For those of you who, like me, had no idea that Daylight Savings Time was coming early this year:
SPRING FORWARD!
And to that, I say “Yay!” I love DST.
For those of you who, like me, had no idea that Daylight Savings Time was coming early this year:
SPRING FORWARD!
And to that, I say “Yay!” I love DST.
Aaagh! I have probably never disagreed with you so violently on any issue. I dislike DST in general, hate waking up in the dark just when we’ve finally been able to come through the awful winter and get up in sunlight again, and really hate losing that hour and feeling crappy for two or three days (and no, “gaining” it months later doesn’t make up for it). And the idea that Congress is ADDING time to our DST period (it’s ending later iirc, in November) as part of a belt-tightening “energy policy” is truly infuriating. It reminds me of the efforts of the snobbish Sir Walter and his daughter Elizabeth to “retrench” in Jane Austen’s Persuasion: “…Elizabeth, to do her justice, had, in the first ardour of female alarm, set seriously to think what could be done, and had finally proposed these two branches of economy, to cut off some unnecessary charities, and to refrain from new furnishing the drawing-room; to which expedients she afterwards added the happy thought of their taking no present down to Anne, as had been the usual yearly custom.”
I think this year is supposed to be a “study” to see if doing it early really does save more energy, since apparently no one has actually looked at the numbers since 1946 or whenver, back when nobody had air conditioning (which DST won’t affect) and there wasn’t one car for every man, woman and child in Amurka (which DST won’t affect, either).
And of course since they’re starting it in March it means the mornings will be darker than ever, increasing the odds of some poor kid getting run over while waiting for his schoolbus in the inky darkness.
Again I say, aaagh!
Oh my! I never know what might set off a diatribe.
I speak as someone who has never been a morning person and who hates it when the sun sets before 5 pm, but I can see the other side of the argument as well. When I look at the artificial line that divides the time zones, it seems to me that Alabama would more logically fall into Eastern time, which would make the need for DST less pressing, IMHO, but logic so rarely makes an appearance in the decision-making process.
I’ll never understand Springing forward or Fallilng back.