What rich town do you live in that they can afford to light little-league baseball fields? Maybe high-school fields. Many of us working people don’t have a lot of time after work. It’s nice to have more daylight to do these activities. I love to golf and in a league after work. It’s nice being able to get 9-holes in before dark.
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I amended my post, suggesting that I would be amenable to Daylight Saving if it were returned to its 1966 Uniform Time Act dates.
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There’s bipartisan agreement to end daylight savings time. However, there’s no agreement on which time to standardize on. That’s been the debate for the past 5+ years.
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Most medical professionals agree that Standard is the better option, for our long term health. It aligns clock noon with Solar Noon, and with our circadian rhythm.
All I am going to say is, in my area, it sucked when it was dark in the winter time at 4:30pm and you are still at work until 7pm, I hated it, and it made for a very long day when you started at 7am, or even 9am and it was dark 2 1/2 hours before you got to close up shop… Everybody (customers and the crew) was happier when it got dark later in the day… But now that I am retired, I could care less, heck half the time I don’t even know what day of the week it is until I look at my pill caddy… 
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At midnight in Oslo, we were out working on cousin’s flag pole and it was still light out. Some places with 24/hour daylight don’t need dst but I like it. Just wish they would pick one or the other.
I think I’m the opposite, of everyone in the U.S. I think: When I see the glow of predawn light at 5-5:30 in the morning, it encourages me to get up and start the day earlier.
We just have to realize that we live in a part of the world where daylight length varies significantly between December and June.
And even the original progenitors of “Daylight Saving” never intended it for months in which there were less than 12 hours from sunrise to sunset.
But if a return to a no clock change policy were adopted, I would set all my manual clocks to standard, and just remember that my work hours, for example, are 8-4 instead of “9-5”. Church - 9am Sundays instead of 10, etc.
I would still conduct my home life on standard, eating meals at the times I’m used to: Breakfast at 6am(7 for the rest of you) Lunch at 12(1pm DST) and dinner at 5:30-6pm(7 DST).
When I lived in Japan, the Philippines, and Southeast East Asia, I do not recall DST change. But that was 50 years ago. The P.I., and Southeast Asia are closer to the equator, just two seasons, wet/dry.
My wife is from Philippines. They tried DST in the Philippines, I think in the 1970s or '80s, but the populace protested for likely the same reason: Average sunrise year round in Philippines is 5:50AM(5:20 in June and 6:20 in December).
DST delayed average sunrise to 6:50AM in June, and the locals didn’t like it.
The daylight fluctuation in tropical countries like Philippines is less than half what it is here, so no need to change time to optimize daylight utilization.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate. I understand I have been gone for ages and all, but can we please get back to cars? Thank you. 
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Sorry Carolyn!
My style of driving under the posted highway speed limit led to a discussion of every thing else I’m in the minority on, lol!
Anti-daylight saving, prefer tube TVs to flat screens, etc.
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Reminds me of a joke, why is that foursome ahead so slow? That’s Stevie Wonder, Why doesn’t he play at night instead of holding us up!
I like that that California allows passing on the right on multi lane freeways. I make good use of the privilege.
Only in America.
I drive German: Keep right except to pass!
That is how I do it also. You might not believe it, but when I am cruising at ~72 mph in a 65 mph zone, there are still a lot of cars driving faster than I am, and I am usually in the right lane–except when I’m passing slow pokes in the right lane.
NJ allows that also, along with a lot of other states. Although there are a lot of cars in the left lane driving faster than I am in the right lane, there are frequently cars moseying-along in the center lane, under the speed limit. In order to limit my exposure to them, I speed-up a bit as I pass them (legally!) on the right.
The first time that I took an in-person AARP Defensive Driving course, the volunteer instructor was… not very knowledgeable. She stated that passing on the right was illegal. I showed her the verbiage in the NJ Drivers Manual, which states, “Although most passing should be done on the left, passing on the right is legal on multi-lane roads as long as the shoulder is not used for passing”.
And I, if in a middle lane, pass pokeys on the left.
Remember: There’s a difference between “legal” and correct.
Just because something is “legally permitted”, does not mean it is right to do.
Remember 21 years ago, it was “legal” in a certain state for places of gathering of 300 people or less, or built before a certain date, to not have fire suppression systems. 96 patrons on scene, and 4 later in hospitals, would beg to differ… if they could.
It also means it’s not wrong. It’s also not legally permitted to murder but it’s still right not to.
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I think it’s time for you to give it a rest.
By now, everyone knows that you consistently drive under the speed limit, and that you think everyone who exceeds the “limit” is wrong. In case you haven’t noticed, no forum members seem to agree with you, so your “crusade” is doing nothing more than wasting your time and energy.
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The thread that wouldn’t die…
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I’m finding, more and more often, that the slowest of the drivers are found in the middle lane of three lane expressways, for some reason.
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