I am not a fan of Daylight Saving Time, which started today in most of the United States.
It is not an accurate name. The amount of daylight is determined by astronomy, not by clocks. Naming the time of sunrise and sunset differently does not change the time between those two events.
What most annoys me, though, is waking up in the dark again. I had just gotten to the point where I was waking up to the light of dawn, which I find more energizing, and now I am instantly back into mid-winter waking-to-darkness.
This is not helped by the fact that we are having a cold snap and may soon have the most snow we have had in weeks, depending on the track of a developing nor’easter.
I know that many people will argue that having it be light longer in the evening makes up for the dark mornings, but we had already been able to eat dinner in natural light, although I admit that we tend to eat dinner on the early side.
By June, it won’t be fully dark until after 9 PM, which makes our usual 10 PM bedtime feel like we are children, being put to bed as soon as evening falls.
Daylight Saving Time, especially the current US implementation, also causes issues with long-distance communications. E’s daily call time with her employer in Hawai’i will shift. B’s daily 6 AM conference call with colleagues in India (thankfully) stays at 6 AM for him, but his India team has to change the time at which they call. Because the US extended the dates of DST, for the next three weeks, US time will be out of sync with many of the countries that observe DST using the original dates.
It would be so much simpler if we just dropped the whole concept and left our clocks alone.
Daylight doesn’t care, but I do.
How do you feel about Daylight Saving Time? Is it observed where you are?
They used to tell us ‘so the farmers have one more hour to work’ which is just stupid. Sunrise to sunset; the same amount of hours.
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Yes. The cows can’t read clocks!
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I agree. We should just leave it alone. It wasn’t broken to begin with.
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The natural system is beautiful. Modern life needs to honor that much more than we do.
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Amen.
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I’ve always found it amazing that the USA changed the clocks at a different rate than most of Europe for example. So there were 4 different hour differences.
Funny post! Made me smile in the morning 😀
Thanks
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Glad I gave you an opportunity to smile! We used to be in sync with Europe, until some members of Congress moved both the spring and fall dates a decade or so ago. So annoying!
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You like to be special. Just kidding. But it’s sometimes funny how things get all mixed up
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😉
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I agree. It’s an outdated rule. I feel like I am jetlagged for at least two or three days afterward.
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I agree. It would be much easier and healthier to leave the clocks alone.
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