Should we get rid of Daylight Saving Time?

Pro: Longer Evenings. Changing the clocks does not create extra daylight, but it causes the Sun to rise and set at a later time by the clock. So, when we spring forward an hour in spring, we add 1 hour of natural daylight to our afternoon schedule. read more

Time zone expert and author of Spring Forward the Annual Madness of Day Light Saving Time Michael Downing, reckons there are two main reasons we can’t get rid of DST: a romance we have with long summer evenings and special interests. read more

Where in the world daylight saving time is used (blue), abolished (orange), and never instituted (red). Paul Eggert/Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0) Other areas of the world have gotten rid of daylight-saving time, or never had it to begin with. read more

Daylight Saving Time is coming and soon people will be mildly inconvenienced when they have to move their clocks back by one hour. This is inconvenient enough to make some people think we should get rid of the thing altogether. read more

Also, we'll be able to get rid of those annoying television schedules that say"8:30 PM/7:30 Central", since the Eastern time zone will be the same as the Central time zone. read more