Why do we still have it? Like everyone else, I hate it!
China has 5 time zones and they don't mess with it, they only use one time for everyone and it works.
So why expose ourselves to this nonsense?

One author has a theory and he could be right. He thinks it has a lot to do with the Chamber of Commerce.
Knowing how they're so leftist today, why would they even want to help capitalists, or could they be just as evil as Bill Gates and want to kill off school kids?     

Of course I kid, but who knows...


"There's a reason for doing it—it's simply not the reason we were told for the past 100 years, which was to save energy," says Downing. "We haven't squeezed a drop of energy out of our clocks yet, but there are a number of reasons we are doing it and continue to get more of it every year."

Downing says that while most people believe that daylight saving time was designed to benefit farmers or school children, those theories are actually false.

"In fact, school children and their advocates have always opposed daylight saving because by moving the clocks forward we get less morning sunlight and children are out on dark streets," he says. "The same goes for the farmers. I always thought we did it for the farmers and that I was assisting American agriculture in some way every spring. It turns out, the farmers has always hated daylight saving."

So if daylight savings isn't helping children or agriculture, why is it that the United States follows through with this tradition? Downing says the answer can be found in the sport of golf. He says it is "the most important reason we're still doing and expanding the period of daylight saving time."

"For people who don't play golf, they should care a lot about the fact that daylight savings time creates additional opportunities for people to play golf," says Steve Mona, CEO of the World Golf Foundation. "From an economic standpoint, golf on a national level creates almost $70 billion a year in economic impact. It employs almost 2 million Americans, it generates almost $4 billion in charitable giving, almost all of which goes to causes outside of golf. In addition to that, golf facilities are small businesses and they're usually among the most stable employers and source of revenue for local suppliers than any other business."

So did the sports lobby alone create the false myths about farmers and school kids to make sure daylight saving time stays a reality? According to Downing, the effort to roll the clocks ahead is also an initiative pushed by the business community.

"Since 1915, the principal supporter of daylight saving in the United States has been the Chamber of Commerce on behalf of small business and retailers," says Downing.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/who-really-benefits-daylight-savings

I'm not convinced that golf is the reason for Daylight Savings Time. But I'm also not convinced that there's a better reason. DLS has to be in the Top Ten Dumb Ideas people have ever come up with.

It was the big railroads in the second half of the 1800s that came up with time zones in the first place, at least in the US. They needed to establish some standards so their train schedules could make sense to people across a wide swath of the nation. Before the rails weighed in, the correct time was pretty much a local affair; it depended on what town your horse was parked in.

But Daylight Savings was a loser from the start. There's no way to diddle the clock that will save you a minute or a dime. It became a national trend in the 1970s, along with disco and leisure suits. The dance and the fashion always made more sense, even though they made no sense at all.