Edith Anderson

Should daylight saving time be abolished permanently?

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](https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54237-the-times-they-are-a-changin-but-most-americans-would-rather-they-not) 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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