Your Opinion: Time to abolish daylight savings time

Dear Editor:

"An archaic ritual ..." is how Rep. Mike Kelly described the daylight savings time clock change, according to an Associated Press article published in the News Tribune.

I agree.

I've yet to encounter a person who thinks the time change is a good idea.

The article documents "increases in traffic accidents, workplace accidents and heart attacks following the switch to daylight savings time."

Kelly is sponsoring a proposed constitutional amendment to permanently change Missouri to daylight savings time. He says that Missouri should take the lead and other states would follow.

Other legislators suggest that Missouri should wait and let other states go first.

While I am a little bit wary of having Missouri stand alone, we've got to start somewhere.

I admonish our legislators to get this proposal out of committee. I strongly suspect that there will be nationwide support. Missouri might as well be a leader rather than a follower.

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