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Petition to End "Daylight Savings Time": 4:30pm twilight is energy inefficient

Created by J.M. on December 02, 2012

I live in New York City and throughout the Winter months, darkness falls upon the city starting at 4:30-5pm. The street lights flicker on, and life continues. Daylight savings works to give us daybreak at 6am, but frankly, I don't believe there are more people awake or active at 6am as there are at 4:30pm. This daylight savings time is thereby a waste of energy. It is deleterious, not a boon, to our energy consumption, and possibly our mental health by limiting our exposure to sunlight..

I propose to do away with it as a relic of another time that is now hurting the American people.

I hope 25,000 people feel the same way and will support this by January 1st.

Energy & Environment
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