Rep. Dan Flynn (TP – Canton) has filed a bill that would eliminate Daylight Savings Time in Texas.  The Daily Texan reports that among Flynn’s concerns are the hassle of having to adjust your clocks twice a year and his claim that the trouble associated with the time change outweigh any benefit.

“It was November of last year when we did the fall back, and I’m sitting there changing all of the clocks in my house and in my cars, and I’m … thinking, ‘Why in the world do we do this?’” Flynn said.

The bill, if passed, would mean Texas could opt out of the twice-a-year time change, which the Uniform Time Act of 1966 established.   In 1966, the Uniform Time Act set nationwide start and end times for daylight saving time — the last Sunday in April and October. Since the act’s implementation, daylight saving time has been moved to the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November.The act also allows states not to follow daylight saving. Currently, Hawaii, Arizona and some parts of Indiana do not practice the time change.

Flynn said he has found that removing daylight saving time in the state would not negatively impact farmers or increase energy usage. Additionally, he said mothers have expressed concern about leaving their children at bus stops when it is darker in the mornings because of daylight saving time.

“I think the trouble that [daylight saving time] causes far outweighs any benefits that it could possibly have,” Flynn said.

Put Red down as opposed.  If there is one thing Red likes it is being able to hole out on No. 18 at 9:30 p.m. in the fading twilight of a warm summer evening.