Time to Move On? The Case Against Daylight Saving Time
Changing our clocks twice a year doesn't save us energy or money, experts say.
Clocks "fall back" this Sunday, November 3, and people are again asking: Why do we bother with daylight saving time?
The latest Rasmussen Report from March 2013 found that only 37 percent of Americans surveyed thought daylight saving time (DST) is "worth the hassle," while 45 percent said it was not.
Tufts University professor Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time, said such opposition has been around for a century.
"The whole proposition that you can gain or lose an hour is at best theoretical," he said. "So I think from the start people had no clear idea what we were doing or why we were doing it. It just generates confusion, and confusion generates
