I grew up in Michigan before Daylight Savings Time (DST) was a universal truth, that is prior to 1966. In 1966, while I was out of the country, some "well-meaning" folks in Washington decided that they knew better and mandated DST for the entire country (why am I not surprised) unless an entire state was exempted. At that time, Michigan did exempt itself but in subsequent elections DST was approved statewide for Michigan also. I left Michigan in the early years of this century, not because of DST, and ended up in Arizona. There I relearned the simplicity of not having Daylight Savings Time. Life was good. Now that I am in New Mexico and have to put up with the bi-annual time change again.
So, is there a point to this history lesson? Well, I never voted for DST! I reasoned that there is only a finite amount of daylight in a day and changing my clock did not change the outcome. Apparently there are a lot of folks who like to go to work earlier and get home earlier so they vote for DST. Why they can't just change their hours or set summer hours, or something, is beyond me.
Now there are a number of people like me who are trying to get DST eliminated. They have arguments that are at least more logical than the argument for DST. You can read about them and their arguments at http://www.standardtime.com/index.html. They have a petition too so think about it and sign up if you agree.
My vote, stop the madness, eliminate Daylight Savings Time.
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