Its that time again: Across most of the United States, daylight savings time (DST) will end at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 2, when clocks will fall back to standard time. Most American clocks will spring forward again in early 2015, when DST resumes on Sunday, March 8. And, as in previous years, the approaching end of U.S. daylight savings time has sparked heated debate about the virtues of springing forward and falling back. (Related: Time to Move On? The Case Against Daylight Saving Time.) Take the population of Utah, a majority of whom would rather drop DST, according to a summer online opinion poll on the future of timekeeping in Utah, conducted by the Utah Governors Office of Economic Development (GOED). Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed want to ditch daylight savings time and adopt Mountain Standard Time year-round, as neighboring Arizona does. There are very strong voices on all sides of this question. We got close to 14,000 written comments, and if you add them together, they are are almost the length of War and Peace, said the GOEDs Michael OMalley. The strong, repetitive drumbeat in those comments was convenience, he explained. Many people dont want to move their clocks, whether its backwards, forwards, or sideways. They just want to pick a time and stick with it.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:37:38 +0000
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