Get ready for it! It's the biannual inconvenience known as Daylight Saving Time! This Sunday, March 14 at 2 a.m. we "spring forward" and lose an hour. Daylight Saving Time is that constant irritation that causes jet lag without ever leaving the comfort of your bed. It's that nebulous time change that politicians say saves energy. What about our own personal stress and energy? Why do we do it? Should we put an end to this insanity? Share your thoughts below...
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YES we should put an end to pointless clock changing. I don’t care whether we settle on standard or DST, just pick one and stick with it all year long. The lack of time changes was one of the things I liked best about living in Indiana in the mid-1990s.
Move it half an hour ONCE and leave it there!!!
I think it’s great – always good to have more time in the sun to take care of things (especially outdoors).
BUT, it should take place Friday night at midnight rather than Sunday morning (one+ more day to ‘adjust the body clock to deal w/the annual crappy ‘Spring Ahead’ Monday).
Face it, everyone loves the ‘Fall Backward’ Monday, etc. Thanks for the great articles, dude!
I despise DST, even more so since a supposedly increasingly health-conscious society is artificially and purposefully reducing an important facet of human health: sleep.
Not helping matters, studies done in the Midwest and Australia have indicated the purported savings in energy use due to Daylight Saving Time is not only not in evidence but, in reality, is causing just the opposite to occur.
As for more sunlight at the end of the day, that phenomenon occurs naturally, even without tampering with clocks, as the tilt of the northern half of Earth moves in the direction of the sun. Moreover, I wonder how many people who say they love all the light at the end of the workday often do nothing but rush home to sit in front of the TV or computer, or meander through some (indoor) store, movie theater, shopping center, restaurant, etc?
Sunlight is sunlight. It cannot be determined by the clock. However, if people like having sunlight during particular period of the day, for instance, more in the evenings after work, then choose that option and stop the insanity of changing the clocks. And no one knows how crazy this is more than a parent trying to get his/her kids to go to sleep for the first week after the “change”. I hate it. It serves NO purpose other than to appease those who THINK we’re “getting more sunlight”. Ridiculous and outdated. ARGH!