Permanent standard time means summer sunsets around 8 instead of 9, and anyone with kids in evening sports knows what that costs. Youth baseball, soccer practice, neighborhood bike rides, all of it runs on after-dinner daylight. The golf industry once estimated an extra month of daylight time was worth hundreds of millions in revenue, and the barbecue and recreation industries say the same. The Senate's Sunshine Protection Act chose permanent daylight time for a reason: people vote with their evenings. YouGov polling has shown Americans dislike the switching but split on which time to keep, with a tilt toward more evening light. Abolishing the change by locking in standard time trades dark winter mornings for dark summer evenings. That is not obviously a win.
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LifestyleSep 23, 2026
Should daylight saving time be abolished permanently?
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Evening light is when my family actually lives. Kids' soccer, grilling, walks after dinner, all of it dies an hour earlier under permanent standard time. The people pushing standard time are optimizing for sleep labs, not real evenings.
I feel both sides. Dark winter mornings with kids at bus stops genuinely scare me, but losing summer evenings would hurt too. Maybe the real lesson is that any fixed time makes someone unhappy.