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Save Standard Time
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Ditch Daylight Saving Time. Permanent Standard Time lets us sleep later for health, mood, safety, education, economy, and environment. We’re a 501(c)(4) nonprofit.
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What is Save Standard Time’s origin story?
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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We're enjoying the brighter mornings and cozier evenings of Standard Time!
DST Fans: I can't believe the sun is setting at 4:30pm for a few weeks in winter! Me, enjoying cozy winter evening vibes and extra morning sleep Picture of Mr. Krabs with world's smallest violin
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Time is a measurement of nature.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Light is essential in the mornings.
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Permanent DST would force most Americans to work in the darkness.
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Ditch DST already!
Meme from “Parks & Recreation”. First panel, Ron Swanson says, “I worry what you just heard was Ditch the Switch”. Second panel, Ron says, “What I said was Ditch Daylight Saving Time”.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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“I love that extra hour. You know. That hour which was STOLEN from me.” #DitchDST
Above Ground in Grave Times SPRING AHEAD? NO!!! Thoughts from a Daylight Savings Time Denier Janet L. Cucharo Mar 10, 2023 Standard Time Giveth. Daylight Savings Time Taketh Away. Set my clock back to THIS time! Enough already! Nobody is "springing" anywhere after losing an entire hour of their day and especially their sleep. Wake up already to that reality. Springing ahead is an egregious imaginary time change that is no longer even relevant. Your body clock has finally and beautifully reset itself after the "fall back" to the standard time change and your eyes automatically pop open at 6 AM or at whatever time you typically have to (or want to) arise and shine. Standard time is the right time. NOW, on this coming Sunday, March 11th, at the ungodly hour of 2 AM, your clocks will immediately spring forward to 3 AM. Well. Not all of them will automatically do it. You'll probably have to manually reset your oven, your microwave, your coffee maker and also any of your…
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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DST doesn’t make extra daylight. Permanent DST would darken mornings past 9am in much of the country. Morning is when sunlight is needed most.
November 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Clocks have meanings. Keep high noon atop at 12! #DitchDST #SaveStandardTime
A picture of two clocks. For the clock on the left, there is a yellow sun at the “12” position, and overlain is the word “THIS”. For the clock on the right, there is a yellow sun at the “1” position, all numbers are rotated 30° counter clockwise, and overlain are the words “NOT THIS”.
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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New Jersey residents: Tell your state senators to oppose S1510 permanent DST before its Transportation hearing on Monday. Last time pDST was tried, it was a deadly and expensive disaster. Tell them to support S4084 permanent Standard Time for safety instead!
Many newspaper clippings from across the United States in 1974, when permanent Daylight Saving Time was last tried here. Headlines include “Children’s deaths spur bid to repeal daylight saving”, “Girl, 6, Critically Injured in Accident”, “Road Crews Start One Hour Later”, and more.
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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“Daylight Saving Time shifts light from morning to the end of the day. That is damaging because morning light is the big signal for our body clocks, which regulate sleep/wake cycles, mood, gene expression, hormones, and metabolism.”
FINANCIAL TIMES It is time to abolish daylight saving Changing the clocks twice a year does not extend the light available to us Anjana Ahuja Published Mar 12 2025 The writer is a science commentator In the UK, it is nearly time for the March magic of “springing forward”, when the clocks skip ahead an hour and the endless winter nights give way to the promise of long, light-filled summer evenings. Daylight Saving Time began last week in most states in the US and British Summer Time will come into force at the end of this month. Many researchers, however, regard the stark time shift as misguided rather than magical. Not only do we lose an hour of sleep, leaving us more prone to the mishaps that beset the fatigued, but it messes long-term with the light cues that regulate our body clocks. It deprives us of the morning light that gets us going and bathes us in extended evening light, which disrupts sleep…
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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We’re proud to support efforts in Europe to ditch Daylight Saving Time and to realign clocks more closely to solar time, natural time!
Time Use Initiative 22 / October / 2025 The Time Use Initiative welcomes the fact that the debate on eliminating the biannual clock change is back on the agenda of the Commission and the European Council The Time Use Initiative (TUI) welcomes the Spanish Government’s announcement to support the elimination of the annual clock change from 2026 and to propose this goal to the Council of the European Union, the body responsible for its final approval. The TUI believes that this momentum could reignite a European debate that has been stalled since 2021, putting on the European agenda a citizen demand supported by 80% of Europeans and backed by scientific evidence proving the negative impact on health, the economy and the environment. In line with scientific evidence and the proposal by the International Alliance for Natural Time (IANT) and the TUI to maintain a more natural solar time (known as winter time or standard time), the organisation recommends promoting a European campaign to…
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Solar time measures the sun’s exact position. Standard Time measures the sun’s approximate position. Daylight Saving Time measures…nothing!
Meme: Illustration of three dragons. First is drawn most well, looks most cunning, and wears a crown, is labeled “Solar Time”. Second looks almost as good as the first, though is not wearing a crown, is labeled “Standard Time”. Third is drawn poorly, has a foolish expression, is labeled “Daylight Saving Time”.
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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New Jersey: Tell state senators to oppose S1510 before its hearing on Monday. Daylight Saving Time darkened mornings past 7am all October; permanent DST would darken mornings past 8am in November into February. It cost lives when last tried! Amend to permanent Standard Time or approve S4084 instead.
Photos of 7am on November 7 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, per Daylight Saving Time (EDT)—dark—versus Standard Time (EST)—sunny.
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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If clocks hadn’t “fallen back”, most Americans’ mornings would still be pitch black. Stop “spring forward”, ditch DST, make Standard Time permanent, for health and safety!
Photos comparing 7am in Utah on Daylight Saving Time (dark sky) versus Standard Time (sunlit sky).
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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“If Indiana stayed on DST year-round, the sun wouldn’t rise until after 9am from mid-December through mid-January…”
13 WTHR Home What if we kept daylight saving time all year in Indiana? | 13Weather Blog Winter will always be a dark time of year for Indiana because we are tilted away from the sun, but what else would change? Author: Matt Standridge Published: 5:15 AM EDT October 30, 2025 INDIANAPOLIS — Every fall, we “fall back” an hour when daylight saving time (DST) ends — this year on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. But what if we didn’t? What if Indiana stayed on daylight saving time year-round? While many people love the idea of later sunsets in winter, the tradeoff would be some very dark mornings, especially in December and January. Here’s how that would look for central Indiana…
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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New Jersey: Click -> www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam... <- to tell state senators to oppose S1510 before its hearing Monday. Permanent Daylight Saving Time would put sunrise past 8am for 2+ months, to nearly 8:30am. They need to amend to permanent Standard Time or approve S4084 instead!
Maps and photos of New Jersey comparing permanent Standard Time (mornings have sunlight) versus permanent Daylight Saving Time (mornings are dark).
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Who is advocating for permanent Daylight Saving Time, and why? #DitchDST
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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“Internal clocks align with the sun, and Standard Time matches natural light. Permanent DST can delay sleep, decrease sleep duration, and lead to chronic sleep deprivation. American Academy of Sleep Medicine supports permanent Standard Time.”
CATO INSTITUTE October 31, 2025 9:53AM Twice-Yearly Time Travel Is Bad for Your Health By Jeffrey A. Singer Listen to This Article (5:23) This weekend, we once again go through the ritual of “falling back” after “springing forward” last March as Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends. We also go through the semiannual ritual of listening to politicians in Congress call for an end to circadian whiplash. Yet nothing ever seems to change…
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🔊 MUSIC! “Keep Standard Time” by Trasea (parody of Cyndi Lauper). Full-length song linked in our reply… 🔗👇
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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On this day in 2005: Alaskans want repeal of Daylight Saving Time. DST exists only to profit leisure industries.
News clipping from Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, Alaska, Sat, Nov 5, 2005, Page 18, “When It’s Cold Out, DST Is No Bargain”, linked in our reply.
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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“When DST was nationalized in 1966, each state or territory was given the option to opt out… Hawaiʻi remains on Standard Time year-round…”
This is why Hawaiʻi doesn’t observe Daylight Savings Time by: Sandy Harjo Livingston Posted: Nov 2, 2025 / 02:44 PM HST HONOLULU (KHON2) — Have you been wondering why Hawaiʻi has been spared the dreaded Daylight Saving Time? Hawaiʻi does not observe Daylight Saving Time (DST)…
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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“Throughout DST, the average person gets less sleep and experiences a chronic circadian misalignment compared to Standard Time. Over months, this can feel akin to living in the wrong time zone.”
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November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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NEW JERSEY hears permanent DST on November 10 at 11am. Would put sunrise past 8am 2+ months to 8:30am. Tell them “NO on S1510! Amend to Standard or Advance S4084!” Email olsaidestr@njleg.org or submit webform: njleg.state.nj.us/committees/senate-committees/contact?committee=STR
Maps and photos of sunrise times on permanent Standard Time (sunny) versus permanent Daylight Saving Time (dark).
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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On this day in 2007: Daylight Saving Time’s purpose is to profit Big Candy, Big Golf, Big Retail—at risk of children’s safety. #OTD
News clipping from 2007, linked in our reply. Headline “Extra Hour All About Cash – Energy Savings Reaped from Initiative Were Small”.
November 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM