Editorial had

the wrong time

In regard to the Nov. 7 editorial about Daylight Savings Time, I believe The Lima News misunderstand DST. Your proposal is to do away with DST by not moving the clocks backward in winter time. However, winter time was the original time; DST starts in the spring and runs into the fall.

If you want to have “fast time” year round, then you need to propose that Daylight Savings Time be administered year round. Before DST, our current “slow time” was administered year round. The beginning of DST gave the days one more hour of daylight in the evening. One of the casualties of DST in the 60s and 70s was the closing of so many Drive-In Theatres, because the shows could not start until 10 PM.

— Duane Bollenbacher, Bluffton