I absolutely love DST and in fact wouldn't mind if it were two hours instead of one in adjustment and lasted all year long.

Asinine? Maybe, but a lot of folks agree with me -- well, maybe not on the two hours part or the year around, either.

DST is good for my mental health. That's all that matters to me! :-)

Sounds like what you're advocating isn't so much Daylight Saving Time as a desire to designate noon as the point in time 2 hours prior to the sun being overhead.

I figure the sun should be directly overhead at 12:00 in Greenwich on the equinoxes. Greenwich Mean Time should extend 7.5 degrees to the east and to the west of Greenwich with one hour time zones every 15 degrees of longitude thereafter.

It's just good math.

I am just the opposite.

I hate DST with a passion that burns my soul. Yes I know that is not a healthy thing, but I can't help it.

One of my many gripes about DST is that because of it, it does not start to cool off (I live in Texas) until 6:30 or after. I would MUCH rather it start to cool off earlier so that by the time I get home it is already cool.

Support for DST in any form separates the faux Hoosiers from us real ones.

DST bah.

I also love DST. It should be all year. The extra hour after work is precious, summer or winter.

I say move everyone to GMT.

Now Foltz's idea has merit! GMT around the globe. Noon would come to Indiana at something like 06:00 GMT. But nothing would stop us from working from, say 02:00 GMT to 11:00 GMT.

I'd love to see DST extended all year as well, because many people like myself would benefit from an extra hour of light. Going to and coming home from work in darkness doesn't exactly do wonders for the spirits, and in fact can help contribute to depression.

Why don't we just switch to stardates?

"I'd love to see DST extended all year as well, because many people like myself would benefit from an extra hour of light."

Same amount of light, just arranged differently.

Just out of curiousity, I have a question for you DST fan bois ;). Which part of the country do you live in?

I hate to differ with Doug on a point, but the sun isn't directly overhead at Greenwich at noon GMT on the equinoxes. The Sun is directly overhead at 12:07 p.m. for the spring equinox. The sun is directly overhead at 11:53 a.m. for the fall equinox. The difference relates to the difference between "Mean" Time versus "Solar" Time. Briefly, the earth's orbit around the sun isn't a circle, it is an ellipse, which means that the speed at which the earth is moving in its orbit changes, faster at perihelion, slower at aphelion. At perihelion the earth's rotation on its axis is too slow to keep the sun from "slipping" against the clock. In other words, it takes longer than 24 hours for the sun to return to directly verhead. At aphelion the opposite "problem" occurs. The standard time system is based on average solar time, that is "mean" time. With that qualification I agree with Doug's post.

I'm much obliged for the correction. If I'm going to base my position on math and science, it would behoove me to get the details correct.

On another point, it seems to me to be incorrect to refer to "daylight saving time all year." At that point, it probably stops being "daylight saving time" and simply becomes "time." Also, at that point, we should probably get rid of a.m. and p.m., referring as they do to ante and post meridian. With "daylight saving time all year" we're pretty much abandoning the sun's peak as having anything to do with the division between the hours before and after 12:00.