Most people I know who work 9-5 would rather be driving home when it is still light outside. I hate Fall Back. I say we start a campaign called [censored] Fall Back.

Agreed. With daylight saving time you have daylight until about 8:30 in the summer but only 5:30 in the winter. Staying on standard time would mean daylight until 7:30 in the summer and 6:30 in the winter.

Hahahaha. JP, why would the word FORGET be censored?

Add to that, that some places don't observe DST, thus, if you do business in those States as well as others, you have to remember who is on what time. Drove me nuts when I was a Regional Manager and had to try to figure out when my Arizona workers were at work. Very little reason to still have to change clocks twice a year. Messes up the internal body clock which far offset any gains some claim that it makes in energy savings for businesses.

Yes, I agree.

I dont see why we dont just pass a law that sets sunrise at 6:30 every morning.

Well there you go. Problem solved by an almost lawyer!

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I think standard time is what we Fall back to. If we didn't Fall back, the sun would be up until 6 or 6:30pm, which is what I would prefer.

I don't care either way.

If my history degree worked I believe the railroad industry had a big influence on DST.

Tons of interesting history behind DST. Currently, each state has the right to adopt or not DST. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_time_in_the_United_States

Pretty sure that Ben Franklin had a few words to say on the idea long before railroads were around. But I would have to look that up to be certain.

From Time and Date.com

Benjamin Frankin, the Father of DST?
Many sources also credit Benjamin Franklin with being the first to suggest seasonal time change. However, the idea voiced by the American inventor and politician in 1784 can hardly be described as fundamental for the development of modern DST. After all, it did not even involve turning the clocks. In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris, which was entitled �An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light�, Franklin simply suggested that Parisians could economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in the morning. What's more: Franklin meant it as a joke.