Are You For or Against Daylight Saving Time?
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lairn on WNYC, and to wrap up the show, on this Monday after we move the clocks ahead, |
| 0:16.4 | or they moved us ahead, we will do an informal, unofficial, thoroughly unscientific call-in poll |
| 0:22.2 | on whether you are for daylight saving time year-round, standard time year-round, or keep the |
| 0:29.9 | rotation the way it is. 212-433 WNYC, call or text, 212, 433-9-6-9-2. Would you prefer 12-month-a-year daylight saving time, 12-month-a-year, |
| 0:45.2 | standard time? I know people have opinions about this, or keep it the way it is, going back and forth. |
| 0:50.6 | And how do either of these things, standard time or daylight saving time, or just the fact of the change twice a year, affect you personally? |
| 1:02.6 | Does it affect you the night of, week of, or even for a longer stretch of time after the clock's change? |
| 1:14.1 | Or, you know, are you affected personally because you don't like the way it is in the winter, you don't like the way it is |
| 1:18.1 | in the summer, whatever, 212-433-9692, an informal, unofficial, thoroughly and scientific |
| 1:25.8 | Ryan Lerschel call- in poll on whether you would vote, |
| 1:30.5 | and Congress is actually looking at a proposal, |
| 1:33.7 | we'll get into that a little bit, |
| 1:35.3 | but are you for year-round daylight saving time, |
| 1:38.5 | year-round standard time, |
| 1:40.0 | or keep the rotation kind of the way it is, |
| 1:43.1 | 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. |
| 1:49.9 | There was a scientific poll last year, Gallup poll, found 54% of Americans want to see the end of saving time. |
| 2:01.6 | 48% preferred standard time all year round, |
| 2:08.6 | 48 of those 54%, 24%, only 24%, |
| 2:13.6 | as I'm losing you in this blizzard of numbers, I know, |
| 2:16.6 | only 24% wanted permanent daylight saving time. |
| 2:21.8 | 48% twice as much, preferred standard time all year. |
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