One timezone year round would be great, already have enough difficulty getting my boys to sleep each night as is.

Another vote for summer DST.

Its difficult enough getting the kid up for school let alone for anything family orientated, time would be better spent in the afternoon.

afe66: Definitely keep summer daylight savings time for me.

I wonder whether where in this long country you live affects your opinion.

I live in deep south getting to and from in pitch dark for most of winter is depressing so long summer evenings are a boon for me.

This is what always came up in the UK when this was discussed. Scotland, Shetland, Orkney etc all said the same: Shetland of course is far enough north to have the 'Simmer Dim'.

Sun movements today for comparison

Invercargill

Rise 0838 set 1945

Canterbury

Rise 0818 Set 1928

Auckland

Rise 0805 set 1922

Remember when they changed the date(s) for DST and having to patch all desktops/servers.. then having to check because no one trusted the Microsoft patch.

Get rid of it.

Most stupid idea ever! One size fits all in the worst possible way. I hate it with a passion. Stupid clock jumping all over the place. Farmers used to complain that it would confuse the cows. Actually, it just confused the farmers. Keep the time the same and if it gets too dark too early for whatever you do, change the hours of what you do. Easy. Just don't turn your issue into everyone's issue.

I like DST, but I would rather keep the clocks the same all year round and just tell my employer that I will start and finish an hour early during summer.

Rikkitic:

Most stupid idea ever! One size fits all in the worst possible way. I hate it with a passion. Stupid clock jumping all over the place. Farmers used to complain that it would confuse the cows. Actually, it just confused the farmers. Keep the time the same and if it gets too dark too early for whatever you do, change the hours of what you do. Easy. Just don't turn your issue into everyone's issue.

 

clevedon:


Yeah, it’s such a huge job to change a clock time twice a year - I wish it wouldn’t keep jumping all over the place with such frequency.

Agreed - much easier to persuade my employer to shift the working day for 3000 people than it is for me to change my clocks twice a year /sarc

If I had a choice, I'd stick with summer time / DST all year.  Don't mind the dark mornings so much for a couple of months per year, but love the daylight in the evenings

Another personal gripe (and my personal one only) is my body clock just gets used to the new timezone...then it goes and change and takes me ages to adjust again.

can we not meet in the middle and lose 30 mins somewhere ?

just tell everyone the cows ate it...  

quickymart:

 

Another personal gripe (and my personal one only) is my body clock just gets used to the new timezone...then it goes and change and takes me ages to adjust again.

 

I find that too - especially as I get older. I remember as a child delighting in getting that extra hour in bed at school. Now I just get up "early" that day!

Most people don't realise that we have been on 30 minutes of permanent Daylight Saving ever since WWII. Our natural geographical position puts us 11.5 hours ahead of GMT (as it was called originally) and in 1927 when we first adopted Daylight Saving, it was only a 30 minute advance/retreat. However, during WWII, that 30 minutes became permanent and we moved to GMT+12.

"Modern" Daylight Saving of an hour was adopted in the mid 1970s and the date range has been tweaked a couple of times since.

dfnt: Worse when you have a toddler that wakes up between 6 and 7, then it becomes between 5 and 6 for a week or two till they adjust

I feel your pain, I remember one year one of my boys waking up at 3:45 on the Sunday morning, he thought it was nearly 5 o'clock, and sadly he didn't go back to sleep.

Suffice to say he slept really well that night (I kept him up allllllllllllll day).