Stay on Standard Time

* Re “Save Daylight Savings,” letter, Sept. 19: Apparently the writer is too young to remember that that idea was tried during the oil shortage of the ‘70s in order to conserve oil used by the power generating stations. The result was that schoolchildren were going to school in the morning when it was dark, and the rate of children being struck by vehicles increased.

I am of the opposite opinion: Do away with that semiannual nonsense and stay on standard time. I have unsuccessfully tried to track down the driving force behind daylight saving time. I was told that the farmers wanted it. I’ve talked to farmers, and they said the cows don’t care what time it is. The farmers say that the city folks want it. I say abandon it.

LEONARD McGINNIS

Granada Hills