If you object to daylight time year around, and please read the finding how unhealthy it is

[question everything]

https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2025/November/PDF/permanent-standard-time-health-benefits-pdf.pdf

Research Shows Permanent Standard Time Is Healthier
Than Daylight Saving Time

Please let your rep know.

When Florida Scott suggested it he said that he “heard from his constituents.” Might be OK for Floridians but not for many of us in the north when sunrise will be at 9:00 am at the dead of winter. Also our summers are hot - expecting mid 90s this week - so many prefer to have their chores early in the morning. And having more daylight in the morning than sunset after 9:00.

(If you do support daylight saving year around please ignore this post.)

[Coventina]

1. Here in AZ, we don't do daylight savings.

Big thumbs down on permanent DS for us!

[question everything]

2. I am jealous. Perhaps Minnesota can follow though.

[FHRRK1]

10. AZ is in the middle of a zone

Grew up in Phx, where we didn't have Day Light Saving and never understood the need. Understood that an extra hour of 100 degree plus isn't good.

Moved to CA and partially got why most states switch. School kids walking in the dark, sundown at 4:50 PM during rush hour. Understood the argument from farm States.

But now most seem minor, just stick with Std. Time, bit of an impact on certain area, farmers are plowing and seeding fields using GPS and headlights. With that, we should have terabytes of data on impact of accidents between Standard and Daylight time. (Understanding the days after the switch are likely the most variable) If it is wash, it seems silly not to make the switch.

[sarisataka]

3. They need to pick one and leave it, end the switching of clocks

My preference would be standard time but I think we can adjust.

[Blues Heron]

7. No, that doesn't make any sense

We do summer time for summer because there’s more hours of light, then, we do winter time for winter because there’s no point whatsoever in hustling out the door an hour early when it’s dark and cold out.

[sarisataka]

8. The hours of sunlight on a given day is fixed

regardless of what our clocks say. A person's job says they have to be there at a certain time and it doesn't matter if it is light or dark; I have even seen farmers working at night by the lights on their vehicles.

[Skittles]

12. THANK YOU

as someone who worked 12 hour night shifts for decades, I found the chronic whining about time change to be over-the-top ridiculous

[pnwmom]

14. People fly all the time and don''t get traumatized by a time change of an hour.

Why is changing the clocks twice a year such a big deal?

People who are in favor of this don't consider the effects on people who live on the extremes. As far north as Seattle, the winter mornings are already dark. We don't need to add an extra hour of darkness.

[sarisataka]

18. I am on the extreme

Darkness lasts a long time on Minnesota winter days. The is why my preference would be for standard time.
I know however that there are going to be days I go to work when it is dark and when I head home it is also already dark.

[pnwmom]

19. What's wrong with changing the clocks a couple times a year? We in Seattle don't need

it to be light at 4 am either.

[LeftInTX]

4. Mexico and Canada will have fits.

Only Mexico's border areas are on DST. They will really have a cow if it's 24/7. Likewise, Canada will likely swtich to all DST just so everything is synchronized with the US.

Most fo the world is getting away from it! We're regressing! Light gray is where they used to have it. Dark grey is where it never was.



Orange is DST in the southern hemisphere.

[dweller]

5. I read that states could opt out of permanent daylight savings time

That should be fun …



✌🏻

[question everything]

6. Thanks. Will contact Klobuchar, our next governor

[Wifes husband]

9. These people act like we don't have any light but the sun

Just pick a time and stay with it.

[pnwmom]

20. Why? Don't you ever fly from east to west or the reverse? What's the big deal

of adapting to an hour change?

[Wifes husband]

22. Changing a wrist watch is one thing

Changing clocks for an entire society is another.
I understand we can do it. We already in fact do it. Just stupid, that's all.

[dpibel]

11. If Mercola says it...

how could anyone doubt?

[progressoid]

15. Yeah...

he's hardly ever wrong.

[pnwmom]

13. I don't mind the time changes, which are no worse than taking an airplane flight

across a time zone. No big deal.

Being here in Seattle, I don't like the idea of winter mornings even later than they are now.

[ToxMarz]

16. Neither daylight savings time or standard time have any magical properties

The problem is constantly changing it implying time is flawed and we are changing it because it is the problem.

We are the problem in constantly trying to bend time for our convenience and then the argument is just about who's convenience is most important.

SET TIME FREE!!!

[progressoid]

17. You might want to find another source. Mercola is a quack website.

One of my faves is that he has decided that carbon dioxide will feed the bacteria in his gut and is blowing the gas up his bum regularly, one and a half liters at a time, claiming that it creates a force field around him.

[Stacey Grove]

21. ewwwww