56% vs 42% in America? We should probably pay attention to the sleep doctors on this one instead of spoiled people who simply want their flavor of change to take effect, because no change.

No. The plants and other living animals waking to a rising sun in fact do not give a shit. When you can get any one of them to read a clock, I'll believe otherwise. Clocks are a human constraint against reality. Live in Zulu time, and you'll find you don't even need to acknowledge DST silliness. Ever.

GMT for all. An

If it were not good for the people, the govt would NEVER require it.

NEVER.

If you're going to have the same UTC+? time throughout the year, that should be chosen so that the sun is at its highest point at noon somewhere close to the centre of the zone using this time. If this means you're doing things at the wrong time, change the time at which you do these things, don't make time itself perpetually silly. The only sensible reason to have time where the sun sometimes peaks in the wrong place is if you want to change the sun-based time at which you do things between winter and summ

We've seen what Americans will vote for.

They've proven they don't deserve a say in the matter...

Congress needs to do away with DST, but they can't do their job now !!

Twice a year people feel the slight inconvenience of a couple days to adjust their sleep schedule a whole one single hour. Which is something noticeable plus you may actually have to manually adjust some clocks, so that then feels important as something that disrupts the regular routine. Now; you cannot in the same way feel the same pain of being an hour out of sync with the ideal day/light rhythm, because it's a more subtle effect - but it is there ... and it is there for the better part of 180 days! Level of inconvenience multiplied by the number of times you are inconvenienced, and the latter scenario is much worse.

People increasingly seem unable to judge tangible short term gains vs longer term losses. You only have to turn to politics to see that, people electing leaders who dangle some short term prize in front of them, like "I will bring down prices of eggs" or whatever; people elect them because of those short term narrow scope promises, and next thing those politicians start tearing down their world over the long term across the board. And then those voters start complaining about what happened, when what happens was telegraphed years in advance. But those voters seem simply ... unable ... to ... think ... long ... term. But hey, maybe they got cheaper eggs for a month or two, so that is something.

Or take pain medication with opiates as an example. You are offered addictive pills to get rid of a modest amount of pain that normally you'd be able to grind your teeth a little bit and live through it. But you'd rather have no pain at all, so you take the pills, plus the ads say pain is something which has to be treated, talk to your big pharma sponsored doctor. And you repeat that choice to take the meds, again and again. Wind the clock forward one DST or two, and you are an addict. Turns out taking the meds was a net loss for you.

What I find more interesting than this so-called poll is the lack of transparency from AP-NORC. Where is the ANOVA? What polling methodology was used? Who and more importantly, where, was the sample audience? None of this seems to be available online. Also, why does the provided link point to an ad-laden Yahoo site vs AP-NORC directly? Why too is there scarce online detail on the Trump-quoted American Academy of Sleep Medicine?

A proper ANOVA would need to at least track the latitude of those polled.