Abolish Daylight Savings Time in the USA
Target:
all who consider Daylight Savings Time a waste of time and money
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Daylight Savings Time is supposed to save energy, but studies show that it does not. It actually results in more energy use in the spring, as workers and students have to get up in the dark. Having to change clocks back and forth every spring and fall wastes time and causes confusion, and losing an hour in the spring results in tiredness and a lack of alertness. We, the undersigned, wish to abolish Daylight Savings Time and let individual schools and businesses change their opening times on an as needed basis.
Daylight Savings Time is supposed to save energy, but studies show that it does not. It actually results in more energy use in the spring, as workers and students have to get up in the dark. Having to change clocks back and forth every spring and fall wastes time and causes confusion, and losing an hour in the spring results in tiredness and a lack of alertness. We, the undersigned, wish to abolish Daylight Savings Time and let individual schools and businesses change their opening times on an as needed basis.
We signed the "Abolish Daylight Savings Time in the USA" petition!
# 209:
2:38 pm PDT, Mar 21,
Name not displayed, California
why the hell have we allowed this unjustifiable disruption to continue for the last sixty years ?
why the hell have we allowed this unjustifiable disruption to continue for the last sixty years ?
# 208:
9:13 am PDT, Mar 20,
Shelby Kobilis, Florida
# 207:
7:45 pm PDT, Mar 19,
Andrew Watson, Virginia
# 206:
2:24 pm PDT, Mar 18,
Loewyn Young, Washington
# 205:
7:50 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Lisa Kelley, California
I can see no advantage to having daylight savings time, especially this early in the year. I do not believe it helps any of us to stay out with the mosquitoes longer!!!!
I can see no advantage to having daylight savings time, especially this early in the year. I do not believe it helps any of us to stay out with the mosquitoes longer!!!!
# 204:
2:23 pm PDT, Mar 17,
Carrie Rainey, Louisiana
My kids can't take anymore of this ridiculous time change buesiness! Let's stick to the same time year round!
My kids can't take anymore of this ridiculous time change buesiness! Let's stick to the same time year round!
# 203:
9:59 am PDT, Mar 17,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 202:
8:36 pm PDT, Mar 16,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
Standard Time is better for everybody.
Standard Time is better for everybody.
# 201:
7:06 pm PDT, Mar 16,
Name not displayed, Florida
DST needs to go. Enough is way enough. I also found another petition on this site called Daylight Savings Time. I signed that one and than found this one. They both should be signed. DST is too much of a stressor that we no longer need. Please also see: www.standardtime.com.
DST needs to go. Enough is way enough. I also found another petition on this site called Daylight Savings Time. I signed that one and than found this one. They both should be signed. DST is too much of a stressor that we no longer need. Please also see: www.standardtime.com.
# 200:
5:35 pm PDT, Mar 16,
Dave Finkelson, Minnesota
It was bad enough before, but now with making it earlier forget it!
It was bad enough before, but now with making it earlier forget it!
# 199:
11:14 am PDT, Mar 16,
Name not displayed, Idaho
# 198:
6:18 pm PDT, Mar 15,
Shane Vincek, Arkansas
Please get rid of Daylight Savings Time
Please get rid of Daylight Savings Time
# 197:
6:10 pm PDT, Mar 15,
Thomas Vincek, Arkansas
We really need to get rid of DST. It is no longer serving any purpose except to annoy everyone and throw everyone off schedule.
We really need to get rid of DST. It is no longer serving any purpose except to annoy everyone and throw everyone off schedule.
# 196:
9:14 pm PDT, Mar 14,
Tricia Adams, Indiana
The reasons that Daylight Saving Time was introduced don't apply any longer. It has merely become a ritual - an annoying one at that. The only people who actually enjoy this ritual are the people who are foolish enough to believe it provides us with an extra hour of daylight. I hate to break it to them, but our collective effort to screw with time has no bearing on the Earth's rotation on its axis or around the sun. The same amount of daylight hours exist...we have only affected what time our clocks say when we experience those hours. So if you want an extra hour of daylight, I suggest you get up an hour early and stop messing with the rest of our sensitive internal clocks.
The reasons that Daylight Saving Time was introduced don't apply any longer. It has merely become a ritual - an annoying one at that. The only people who actually enjoy this ritual are the people who are foolish enough to believe it provides us with an extra hour of daylight. I hate to break it to them, but our collective effort to screw with time has no bearing on the Earth's rotation on its axis or around the sun. The same amount of daylight hours exist...we have only affected what time our clocks say when we experience those hours. So if you want an extra hour of daylight, I suggest you get up an hour early and stop messing with the rest of our sensitive internal clocks.
# 195:
5:55 pm PDT, Mar 14,
Logan Brown, Tennessee
Please stop with Daylight savings time it is helpful in the fall but annoying as hell in the spring
Please stop with Daylight savings time it is helpful in the fall but annoying as hell in the spring
# 194:
5:08 pm PDT, Mar 14,
Mike Nichols, California
Please stop the madness!! We are in the the 1930's and 40's anymore.
Please stop the madness!! We are in the the 1930's and 40's anymore.
# 193:
3:48 am PDT, Mar 14,
Beth Haynes, Ohio
As a registered nurse working in homecare, I see among my co-workers and my patients, the ill-effects of changing our clocks twice a year. And I feel it in my own body ! If we can't, as a nation, choose one time and stay with it, I may start planning my vacation days for those 2 weeks in the spring/fall. That way I could avoid the unnecessary stress to my system.
As a registered nurse working in homecare, I see among my co-workers and my patients, the ill-effects of changing our clocks twice a year. And I feel it in my own body ! If we can't, as a nation, choose one time and stay with it, I may start planning my vacation days for those 2 weeks in the spring/fall. That way I could avoid the unnecessary stress to my system.
# 192:
9:08 pm PDT, Mar 12,
Rosa Lamoureux, California
The Daylight Savings Time is so annoying.
The Daylight Savings Time is so annoying.
# 191:
7:07 pm PDT, Mar 12,
Cara Marranzino, Colorado
Please, please, please stop changing the clocks twice a year! I am a teacher, and losing an hour of sleep in the spring is extremely difficult on everyone, especially children. The bottom line is that changing the clocks serves no public interest. Stop the insanity!
Please, please, please stop changing the clocks twice a year! I am a teacher, and losing an hour of sleep in the spring is extremely difficult on everyone, especially children. The bottom line is that changing the clocks serves no public interest. Stop the insanity!
# 190:
3:12 pm PDT, Mar 12,
Deanne Quinn, California
I've been a teacher for 4 decades; as we make DST longer, kids struggle more for a larger part of the school year. They get less sleep, wake in the dark, and have their previously quiet evenings full of activities that keep them up past their normal bedtimes.
I've been a teacher for 4 decades; as we make DST longer, kids struggle more for a larger part of the school year. They get less sleep, wake in the dark, and have their previously quiet evenings full of activities that keep them up past their normal bedtimes.
# 189:
10:52 am PDT, Mar 12,
Tatiana Koniszewski, California
Daylight Savings Time causes horrible stress to most people! It does not promote safety since people are driving in the dark in the morning! It has a negative effect on the psyche also and promotes depression in others. DST needs to be abolished!
Daylight Savings Time causes horrible stress to most people! It does not promote safety since people are driving in the dark in the morning! It has a negative effect on the psyche also and promotes depression in others. DST needs to be abolished!
# 188:
9:09 am PDT, Mar 12,
Hannah Barzel, Pennsylvania
The New York Times ran an article yesterday, March 11, 2009, about the negative impact on health of switching the clocks.
The New York Times ran an article yesterday, March 11, 2009, about the negative impact on health of switching the clocks.
# 187:
7:02 am PDT, Mar 12,
Mary Hoskins, California
I would love to see our time remain the same way (fallen back or sprung forward) doesn't even matter to me, just don't change it!!! Earth's orbital changes provide NATURAL changes to the length of days and nights and our bodies are under more than enough stress without having to re-arrange our "inner" clockworks to accomodate someone elses agenda! ABOLISH DAY LIGHT SAVING TIME!!!!
I would love to see our time remain the same way (fallen back or sprung forward) doesn't even matter to me, just don't change it!!! Earth's orbital changes provide NATURAL changes to the length of days and nights and our bodies are under more than enough stress without having to re-arrange our "inner" clockworks to accomodate someone elses agenda! ABOLISH DAY LIGHT SAVING TIME!!!!
# 186:
6:43 am PDT, Mar 12,
Van Jabagjorian, Massachusetts
# 185:
4:55 am PDT, Mar 12,
Martin Grubner, Massachusetts
Why go through the feelings of jet lag without the travel??
Why go through the feelings of jet lag without the travel??
# 184:
9:09 pm PDT, Mar 11,
Ann Chang, California
# 183:
2:26 pm PDT, Mar 11,
Katherine Johnson, Indiana
Did anyone in government consider how the DST affects people with disabilities? I get so ill 2x a year from the time change and my daughter with aspergers has such a hard time and on top of dealingb my own issues during DST, I have to deal with hers too. If there are 1 in 166 children with autism, imagine how many children are affected 2x a year and what about the other children with neurological disabilities?
Did anyone in government consider how the DST affects people with disabilities? I get so ill 2x a year from the time change and my daughter with aspergers has such a hard time and on top of dealingb my own issues during DST, I have to deal with hers too. If there are 1 in 166 children with autism, imagine how many children are affected 2x a year and what about the other children with neurological disabilities?
# 182:
10:48 am PDT, Mar 11,
Name not displayed, California
I really do not see the benefit changing the time it is nonsense.Please keep it the way it is.Thank you
I really do not see the benefit changing the time it is nonsense.Please keep it the way it is.Thank you
# 181:
10:26 am PDT, Mar 11,
Erin Lee, California
Again I find myself struggling to make it through this first week of Daylight Saving Time and wondering once again why we have to put up with this nonsense of switching the clocks. It makes no sense and is incredibly hard on the human body. Please make it stop!
Again I find myself struggling to make it through this first week of Daylight Saving Time and wondering once again why we have to put up with this nonsense of switching the clocks. It makes no sense and is incredibly hard on the human body. Please make it stop!
# 180:
10:16 am PDT, Mar 11,
Jitka Grubner, Massachusetts
Why continue doing something that makes no sense,doesn't save any energy and even increases the rate of heart attacks and car accidents?
Why continue doing something that makes no sense,doesn't save any energy and even increases the rate of heart attacks and car accidents?
# 179:
5:53 am PDT, Mar 11,
Matthew Keller, Indiana
There is absolutely no reason to have this silly time change twice a year. It doesn't help anyone and makes folks feel miserable for days after the change. Our internal clocks won't reset like our alarm clocks and it is a health factor, not to mention the fact that just as it begins to be safe for our children to wait outside for the bus again, we cast them back into darkness. It is ridiculous and senseless and should be abolished.
There is absolutely no reason to have this silly time change twice a year. It doesn't help anyone and makes folks feel miserable for days after the change. Our internal clocks won't reset like our alarm clocks and it is a health factor, not to mention the fact that just as it begins to be safe for our children to wait outside for the bus again, we cast them back into darkness. It is ridiculous and senseless and should be abolished.
# 178:
10:23 pm PDT, Mar 10,
Name not displayed, California
Please stop DST; I find it harder to deal with the change as I get older. I don't find this necessary--only disruptive.
Please stop DST; I find it harder to deal with the change as I get older. I don't find this necessary--only disruptive.
# 177:
8:07 pm PDT, Mar 10,
Name not displayed, California
DST seems increases stress levels and decreases productivity in my self and those around me. I feel my body responds to the gradual change natural cycle and rebels against the arbitrary 1 hour shift in wake up and sleep times.
DST seems increases stress levels and decreases productivity in my self and those around me. I feel my body responds to the gradual change natural cycle and rebels against the arbitrary 1 hour shift in wake up and sleep times.
# 176:
7:25 pm PDT, Mar 10,
Jennifer Fischbuch, Texas
I lived in Singapore for a year without daylight savings time. It was the best year of my life.
I lived in Singapore for a year without daylight savings time. It was the best year of my life.
# 175:
1:32 pm PDT, Mar 10,
Andy Williams, Florida
Please stop the madness of changing clocks back and forth. It serves no purpose and we now have Elementary students on our neighborhood getting on the buses in complete darkness.
Please stop the madness of changing clocks back and forth. It serves no purpose and we now have Elementary students on our neighborhood getting on the buses in complete darkness.
# 174:
1:26 pm PDT, Mar 10,
Lois Brooks, Idaho
# 173:
11:13 am PDT, Mar 10,
Jay Card, New York
There is little evidence to support the idea that DST saves energy. Instead it just messes with my sleep, and my kids sleep. Standard time year round!
There is little evidence to support the idea that DST saves energy. Instead it just messes with my sleep, and my kids sleep. Standard time year round!
# 172:
11:03 am PDT, Mar 10,
John Meggers, Virginia
# 171:
10:37 am PDT, Mar 10,
Name not displayed, Texas
I surely won't miss the dst. I hated especially when it come to the elderly and childeren going to school not enough time to do there homework and not enough sleep less consentration at school. Get rid of the OLD and in with the 20th Century.
I surely won't miss the dst. I hated especially when it come to the elderly and childeren going to school not enough time to do there homework and not enough sleep less consentration at school. Get rid of the OLD and in with the 20th Century.
# 170:
10:18 am PDT, Mar 10,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 169:
10:17 am PDT, Mar 10,
Robert Bailey, California
# 168:
9:06 am PDT, Mar 10,
Name not displayed, California
The amount of time it takes to get accustomed to the changes in time is irritating enough. Pick a time and leave it alone!
The amount of time it takes to get accustomed to the changes in time is irritating enough. Pick a time and leave it alone!
# 167:
8:42 am PDT, Mar 10,
Jared Wehrle, Indiana
PLEASE STOP DST!!!! It's now been 3 years since Indiana started DST and I still can not get use to it! Please just keep the time the same year round!!
PLEASE STOP DST!!!! It's now been 3 years since Indiana started DST and I still can not get use to it! Please just keep the time the same year round!!
# 166:
8:20 am PDT, Mar 10,
Daniel Hegglin, California
# 165:
6:48 am PDT, Mar 10,
Robert Campbell, North Carolina
It is 2009 - how many times do we have to come back to this issue? It's already been studied and shown that this does not save any energy. States and counties across our nation have already stopped this practice and it's time it ended for the entire nation.
It is 2009 - how many times do we have to come back to this issue? It's already been studied and shown that this does not save any energy. States and counties across our nation have already stopped this practice and it's time it ended for the entire nation.
# 164:
5:34 am PDT, Mar 10,
James Jordan, Texas
Daylight Savings Time does not save energy. It goes against nature, and puts my household in chaos for weeks.
Daylight Savings Time does not save energy. It goes against nature, and puts my household in chaos for weeks.
# 163:
9:50 pm PDT, Mar 9,
Jen Lowe, Colorado
Studies are showing an increase in heart attack and auto accidents for 3 days after the change. It's extremely hard on the elderly. Babies don't wake up an hour later just because the clock changed. Another ridiculous government imposition. Let's end it!
Studies are showing an increase in heart attack and auto accidents for 3 days after the change. It's extremely hard on the elderly. Babies don't wake up an hour later just because the clock changed. Another ridiculous government imposition. Let's end it!
# 162:
8:49 pm PDT, Mar 9,
Kyle Welch, Texas
# 161:
8:45 pm PDT, Mar 9,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 160:
8:37 pm PDT, Mar 9,
John W, Texas
DST simply makes no sense. Even farmers and ranchers I've spoken with don't like it. We need to make it go away. But what happened, the government increased the duration of it?!?!? Yeah, I believe it's called "time stimulus".
DST simply makes no sense. Even farmers and ranchers I've spoken with don't like it. We need to make it go away. But what happened, the government increased the duration of it?!?!? Yeah, I believe it's called "time stimulus".
# 159:
3:31 pm PDT, Mar 9,
Amanda Porche, Texas
# 158:
3:25 pm PDT, Mar 9,
C Durkel, California
# 157:
3:01 pm PDT, Mar 9,
Cristi Peterson, Texas
I believe that the practice of Daylight Savings Time is antiquated. I don't think it is necessary to upset our internal clocks twice a year because of tradition. The days start getting longer in the spring anyway, and is it really necessary for the sun to be out until 9pm during the summer? It makes it very difficult to get my kids to bed on time and then even harder to get them up in the morning when it is still dark. Please get rid of this idiotic practice.
I believe that the practice of Daylight Savings Time is antiquated. I don't think it is necessary to upset our internal clocks twice a year because of tradition. The days start getting longer in the spring anyway, and is it really necessary for the sun to be out until 9pm during the summer? It makes it very difficult to get my kids to bed on time and then even harder to get them up in the morning when it is still dark. Please get rid of this idiotic practice.
# 156:
2:24 pm PDT, Mar 9,
H Chung, California
It is confusing and a nuisance.
It is confusing and a nuisance.
# 155:
10:15 am PDT, Mar 9,
James Hendrix, New Jersey
# 154:
9:52 am PDT, Mar 9,
Silvie Park, California
I hate daylight savings time. It's confusing and EVERY time we switch our clocks it takes me several days to adjust. It's completely unnecessary and we should finally do away with such antiquities.
I hate daylight savings time. It's confusing and EVERY time we switch our clocks it takes me several days to adjust. It's completely unnecessary and we should finally do away with such antiquities.
# 153:
9:34 am PDT, Mar 9,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 152:
8:40 am PDT, Mar 9,
Kathleen Sisler, New Jersey
# 151:
8:38 am PDT, Mar 9,
Barbara Legere, Texas
Children thrive on schedule (so do adults) - DST creates havoc on their little bodies!
Children thrive on schedule (so do adults) - DST creates havoc on their little bodies!
