Thank you all for your insight...These are all good reasons, and I inconveniences that I wouldn't have thought of. I'm glad to finally get the other side of the story. I personally wish that they would just pick one time year-round and stick with it! In answer to Hoptown's questions: Most city dwellers would be considered late sleepers...I get up at 5:00am, and I would expect that most people around here and in Washington get up about an hour after me. Technically explained, the Government's Daylight Savings Plan is based on shifting the "wasted" light in the morning (while they're sleeping) to the evening, when they can clearly use the daylight more productively, spending that valuable time riding around in golf carts, drinking martinis and brainstorming about important new laws to pass. And the savings doesn't stop there. By not having to turn the headlights on, the golf carts obviously do not have to be re-charged nearly as often, resulting in a $1.2 billion* dollar savings in electricity annually! (*Adjusted for price-gouging.) So you can see it's a simple, yet brilliant plan. And, if the Government says it saves us money, we should believe them...They've never lied to us before, right? ;) Take care, all.

Thanks for the reminder. Now we'll be eating dinner one hour later because I'll be staying outside one hour later. :)

I'm sort of the opposite of momj47! I like standard time. I always hate it when we go on daylight savings time. If I had to drive home in the dark, though, I probably wouldn't like it either. As it is, I like getting my kids into bed earlier and waking up with light in the sky. I know it's psychological, but I do feel like I get more sleep when I'm not getting up in the dark. My dh said they're going to extend DST next year to mid-November and begin it earlier. I don't like that idea! If it were up to me, we'd eliminate DST altogether, not make it longer. What's the point, really, when there's going to be plenty of daylight in a month or two anyway? Why make it so younger kids have to go to bed in broad daylight (in summer)?

Spring ahead, fall behind. They extended the length of time for DST, last year. I think those that voted it in like to play golf, and this gives them longer hours to play. I wish it'd be left alone. Not every state does this though. I don't think AZ does it. Leslie