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* The first gubernatorial candidate to promise to get Illinois out of Daylight Savings Time will receive my vote on March 20th. And I don’t care if it’s Bob “Three State Solution” Marshall.

I mean, c’mon, we all lose an hour’s sleep every night right before a primary? It’s inhumane. Think of the children, for crying out loud.

The government needs to stop messing with peoples’ biological clocks. If Arizona can do it, so can we.

…Adding… Rep. Steve Andersson’s HB 404…

Amends the Time Standardization Act. Provides that daylight saving time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire State. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2017.

That would have to be amended, of course, unless Andersson also can pass a trailer bill rolling back time to last July 1, and I wish he wouldn’t.

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:27 am

Comments

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.

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:34 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.

Comment by Collinsville Kevin 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.

Comment by SAP Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:37 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.

Comment by Fax Machine 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!

Comment by CatAttack Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:38 am
Yearlong DST for Illinois would mean moving into Eastern Time, which would mean our primetime TV & news would all start an hour later.

Comment by Fax Machine Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:40 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.

Comment by Yup! 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”

Comment by TominChicago Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:41 am
I heard it was because someone didn’t want kids standing in the dark waiting on the school bus.

Comment by Saluki Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:42 am
Cmon rich. Us field guys love we can have door knockersbout past 5 or 530. It’s great for gotv!!!

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:47 am
What utter nonsense. Go to bed an hour earlier if you need to adjust.

Comment by Cheryl44 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.

Comment by Retired Educator Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:50 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.

Comment by wordslinger Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:52 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

Comment by Joe Bidenopolous Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:54 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.

Comment by A Jack Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:56 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.

Comment by downstate commissioner 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…

Comment by Anotheretiree Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:58 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.

Comment by Secret Square Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:02 am
You should start a PAC for this issue. I’d contribute.

Comment by Not It Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:03 am
DST: What in the heck are we saving it for?

Comment by A guy Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:06 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.

Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:10 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.

Comment by PublicServant Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:12 am
===managed to get the Fax out earlier today===

I wrote it last night and scheduled it to send this morning because of DST.

Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:19 am
All summer, it will get dark one hour earlier on Lake Springfield, and Rich Miller will be to blame.

Comment by Just a Reader Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:20 am
Daylight savings time would have more support if time jumped forward on a Friday from 4 pm to 5 pm.

Comment by MG85 Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:21 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.

Comment by Roman Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:29 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.

Comment by blue dog dem Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:30 am
The way I look at it is it’s one less hour that we have to endure the Rauner administration. /s

Comment by Gruntled University Employee Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:34 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.

Comment by a drop in Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:36 am
Here, here! I’ve hated DST my entire life.

Comment by Dome Gnome Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:37 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.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:39 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.

Comment by morningstar Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:40 am
Folks, it’s Saving not Savings. Just like it’s Soldier Field.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:47 am
=== Just like it’s Soldier Field===

Meh. I shop at the Jewels.

lol

Comment by Rich Miller Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 9:49 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.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:01 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.

Comment by PublicServant Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:29 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.”

Comment by Skeptic Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:42 am
LOL this post is great

Comment by Boone's is Back Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:46 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.

Comment by The Captain 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

Comment by Wylie Coyote Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 10:48 am
Sure do miss Chris Sales.

Comment by Responsa Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 11:21 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.

Comment by PublicServant Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 11:25 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.

Comment by Responsa Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 11:29 am
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

Comment by @misterjayem Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 12:00 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.

Comment by a drop in Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 12:12 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.

Comment by blue dog dem Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 12:17 pm
Roman 9:29 — You’re on to something.

Comment by Flapdoodle Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 1:12 pm
why would we want to be on EST???

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 1:24 pm
I’m all for not changing the clocks but it needs to be set at DST and stay there.

Comment by Demoralized Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 1:50 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.

Comment by God's Country Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 2:46 pm
Rather than mess with the clocks, I would prefer to see the calender moved up two months. Get rid of February and March.

Comment by blue dog dem Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 3:59 pm
“Daylight Savings Time” is good for people whom have night blindness.

Comment by Anonymous Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 4:04 pm
Don’t know how I missed this post earlier. Perhaps because I was brain-dead from DST. Agree with Rich 100 percent.

Comment by Arthur Andersen Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 6:57 pm
I hope Rich is in bed. Its past his bedtime. I think.

Comment by blue dog dem Monday, Mar 12, 18 @ 8:56 pm