54 Comments - wordslinger - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:34 am: I like it. More sun in the morning in winter, more sun at night in the summer. Plus, that extra hour on fall-back weekend comes in handy for a beer run before the Bears game. - Collinsville Kevin - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:37 am: I’m with you, Rich. There’s no excuse for it being dark at 7:00 a.m. this time of year, and it’s too cold to go home and do anything outdoors. - SAP - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:37 am: I’d prefer to stay on daylight savings time all year long so I don’t have to deal with that whole drive home from work in the dark thing in wintertime. - Fax Machine - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:38 am: Daylight Savings Time was pushed earlier in 2005 from April to March. The extra hour of door knocking in the last week makes up for losing the hour of sleep for mpst campaign junkies. - CatAttack - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:38 am: Don’t stop there. Let’s move the primary to June, or at least May…springtime is lovely for canvassing! - Fax Machine - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:40 am: Yearlong DST for Illinois would mean moving into Eastern Time, which would mean our primetime TV & news would all start an hour later. - Yup! - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:41 am: Rep. Bennett has filed HR 731 urging Congress to eliminate the time change. We need every state on board to stop this archaic abuse of time. - TominChicago - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:41 am: At slating last summer, Dr. Bob was all about “5 Illinois.” What caused Bob to lower his sights” - Saluki - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:42 am: I heard it was because someone didn’t want kids standing in the dark waiting on the school bus. - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:47 am: Cmon rich. Us field guys love we can have door knockersbout past 5 or 530. It’s great for gotv!!! - Cheryl44 - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:50 am: What utter nonsense. Go to bed an hour earlier if you need to adjust. - Retired Educator - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:50 am: When we went to a 4 day work week for a while, I went to work in the dark, and came home in the dark. This happened all winter long. It was like days with no sunlight. Very depressing. I kind of like the additional sunlight in the summer. Reading on the porch, is one my real pleasures. - wordslinger - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:52 am: –I heard it was because someone didn’t want kids standing in the dark waiting on the school bus.– Benjamin Franklin didn’t know from school buses. - Joe Bidenopolous - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:54 am: I want year round DST. I’d rather it be dark going to to work rather than leaving work - I would find that much less depressing - and we’d only be on eastern time from October to March. Besides, Fax Machine, who watches prime time tv? As Saluki alluded to, I think we have to wait for a certain someone to retire before we can even have the conversation - A Jack - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:56 am: Yes it is because of the school kids. But wouldn’t it make more sense to move the school day back an hour. With two family incomes being the norm now, wouldn’t it help many parents if school didn’t get out an hour later? Imagine the savings from not having to pay for after school care. - downstate commissioner - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:58 am: I get up at 6:00 every week day, dst or cst; I hate it, but I would rather go to work in the dark than come home in the dark, especially in the summertime. DST year round, and as for TV, I get most of my news thru the internet or the newspaper. The morning weather guy is going to be on early, no matter what the time zone is. - Anotheretiree - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:58 am: This explains it pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw I’m for year round time. I view this as a prime example of how unresponsive Gov. is… - Secret Square - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:02 am: C’mon folks, DST isn’t THAT bad — IF its limited to the time of year when it is really needed. If we did NOT have DST in, say, June or early July dawn would start around 3 a.m. with actual sunrise around 4:30 (way too early for anyone other than 3rd shift workers and farmers to benefit) and sunset around 7:30-8:00. Trading an earlier sunrise for a later sunset makes sense in this instance. However, I believe DST in its current form starts way too early in the year and ends too late. Remember the year-round DST experiment in the mid-70s? I do — the sun wasn’t coming up until almost 8:30 a.m. in January and I was going to school IN THE DARK. And it was only “delaying” sunset to about 5:45 or 6 p.m. Go back to the old April-October schedule and I’d be fine with it. - Not It - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:03 am: You should start a PAC for this issue. I’d contribute. - A guy - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:06 am: DST: What in the heck are we saving it for? - 47th Ward - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:10 am: ===I mean, c’mon, we all lose an hour’s sleep every night right before a primary?=== First, we only lose an hour of sleep on one night, not every night. Yes, it was a drag to have a short weekend, but now it’s behind us. Second, you managed to get the Fax out earlier today than in recent history, despite losing an hour of sleep. Perhaps your circadian clock is adapting better than you think. Lol. - PublicServant - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:12 am: Can we revert from one to the other on a daily basis? I might be able to use that to my advantage workwise. Use one in the AM, so that I can show up an hour late and say, ‘Oh, well I fell back an hour’, and then in the afternoon, leave an hour early, and say it because I’m springing forward. Anyone who can make that happen has my vote. - Rich Miller - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:19 am: ===managed to get the Fax out earlier today=== I wrote it last night and scheduled it to send this morning because of DST. - Just a Reader - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:20 am: All summer, it will get dark one hour earlier on Lake Springfield, and Rich Miller will be to blame. - MG85 - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:21 am: Daylight savings time would have more support if time jumped forward on a Friday from 4 pm to 5 pm. - Roman - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:29 am: How’s this for a compromise: we keep DLS time, but we move the clocks forward at 1 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. That way we loose an hour of work instead of an hour of sleep. - blue dog dem - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:30 am: Next thing you’ll want is year round school, flouride in the drinking water, and a shorter work week. What’s with this younger generation. - Gruntled University Employee - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:34 am: The way I look at it is it’s one less hour that we have to endure the Rauner administration. /s - a drop in - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:36 am: Don’t go back to DST until after the Nov election. That way you will have one less hour of Rauner. Or Madigan - whatever your opponent is. - Dome Gnome - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:37 am: Here, here! I’ve hated DST my entire life. - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:39 am: The government giveth (1 hour), the government taketh away. You should be used to it by now. Just be glad they aren’t also skimming some extra hours for themselves. - morningstar - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:40 am: I once read of a man who refused to adjust a whole hour all at once. He adjust 15 minutes each day for four days instead and let the chips just fall where they may. - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:47 am: Folks, it’s Saving not Savings. Just like it’s Soldier Field. - Rich Miller - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:49 am: === Just like it’s Soldier Field=== Meh. I shop at the Jewels. lol - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:01 am: It’d probably be easier to move the primary date. Do one of those stunts where we move it to the 1st or 2nd week of January. The Christmas Card attack mailers would be something to see. - PublicServant - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:29 am: Don’t give them any ideas on a primary date move or it’ll be February 29th in all non-leap years, otherwise February 30th. - Skeptic - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:42 am: “Meh. I shop at the Jewels.” If you’re like most of the people I’ve known, it’d be shopping at “Jewel’s.” - Boone's is Back - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:46 am: LOL this post is great - The Captain - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:48 am: People get drunk on Saturday nights and lose an hour all the time, but they act like the sky is falling because of daylight savings time. It’s just an hour. - Wylie Coyote - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:48 am: What a wimp. Gimme DST all year. A real man is up before the crack of dawn doing his chores. Don’t complain that you’re a night owl — the only thing that gets done at night is the devil’s work - Responsa - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 11:21 am: Sure do miss Chris Sales. - PublicServant - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 11:25 am: Hey, do the 2am bars get to stay open an extra hour when we fall back, and then not lose that hour when we spring forward? Who picked 2am anyway? I say it must have been a 2am license-holder. - Responsa - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 11:29 am: I don’t like the confusion of the time change twice a year, either, and would definitely prefer leaving our clocks on the same time all year round. But I’d like the time to be permanently DST. Throughout my life I’ve thought that having the extra daylight in the late afternoon and evening is more likely to be safe, productive and useful than in the morning. - @misterjayem - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 12:00 pm: I’m with Rich: Change it. No matter what, somebody’s going to be PO’d about the sunrise — might as well not be us. – MrJM - a drop in - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 12:12 pm: “Hey, do the 2 am bars get to stay open an extra hour when we fall back, ” Yes, and the 4 am bars get an extra hour also. - blue dog dem - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 12:17 pm: The beauty(or curse) of getting old is you don’t operate on an actual clock. You fall asleep when it happens. You wake up when it happens. - Flapdoodle - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 1:12 pm: Roman 9:29 — You’re on to something. - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 1:24 pm: why would we want to be on EST??? - Demoralized - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 1:50 pm: I’m all for not changing the clocks but it needs to be set at DST and stay there. - God's Country - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 2:46 pm: I say, for six months out of the year, bump it up 10 minutes the first Sunday of the month, the other six months, bump it back 10 minutes. That would be very interesting. - blue dog dem - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 3:59 pm: Rather than mess with the clocks, I would prefer to see the calender moved up two months. Get rid of February and March. - Anonymous - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 4:04 pm: “Daylight Savings Time” is good for people whom have night blindness. - Arthur Andersen - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 6:57 pm: Don’t know how I missed this post earlier. Perhaps because I was brain-dead from DST. Agree with Rich 100 percent. - blue dog dem - Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:56 pm: I hope Rich is in bed. Its past his bedtime. I think. Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.