Should the U.S. repeal Daylight Saving Time?

No, 4 main reasons: (1) it actually does save energy (2) encouraging more efficient use of daylight (3) traffic safety (4) past inconvenience mitigated by modern technology 1. read more

No, the USA should not repeal the law mandating Daylight Saving Time. The energy conservation idea was always BS, but Daylight Saving Time is useful to a lot of people, and it avoids a bunch of hassle for all of us. Daylight Saving Time is a relatively simple response to the annual change in Earth's solar clock. read more

Daylight saving as we know it was established by the Uniform Time Act of Congress in 1966, which set its parameters from April to October."This strikes me like the last time we had a sensible compromise on the DST issue," Michael Downing, the author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, told The Huffington Post. read more

Questioning the wisdom of daylight saving time is not new. It's almost inevitable, as only 70 countries around the world observe it, and not even all 50 U.S. states! (Arizona and Hawaii opt out.) Even John Oliver, patron saint of explaining silly things, dedicated a segment to the tradition last year. read more

And the fact is, farmers mostly oppose DST. In Indiana (prior to 2006), where part of the state observed DST, and part did not, farmers generally opposed a move to Daylight Saving Time. read more