Poll - 2017-06-21 | Las Vegas Advisor

This poll was inspired by a Question of the Day we posted last week about Daylight Saving Time, plus yesterday's deeper explanation of the issues based on questions we received off the original answer. It's a simple poll with only a few choices; you can pick only one. If you'd like to weigh in here, but don't have an opinion or enough of one to vote and you didn't see yesterday's QoD, you might want to go back and read it, so you have a better idea about what you think. It's about time! Also, in order to avoid mixing apples and oranges in the survey, we didn't narrow down the choices to Nevada, so if you'd like to comment on what you believe the Silver State should do, we'd like to hear it. And as always, thanks for voting and commenting.

1231 Total Votes

Why change a thing? The current system of springing forward and falling back works just fine for me.

27% (338)

I don't care if it's Daylight Saving or Standard, as long as the clocks don't change at all during the year.

25% (313)

I'd like to see the federal government do away with Daylight Saving Time and keep Standard Time 12 months of the year.

24% (295)

I believe the whole country should stay on Daylight Saving Time year-round.

21% (259)

What's the difference? I believe that time is an illusion and everything that is is now.

2% (26)

Analysis

We'd call this one a dead heat -- the closest voting we've seen in an LVA poll, perhaps, ever.

However, though they won by a nose, the most respondents would prefer the clocks not to change. That's what the scientists found: It's the change itself that's most disturbing to people.

This is also proved out by the neck-and-neck finish between proponents of Daylight Saving Time and Standard Time, all of whom would also prefer to see the clocks remain on one time or the other year-round. Totaled, that's nearly three in four who don't want the clocks to change.

We threw in the bit about time itself to gauge the number of seriously spiritually minded participants in our polls; 2% seems about right.

Though you could also consider the 24% of respondents who'd like to see things stay the same as somewhat spiritual, simply accepting what is as is as the only way to be. Of course, that's stretching things, since we're sure most of those people like changing the clocks, including ourselves. We suffer through the spring-forward losing an hour in March, but we love the fall-back gaining an hour in November.

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Comments

[email protected] Jun-21-2017

Set the time anywhere!

Does anyone remember the old "The Bell Science series" on TV from the 1960's? One program was entitled "About Time" and the entire 49 minutes was about the who, why and where of time. Originally, "12 noon" was when the sun was directly overhead. After the entire "hour" the answer still remained: "Where to set the time?" The correct answer is "anywhere-you-like".

OMB13 Jun-21-2017

DST

There's no box for having DST during the Winter....so that daylight hours would be more evenly spread out throughout the entire year. I've always thought this was the way to go...anybody else think this way?

Ray Jun-21-2017

depends on where you are in the time zone

I checked that it doesn't matter as long as we kept it the same all year. My preference is DST but not changing is more important. Here in Chicago on the eastern edge of the central zone, it always gets darker earlier than it does for my relatives in Dallas, so we would appreciate the extra light for outdoor activities.

ntm449 Jun-21-2017

Time Zone Confusion

I live in Bullhead City, AZ, across the Colorado River from Laughlin, NV where I used to work.

Like many other BC and Laughlin residents, we have to make a different kind of adjustment twice a year to the clock changes because AZ DOES NOT CHANGE FROM  STANDARD TIME TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME.

Aside from being extremely annoying and confusing, the fact that 2 very interdependent neighboring communities are in different time zones is very disruptive.

People ON BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER are often late/early for work, medical appointments, restaurant reservations, church, movies, poker tournaments etc. because of the time confusion brought about by NV and CA switching to DST.  Being early isn't so much of a problem as being late.

Right now AZ, NV and CA are all in the same time zone.  Life is simpler.  

There must be similar neighboring communities nationwide that would benefit from time zone consistency by not changing the clocks twice a year!

Harris Lowe Jun-21-2017

Confusion

In Hawaii, we are on Standard Time all year round…, as well as some other States.  I agree and understand the benefits of Daylight Savings Time with States that use them.  My problem is keeping up with the States that are using them at different times (?) of the year.   If that wasn’t bad enough… there are all these time zones to contend with.   In Hawaii we use a term of time as ‘Hawaii Time’, but that’s another story….

Jeffrey Small Jun-21-2017

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I still recall an interview when Michigan was debating adopting Daylight Savings time many years ago.  One woman responded to the TV newsman as follows:  "I just don't know what I would do with that extra hour a day!"

Caroline Jun-21-2017

Time change

Where I live in Canada the longest day is 17-ish hours and the shortest day is 7-ish hours.  Don't think it would make that much difference in Nevada.  We do have one province that does not change time from Standard to Savinge - they and everyone around them are used to it

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