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END DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Annabelle from Eugene, OR writes:
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    This whole thing about Daylight Saving Time is just plain unnatural! To be totally honest with you, it drives me mad! Being that I'm both totally blind and have Autism Spectrum Disorder, I'm one of those girls who is resistant to change. And, I'm one of those girls who believes that Mother Earth made our bodies to wake up with the sun, no matter what our clocks might say. Also, think of the poor farmers, whose cows, horses, pigs, sheep, chickens, and so on, are confused by the annual madness of Spring Forward, Fall Back. Like me, the farmers and their animals don't care what time the clocks say, they wake up with the sun! I mean, in the spring and summer, I hear a rooster crow outside my window from the house behind my apartment building at 5:00 AM! Despite the fact that a law in Eugene, Oregon says that residents aren't allowed to have roosters in the city limits. Hens are OK, but roosters can get you in trouble! That is, unless of course you're a farmer. But then again, farms are usually out in the countryside. For me, this whole Daylight Saving Time is hard on me because it messes with my natural sleep patterns. It seems the only way I can adjust to Spring Forward is to go to bed at 9:00 when I usually go to bed at 10:00, and wake up at 5:00 when I usually wake up at 6:00. Another thing that drives me mad is I have to set my analog clocks an hour forward, because when Spring Forward begins, I'm an hour behind! When my alarm clock says 6:00, my computer's clock, which is on a satellite time server, automatically says 7:00! Last night was the first night I slept well in 8 months! I wrote a letter to all three senators in Oregon, and I got an answer saying that sure, Oregon can come off Daylight Saving Time, but it won't happen until 2021! That's ridiculous! Grrr it makes me grouchy in the mornings when we spring forward! I say stop it, and I say stop it now! I've got an idea. Why don't we all band together and make a movement to abolish this ridiculous, antiquated practice that is Daylight Saving time. Or, if we can't get rid of it altogether, let's make a plan to Spring Forward an hour for the three months of spring from March 20 to June 21, then go back an hour in the summertime, since the days are already longer in those months.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    meena p. from Evans, GA writes:
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    Bad for bodies. Bad for businesses. Our country is mental enough.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Bristol, VA writes:
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    I think we need to stop, it really doesn't help anything to keep doing it we are just causing our bodies a disruption and it does not need to happen
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Joseph S. from Franklin, TN signed.
  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Thomas G. from Farmingville, NY writes:
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    Where are the people in favor of this time consuming, disruptive practice? THERE ARE NONE! I spent two hours this morning adjusting clocks and thermostats. PLEASE STOP DST. NO ONE WANTS IT.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Keri H. from Frankenmuth, MI writes:
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    It is too hard to adjust sleeping schedules twice a year!!
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Patricia T. from Lady Lake, FL signed.
  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Laura P. from Washington, DC writes:
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    It is stupid, as a teacher I hate it!
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Christopher G. from Sarasota, FL writes:
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    It's BS! SICK OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Terre Haute, IN writes:
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    A 100yr old law. Time to change.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Derry, PA writes:
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    End this stupid daylight savings time. It's a health hazard, wastes electricity, and for metal detectorist it's like me, it's hell. Nothing is worse than going to work in the dark, and getting off work in the dark. If this isn't repealed, I am going to rebel and do everything an hour later and this might cause me to lose my job. Lastly it causes children to lose their minds and they will wither away and die. If you don't do it for the poor children do it for me. Please get rid of this garbage, please, please, please.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Ingrid R. from Chapel Hill, NC writes:
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    Agreed, it's a practice that only does more harm than it does any good, if any. It causes more heart attacks when the times change, there's not proof of benefit in the modern times, it's not the 1950's. It also disruptive to an infants sleep cycle, causing aggravation everywhere
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Trenton, NJ writes:
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    it's ridiculous and provides no service for anyone, anywhere, at anytime. evolve.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Mansfield, OH writes:
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    End Daylight Saving Time!, of course we all know how easy goverment creates rules for us to live by and how hard to reverse.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Mansfield, OH writes:
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    End Daylight Saving Time!, of course we all know how easy goverment creates rules for us to live by and how hard to reverse.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Spicer, MN signed.
  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Mount Pleasant, SC writes:
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    END DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME! It’s hard on children, pets and adults. It causes car accidents when people are making the tradition. It is LONG past time to end this ridiculous practice.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Ragland, AL writes:
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    Dlt no longer needed.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Wayland, MA signed.
  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Mark M. from Alexandria, LA writes:
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    No longer necessary(not that it ever really was). Costs money, time, and our most valuable asset, life!
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Boulder, CO writes:
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    An unnecessary stresser to many.. .. It does not " save" energy .. Nor change the amount of light shed in any day.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Lima, OH writes:
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    This old system needs to end. This costs money and our most valuable asset: time.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Jeff H. from Antioch, TN signed.
  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Estero, FL writes:
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    The original purpose of DST is no longer valid. Please put an end to the archaic practice.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Lester W. M. from Smyrna, TN writes:
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    DST is archaic and should be ended, NOW!
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Wendy M J. from Bend, OR writes:
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    This practice has lost its original purpose and become expensive and counterproductive. Please end this practice.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    James S. from Mechanicsville, VA writes:
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    The original purpose of DST is no longer relevant.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    James S. from Mechanicsville, VA writes:
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    The original purpose of DST is no longer relevant.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    James S. from Mechanicsville, VA writes:
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    The original purpose of DST is no longer relevant.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Joyce G. from Mesa, ID writes:
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    Please stop! I feel driving to work both in dark in morning and night not safe with winter driving .
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Graham, TX signed.
  • Nov 5th, 2017
    J.D. F. from Reno, NV writes:
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    As a native American has said, "Only a fool would think taking a piece of blanket off one end, and sewing it to the other end, makes the blanket longer." Please help people everywhere stop this silly, annoying semi-annual ritual. It serves no real purpose.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Jason B. from Lynchburg, VA writes:
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    We've done this for about a century now, and it has never been without problems. Now that we are off of it; END IT. Fewer car crashes, less stress on people's schedules and bodies.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Thomas M. from Englewood, CO signed.
  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Doug S. from Ojai, CA writes:
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    A ridiculous, pointless ritual with no real value to anyone - end this silliness now.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Summit, MS writes:
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    No one cares except the folks that make bank over DLS. It is no longer necessary to have DLS because the American people realize the PTB are fleecing them over this. Stop the madness created by DSL.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Waterford, MI signed.
  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Someone from Cochran, GA writes:
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    Congress needs to be reminded they are not our leaders. They are selected to be our representatives & should voice our opinions, not their own.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Brian P. from Alpine, TX writes:
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    Seriously, DST serves no purpose what so ever. Please end this.
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  • Nov 5th, 2017
    Benjamin C. from Mocksville, NC signed.