I would like your help (and your opinion for that matter) Daylight Savings Time

[Letmgrow]

I just recently read on a news feed our President elect Donald J. Trump is planning on eliminating "Daylight Saving Time". Folks, I don't know about anyone else but I really like the additional hour of daylight at the end of the day.
Retired now but when I was working the additional daylight gave me time to do yard chores and enjoy some outside activities after a day's work I wouldn't otherwise be able to. I owned my own auto repair and light truck repair business and when the days got shorter and it was dark at or near closing time you could clearly see the difference in people's attitude when they came in in darker hours. Not really pleasant in some cases. Just plain cranky in a lot of cases..
When it comes to hunting in the later season our hunting day ends at 1/2 hour after sunset here in NY State. It surely is nice when you get the chance to climb up in a stand or sit in your blind and watch for the "Big One" to come through just before legal hours are over after scrambling home from work after a hard day's work.
Have a nice dinner, sit out on the deck and watch the sun fade away as it sets in the Western Sky. Nothing worse to me than sitting at the dinner table, staring out the window only to look into total darkness.
A lot of these decision makers have never experienced anything other than the walls of an office. They have no idea of the beauty out there in the real world we as sportsmen and women enjoy. If they can see out of a window it's seeing into someone else's window. Sure, what does daylight mean or not mean to them?
We who call ourselves outdoors people and enjoy it need to band together and lobby to keep Daylight savings time in effect. In fact I would suggest we lobby to keep DSL all year long.
Let your Legislators know. A squeaky wheel is the one who gets the grease.
Lynn

 

[Buckly]

I like it dark when I go to bed. LOL.

 

[Mennoniteman]

I work in construction and we set our work hours according to the seasons, starting 2 hours earlier in the summer, no matter what times the government sets the clock to, so DST makes no difference to us there. But as far as hunting, I actually like when the time changes back to standard and we can get out of the woods at 5:30, rather than early season when we get out of the woods at 7;30 and there's a lot less evening left to eat, butcher, travel home, go to a birthday party etc. But either way you cut the pie, there's still only one pie. And there's still only 24 hrs in a day. And when the government says they will take care of you that usually has a double meaning. My simple philosophy is to focus on what I can do better, rather than depend on them to make things better. (Cause when someone gives the next "big guy" 10% he will probably just go and change the time back to DST anyway)

 

[George]

It doesn't much matter to me what time it is.

G

 

[swat1018]

I really don't care either way, just wish they'd choose one and leave it.

 

[Letmgrow]

Yup, go DST and leave it there.

 

[LEWinMI]

I will be very pleased if it is eliminated. Changing the clocks twice a year is such a waste. If someone wants to get up and hour earlier just do it and leave the clocks alone.