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[Lipstickdiva]

I'm with @Mominohio.  I hate changing them back.  I work until 5 so when the clocks change, it's already getting dark by the time I leave work.  And yes I definitely noticed it getting darker earlier already.

Sunday I went outside to cut the grass in the evening and got done about 7:45 and it was already almost too dark for me to be out there mowing.    

[Allegheny]

I love DST, and the long hours of daylight in summer.  I can jump in the car in the evening and head out to do some grocery shopping or whatever and get back before it is dark.  Or stay out working in the garden until 9 pm.  I am like a chicken, when it dark I feel it is time to roost.

[2blonde]

@Mominohio  I think we were sisters in a previous life (or maybe Ohio has made us this way)!

[Group 5 minus 1]

Daddy was a fireman and worked two shifts-night turn and day turn. On night turn he would go to work at around 4 pm and come home around 8 am. He said for him it was dark all the time.

[jonickel]

November 4, 2018

[Lynnster67]

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@Meowingkitty wrote:

I wish the powers that be would pick one time and leave it. As for me I don’t care because we don’t change our clocks. The last thing we need in summer is another hour of sunlight. 

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ITA!  Especially since we are on daylight saving time (2nd Sun in Mar - 1st Sun in Nov = almost 8 months) longer than standard time.  Maybe we split the difference and move the clocks 30 min and then forget it ever again?

Other DST factoids:

• DST was Ben Franklin's idea when we were an agrarian society. 
• During WW2, Great Britian employed "double summer time" and advanced the clocks 2 hrs.  My grandmother lived near Newcastle and the sun didn't go down until almost 11P!  And then the Blitz would start.
  
• The candy industry lobbied for extending DST into Nov so there is extra daylight on Halloween.

[NickNack]

I would like to see DST all the time.  I hate it being dark at 5:30.  I don't like to drive at night because I can't see as well.  I enjoy going out to dinner with my friends and need to pick restaurants close by when it's so dark.  I don't understand the point of changing the time.

[ruthbe]

I live in Phoenix....we don't change our time.  I actually am thankful.  Just one less thing to remember.

[Patriot3]

I wish the time was just left alone!

[SilleeMee]

I just googled it.