it is year round!

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? Daylight saving time is implemented (USAn) in the summer, when there is more light, and often they don't even go to school.
If you don't have electricity, can you get to the center for batteries?

Ah don' hold with them newfangled electrickery. It's the Devil's work, ah tells ya!! :wink:

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I'd have to question any savings that daylight savings time would save. (now thats a tounge twister)

Other than lights, most people are going to have their computers/tv's stereos on, regardless if the sun is out or not. Quite a few people leave their computers on all the time, so any savings is pretty much gone. Not to mention air conditioners, refrigerators, and other things that are on pretty much 24/7.

We live in an electric world, and we use alot of it. (at least in USA)

I say get rid of DST. As far as digital clocks, most people leave the clocks blinking at 12:00 anyway, plus with the analog clocks, the time would be right at least half the year.

Not too long ago, the Colorado legislature seriously considered year-round daylight saving time as a way of reducing the pollution concentrations around Denver. It would have shifted the high-drive-time windows to times that more winds were blowing.

D'oh! You're right. #-o

Daylight savings time saves electricity. The schoolkids in the dark thing is (partly) why they don't simply change the time year-round.

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If I recall correctly, USA adopted year-round daylight saving time as a response to the 1973 energy crisis. Apparently, this didn't have the intended energy-saving effect as more people chose to drive their children to school rather than let them walk in the dark, so the law was repealed a year later. Does anyone recall this?

I sometimes had to work at an isolated logging camp on the west coast that was run by a rather unusual guy. He declared his own time zone for the camp. I can't recall whether he disageed with daylight saving time, but the clocks there were purposely set differently from the surrounding time zone, rather than just setting the hours of operations to make best use of the light in terms of the the official time. It was weird.

I remember that. There were also safety concerns associated with kids going to school in the dark.

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We´ve saved 3% this year. Too little for justifying all the inconvenience it causes. It should be abolished.

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3% is huge when talking the kinds of numbers that get tossed about when considering a nations total energy bill. Even 1% is significant, because the business is extremely sensitive to what happens on the margin (the next or last increment bought or sold).

And energy savings is what DST is all about. There are concerns, such as safety & convenience), but the whole idea was one of saving money. If you want to figure out the root cause of WHY on almost anything - follow the money trail.

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Good to see a majority in favour of abolishing it

I stick to GMT/UTC all year round. It just means I have to open my shop an hour early in the summer to fit in with everyone else :P

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The opposite was one of the main complaints when the US used Daylight Savings time in the Winter in 1975. The children were having to walk to school in the dark. I liked it.

I hate daylight saving - and I especially hate how it is used in summer. If you want to extend the day, do it in winter for crying out loud!

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