New plan to ditch daylight saving time moves forward in Utah Legislature

[@therealdarrenlwilliams2183]

do it already

[@jasonhyer]

I deal with seasonal affective disorder and having it stay datk until almost 9am in the winter is going to really be tough.

[@SongMom8]

We are already on Standard Time in the winter, getting rid of Daylight Savings won’t change anything as far as that goes. It’s the sun going down at 8:00 pm in the summer that will be the change.

[@jasonhyer]

@SongMom8 if you listened to the whole story, standard time was just the first step. We would start on standard time and when congress acts we would switch to daylight savings time.

[@Panamaniac3D]

@@jasonhyer one thing to also consider is whenever we switch the time it affects a lot of people. Test scores drop for schools, there are more crashes, people get less sleep because their circadian rhythms are affected (as well as their kids/animals, who don’t care what the clock says), there are more construction accidents, loses of jobs, etc. Switching the clock is not great for a lot of people. There will be trade offs whatever we do, but looking at it holistically, it isn’t good to be moving it around and messing with people’s sleep. Unfortunate that it affects you with seasonal affective disorder if the Federal change goes into affect. I hadn’t ever considered how staying on one vs the other would effect people, so it is great to hear your story and have that consideration.

[@SongMom8]

I really don’t have an issue with switching clocks. I do, however, have an issue with the sun going down at 8:00 pm in the summer. If people don’t like changing clocks, fine, but put us on Daylight Savings year round, not Standard Time.

[@Shayne01]

How many times are we going to pretend that they are getting rid of the time change? Its getting old.

[@DWilliams-ce8nb]

Ditch daylight saving time? How depressing.

[@SILVER-WOLF-1]

Just go 30 minutes ...compromise...then leave it alone dang it!

[@terrylee6062]

Not to standard time let the people vote

[@Surrenitie]

Daylight savings time isn't approved yet, if four other western states remove the time change then the feds will approve and Utah will switch to daylight savings

[@kenenglish124]

We need to do Greenwich Mean Time , year-round, throughout the world. That way, no one's wrists get cramped.

[@tysonskaggs5290]

Standard time sucks, if we did stop switching, then keep us on daylight time

[@Blessedchild-x8r]

No standard time go to day light savings time

[@MikeTreu-u6r]

pleeeeease