Anyone here have a problem with daylight savings time?

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I also boycotted it this summer. I didn't turn the clocks back.

One of my biggest Aspie symptoms is hatred of change, so yes, Daylight Savings can become a problem for me if I'm not warned about it at least a week in advance. I like changing the clocks back, because that doesn't throw off my schedule; it's "spring forward" that I hate. Last year, I wasn't warned about turning the clocks ahead in advance, so I didn't know until I woke up that morning and my computer's clock was an hour ahead. I was angry for the rest of the day. I didn't have a problem this year, though, because I was warned and was able to change my clock ahead late Saturday night before bed. So, when I woke up Sunday morning, I wasn't shaken by the "new" time.
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Farmers do not care about the change in time. Businesses need a chart to figure out what time it is in a given city in Indiana. The military does not need as large of a percentage of energy as they needed during World War II. These are some reasons why Daylight Saving time is no longer necessary.

Benjamin Franklin first thought of the concept of Daylight Saving time during a visit to France. Franklin suggested that if the sunlight lasted an hour longer, then people would be able to accomplish more. People forgot his proposal until William Willett suggested it in 1907. The British adopted the idea first. The British set their clocks ahead in the summer of 1916 while in war with Germany. They did it to save energy, which was scarce during the war. The Americans adopted it in 1918 as a wartime effort only to have it repealed the following year due to public dissent.

America returned to Daylight Saving time in February 1942 because of our involvement in World War II. The clocks remained advanced year-round until September 1945. From the end of World War II until 1966, there was no law for or against Daylight Saving time. Communities were free to observe or abstain and were often dictated by the needs of the local community. Transportation companies and media outlets were complaining because they had to publish several schedules to cover all the changes in time. Congress passed The Uniform Time Act in 1966. Daylight Saving Time became uniform from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. The law changed the start of Daylight Saving Time to the first Sunday in April in 1986.

Farmers have to wake up with the sun whether the sun rises at 5:00 in the morning or 5:00 in the afternoon. They oppose Daylight Saving Time, debunking the assumption that we observe it because of the agricultural community. Farmers contest it because it changes the time they have to bring their produce to market, which throws off their farming schedule.

The state of Indiana has two time zones. The western part of the state is in the Central Time Zone and the eastern part is in the Eastern Time Zone. The Western part of the state observes Daylight Saving Time because they want to stay in the same time as nearby Chicago. Most of the eastern part of the state does not observe Daylight Saving Time because the sun would not rise until almost 9 AM in October. The counties near Cincinnati and Louisville observe Daylight Saving time because many people from those counties commute to Cincinnati and Louisville. The confusion has irritated many Indianans who travel from one part of the state to another.
- This was changed in 2006. All of Indiana now observes DST.

Night shift workers who work the moment the clocks are changed feel the effects the most. Some workers lose an hour of work when clocks are set ahead because the end of shift comes an hour later. Others work the hour, but the clock says it is an hour later. The opposite is true when clocks are set back. Some workers work an extra hour and some get to leave when the clock says an hour earlier.

The Department of Transportation (the agency that oversees Daylight Saving Time and time zones) claims that Daylight Saving Time saves energy and lives. Their own statistics show that automobile accidents are more likely to happen the week following a time change than any other week. Accidents are not limited to the highway. Fatalities also increase on the job and at the home. While the country saves $100,000 in energy, it loses a lot more in terms of lost tax revenues from taxpayers dying or becoming injured from an accident.

Daylight Saving Time saves energy and the extra hour of daylight in the afternoon makes it easier to accomplish more done during the day. However; farmers, parents, drivers, night shift workers, and Indianans all have concerns with continuing with the practice. The benefits of Daylight Saving Time do not merit mentioning considering the side effects. Dollars and lives are lost in order to save a few dollars in energy costs.

We are all known ahead of time about the clocks going to get changed. It says on the calendar. So that's knowing in advance.

I hate it when we have to change the clocks twice a year. I was wondering if anyone else had similar problems with this.