What say we compromise and next Spring we set the Clocks Ahead 1/2 Hour and leave it alone for ever more?

Isn't that what they do in Afghanistan?

We could skip the clocks entirely.

Can we just go to metric time.
10 months
of ten weeks each
of ten days,
ten hours,
ten minutes and ten seconds.

My favorite is China,which is one, big, indivisible time zone from one end to the other. Continental China is every bit as wide and tall as the Lower 48, so imagine everyone from Portland OR to Portland ME being on New York time, and you'd have some idea of what that's like.

Don't know if they have Glorious People's Revolutionary Savings Time tho.

Can we just go to metric time.

Great idea, but it looks to me as if our new "second" would have to be about 31.5 times as long as the one we now use to make this even roughly approximate a year. New watches for all? Better 100m dash times?

Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a big hand for your Official Republican Energy Strategy!!!

See you next spring.

let's have a big hand for your Official Republican Energy Strategy
Wikipedia: In 1918, in order to conserve resources for the war effort, the U.S. Congress placed the country on Daylight Saving Time for the remainder of WW I. It was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. The law, however, proved so unpopular that it was later repealed.
Wikipedia: Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, (the progressive that got us into the war to end all wars) was president from 1913-1921

Wikipedia: When America went to war again, Congress reinstated Daylight Saving Time on February 9, 1942. Time in the U.S. was advanced one hour to save energy. It remained advanced one hour forward year-round until September 30, 1945.
Wikipedia: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, was president from 1933-1945

JK: Looks like the Democrats started this.

Thanks
JK

"Continental China is every bit as wide and tall as the Lower 48, so imagine everyone from Portland OR to Portland ME being on New York time"

I know that "Continental US" refers to the "lower 48" -- what does "Continental China" exclude ... Taiwan? Quemoy? Matsu?

George:

I just liked the sound of the words "continental" and "China" together.

Matsu?

Gesundheit.

Re: "so imagine everyone from Portland OR to Portland ME being on New York time"

Samuel John Klein, but imagine if the NYSE and the NASDAQ did not put us all on NY time.

Roger: let's have a big hand for your Official Republican Energy Strategy!!!

JK: Looks like the Democrats started this.

Jim - I believe Roger was referring to the "Energy Policy Act of 2005" which was passed by George W. Bush (R), of which one of the provisions of the law was to change when Daylight Savings Time goes into effect, resulting in either four or five more weeks of Daylight Savings Time than prior to 2005.