Daylight Savings Time

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Any reasonable step we can take to use less energy is a plus.

How does adjusting hours save energy??

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If we abolished DST, the sun would rise in northern Minnesota around 3:30am and set at 8:30pm... nobody lives on a schedule of 3:30am-8:30pm... an hour later is nominally better.

But to push it back so that kids are walking to school in the dark is just not a good idea.(yes, we're not in the suburbs where sidewalks are rare and walking much too physical, so children actually have to walk to school if they live anywhere from 1-2 miles from the school building).

It rises that early up there? Seriously. Wow, even during the summer time the sun never rises before about 5:45 am and it sets at about 9:15pm here. The winter the sun rises about 6:30isAM standard and sets about 5:45ishPM.

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Any reasonable step we can take to use less energy is a plus.

How does adjusting hours save energy??

The idea that since we've largely become so dependent on the clock instead of the sun to regulate our lives to adjust the clock so that more hours of daylight occur when we are awake, thereby saving energy on lighting and to a lesser degree heating.

For those of us in the south other than being an inconvenience, Daylight Savings doesn't accomplish much, but in a place such as Philadelphia, home of Benjamin Franklin, to whom DST proponents like to attribute this idea, it makes more sense since in the summer they have about three months summer in which the sun rises before 5am, standard time.

Yeah, I forgot it's so different in the south then way up north. I can see there point on that I suppose.

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(yes, we're not in the suburbs where sidewalks are rare and walking much too physical, so children actually have to walk to school if they live anywhere from 1-2 miles from the school building).

It's the same in the suburbs as well.  Rural areas tend to lack sidewalks, not suburbs.

We live in the city limits and don't have sidwalks.