Keep Daylight Savings Time, get rid of Standard Time. It's only 4 months out of the year so why bother changing your clocks.
Seth - 7 years ago
People don't seem to get a few points: 1) If you live on the board of EST/CST/MST/PST you already have a different time zone in the state next to you [IL is trying to get ride of this as well] 2) its not about changing the clock 2 times a year [most do it automatically] but its about the drastic change to sleep schedules which leaves you less productive for a good week or two as you change your schedule 3) During the summer it is light out until 7+ PM so yard work can easily be done then, in the morning, or other times besides the days you work
Eric Elder Diels - 7 years ago
Daylight savings is a big waste of time to keep track of and changing clocks back it's just rediculous. I have family in Arizona and we all think it's time to go and people have lived just fine for ages without it.
Jane I Sume - 7 years ago
Make it so there's no more switching regardless which one is chosen. I prefer Standard Time as it is right today
Jay - 7 years ago
What a waste of taxpayers money. Only 2 states have no DST and they are warm weather sunshine states.
What about borderline county's that people work or do business out of state. TV' programming , computers
and others electronics that sets DST automatically . Time to vote certain people out of congress, if this all
and that's important to them for Wis. taxpayers. By the way, I do know how to change the time on by clocks.
Stephanie - 7 years ago
Seriously, people! lose and loose. We LOSE and hour and my pants are LOOSE. Dst is dumb and who cares about the extra hour at night just be greatful it's not cold. Furthermore FARMERS are against dst and it was established for war not for farming! We have more accidents, heart attacks and strokes during the time change. So get rid of it!
Shelly - 7 years ago
Keep it- It will benefit the children in being able to enjoy more outdoor activities in the summer. Most parents don't get off work until after 5. It is not fair to not be able to come home and do outdoor activities with the family or pets. More sunshine brings more happiness in people's lives. Our winters are long and dark enough. Who doesn't love more sunshine , This is what we look forward too here in WI, the summer! Warmer and longer days! Lots of businesses also depend on the long summer days. The way it is is fine. Please keep it!!
Ron Trachtenberg - 7 years ago
This is the perfect example of why we need to go back to part time legislature. One the meets in Ferbruary only and if the work isn't finished in that month the legislators forfeit their pay.
Pam - 7 years ago
I need that extra hour in the spring & summer to work outside in my yard as I work till 5 everyday.
Dan Vosd - 7 years ago
For the sake of season business that looses millions of dollars as soon as the turn the clocks back because we loose daylight. We need to Spring forward and leave it that way so we can have more daylight for outdoor businesses to work longer hours. So we need the exact opposite of this. If the bill go through.. it will cost businesses millions and the state millions in tax revenue. All winter long.. people go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. So outdoor businesses are left in the dark struggling through the the Winter. God please! DO NOT SIGN THIS BILL!!! MY BUSINESS OF 20 YEARS WILL BE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS!! If you bring a bill to not Fall back! That would increase business opportunities for thousands of outdoor small businesses across the state and increase tax revenue for the state. PLEASE DO NOT SIGN THIS BACKWARDS BILL!!!
donna - 7 years ago
Really would be crazy living. in a border town working in another state with day light savings, as millions do. Would you adjust your time every day?
Cheri Pederson - 7 years ago
Keep it. It is wonderful to have a "later"sunset in the summer. People who say they can't adjust to an hour difference ,should never be able to travel into another time zone!
Bill - 7 years ago
Keep DST- Judy has it right, no sunshine at 4 am needed and sunlight till 8:30 pm is great in Wi
Mela - 7 years ago
Plz do away with it. I don't understand why time was altered any way. Let's go back to the way it should be, the natural way and leave it there.
Dona - 7 years ago
I have been against this for many years already. DST was originally created to give FARMERS more daylight during the growing season to work their crops. The extra hours of daylight MAY be helpful to certain fields of work, but it really messes with everyone's sleep cycle and the animals' too! DST is probably NOT the greatest for DAIRY farmers who don't have huge operations. Human and animal bodies KNOW what is right and what is against nature. It also messes with businesses, transportation and people who live in one time zone and work in the other in states where only PARTS of the state recognizes DST. Customers are baffled by all of this too. Who has TIME to keep all of this straight.
If we are going to observe DST in the US, then ALL the states, border to boarder and coast to coast should observe it. If states are going to section off area that don't observe it, I say GET RID OF IT!!!
As far as the lawmakers are concerned........THIS may be ONE thing they actually could PASS without too much of a struggle. Don't tell me HOURS OF DAYLIGHT are a partisan issue too????!!!!!
I'm standing with Marie (see above)...........
Gail - 7 years ago
I agree with Judy and Judy. Keeping it. We don't have enough light hours in WI. It's nice having more daylight in the evening in the summer giving families more time for sports, gardening, and recreation in general. We don't need the light at 4am.
Bonnie Rapkin - 7 years ago
Keep it! It is what summer is all about. Wonderful summer evenings where it is light out til 9:00. Why on earth would we want to lose that wonderful sunlight? Our winters are dreary enough; at least we look forward to long summer evenings. Everyone I know would be terribly upset to lose daylight savings.
Rocco Sr. - 7 years ago
Get rid of it. It really makes no sense anymore.
Chad - 7 years ago
Leave daylight savings alone. Don't we have more important things our law makers should be doing. I can't believe that people really find it difficult to move the clock ahead or behind 2 times a year. Are people really calling their law makers and complaining about this?
Marie - 7 years ago
Loose it!
DST saves neither daylight nor time
More accidents, lower test scores for students, more heart attacks, it messes up our body's internal circadian rhythm, like jet-lag it makes you feel all out of whack for days
Transitions associated with the start and end of DST disturb sleep patterns, and make people restless at night, which results in sleepiness the next day.
For some, it can take up to three weeks to recover from the sleep schedule changes.
Transition to daylight-saving time, when the clock switches forward, showed a negative impact in well-being (happiness) for a full week after the change takes place
How much more do we need!
Dump DST !
Judy - 7 years ago
Do you really want the sun to rise at 4:30AM and set at 7:30PM in the summer? I'd rather have the sun set at 8:30PM. I don't need the sun shining through my shades at 4AM.
I'm not excited about changing my clocks, but I'm willing to do it to have more light on summer evenings. I don't want to do anything but sleep at 4AM.
Tim - 7 years ago
We should spring ahead and leave it there, I hate November/ December darkness having the sun down at 4:20.
Dorothy - 7 years ago
I love daylight saving time, we should keep it year round! It is the only way I have time to mow the lawn after work in the Summer.
Mel - 7 years ago
I hate having to adjust to getting up an hour early, and the sleep disruption isn't healthy. A US study found that the risk of heart attacks goes up the week the clocks move an hour ahead. We're far enough north that the sun would still set at 8:00 over the summer anyways, even without daylight savings.
Gregg - 7 years ago
Could not agree more with Judy. #KeepIt
Judy - 7 years ago
I visited my family in Arizona one summer and it is frustrating to see the sun set so early there. It is nice to have longer hours of daylight in the summer here in Wisconsin.
Keep Daylight Savings Time, get rid of Standard Time. It's only 4 months out of the year so why bother changing your clocks.
People don't seem to get a few points: 1) If you live on the board of EST/CST/MST/PST you already have a different time zone in the state next to you [IL is trying to get ride of this as well] 2) its not about changing the clock 2 times a year [most do it automatically] but its about the drastic change to sleep schedules which leaves you less productive for a good week or two as you change your schedule 3) During the summer it is light out until 7+ PM so yard work can easily be done then, in the morning, or other times besides the days you work
Daylight savings is a big waste of time to keep track of and changing clocks back it's just rediculous. I have family in Arizona and we all think it's time to go and people have lived just fine for ages without it.
Make it so there's no more switching regardless which one is chosen. I prefer Standard Time as it is right today
What a waste of taxpayers money. Only 2 states have no DST and they are warm weather sunshine states.
What about borderline county's that people work or do business out of state. TV' programming , computers
and others electronics that sets DST automatically . Time to vote certain people out of congress, if this all
and that's important to them for Wis. taxpayers. By the way, I do know how to change the time on by clocks.
Seriously, people! lose and loose. We LOSE and hour and my pants are LOOSE. Dst is dumb and who cares about the extra hour at night just be greatful it's not cold. Furthermore FARMERS are against dst and it was established for war not for farming! We have more accidents, heart attacks and strokes during the time change. So get rid of it!
Keep it- It will benefit the children in being able to enjoy more outdoor activities in the summer. Most parents don't get off work until after 5. It is not fair to not be able to come home and do outdoor activities with the family or pets. More sunshine brings more happiness in people's lives. Our winters are long and dark enough. Who doesn't love more sunshine , This is what we look forward too here in WI, the summer! Warmer and longer days! Lots of businesses also depend on the long summer days. The way it is is fine. Please keep it!!
This is the perfect example of why we need to go back to part time legislature. One the meets in Ferbruary only and if the work isn't finished in that month the legislators forfeit their pay.
I need that extra hour in the spring & summer to work outside in my yard as I work till 5 everyday.
For the sake of season business that looses millions of dollars as soon as the turn the clocks back because we loose daylight. We need to Spring forward and leave it that way so we can have more daylight for outdoor businesses to work longer hours. So we need the exact opposite of this. If the bill go through.. it will cost businesses millions and the state millions in tax revenue. All winter long.. people go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. So outdoor businesses are left in the dark struggling through the the Winter. God please! DO NOT SIGN THIS BILL!!! MY BUSINESS OF 20 YEARS WILL BE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS!! If you bring a bill to not Fall back! That would increase business opportunities for thousands of outdoor small businesses across the state and increase tax revenue for the state. PLEASE DO NOT SIGN THIS BACKWARDS BILL!!!
Really would be crazy living. in a border town working in another state with day light savings, as millions do. Would you adjust your time every day?
Keep it. It is wonderful to have a "later"sunset in the summer. People who say they can't adjust to an hour difference ,should never be able to travel into another time zone!
Keep DST- Judy has it right, no sunshine at 4 am needed and sunlight till 8:30 pm is great in Wi
Plz do away with it. I don't understand why time was altered any way. Let's go back to the way it should be, the natural way and leave it there.
I have been against this for many years already. DST was originally created to give FARMERS more daylight during the growing season to work their crops. The extra hours of daylight MAY be helpful to certain fields of work, but it really messes with everyone's sleep cycle and the animals' too! DST is probably NOT the greatest for DAIRY farmers who don't have huge operations. Human and animal bodies KNOW what is right and what is against nature. It also messes with businesses, transportation and people who live in one time zone and work in the other in states where only PARTS of the state recognizes DST. Customers are baffled by all of this too. Who has TIME to keep all of this straight.
If we are going to observe DST in the US, then ALL the states, border to boarder and coast to coast should observe it. If states are going to section off area that don't observe it, I say GET RID OF IT!!!
As far as the lawmakers are concerned........THIS may be ONE thing they actually could PASS without too much of a struggle. Don't tell me HOURS OF DAYLIGHT are a partisan issue too????!!!!!
I'm standing with Marie (see above)...........
I agree with Judy and Judy. Keeping it. We don't have enough light hours in WI. It's nice having more daylight in the evening in the summer giving families more time for sports, gardening, and recreation in general. We don't need the light at 4am.
Keep it! It is what summer is all about. Wonderful summer evenings where it is light out til 9:00. Why on earth would we want to lose that wonderful sunlight? Our winters are dreary enough; at least we look forward to long summer evenings. Everyone I know would be terribly upset to lose daylight savings.
Get rid of it. It really makes no sense anymore.
Leave daylight savings alone. Don't we have more important things our law makers should be doing. I can't believe that people really find it difficult to move the clock ahead or behind 2 times a year. Are people really calling their law makers and complaining about this?
Loose it!
DST saves neither daylight nor time
More accidents, lower test scores for students, more heart attacks, it messes up our body's internal circadian rhythm, like jet-lag it makes you feel all out of whack for days
Transitions associated with the start and end of DST disturb sleep patterns, and make people restless at night, which results in sleepiness the next day.
For some, it can take up to three weeks to recover from the sleep schedule changes.
Transition to daylight-saving time, when the clock switches forward, showed a negative impact in well-being (happiness) for a full week after the change takes place
How much more do we need!
Dump DST !
Do you really want the sun to rise at 4:30AM and set at 7:30PM in the summer? I'd rather have the sun set at 8:30PM. I don't need the sun shining through my shades at 4AM.
I'm not excited about changing my clocks, but I'm willing to do it to have more light on summer evenings. I don't want to do anything but sleep at 4AM.
We should spring ahead and leave it there, I hate November/ December darkness having the sun down at 4:20.
I love daylight saving time, we should keep it year round! It is the only way I have time to mow the lawn after work in the Summer.
I hate having to adjust to getting up an hour early, and the sleep disruption isn't healthy. A US study found that the risk of heart attacks goes up the week the clocks move an hour ahead. We're far enough north that the sun would still set at 8:00 over the summer anyways, even without daylight savings.
Could not agree more with Judy. #KeepIt
I visited my family in Arizona one summer and it is frustrating to see the sun set so early there. It is nice to have longer hours of daylight in the summer here in Wisconsin.